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The MSJ posted:9 Empire covers for the movie. Psylocke looks like she was ripped straight out of a Mortal Combat sequel, pose and all.
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Marketing New Brain posted:Psylocke looks like she was ripped straight out of a Mortal Combat sequel, pose and all. Dude, come on, *Kombat
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 12:56 |
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wyoming posted:poo poo, if they've given her the Rogue treatment, I'm gonna be pissed. No one ever gave a gently caress about Jubilee, now matter how hard Marvel tried to convince us otherwise.
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 13:09 |
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Grendels Dad posted:It looks like they forgot to photoshop in Sophie Turner's jetpack. Jean Grey can fly though?
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 14:54 |
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Hat Thoughts posted:Dude, come on, *Kombat This generation is so hosed.
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 14:56 |
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Hat Thoughts posted:Dude, come on, *Kombat Almost fainted when I saw his typo, thank god you were here.
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 15:02 |
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X-Men trailer looks great but is so dramatic and high-stakes that I wish they'd start the Deadpool integration right there.
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 15:40 |
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Something about that trailer is giving me X-Men 3 vibes. I think the trailer for X-Men 3 was similar in that it focused on the gigantic, potentially world changing stakes, and teased this big dramatic showdown. But then the movie came out and none of it held together at all and it was all very anticlimactic.
Basebf555 fucked around with this message at 15:55 on Mar 18, 2016 |
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Bryan Singer probably wants to finish this movie, though.
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 15:54 |
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Glamorama26 posted:Almost fainted when I saw his typo, thank god you were here.
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 16:12 |
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Pretty sure Sophie Turner comes from the Josh Hartnet run school of Harrison Ford acting. That said these X-Men trailers look like garbage but the movies have been surprisingly good for a watch or two.
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Nateron posted:That said these X-Men trailers look like garbage but the movies have been surprisingly good for a watch or two. I agree that the trailer doesn't look good. I also haven't liked any of the X-Men films since the first two came out. They haven't aged well, for me, anyway - and the new ones were trash. I guess I enjoyed First Class - but the muddled timelines bugged me - and I didn't think the last one was good at all. I'll be skipping this one til it hits streams or something. I'll wait for the first proper post-Deadpool X-film.
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 19:24 |
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I watched First Class about two years after it came out and all I could think the whole time was that the special effects looked loving terrible. Like distractingly bad.
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 20:07 |
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Not sure if this is the best place to discuss this but I recently saw American Hero and man, what a wasted premise. If you didn't like Hancock because the plot didn't really go anywhere, you will hate this movie. A lot of the scenes are individually well shot, but there isn't really a plot and nothing really happens. The worst thing is they have a bunch of little clues that make you think hey, something might happen at some point? But nothing ever does.
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 20:56 |
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xmen 2 and the past parts of days of future past are good. apocalypse looks more like an x3 to me. also bald young xavier is really funny and every time i saw him in the theater as a trailer stinger i almost couldn't stifle myself
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 21:06 |
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Mordiceius posted:I watched First Class about two years after it came out and all I could think the whole time was that the special effects looked loving terrible. Like distractingly bad. Yeah for some reason even the newer X films look really cheap and amateurish. Superman and Thor flying looks perfect, but the X-men are still floating around weightlessly on obvious wires.
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 21:19 |
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I like this current swing of x-men movies but none of them really match up to first class yet. First class despite its flaws had such a charm and such a sense of adventure. Like it felt like a comic book brought to life to me. The rest, although still full of charm some how feel off. Too much Jlaw, too much wolverine, too much END OF THE WORLD STAKES, it all just feels manufactured.
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 21:32 |
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First Class was great because it was as much a Roger Moore Bond movie (despite the sixties setting) as it was an X-Men movie.
