in the theater i couldn't really tell which shots these were
― Nhex, Sunday, 19 November 2017 16:05 (six years ago) link
Is it up there with this legendary DCU moustache removal?
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cesar+romero+joker&client=firefox-b&dcr=0&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwih98PwhMvXAhXCGuwKHSaaA-sQ_AUICigB&biw=1136&bih=634#imgrc=6naWU1cTK2gBXM:
― chap, Sunday, 19 November 2017 16:19 (six years ago) link
http://remezcla.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/the_joker_cesar_romero_film-1150x719.jpg?x16388
― chap, Sunday, 19 November 2017 16:20 (six years ago) link
Lowest opening weekend of any DC "universe" movie. Lower than Wonder Woman, lower than Suicide Squad, less than half of the first Avengers movie's opening weekend. Can we just put the pillow over its face yet?
― Ripped Taylor (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 11:25 (six years ago) link
nope. I’m enjoying the spectacle. they’ve 100% done this to themselves, trying to be “different” from the thing everyone likes.
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 17:32 (six years ago) link
This wasn't terrible, a big step up from Batman v Supes, but not terribly interesting either. It's not worth hate-watching because it never reaches "so bad it must be seen to be believed" stature like BvS.
Unlike BvS, I actually found myself entertained at times, and the main baddy was actually fairly badass. Problem is, as has been stated time and again, DC made their major crossover piece without earning it. Half of the characters got less than 10 minutes in a previous film, so they all had to have their arcs crammed into a 2 hour movie.
The pacing is far better than BvS's too. Ironically though, the point where Superman returns is actually where the movie starts to flatline. I just think Henry Cavill is a terrible fit. He always has the wrong energy for the scenes he is in.
Also, weirdly, once again the whole planet is in peril and yet you never see the stakes played out beyond its impact to the superheroes. There's no catharsis as a result.
Woulda been a better movie if everybody died and Commissioner Gordon said "maybe having 10 ego driven superheroes band together was a bad idea" and retired to an underground bunker.
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Saturday, 16 December 2017 15:19 (six years ago) link
jesus god this movie sucked shit
― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 26 February 2018 20:44 (six years ago) link
is there anything I could do to make it watchable, outside of self-inflicted brain injury?
I mean, it's going to be streaming for free on HBO or something eventually and I'll be tempted
― mh, Monday, 26 February 2018 20:46 (six years ago) link
nah, it doesn't even have the so bad it's good aspect. It's just worthless
― Number None, Monday, 26 February 2018 20:50 (six years ago) link
yeah it’s just really fuckin dull tbhit doesn’t even have the ‘everything about this movie is wrong’ factor like man of steel or bvsthe only ‘fun’ to be had is paying attention to the ever-changing levels of alcoholic bloat in ben affleck’s face from scene to scene, sometimes even within scenes
― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 26 February 2018 21:05 (six years ago) link
best part is the flashback to steppenwolf’s first failed attempt to take control of earth, after which the amazons lock their mother box in a heavily-guarded fortress, the atlanteans banish theirs to a high-security facility at the bottom of the ocean, and the humans... bury theirs at most five feet underground in a forest somewhere and peace out
― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 26 February 2018 21:09 (six years ago) link
yes this film was entirely forgettable. at least with BvS it made an impression
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 26 February 2018 21:25 (six years ago) link
― Number None, Monday, February 26, 2018
honestly i am entertained by the metaspectacle of warner/DC punching themselves in the face again and again
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Monday, 26 February 2018 21:41 (six years ago) link
It's just crazy to me that I honestly keep forgetting that a Justice League movie exists. That should've been a big deal, a cause for celebration, not relegated to the status of a Dreamworks sequel. 'Oh, a third Croods movie came out last year? Huh. How about that.'
― Here Comes The Brain Event (Old Lunch), Monday, 26 February 2018 23:22 (six years ago) link
i also enjoyed that, in the proud tradition of dc movies being visibly embarrassed by the source material, at no point in this movie named justice league do any characters utter the the words 'justice league'
― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 11:55 (six years ago) link
"is there anything I could do to make it watchable, outside of self-inflicted brain injury?"
haven't seen it, but you could try to pick out which parts are by snyder/whedon/toy companies.
― adam the (abanana), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 22:08 (six years ago) link
also spot the bits where they CGI'd over Henry Cavill's moustache
― Number None, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 22:20 (six years ago) link
i forgot this movie was even released
― omar little, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 22:21 (six years ago) link
at this point DC Comics films are mostly the Gobots to Marvel's Transformers.
― omar little, Tuesday, 27 February 2018 22:22 (six years ago) link
ha, otm
― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 22:24 (six years ago) link
I forgot I saw this.
― albvivertine, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 06:25 (six years ago) link
yeah it’s just really fuckin dull tbh
it doesn’t even have the ‘everything about this movie is wrong’ factor like man of steel or bvs
This is the real heart of the topic. Nothing happened, or at least nothing you cared about. The Steppenwolf 'three mother boxes' thing made no sense, especially why he never just went and got the human one which was hidden under some leaves in a wood and I can't even remember what happened in the end. Did Cyborg think the cubes apart?
