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

the whole vulture article is a treat but this is my favourite part:

At Comic-Con to promote the film last summer, he wore a tight black T-shirt pulled over his muscular frame, but on Justice League’s Leavesden, England, set, the now-slighter Snyder was dressed in a tweedy vest and tie, his reading glasses dangling from a lanyard.

it's snyder's equivalent of rick perry putting on glasses. 'my douchebro days are behind me guys i r srs director now k'

Snyder doing comedy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aPqhFUvo8E

lol, that long take at the end

'that prologue, ancient Amazonians, humans, and Atlanteans are entrusted by the god Zeus to guard three “Mother Boxes,” a set of microwave-sized cubes that hold enough cosmic power to potentially bring about an apocalypse.'

More Kirby stuff. Good.

since when iss a mother box the size of a microwave

or cube-shaped

+ Cinematic adaptations of Kirby Fourth World material!
- Said material getting a cinematic gritbath by Captain Grimdark!

kirby's bottomless, kaleoidoscopic imagination explored by a man who possesses all the depth of a muddy puddle

hurrah

yeah this is not a good thing

i love that the one-sentence synopsis kingfish posted includes

- amazonians
- atlantis
- greek myth
- the fourth world

so all this shit is going to be introduced and explained in a movie that also needs to set up cyborg, the flash, aquaman, commissioner gordon and steppenwolf, at the very least. what could possibly go wrong?

have we talked anywhere about jk simmons' terrifying physical transformation ahead of playing commissioner gordon? because holy shit

http://www.adventuresinpoortaste.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/jk-simmons-jacked.jpg

they could introduce steppenwolf with "born to be wild" instead of "the pusher"?

looking forward to Gordon snapping Darkseid's neck

I anticipate a portentous 53-minute intro monologue/montage that gets us up to speed before the four-hour movie begins in earnest.

delivered by gerard butler as metron

"Ours is not the first world..."

BUM BUM (thunderous drum sound)

Oh, the comedy quote is from Affleck. It does seem like more of an Affleck than a Snyder kind of sentiment. Snyder's sense of humour has more to do with urine.

i hope there is a flashback showing the murder of thomas and martha wayne because i am not sure why bruce wayne chose to become batman

bitten by a radioactive bat iirc

It had something to do with his mother being named Martha iirc?

The smartass iirc twins have an answer for every question, iirc.

i hope we see batman solve a mystery by asking a computer

A batputer, damn it. Come on.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lGoQhFb4NM

not bad. actually more optimistic about WW

idgi why is she fighting WWI

because Miss Israel fighting WW2 would be too on-the-nose

Haha ok I didnt know that

hahaha wow! that didn't occur to me

started a thread for the wonder woman movie here: By Hera! Come anticipate the WONDER WOMAN movie with me!

kind of a weird decision to feature a wonder woman with only half a face

http://heroichollywood.com/henry-cavill-posts-first-image-of-black-superman-suit-from-justice-league/

mannnn if they're gonna go that route, ditch the cape and GIVE US THE MULLET

man if they don't have a "Back in Black" music cue in this I'm going to be so pissed

throw in The Sound of Silence during a batfleck scene and I'll buy a ticket

Why TF have they gone for Cyborg over Martian Manhunter?

Studies show the Green Dollar not as powerful as previously thought.

jon peters will be thrilled to see his dream of a black-suited superman is finally coming true. maybe they can squeeze a robot spider in there somewhere too!

i posted a little while back about all the plot threads this movie will have to pull together, so we can now add the resurrection of superman to

- amazonians
- atlantis
- greek myth
- the fourth world
- introduction of cyborg
- introduction of the flash
- introduction of aquaman
- introduction of steppenwolf

good thing zack snyder has proven himself time and again to be a deft hand with juggling plot elements in a coherent and entertaining way

meanwhile, the flash's costume continues to look really fucking stupid :(

one thing's for sure, though - the black costume will make a startling visual contrast with the bold primary colours featured in snyder's two superman movies to date

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/03/22/12/3258593400000578-0-image-m-25_1458651584726.jpg

He's clearly going for the Sin City aesthetic. All black and white and red rivers of Metropolitan blood.

You hateful people, you all made Brett Ratner sad:

http://io9.gizmodo.com/batman-v-superman-funder-claims-rotten-tomatoes-is-ruin-1793564298

life goal achieved

good job everyone

My question back to Ratner would have been "But isn't it better to be here than to be a Cabinet secretary for Trump like another cofinancier?"

Ratner: People who Rotten Tomatoes are savages

“In Middle America it’s, ‘Oh, it’s a low Rotten Tomatoes score so I’m not going to go see it because it must suck.’ But that number is an aggregate and one that nobody can figure out exactly what it means, and it’s not always correct,” Ratner said.

But people did go see BvS in spite of the shitty RT score, so what is he whining for?

he'd be much better off with the tack that it while critics rightfully said it sucked, millions of people still saw it and enjoyed it anyway so fuck the critics

brett ratner in 'making bad decisions' shocker

damn those culture snobs in Middle America