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

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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

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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

There’s no fun, no love, no hope to the entire film. And those three things — fun, love, and hope, should be the hallmarks of a superhero film, especially the iconic ones like these. Instead, it’s a destitute, barren, soulless trash heap of a film, removing any semblance of heroism from its heroes, destroying any possibility of empathy and giving its audience nothing to root for at any point during this 151 minute-long atrocity.

shit like this keeps making me kind of want to watch this movie

not gonna happen tho

If I thought it was actually anything like that description, I'd watch it, too. But all it really means is that the pathetic man-babies who are the audience for this shit didn't get their nipples tweaked exactly the right way during their handjobs, and they're lashing out in frustration.

meanwhile, 36% of people on imdb rate this movie 10 out of 10

idk all the quasi-smart nerdy types on my fb keep sharing quasi-smart stuff about how and why this movie is bad and just ... read a book, you noobs

that description is actually very otm. i'm definitely not one of the DC comic book fanboys preening on the web about how the film wronged me, but this flick is probably the most drab, dull superhero flick in recent memory. and it's not bad in the way that makes it an enjoyable hatewatch either.

like imagine the atmosphere of that Damon movie The Good Book appearing in a Supes movie

Is it true that this is Ben Afflecks first line in the movie?

“There was a time above. A time before. There were perfect things, diamond absolutes. But things fall. And what falls is fallen.”

I mean. Yikes. That's awful. And I say that as a huge Malick-fan.

oh jesus that is woeful

the dialogue is mostly forgetful as opposed to entertainingly bad - I didn't even remember that Affleck said that.

the jar of piss line is the only one that made me LOL in the theater. though there are some moments at the end where Affleck is rambling incoherently at Superman's "grave".

weirdly, my comics-obsessed friends have been loving this, which is the real shocker. one of them, who spent weeks quoting Harry Knowles as some kind of literary genius and kept whining about actual scientific impossibilities in TDKR is blowing his load over this. another, who was equally critical of Iron Man 3 and its supposed false notes, called this an "grown up superhero film for grownups".

they are viewing this as an overwhelming critic conspiracy to take down DC, as if critics haven't pretty much loved most DC movies. hell, critics didnt' even overwhelmingly hate MoS!

Another window into the perspective of the real world: My daughter's best friend (9) went to see it with her mom yesterday, so I asked her mom what she thought, and she said it was good. I expressed surprise, saying I'd read nothing but bad reviews, and she said she had heard it'd been getting mostly good reviews! So I expressed surprise once again, telling her that I had seen, like, one good reviews for every 10 negative reviews. And that were angry negative reviews. She kind of laughed and shrugged and said, well, if you like superhero movies, you'll probably like it.

OMG, how had I never heard about Snyder and Michael Bay being tight bros since college? It all makes so much sense now.

Michael Wilkinson, commenting on the design of the Batman look, said that, "Zack Snyder said that the most important thing for our Batman is that he come across as a really hulking big guy who's super pumped up. He's going to be even bigger than our Superman in silhouette. His strength is not through armor and gadgets, he's basically a tower of muscle. ..."

I have to say, he's very tuned-in to the lasting appeal of Batman.

Baneman

Another window into the perspective of the real world: My daughter's best friend (9) went to see it with her mom yesterday, so I asked her mom what she thought, and she said it was good. I expressed surprise, saying I'd read nothing but bad reviews, and she said she had heard it'd been getting mostly good reviews! So I expressed surprise once again, telling her that I had seen, like, one good reviews for every 10 negative reviews. And that were angry negative reviews. She kind of laughed and shrugged and said, well, if you like superhero movies, you'll probably like it.

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 26 March 2016 13:26 (40 minutes ago) Permalink

Yeah the online echo chamber gives the illusion of consensus but out in the real world Transformers movies make a billion dollars

Definitely some Liefeld boobage going on

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Viz

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god liefeld was/is so so so fucking bad

is snyder the cinematic liefeld?