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

god what a worthless human

sometimes people assume their popularity or notoriety is because their fingers are on the pulse of some deep vein in the zeitgeist

it's really hard to convince them it's not a vein but a bile duct

http://www.forbes.com/sites/robsalkowitz/2016/03/18/warner-brothers-destroyed-supermans-brand-for-their-new-franchise-will-it-pay-off/#6c56efa147d8

Interesting take on Forbes, looking at Superman from a branding perspective

god what a worthless human

― Οὖτις, Thursday, March 17, 2016 3:37 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he really is profoundly stupid

i hope this new movie loses a fuckton of money

Speaking of profoundly stupid -- or maybe just venal

http://jezebel.com/henry-cavills-press-tour-for-batman-v-superman-has-been-1765323349

lol what a prick

imo he'd be ok if cast as a person you're supposed to actively dislike, which is my reaction when he's on screen

He looks perpetually peeved. Very Superman-esque.

I’m slightly wary of saying this, because it can be frowned upon, certainly by members of my community and people outside my community, but I’m not just doing this for the art. The money’s fantastic and that’s something which I deem — and again, it is frowned upon — very important.

if you're going to come out and say 'wheee i love money' to a reporter you should really have confidence in your dickheadery and not bother about prefacing it with some equivocating bullshit imo

supposedly this movie focuses on Batman's disillusionment with Superman cos of all the buildings destroyed and people killed in the Krypton invasion.

I hope the movie begins with him reading a paper titled the "Gotham Gazette", with comically large type, with a headline reading "165,000 dead in Metropolis, and the rest of the text being a bunch of random latin words in smaller type.

spinning newspaper would be even better

Based on the trailers, it'll have a bunch of Man of Steel footage doing that.

Yeah, he's right in the shit, scooping up armfuls of the meat that was once the populace of Metropolis.

first scene is ten minutes of metropolis public workers hosing down viscera from the streets.

pan left, superman is eating a bag of honey-roasted peanuts while taking selfies with teenage girls.

the thing about this movie that looks remotely alright it gal gadot

Still at the bar with those peanuts

xpost Yeah, seriously. I do have a little interest in the Wonder Woman movie (although I'm still waiting to see how they manage to fuck up what sounds like idea).

'like a good idea'

I'm sure they'll find away

they'll probably take the obvious route to fuck it up and hypersexualize her

you are reminding me of Scott Lobdell's take on Starfire now ;_;

they'll take the character back to her roots as an S&M fantasy

shuddering to think at what the Lasso of Truth *used* to be

Have you seen the Woman Woman pilot by the Ally McBeal creator, with Diana as a lawyer looking for a man in her life?

just booked tickets to see this on friday - psyched for the hatewatch

xp Woman Woman! All the powers of a woman!

Our local drive-in is opening their season this weekend with a double feature of this and Deadpool. My wife and I are going to go since it's both cheaper than a regular theater and exactly the venue this deserves.

you guys are to blame for Snyder's career fyi

Thank you, Zack Snyder, for giving me reason after reason to see this or any of your other fucking sadface movies:

‘Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice’ director Zack Snyder on why he wouldn't use Grant Gustin’s Flash

“I just don’t think it was a good fit,” says Snyder of bringing in Gustin’s verison of The Flash to “The Justice League,” which starts filming next month.

“I’m very strict with this universe and I just don’t see a version where...that (tone is) not our world.”

That world, which will be the basis for at least 10 movies over the next five years, has a tone that’s much darker, more brooding than the TV-versions of the DC superheroes.

Why do you think people want this mopey superhero shit, you fucking sadsack?

'reason after reason to NOT see this', natch

Flash is super-ridiculous but ultimately enjoyable. Unlike Snyder.

yeah i've been half watching dc's legends of tomorrow and it's garbage but it's much closer to ludicrous comics fun than the dc movies have been lately

I wouldn't argue that the DC shows are much more than garbage but they're enjoyable garbage. And, yes, fun. Even the grim n' gritty Arrow feels like a bubbly romp compared to Zack Snyder's tortured soul. But, sure, continue painting in nothing but shades of gray, dude. People are totally gonna be onboard for another half decade of this shit.

