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

Could be kewl

why is David Goyer a thing

Yeah, it's his involvement, not Snyder's, that makes this an especially dismal proposition.

Could be kewl

― Treeship, Saturday, July 20, 2013 6:59 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ilu treebutt but you're just too much sometimes

oh god...

― Gukbe, Saturday, July 20, 2013 5:54 PM

^^^

Only saw Man of Steel cause I was dragged. For this one, I'll be sure to put up a better fight.

All of you who went to see 3000/watchmen/man of steel - THIS IS YOUR FAULT

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didn't watchmen bomb tho

If this is anything like the last book of Batman DKR that would be amazing xp

Saw 1/3 of those, am willing to accept my share of blame.

Good. You are approximately 33% responsible for this film.

ok, as long as I get my third of the gross

i'm not in charge of that, unfortunately. i just dole out responsibility.

i am not against this film in theory or in practice. more movies in the world are a good thing.

i hope they decide to cast me as batman.

i love that this means DC realized doing Justice League this soon would be a folly, but that they still wanted some HOLY COW movie to compete with Avengers 2 in '15.

it's such an ironic problem they have, awkwardly trying to cram the two biggest characters in comicdom together because Marvel did such a great job of launching and combining four lesser-known franchises

it's possible they'll find a different way to make the pair mesh, but usually the vibe is "yeah you're a god, but you're also an idiot boy scout." How are you going to establish a new Batman and have us believe he's more experienced than the established Superman at the same time?

fail to make us believe Batman could outsmart Superman and he's just some jackass with a grappling hook taking up screen time

I GOT IT. BRING BACK CLOONEY.

i think they should cast a woman in the role of batman. anne hathaway maybe. women have been known to successfully play hamlet.

would see a superman vs peter pan movie

wall street 3 should involve superman

some kinda prophecy going on here from William Goldman in 1983

Jaws began the present cycle: It did business far beyond what anyone dreamed possible. Then Star Wars shattered all the records set by Jaws. And now every executive in Hollywood is trying to figure out how the hell to topple Star Wars. Which, of course, is only right and proper: It’s their job. But in their quest, they have altered the tradition of ploughing back profits in pursuit of an entire range of different sorts of films. Right now—today—comic-book pictures are only breeding more comic-book pictures, something that has never happened to this extent before. Will the ecology shift back to what it’s been? “Absolutely,” the studio executives will tell you. When? “When the public demands it.” Of course, there’s a certain element of truth to that—but basically it’s a cop-out. Change will only come when the executives stop ignoring the churning in their guts. These are bright people, never forget that. They don’t personally enjoy the movies they’re okaying. Do you think they’re happy going home and saying to their families, “Hey, guess what, a great thing happened today, we decided to make Megaforce.” The ecology can only shift when these people decide that there’s got to be more to life than a remake of The Creature from the Black Lagoon. When they suck it up and decide to find material like Ordinary People and Cuckoo’s Nest. But this summer’s three big pictures so far are E. T., Rocky III, and Star Trek II. So, for the present, I think we may as well prepare ourselves for seven more Star Wars sequels and half a dozen quests involving Indiana Jones. By the end of the decade, we may well be seeing E. T. Meets Luke Skywalker.

Cowboy and Alien

comiccon culture is a scourge

i wish THIS summer's three big pictures were e.t. star trek 2 and rocky 3

Al otm

The ecology can only shift when these people decide that there’s got to be more to life than a remake of The Creature from the Black Lagoon. When they suck it up and decide to find material like Ordinary People and Cuckoo’s Nest.

You know, I can't pretend I'd go to the movies more often in that ecology.

well it'd probably still cost $10.50

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rofl

marvelous

BATASTIC

The thread title is definitely OTM right now.

*does batdance*

Oh I want Prince to do the theme for this one so bad.

my guess is we'll have to settle for Robin Thicke

"Inspired by Prince"

"music inspired by the music inspired by the film 'batman'"

"movie inspired by Prince's Batdance"

ben affleck has a problem reading lines and knowing what his eyes should be doing

in other words he seems like the kind of guy who is very successful doing something he isn't really any good at

also, this is the sound of air wheezing out of a beat-up old tire

maybe they'll go retro with his costume and give him the og batman suit, with the big pointy ears

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batman camel toe

toeman

Way too many self-immolation gifs on my facebook feed.

Why he's taking to the role like a charm!

