User blog comment:Blinkn/Elektra, The Movie: Things I liked and things I did NOT!/@comment-1895174-20130328212502/@comment-1895174-20130329025521

Alba? Heck no! She just can't act.

It's odd. Far too many times is it that the female lead in a superhero movie is one of the most criticized aspects of the film. Alba as Sue Storm, Halley Berry as Storm, Kirsten Dunst as MJ, both actresses that portrayed Rachel Dawes, etc. Not always the case (Scarlett Johanssen as Black Widow and Anne Hathaway as Catwoman being two good examples), but casting the female lead is something the people behind superhero movies don't get right far too many times.

And you're right - love stories are way too often crammed into movies. Neither Thor nor Captain America: The First Avenger needed their love stories. Some flirting maybe, but a full romance is too much. As for the Punisher movies, it depends on which one you see. I haven't seen the Dolph Lundgren one, so I can't say anything about it. The Thomas Jane one does it with the Rebecca Romijn character. The Ray Stevenson one surprisingly doesn't do it. There's a kid and a widow he has to save at some point, but there's no romance at all to it.