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

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.