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Wait hold on.

nothing says "gravitas" more than ben affleck

Can't wait for the contrarian Slatepitch articles in favor of this

remember when the first justice league posters came out bearing the legend UNITE THE SEVEN and then the movie only had six leads?

god you just love to see it

Maybe they'll keep remaking Dawn of Justice annually and at the end credits it will read DO U LIKE NOW? Y/N

given that jason momoa and gal gadot are the stars of the only half-decent, financially successful dc movies, does that mean the justice league movie would keep them and recast, at minimum, batman and superman?

god you just love to see it

I love Jason Momoa

No homo-a

-review by Harry Knowles

xxpost Particularly if they recast Batman as someone other than Pattinson.

jason momoa rules and the aquaman movie is a delight

nice try, but you're not going to trick me

remember when the first justice league posters came out bearing the legend UNITE THE SEVEN and then the movie only had six leads?

no

what

did a whole character get cut out of the whole movie

It was a very early Aquaman poster - he unites the seven underwater kingdoms in his film. And by sticking it out there in 2015, you get a lot of people speculating about who the seventh member of the JL would be.

unites the seven underwater kingdoms in his film.

the what now though

is this Snyder suffering extreme Geoff Johns “52 means something because it’s a number that relates to something arbitrary” damage x his own 2 Marthas doofishness?

And by sticking it out there in 2015, you get a lot of people speculating about who the seventh member of the JL would be.

was there any kind of awareness of the other six at this point (nb I saw posters when the movie was out but if asked would not have known Aquaman was in it before this post)

pretty sure the 'errr actually we meant the seven seas honest' interpretation was a backpedal to cover up that they'd decided against putting green lantern in justice league but we may never know for sure

it's the only baffling creative decision zack snyder has ever made

As far as I know (and this is literally just 10 minutes googling), the slogan never appeared except on an image of Aquaman.

I had forgotten that Justice League 2 was originally scheduled for a fortnight ago!

I saw posters when the movie was out but if asked would not have known

I also forgot that Cyborg is in the movie Justice League for no apparent reason

but is still in the movie / TV Teen Titans for sensible reasons

and is ALSO in the TV Doom Patrol even though they already have another cyborg as their main dude



which Warner exec has some kind of uncontrollable Cyborg fetish?

it's kind of astonishing that they tried to make a dc movie series but didn't manage to make a solo batman movie before they had to reboot everything

they were trying to get Bale back for way too long

One of the (many) ways that dc’s apeing of the marvel movie phenomenon falls flat is a need to cast stars as leads instead of letting the lead become a star in the role.

counterpoint: gal gadot?

Right and her and khal drogomofo are the huge wins! Quit hiring names for Batman and Superman! Find non Americans!

Shoulda got Crispin Glover

speaking of crispin glover is there a thread for this upcoming joaquin phoenix thing? it's cool that DC finally got the memo about setting their scenarios in a genre other than "cape opera" and i for one look forward to Taxi Driver But With The Joker

I think Joker looks horrible

well, yeah. like, as a movie to watch and enjoy sure. but as part of WB/DC’s decades-long program of inventing new ways to faceplant you gotta admit it’s pretty inspired.

fair

Supposedly Joker movie is all Joaquin Phoenix doing street clown performing and kids on the street get more and more violent and disruptive to his gig but he keeps a-smiling.

Roll credits

I bet the line "Didn't they tell you, the Joker is wild?" appears at least three times

Todd Phillips:

We didn’t follow anything from the comic books, which people are gonna be mad about. We just wrote our own version of where a guy like Joker might come from. That’s what was interesting to me. We’re not even doing Joker, but the story of becoming Joker. It’s about this man.

Congratulations again, DC.

i'm still probably too hopeful for this to be good considering it's from the director of The Hangover movies

I saw Shazam last night. It wasn't that good, but it was OK. So many desperate, totally gratuitous references to Superman and Batman in it.

we have a thread specifically for that movie btw xp

I dare you to anticipate Joaquin Phoenix in Todd Phillips's JOKER

Oh, I didn't realize we'd decided to hone in on a particular instance of DC's cinematic haplessness.

you posted in that thread several times!

Goddamn it, I forgot to consult my .xls file again.

Watched the first half of shazam and totally lost interest, even when DC more or less get the execution right, it's garbage in practice because of the scripting/acting/need to make everything pointlessly dark.

Like sivana's dad really needs to hate him from the cradle?

the general concept for Shazam was good - Big-esque wish-fulfilment comedy in superhero clothing - but crucially, it wasn't really funny. And it needed to be an hour shorter

and less cruel! Why are all these fucking DC movies so vapidly sadistic?
oh right: geoff johns
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confusing violence with pathos is the dc way these past few decades

Yeah, I expected Shazam to be a lot funnier. I couldn't tell which was more shoehorned in, the jokes or the pathos.

Guys, he was blowing a bubble on the poster. Surely that was enough levity to offset the fact that he carved a lightning bolt into his chest with a rusty corkscrew as penance for having failed to prevent Mary Marvel from having her spine ripped out by an inexplicably-evil Tawky Tawny (sorry for spoilers).

i genuinely don't know if you're being serious!

i had to google it!

It's just sad that we're living in a time where any such scenario could ever possibly exist outside of a pubescent edgelord's dog-eared notebook.

Geoff Johns uses a laptop iirc

watching shazam at the moment (it’s... adequate!) and i can’t stop thinking about how much the kid who plays billy batson looks like arya from game of thrones

I thought that as well! I even looked to see if they were related.