itt: consternation and wailing about Zach Snyder's upcoming SUPERMAN/BATMAN film/sequel to MAN OF STEEL -- official title: BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE

Comics just aren't for kids any more.

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definitive answer to the time-tested question "what sound would superman make if he flew through solomon grundy: SHLERRRRRK or SKLORRRP?"

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that's great

Superman's cold little laugh is the best bit.

I'd totally murder you if not for this pesky code I have against murdering you.

Solomon grundy isnt technically alive and one of those panels is ultraman, not superman fwiw

that's some prime Superdickery

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hearty lol at that gif

Watched MoS a few days ago for the second time and the massive damage thing is a bit of a red herring. The problem isn't so much that he caused it, for the most part he didn't and nobody would probably be able to tell either way. The real problem is the person that did cause the damage and threatened humanity is the same dude that introduced Superman to the world via alien transmission. Yet the movie asks us to believe that he's perceived by humanity at large as a hero when the first thing they know about him is that his presence indirectly brought about death and destruction. Incredibly daft.

Also whether he caused the destruction he gave zero fucks about saving lives, at least relative to a guy one assumes saves everybody and goes back for the cat. If Snyder had half a clue, I'd wonder if the shift was intentional. That the heartland values pa kent instilled were more about fear and pride than service and consideration.

i think they actually did consider it, and the idea that people would fear Superman as an godlike outsider who brings apocalyptic ruin is not a bad one. it's just that this is the same movie where Kevin Costner dies trying to save a damn dog.

I always liked FilmCritHulk's essay (and followup on MoS mentioning how it had no idea how to dramatize character and was all about "tell don't show".

handy-little translate script for troubles with FCH's style

...yeah i tried to get through that article and my eyes bled

Yeah, thus the plug-in.

Really wary of Mr. Crit Hulk these days. Not even counting the gimmick his faux-sincere rhetorical style has worn thin over the years. He's a gasbag.

Both of those were written two years ago, but I don't think there's any faux to his sincerity.

hulk do go on and on

There's a massively condescending "listen kids I'm in the biz I know what I'm talking about" undercurrent to a lot of his stuff that's really obnoxious once you start noticing it. It's made worse because it's couched in this "aww, gee wiz I'm just a lover of cinema like you guys" cutesy cartoon persona.

That's not to say he doesn't make astute points occasionally, but he could say them in less than a million words once in a while.

'sup

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I sculpted anger into my cowl so you will know that I am angry. Also, I made my costume look like muscle tissue because muscles equal strong.

hey it worked for Keaton

Things and doom and tones and Jesse E.

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ok come on that looks pretty good. but what.. Batman's hardly in it?? looks LONG too.

i forget what the ILX consensus was re the last Superman.. didn't everyone think it sucked?

yeah, pretty much. tbh though i thought it was dumbly entertaining enough despite its flaws coming out the theater; on retrospect i could think about just how bad those flaws were

and where the hell's Aquaman? doesn't Cyborg also have a part setting him up for his own movie and Justice League?

For some reason the design Batman's costume and the bat signal itself are morphing into PS1 polygon models.

They are human, just like us.

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It looks much better than the do u bleed video but still

cool dual-perspective gif can't figure out how to embed it

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it's just so ironic that they're going to use Man Of Steel as the launching pad for a whole superhero-verse of movies...and have the second movie be about how much batman hated man of steel.

right i love that they took the uh consternation about that climax and made it the plot

i mean it's NEAT, obv, but it's just a ludicrous way of acknowledging criticism. usually you tonally correct in the sequel - like how ultron focuses more overtly on saving lives - not explicitly state the failures of the previous movies. to take from the criticisms of the first movie that the world wants to see superman get shamed, rather than just be a better character.

and the insanity of having superman 2 be about how bad superman was is compounded by having the apology come from the same creative team

it's like if there was a batman movie in 2000 where george clooney was like "omg, nipples...why didn't you stop me alfred?"

would prefer to see everyone who paid to see these movies publicly shame

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c by not seeing the sequel

u tell em shakedog

(tbf i'm not a fan of this stuff either but why bother hating ppl who like it or are curious)

(this trailer also does...not look promising and affleck is the best thing in it but i'll prob never have that suspicion confirmed)

c on dc

I want Affleck's solo Bats movie to be an adaptation of All Star Batman and Robin

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he could really sell this imo

Looks good up until the el destructo CGI action sequences get smoothed out into video game cutscenes.

jeez guys imo the shot of miller dk standing by the bat signal is A+

really shoehorned Wonder Woman in there

seems a bit cerebral for me. might have gone to see this if they'd fitted harry potter into the narrative.

finally watched the trailer; this looks dumb as shit and i plan to wait a year and a half and then watch two minute chunks of it on cable until i can't stand anymore, same as i did man of steel