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:Not sure if this is the best place to discuss this but I recently saw American Hero and man, what a wasted premise. If you didn't like Hancock because the plot didn't really go anywhere, you will hate this movie. A lot of the scenes are individually well shot, but there isn't really a plot and nothing really happens. The worst thing is they have a bunch of little clues that make you think hey, something might happen at some point? But nothing ever does. Yeah it really felt more like a character piece about a guy trying to get his life back together so he can see his kid again but he just so happens to have super powers which are another distraction/temptation he has to deal with in his life. 'Wasted potential' is one of the obvious themes running through the film but I wasn't really sure it was addressed at all by the end of the film. The filmmaker might have been trying to make Melvin might have been a metaphor for the USA itself - he has a gigantic amount of power combined with booksmarts and good intentions but he's constantly distracted by frivolous partying, drugs and booze and old timey religion. When he does man up and try to affect change he goes for the nuclear option rather than the longterm smart option, which itself causes problems for himself and his friends. He just can't understand why his life isn't as great as he always imagined it and when he tries to bootstrap himself into a better person that doesn't work either.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Yeah it really felt more like a character piece about a guy trying to get his life back together so he can see his kid again but he just so happens to have super powers which are another distraction/temptation he has to deal with in his life. 'Wasted potential' is one of the obvious themes running through the film but I wasn't really sure it was addressed at all by the end of the film. This is such a good analysis of the film and now I want to watch it again. Cheers man.
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# ? Mar 19, 2016 03:51 |
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I think the problem is that the newer movies still look like that awkward first X-Men movie, with black leather suits and weird design choices like Mystique. Marvel and Sony have managed to adapt super hero costumes to the big screen, but the X-Men movies are still going with that awful design theme they started with. The movies themselves have been pretty good since First Class, they just look super ugly.
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# ? Mar 19, 2016 07:42 |
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I don't know where this is from but
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# ? Mar 19, 2016 08:45 |
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Thats a really bad sunburn
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# ? Mar 19, 2016 08:46 |
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teagone posted:
I believe this came from Gal Gadot's twitter.
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# ? Mar 19, 2016 09:21 |
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Oasx posted:I think the problem is that the newer movies still look like that awkward first X-Men movie, with black leather suits and weird design choices like Mystique. Marvel and Sony have managed to adapt super hero costumes to the big screen, but the X-Men movies are still going with that awful design theme they started with. Yeah they keep going back to that. The movies costumes were the best when they embraced the silliness in First Class. They need to go Avengers/JL and have them look individual. Hell if I know. Go Team Iron Man.
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# ? Mar 19, 2016 10:20 |
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God drat I am so excited for Batman vs. Superman next week.
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# ? Mar 19, 2016 13:49 |
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Wrong thread.
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I said come in! posted:God drat I am so excited for Batman vs. Superman next week. It's almost here! Articles are coming out again on how Man of Steel destroyed Superman and the babies are crying in the comments on how "he killed!" "he let Pa Kent die!" "Pa Kent said kill children!!" E: http://www.forbes.com/sites/robsalk...f/#449f8aac47d8 quote:
Vintersorg fucked around with this message at 16:02 on Mar 19, 2016 |
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Vintersorg posted:It's almost here! Haha jesus. I love that this guy brings up Kingdom Come, a story where Superman flies to the U.N. and almost kills a building full of powerless people (these were the people who nuked the superheros but also there were probably a ton of innocent interns and staff members who had nothing to do with that decision) for pure revenge. Also he doesn't stop on his own but has to be talked out of it by some preacher who gets teleported in. Coincidentally, this story was written by Mark Waid, the comic writer who whined the loudest about MoS. This just proves that to these people (even a legendary writer like Waid) it's simply an on/off "did Superman kill: yes/no" question. He didn't kill in Kingdom Come even though he had the murder of hundreds of people including innocents in mind when he was going to demolish the U.N. building: the important takeaway is that he didn't end up going through with it. It doesn't matter that in MoS he had no choice but to kill Zod and it was a snap decision to save innocent lives that he immediately mourned: the takeaway is that Superman is a killer now. It's one thing to just casually gloss over poo poo directly from the comics, it's another to evoke stories (even ones you wrote in Waid's case) while completely ignoring major scenes/themes from them. And then conversely blow poo poo way out of proportions from the movie. Also the most hilariously hyperbolic quote from the article: quote:Were there some exceptions? Sure. Superman has been continuously published in the comics for over 75 years, and among the thousands of stories that hundreds of creators have told, a few are “off brand” or indulge the whims of folks who thought it was a good idea to “go there” just for the sake of being edgy and different. It’s the same kind of thinking that leads people to pitch stuff like “let’s tell the story of how Strawberry Shortcake got molested by her pervy uncle” or “how about having Scooby and the gang sent to a Turkish prison.” Missteps of that sort are perfectly predictable in an industry where professionals labor to make characters created for children relevant to an audience that is now mostly adults. What a loving loon.
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# ? Mar 19, 2016 16:40 |
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I reference to Forbes.com articles as "fancy blog posts", because that's what they usually are.