More Snyder weirdness:

The thing that’s kinda cool about the Batman suit (and) our Batman logo is that the dimension is the same as the Man of Steel logo, the bottom of the bat. So I said, “No, it’s cool. It’s okay. It’s mythologically okay.

Does this dude associate with other people? Kinda feels like he doesn't.

What hath the 90s wrought

On a related note, eBay pricing for those early Deadpool appearances I was gunna hawk has plummeted, except for New Mutants 98. I really need to get on this.

I don't understand why Warner Bros thinks this is they guy to handle several of their most valuable properties?

Why do you think people want this mopey superhero shit, you fucking sadsack?

the only real answer to this i can think of is basically down to nolan's dark knight taking a billion dollars at the box office. that led warners and snyder to believe that grafting the allegedly real-world, street-level aesthetic of the batman movies onto stories of alien superbeings, kings of underwater kingdoms, men capable of running at the speed of light and daughters of actual greek fucking gods is not in fact a totally stupid idea but a solid enough foundation on which to build an entire cinematic universe

I'm just hoping the Suicide Squad movie won't make me want to burn my neat little DCU Timm/Dini figures. My gf's nephew so enjoys incorporating them into the Lego adventures he concocts when he comes to visit. I'm tryna not let the idiotic promo marketing skew my attitude any more than the film might.

That reminds me; I need to get one of the Timm/Dini Amanda Waller figures before Nu52 redesign bullshit somehow magics them out of existence.

http://www.blackactionfigures.com/wp-content/images/amanda/amanda_main.jpg

I don't understand why Warner Bros thinks this is they guy to handle several of their most valuable properties?

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?id=zacksnyder.htm

makin' that sucker punch money

Wow, Watchmen _lost_ money, figuring in the advert campaign. I didn't know that.

How much of the mopey hero sadsack trappings are ultimately a part of the focusing on superficial details aspect that led to the grim& gritty era in the first place? That plenty of dudes(I'm betting predominantly dudes, of course) were insecure about their favored genre and felt the need to indulge in wrapping them in the most tangible, surface levels details of "seriousness" adult/important narrative? It's similar to what idiot pundit types do when they only talk about certain things in a very slim rangev of acceptable topics, because that's what Very Serious People do? So we can't have all this brightly colored superhero fare becuz that's just kid shit etc etc etc

Or dudes raised on the idiot choices comic publishers made after the mid 80s ascent of Alan Moore/Frank Miller making those same mistakes 20 years later with billions more dollars and billions more prospective audience members

Yeah, this is basically Comics...They're Not Just For Kids Anymore!: The Movie. I don't believe for a second that Snyder gives a serious fuck about comics.

Also, finally read vol 1-3 of the reprinted Miracle-/Marvelman hardcovers. Alan Moore really was ahead of his time, wasn't he?

eh he was successful and everyone copped his steez

I think to be "ahead of your time" requires being initially ignored

I don't believe for a second that Snyder gives a serious fuck about comics

I think he does, though, but his sensibilities are formed entirely and only by the Image Comics launch, with their accompanying blockbuster success.

Dude cares, but completely about the wrong things and in the wrong way.

In other "no idea" news, aside from the fact that he wrote some Doctor Who strips:

Meanwhile, during this same period, he – using the pseudonym of Translucia Baboon – became involved in the music scene, founding his own band, The Sinister Ducks, with David J (of goth band Bauhaus) and Alex Green, and in 1983 released a single, March of the Sinister Ducks, with sleeve art by illustrator Kevin O'Neill. In 1984, Moore and David J released a 7-inch single featuring a recording of "This Vicious Cabaret", a song featured in V for Vendetta, which was released on the Glass Records label.[3](p95) Moore would write the song "Leopardman at C&A" for David J, and it would be set to music by Mick Collins for the album We Have You Surrounded by Collins' group The Dirtbombs.[26]