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

Ha! I haven't read it for 20 years and I remember that caption.

IIRC the pacing and design of that comic are extraordinary but Miller's /ideas/ are pretty awful. Goes without saying that the latter is what the new movie appears to have borrowed above all.

His ideas are p reactionary. At the same time he does maintain the pretense that batman doesnt kill (or use real bullets lol)

here's the full vid of that superman on unicycle bit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Yo0MGR2kmA

His ideas are p reactionary. At the same time he does maintain the pretense that batman doesnt kill (or use real bullets lol)

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, March 23, 2016 9:04 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

right, it always seemed like just that -- a pretense, no doubt demanded by DC editors.

Batman doesn't kill, he just puts people on Long Term Disability

http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/1/11352/1358763-8_27_2010_3_47_37_pm.jpg

AT THE TAXPAYERS EXPENSE

I think ima get fucked up before seeing this tomorrow

Isnt future batman wayne's kid or something?

Xp

one of 'em

Bruce is a ho?

lol you guys scandalized by Snyder is a riot... anyone who goes to these movies after college has a not so deeply buried Randian in em

Jeremy Irons joins Caine in future web obit "Alfred Dies"

It's sad he was a Sotosyn

i'm pretty confident i will never see this movie. i only ever watched the recent spate of superhero movies out of vague professional obligation, and i abandoned even that a few years ago.

also, nobody's "scandalized." it's just easy and fun to ridicule this guy and the seemingly awful movies he makes.

ALBATROSS

dying @ that pic of snyder w cavill upthread. it's like he's the platonic form casting the blurry, amorphous shadow we call bro.

this does seem like the movie zack snyder was born to make, insofar as he was born to make a colossally shitty mopefest

"I mean, they hung people on meathooks in Texas Chainsaw Massacre. So I don't see why anyone should be upset when Supeman does that in my movie. Geez, lighten up."

this seemed plausible enough as a zack snyder quote that i typed a "wait does superman hang people on meathooks in this movie" post

tbh i did think the new star wars' blithe ante-upping on the destruction of alderaan was pretty sensationalist especially as the only real answer to the inevitable question "how did this embattled fringe remnant of a galaxy-spanning empire that once blew up one planet just blow up five planets with one shot" was because-awesome

future batman's identity revealed

https://frinkiac.com/meme/S09E05/648046.jpg?b64lines=IEJVVCBJIE1BTkFHRUQgVE8gU0hPT1QKIEhJTSBJTiBUSEUgU1BJTkUuICAKKGFwcGxhdXNlICkgWUVBSCwgSSBHVUVTUwogVEhFIE5FWFQgUExBQ0UgSEUgUk9CUwogQkVUVEVSIEhBVkUgQSBSQU1QLg==

Fantastic review of a film that I still have zero intention of ever seeing.

If u see this in theaters u r part of the problem imo

*raises hand*

What an...odd review

If, like me, you clutched your head at the first paragraph in the FFC review declaring "Not long after 9/11, The Hunger Games became a YA phenomenon capped with a run of blockbuster adaptations.", be unlike me and close that tab - it doesn't get any less dumb.

This one is fun:

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/batman-v-superman-is-v-bad-1766555948

As with Man of Steel and The Watchmen (no ludicrous sex scenes in this jam, at least), this movie is relentlessly grim and gritty and resolutely No Fun Whatsoever, every line intoned with Desdemonian gravitas, every falling bullet casing memorialized with its own slow-mo funereal aria. (At one point, the Army fires a big-ass cannon, and that shell also falls to the ground in super-slow motion.)

lol I just checked a PDF and when Batman opens fire on the mutants there's a thought caption that says Rubber bullets. Honest

― Number None, Wednesday, March 23, 2016 8:28 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

why does that sound familiar... oh right

http://i.imgur.com/7Qbq3K0.png

right, it always seemed like just that -- a pretense, no doubt demanded by DC editors.

― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, March 23, 2016 10:13 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hahhahahah ughhh

I think ima get fucked up before seeing this tomorrow

― Neanderthal, Wednesday, March 23, 2016 10:26 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

second time ive heard this today, do i know you irl?

tbh this movie got me worried

AO Scott don't like it, even in principle
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/25/movies/review-batman-v-superman-dawn-of-justice-when-super-friends-fight.html

But the point of “Batman v Superman” isn’t fun, and it isn’t thinking, either. It’s obedience. The theology is invoked not to elicit meditations on mercy, justice or sacrifice, but to buttress a spectacle of power. And in that way the film serves as a metaphor for its own aspirations. The corporations that produce movies like this one, and the ambitious hacks who sign up to make them, have no evident motive beyond their own aggrandizement. Entertainment is less the goal than the byproduct, and as the commercial reach of superpower franchises grows, their creative exhaustion becomes ever more apparent.

would love to see this crash and burn in spectacular fashion but the world seems set on opposing me

sounds more and more like it's phenomenally unsuited to anyone below or past the age of puberty

Snyder's movies seem tailor-made for the Wall Street Bro who still has that tiny spark of nostalgia for his old action figures/comics and the joy they once brought him. Oh yeah ... and has repressed homosexual desires.

anyone who goes to these movies after college has a not so deeply buried Randian in em

'hey girl, you got any deeply buried randian in you? would you like some?'

I know that the United States started remaking the nihilistic horror films that Japan had been churning out for decades, and I know that this is because after 9/11, we became the second modern, industrialized nation to experience the effects of weapons of mass destruction detonated over a civilian area. - See more at: http://www.filmfreakcentral.net/ffc/2016/03/batman-v-superman-dawn-of-justice.html#sthash.ELDOsVt5.dpuf

Dear Walter Chaw: I assume you mean at least the fourth such nation, since both the Blitz and the bombing of Dresden killed more than 20x as many civilians died on 9/11.

I expect more from the critics at Film Freak Central.

Entertainment is less the goal than the byproduct

Yeah, this lines up with something the RLM guys said in a review of Fury Road(I think) or something in the last coupla years that Hollywood flicks seem to be mainly about inflicting a sense assault on the audience, where every needle is pegged, and emotional connection or content a far afterthought, so it was strangely revolutionary that George Miller was able to do what he did. The experience of most blockbuster attempts is to cough up enough dosh for a ticket to be pummeled visibly and audibly two hours.

Which is why i waited to see fury road until it came out on video, then was shocked that it was a movie first and a spectacle as a far second. the degree of difficulty to deliver meaning amidst sturm und drang is so high you have to really know how to carefully calibrate the machinery. "superman fucks lois lane in a bathtub" suggests snyder might have his priority just a tetch off

@NickPinkerton
It's incorrect to assume people had "worst fears" to confirm about Batman vs. Superman. I have never once had a thought about it, even now.

Oh fer FUCKS sake the omnipresent victory of pop culture and daily saturation of the Internet into all aspects of normal daily life is like a coupla decades old by this point, do we still need performative gestures of personal/tribal superiority or mouthing shibboleths that are nothing but I Don't Even OWN a Television?

Little boy on the subway:
'Mom mom, I just saw Batman and Superman!' (A poster)
'Okay'
'But they look really angry?'
'Yes, the title means that they will be fighting'
'... but.... then which one of them is the enemy?'
'Well who do you think?'
'...'
'Do you think superman is the enemy?'
'No! He can't be! He's wearing blue!'

He is also wearing red, though <mind blown>

http://www.theonion.com/article/batman-v-superman-promotion-urges-filmgoers-just-g-52623

Dawn of Justice is still a colossus, the stuff that DC Comics dreams are made of for that kid in all of us who yearns to see Batman and Superman suit up and go in for the kill. Suck on that, Marvel. After this, can Justice League v The Avengers be far behind?

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/batman-v-superman-dawn-of-justice-20160322

how does peter travers sleep at night?*

*answer: on pillows stuffed with major-studio promotional materials.

made of for that kid in all of us who yearns to see Batman and Superman suit up and go in for the kill

even as a kid reading comics in the xtreme-to-the-maxxxxx early 90s that was literally the last thing i wanted to see ether of them do

michael phillips: "The movie does not kid. It takes the mournful death knells of the Christopher Nolan “Batman” trilogy and cranks up the volume, while ignoring any of the visual strengths and moral provocations found in Nolan’s best work."

I feel like there's some kind of collective brainwashing that has convinced otherwise intelligent people that there are "visual strengths" and (more dubiously) "moral provocations" to be found in the Nolan Batman movies, which strike me as thoroughly routine pieces of work. of course, a lot of things look pretty good in comparison to the work of zack snyder.

the praise for heath ledger also mystifies me.

https://twitter.com/nickpinkerton/status/690347619302928384

(he's being sarcastic btw)

Heath ledger was the only good thing about any of those nolan batmovies

i get the feeling a lot of critics are just sick to death of superheroes and this movie just happens to come along at the right moment for the big kicking.

Wow I never thought I'd see a Supes movie that made me pine for Superman 4 but this was it

This was one of the worst piles of garbage ever. Interestingly enough only a fraction of the crowd cheered at the end.