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

I don't think he's done anyone has done anything to the any of these DC/Marvel characters that hasn't been done in comics at some point

Also, to hell with Aquaman, but I'd be OK with Marvel making a Namor movie.

Someone should drop a big pile of unproduced Garth Ennis projects on Snyder's desk and keep him occupied for the next couple of decades.

i'm stunned snyder hasn't worked with mark millar yet

I think it's only a difference of studios that keeps those potential soulmates apart. I think Millar has a deal with Fox at present.

I dunno; instead of the two being sympatico, who's to say they wouldn't kill each other after each feeding back into the other after several days stuck in a writing room together?

that's best-case scenario, right?

Again, it's like Snyder's knowledge of what comics should be begins and ends at Image 1991.

I wish. These characters could do with more pouches.

Years ago I interviewed Snyder, right after he made "Dawn of the Dead." I remember asking him if he was going to release an unrated director's cut of the movie, and he sort of paused to consider. "Well, I don't know, I think ..." And then this disembodied voice of a studio publicist came on the line and said, yes, he will be doing an unrated director's cut. I think that says it all.

Even with Spawn I don't think Image was ever even trying to be particularly dark and edgy the way DC has in recent years. It was a different type of extreme they were going for.

Superman needed more extreme pouches and Snyder totally let me down

Dawn of the Dead might be the only thing of his I found watchable, but it's mostly a serviceable remake

I did see some analysis of his recurring (bad) themes that noted the very first image at the beginning of that movie, during a montage of news footage clips, is people bowing down in prayer

who are the reeeeeal zombies, man

Oh Supes 1991 was blue mullet moreso than pouches.
Then later blue/red electrics

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YKHLMV8eVcg/Ucifw0oIR2I/AAAAAAAABuM/OkSXq3MrSeo/s1600/reign186-1.jpg

lest we forget

What was that Superman with long white hair+beard and piles of guns, in typical 90s Xtreme mode?

this one, where he kills clones of hitler?

http://orig10.deviantart.net/1e2c/f/2014/359/9/3/superman_kills_twin_colnes_of_hitler_by_maltian-d8b8lpz.jpg

The immortal superman: at earth's end

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman:_At_Earth%27s_End

hard-hitting stuff

Superman walks away triumphant, though mortally wounded. Bleeding to death, Superman carries the remains of his friend back to Wayne Manor where he builds a bonfire to make sure Batman's remains are never misused again. A recalcitrant Ben Boxer offers to make the Man of Steel into a cyborg like himself. Faced with immortality in a world that is no longer his own, Superman turns down the offer, scoops up the remains of his friend and walks into his own funeral pyre. As he burns alive, one child gang member throws his gun into the fire, saying that if it wasn't for guns, Superman would still be alive.

Considering Superman has hung out inside the sun, that must've been one powerful funeral pyre.

That's it, thanks. I can't imagine Veitch doing all this with a straight face.

This is barely related but just as another sign of DC's sad spiral, while most of the big companies are putting out comics with new material for Free Comic Book Day (it's today! go!), DC has opted to give away a reprint of a random issue of Suicide Squad that's several years old.

(sad fart)

tried to get through this the last two nights

fell asleep both times

So a Booster Gold movie is now officially in the works, with Greg Berlanti (head dude on the CW shows) producing and possibly directing. Verrrrry interesting. Not one of the slew of already announced Synderverse movies and, in terms of tone, pretty much the polar opposite of his aesthetic. That along with the presence of Berlanti would seem to suggest that WB is trying to steer this ship in a whole 'nother direction.

Countdown to the announcement of Ezra Miller being replaced with Grant Gustin.

Booster without Beetle?

Gotta have Beetle

Make this an Ant-Man esque farce and I'm sold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwJEzmwVD7E

IMdb has 7.1. for this film which is reasonably high for something i'm hearing such scathing stuff for.

& it is a bit of a mess. JUst rewatched in a better copy than the first time so it makes some more sense but still leaves quite a few things unclear. The thing with the senator as others have mentioned in the thread, why Batman wants to torch somebody right next to Superman's adopted mum, why Gotham is unpopulated etc etc.

Is batman branding people something from the comics somewhere or was that a Snyder invention?

Seeing this more clearly I could see that Thomas Wayne looked a lot like the guy who plays Jason in the Good Wife and the role is listed under his entry on the database. Though it says he isn't credited. Jeffrey Dean Morgan, hadn't realised he was teh comedian in Watchmen , aslo hadn't fully connected to him being the dad in Supernatural.

Well do hope that future movies are made more clearly.

Wonder Woman's 1918 photo presumably shows her with a fighting unit from WWI. She then apparently turned her back on the world of man which is a little odd if the first film dedicated to her is set in the 1920s innit?

NOt sure about a dark Aquaman. Also Flash really should tie in with the tv series though none of the films of Superman have tied in with Smallville or anything. But do enjoy that Flash tv show.

JUst rewatched

http://www.elfarandi.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/supermangif.gif?ec9db3

I didn't see why the Asian assistant was among those blown up in the courthouse. Or was that entire thing about Lex trying to frame Superman which might also explain why there was no real explanation given for what his long term plans with the senator were. Since everything was just leading up to this explosion.
& having people supposedly close to Lex blown up alongside everybody else pointed attention away from him. But doesn't speak much for one's tenure while working for the guy, do it?

Had to see if the problem I was having with the film were down to the lack of the clarity of the version I had seen.

Watched 10 Cloverfield Place just before it too which was cool. Looks like that's heading for a sequel don't it?

xp Yeah that was really bizarre to cast/introduce Mercy Graves and have her killed for basically no reason

What about Jimmy Olsen?

That was even dumber given the whole Jenny character that was supposed to replace him

guys i'm not going to get into an argument over what was dumbest in this movie

Poll?

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/batman-v-superman-fallout-warner-895174

Wow, so they're still tweaking Suicide Squad, which comes out in like two months. At least they see the clear need to course correct. Although Geoff Johns might just wind up steering them into a slightly different iceberg.

i'm sure noted dismemberment enthusiast geoff johns is up to the task of toning down the grim-n-gritty

they should hand the reins to bruce timm or the team behind the animated brave and the bold tbh

alternatively, they could go for the nuclear option and give frank miller a call

Wasn't Geoff Johns steered out originally after Green Lantern?

re suicide squad

"The pic’s trailers have generated massive positive interest in the all-star actioner that features DC villains, and the studio wants to make sure audiences’ expectations are not only met but exceeded."

orly?

Wow, so they're still tweaking Suicide Squad, which comes out in like two months

this isn't really unusual, blockbusters get tweaked right up until the last minute.

I guess by 'tweaking' I meant 'extensively reshooting', which is what it sounds like.

Oh yeah, reshoots are another matter.

great news guys there's a trailer for the r-rated extended version now becuase apparently the cinema cut wasn't violent enough or interminable enough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AO19XY2rqc

was there more violence? it just seemed like there were more whiny bystanders

the r-rated part comes when superman loses his shit and blasts those whiny bystanders into ash with his heat vision

Sounds weird but more whiny bystanders was one of the things this film needed. Would have been somewhat easier to forgive its flaws if more of the characters were aware of how stupid the whole thing was.