Solitary highlight was the terrible CG of Cavell's top lip.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Thursday, 1 March 2018 20:35 (six years ago) link
honestly the notion of some other production dickishly insisting that an actor can't shave his mustache just to fuck with this production is the most interesting thing about it
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 1 March 2018 20:39 (six years ago) link
honestly i can’t remember exactly how it ended and i only saw it a few days ago!steppenwolf was such a limp, tedious villain - he might has well have been transplanted straight from cutscenes from a c-list videogamei did enjoy bruce wayne bopping around the world revealing his secret identity to everyone he met, he really dngaf
― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 1 March 2018 20:42 (six years ago) link
ok, that point almost sounds funny enough to watch it
I'm imagining a world where no one in Gotham City really travels and no one outside Gotham gives a shit about Batman and he just goes around introducing himself as "Bruce Wayne, the Batman of Gotham City" and no one even shrugs
― mh, Thursday, 1 March 2018 20:44 (six years ago) link
the first time he does it, when he meets aquaman, he has a beard which he didn’t have in the previous scene and he immediately shaves off in the next just real who-gives-a-fuck filmmaking
― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 1 March 2018 20:50 (six years ago) link
yeah I absolutely love the pettiness tbh
― Number None, Thursday, 1 March 2018 20:56 (six years ago) link
Should've just pulled a Romero and lazily pancaked some foundation over that fucker.
― Here Comes The Brain Event (Old Lunch), Thursday, 1 March 2018 21:01 (six years ago) link
my wife didn't know anything about moustachegate and when cavill's cg upper lip showed up for the first time she was like 'oh my god what happened to his face?!?'
it's just egregiously bad - even though steppenwolf is a terrible all-cg character at least he doesn't have the deeply unheimlich mix of real and cg that cavill's face does
― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 1 March 2018 21:02 (six years ago) link
The second most expensive movie ever made, with probably one of the biggest CG budgets ever, all in the service of digitally shaving Henry Cavill.
― jmm, Thursday, 1 March 2018 21:07 (six years ago) link
and got outgrossed in a weekend by Black Panther
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Thursday, 1 March 2018 21:07 (six years ago) link
oh wait i just remembered one thing about the ending - the world-ending helltentacles of terror, the entire pre-production visualisation of which presumably involved zack snyder plonking a video of this down in front of his team and commanding 'do that'
https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/t_original/ldqwb2evus6swbhc7lo0.gif
― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 1 March 2018 21:09 (six years ago) link
I have the suspicion that Snyder's method of scene creation is that he treats every set piece as no more linked than a music video, and he really doesn't give a shit about narrative flow or continuity
there may be an attempt at an emotional beat, but it's not at all linked to the preceding or following scenes, and he's really bad at even that
like he's a version of Michael Bay who has no short-term memory
― mh, Thursday, 1 March 2018 21:10 (six years ago) link
what's funny is friends of mine who inexplicably called BvS a masterpiece hated Justice League.
it's like they preferred the movie where the director prayed diarrhea everywhere over the one where the director at least took Immodium
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Thursday, 1 March 2018 21:12 (six years ago) link
yeah, for sure - there's a scene where amy adams and diane lane have a heart-to-heart in the daily planet break room and while it was going on i was thinking 'this could really have been placed anywhere in the movie up until now and there's no reason to have it here either'
― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 1 March 2018 21:12 (six years ago) link
Lois is the biggest cipher in the whole series.
i've been trying not to schadenfreudelol about this itt but it really is remarkable how all the things which make black panther good (deftly-drawn characteris, great performances, a compelling villain, atypical production design) are more or less entirely absent in this
― NEW CHIMP THREAT (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 1 March 2018 21:15 (six years ago) link
amy adams deserves so much better for sure
Is Joss Whedon's nickname "Immodium"?
― mh, Thursday, 1 March 2018 21:16 (six years ago) link
sing hallelujah, pray diarrhoea
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Thursday, 1 March 2018 22:15 (six years ago) link
Shit sandwich
― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Friday, 4 October 2019 02:35 (four years ago) link
generous tbh
― Is it true the star Beetle Juice is going to explode in 2012 (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 4 October 2019 06:31 (four years ago) link
I just saw Aquaman called a decent film somewhere this week. On the basis of Justice League and BvS I'd find that a bit difficult to believe but Wonder Woman was quite good.Am i missing something that is actually worthwhile?
― Stevolende, Friday, 4 October 2019 08:54 (four years ago) link
aquaman is the most fun dc movie by some distance - if you thought wonder woman was good you'll probably enjoy it
― Is it true the star Beetle Juice is going to explode in 2012 (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 4 October 2019 08:56 (four years ago) link
Yeah, Aquaman is decent, and also kinda batshit crazy. There were still moments where I just can't fathom they've wasted so much time and money to do so little - there's an incredibly shitty chase scene for instance - but it's probably the best DCEU has made. The green screen scenes in Justice League are so awful I can't believe they thought they would get away with it.
― Frederik B, Friday, 4 October 2019 09:59 (four years ago) link
The "honest trailer" for Aquaman is kinda OTM, both in how closely it follows the arc of another big comic movie, and in how they threw in every single big Aquaman story arc like, ever, into one movie.
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Friday, 4 October 2019 13:04 (four years ago) link
aquaman is terrible, but for longtime ILXors there’s a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it Easter egg establishing that his dad was the kind of doof who plays bass through a guitar amp
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Friday, 4 October 2019 14:17 (four years ago) link
I really think we need different ways to describe films. Aquaman is not 'terrible', there's, like, several minutes of kinda okay visuals. It is, though, all in all, completely worthless, devoid of any accumulation of meaning.
Or perhaps we don't really 'need' any different ways to describe anything. It might not be worth it. I kinda liked the film, but it's not in any way 'good'. I was just watching DC films to prepare for watching Joker, and it's the only painless one.
― Frederik B, Friday, 4 October 2019 18:57 (four years ago) link
I was just watching DC films to prepare for watching Joker
The decision to chop off your thumb doesn't really require a practice run on all of your other fingers, but go with god, my friend.
― Furter-Bursting Tater Squirter (Old Lunch), Friday, 4 October 2019 19:03 (four years ago) link
for the record:
https://medias.spotern.com/spots/w1280/189/189133-1553506380.jpg
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Friday, 4 October 2019 20:11 (four years ago) link