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

We have like, what, less than 12 hours before the deluge of thunkpieces hit about the return of fascist imagery roping in both this movie and the Trump campaign?

Or will most wait to tie it into reporting whatever the boxoffice take is on Monday?

Armond seems to love it. no Trump but lots of 9/11

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/433246/batman-v-superman-culture-war-gets-mythic

Snyder is ... gifted with a signature erotic touch

never change Armond

XPS I guess smashing an SD card is out of the question.

jesse eisenberg was a catastrophically poor luthor but I did feel a little bit bad for him that he had to shave his head for a total of like 90 seconds of onscreen baldness

haha yeah, all that for a moment that didn't even pay off.

how many people does batman kill in this one? gotta be at least 25, right?

can't remember the last movie I saw that had more dream sequences than this does

the whole terrible superghazi subplot

what the hell was that all about

I'm enjoying the increasingly negative reviews this is drawing:

http://www.pajiba.com/film_reviews/ive-never-hated-anything-the-way-i-hate-batman-v-superman-dawn-of-justice.php

It seems a proper magnitude in light of how very wrong the actual mindset of the film is

xpost Batman killed most of the people in that vehicle he attacked to get the kryptonite that Lex probably woulda just given him if he said "hey let's team up mate".

also shot quite a few but I can't remember how many were real sequences

it's funny cos all my pals who liked it are going nuts saying "wow guys, I have NO IDEA why this is inspiring so much hate, geez it's just a movie", as if people are asking for Zack Snyder's execution.

More Kirby please

xpost (to be fair, I am asking for that)

I was gonna say

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia-cache-ec0.pinimg.com%2F736x%2Fcd%2F4b%2Fd3%2Fcd4bd3e84d8b771a5fdb3bda80a62d08.jpg&f=1

:)

Who was it DC had erase & re-draw Supes' face whenever Kirby drew him in the Jimmy Olsen book? Was it Curt Swan?

yeah it was Swan

i kinda loled when everybody cheered when Wonder Woman showed up cos I'm like, dudes, you've seen that footage for 5 consecutive months

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.the-isb.com%2Fimages%2FBatmanKirby.jpg&f=1

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia-cache-ak0.pinimg.com%2F736x%2F1c%2F3a%2Fa5%2F1c3aa51dba6b9a662addd089132f3a0f.jpg&f=1

oh, that dialogue

dig it

Supe get hep

BROTHER

Ok this is hilarious

http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2016/03/25/zack-snyder-explains-the-shocking-thing-he-did-to-a-beloved-dc-character

lol he gets killed offscreen too.

the scene was basically a fish out of water, it belonged in Iron Man

i lolled hard that the very first thing lois says to her interviewee is 'are you a terrorist?' way to build a rapport with your subject, lane

also perry white is the worst editor in the history of newspapers

I enjoyed Fishburn in this. He seemed to be one of the only actors trying to have any fun

i really hope they went to the trouble of getting michael shannon back for this one just to play a motionless corpse

― hand of jehuty and the blowfish (bizarro gazzara), Friday, December 4, 2015 12:02 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

prescient!

i lolled hard that the very first thing lois says to her interviewee is 'are you a terrorist?'

this made me think that Snyder is a big fan of The Insider

fuckin nailed it xp

the actual word for word cringeworthy quote of Batman: "He has the power to wipe out the human race. And if we think that there’s even a one percent chance that he’s our enemy, we have to treat it as an absolute certainty.”

I think my favourite thing about this monumentally stupid movie is the three occasions towards the end where the dialogue makes it clear that the areas they're fighting in are uninhabited despite all logic and reason suggesting they couldn't possibly be. apparently metropolis becomes like the mary celeste 30 seconds after 5pm? no-one works late, there are no cleaners, restaurant workers, bus drivers or whatever.

just the way it is in the mature, adult world of real life.

Wow, that character death is like a perfectly tuned parody of Snyder, so simultaneously over the top and on the nose that I can't believe he actually did it. What a schmuck.

“We just did it as this little aside because we had been tracking where we thought the movies were gonna go, and we don’t have room for XXXXX XXXXX in our big pantheon of characters, but we can have fun with him, right?”

good god, Snyder's a monster

I have to admit, it's rather impressive that he keeps finding new and different ways to piss all over 70 years worth of comics history.

He's gonna reveal in the next film that Batman's biological mother was an actual bat.

That would be dope.

Personally I don't care much about fidelity to the source material. Make Batman a talking kangaroo for all I care. Just figure out how to tell a story that works on its own terms. It's not asking much!

"whazzat mate? You want me to give you a fair go? There's no need to bung it on with me, you stunned mullet. Your pals left you like a shag on the rock. You managed to sneak by the doorman but I know a ring-in when I see one. Once I reach into my utility pouch it's all over for you. You've got me hopping mad now."

Who was it DC had erase & re-draw Supes' face whenever Kirby drew him in the Jimmy Olsen book? Was it Curt Swan?

― Darkest Cosmologist junk (kingfish), Friday, March 25, 2016 10:07 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah it was Swan

― Οὖτις, Friday, March 25, 2016 10:07 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No, it was Al Plastino inked by Murphy Anderson, and they didn't erase Kirby's pencils, they just pasted over them.

DC did replace an Alex Toth Superman face with a Curt Swan Superman face on the cover of the Super Friends Treasury, but I think that was a pre-existing image rather than a re-drawing as such.

Hmm. Curious.

wait, why

finally watched Man of Steel, what a pile of crap that movie is. there are about 20 minutes in there, about 15 minutes in, when it almost seems like it's going to be alright too.

that's 10 more than in the new one

yeah, firmly decided not to go see this in a theater. thanks internets!

you'da had to wear a raincoat to deflect the cum from the rest of the viewers so prob a good choice.

tho I will say my theatre didn't seem to be in love with it, though someone gave me a death glare when I grunted "fuckin' stupid" at one point

xpost

thomp, because DC felt that the Superman faces drawn by Kirby and Toth didn't look sufficiently like the 'house style' Superman. Al Plastino was both a former Superman artist and a versatile mimic and fixer-upper, and was frequently called upon to cover over the traces of more individualistic drawing styles (Plastino was also once hired (by a newspaper syndicate) to ghost draw a number of Peanuts strips in the 1970s when Schulz was engaged in tricky contract negotiations (the strips were never published once Schulz finally agreed new terms)).

This redrawing etc was not an uncommon practice at both DC and Marvel, btw. John Romita and his in-house production team frequently reworked pages and especially covers to give them the 'Marvel touch' - here's a Kirby Captain America cover where Romita has heavily reworked the face and other aspects of the original pencilled artwork:

http://x.annihil.us/u/prod/marvel/i/mg/c/00/4bb6eee5d2331/background.jpg

that's kinda cool? thx ward