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quote:Hughes argues that, within the plot dynamics of the movie, Superman had little choice but to kill Zod the way he did. That’s true, but there’s nothing that dictated the film had to come down to that kind of life-or-death decision. The story could have resolved with Superman sending Zod back to the Phantom Zone, or shrinking him to the size of an ant and keeping him in a bottle, or sending him forward in time to the end of the universe. If extreme justice were really called for, there are dozens of ways for villains to get caught in their own traps or falling victim to their own evil impulses. You don’t create a scene that forces your hero to kill the bad guy unless you are determined to make a statement about the character.
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quote:Hughes argues that, within the plot dynamics of the movie, Superman had little choice but to kill Zod the way he did. That’s true, but there’s nothing that dictated the film had to come down to that kind of life-or-death decision. The story could have resolved with Superman sending Zod back to the Phantom Zone, or shrinking him to the size of an ant and keeping him in a bottle, or sending him forward in time to the end of the universe. If extreme justice were really called for, there are dozens of ways for villains to get caught in their own traps or falling victim to their own evil impulses. You don’t create a scene that forces your hero to kill the bad guy unless you are determined to make a statement about the character. "You don't have to kill him, you could just exile him to a blasted hellscape / keep him in solitary confinement forever" is already pooh-poohing a pretty complicated and ugly choice, but the bolded part is the stupidest thing in the entire article. "The villain dies after falling into his own trap" thing, at least if it's portrayed in the usual way, signifies two things; that evil is self-defeating, and that evil people deserve to die. The first idea is awful because it promotes inactivity and trusting that the world will naturally work itself out in a just way. The second idea is awful because nobody deserves to die, that's why killing is wrong. Without "nobody deserves to die," a no-kill rule is inconsistent and hypocritical -- it's just saying "our hands should remain clean."
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:The second idea is awful because nobody deserves to die, that's why killing is wrong. Without "nobody deserves to die," a no-kill rule is inconsistent and hypocritical -- it's just saying "our hands should remain clean." That's how a significant amount of people think. For example, a lot of people oppose intervention in the middle east because they think we're then responsible for everything that happens during it. The actual conflict is something close to "those drat Arabs are just too bloodthirsty to be reasoned with".
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:"You don't have to kill him, you could just exile him to a blasted hellscape / keep him in solitary confinement forever" is already pooh-poohing a pretty complicated and ugly choice, but the bolded part is the stupidest thing in the entire article. The cliched way to write a scene where the hero kills the villain in an acceptable manner is to have the hero utterly defeat the villain and make a small speech about how his reign of terror is ended and then turn around and start to walk off, then the villain draws a hidden weapon and goes to kill the hero so the hero suddenly spins around and shoots the villain dead in self defence. I've seen it happen dozens of times and it's the laziest Just World fallacy bullshit. Guy A. Person posted:in MoS he had no choice but to kill Zod and it was a snap decision Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Mar 19, 2016 |
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Welllll poo poo lol
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computer parts posted:That's how a significant amount of people think. For example, a lot of people oppose intervention in the middle east because they think we're then responsible for everything that happens during it. The actual conflict is something close to "those drat Arabs are just too bloodthirsty to be reasoned with". In fairness, I would be all over a Superman movie where he thinks like that -- I mean, he's the son of farmers from middle America, it wouldn't be that strange and he could still genuinely try to be a good person and even succeed in other respects -- but ultimately has to confront the consequences of that thinking.
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# ? Mar 19, 2016 17:23 |
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It's really unfair to say Superman is tainted in Man of Steel over killing Zod who just straight up was going to wipe out all life on earth in order to create a new world for himself and his radical military diehards. You could make the argument that Zod wasn't even a person anyways since everything about him, from the moment he was created, was to kill and destroy in order to make way for his own race of massive failures.
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# ? Mar 19, 2016 18:38 |
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Killing Zod is a good scene, but I wish there was another scene that really tested the "kill/don't kill" argument earlier. Just to give it more of a pay off at the end.
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# ? Mar 19, 2016 20:12 |
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I feel like it's perfectly okay to change some of this stuff about these super heroes. Batman in this new movie clearly kills people without mercy. Watch the latest trailer, he is body slamming bad guys through floors and slamming them head first into hard objects, no way anyone in that room he took out survived those brutal attacks.
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The Russo Brothers just posted another behind the scenes video with a finished cut of Civil War and an amazing interview with Chris Evans as he watches it for the first time. https://www.facebook.com/TheRussoBrothersOfficial/videos/745099152292686/
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