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

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
http://www.outrightgeekery.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Analysis-of-a-Creator-Geoff-Johns-Infinite-Crisis-768x560.jpg

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.