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Quantum of Phallus
Dec 27, 2010

Whorelord posted:

is lego batman the best batman film in half a decade?

It's the best one since Dark Knight easily.

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Bloody Hedgehog
Dec 12, 2003

💥💥🤯💥💥
Gotta nuke something
Best one since '89 Batman.

Jonas Albrecht
Jun 7, 2012


Lego Batman is a fantastic Batman movie. Maybe the best exploration of the character ever put to film.

Randarkman
Jul 18, 2011

Wonder Woman is supposed to be an amazon warrior queen or something, right? As in the amazons from Greek myth. What's she doing fighting in WW1?

Quantum of Phallus
Dec 27, 2010

Because DC are morons.

Shinjobi
Jul 10, 2008


Gravy Boat 2k

Quantum of Phallus posted:

I was put off pretty much straight away by the pornographically-detailed way Snyder decided to frame Martha Wayne being shot in the face.

Snyder wants to see more pearl necklaces, on living subjects or otherwise. He ain't picky.

Quantum of Phallus
Dec 27, 2010

Anecdotal and definitely not confirmable at all but a good friend of mine knows one of the camera crew who worked on Man of Steel and he said that Snyder spent most of his time tossing a football around and being a big dudebro.

Whorelord
May 1, 2013

Jump into the well...

i like mark kermode's camp high pitched impression of zack snyder

MikeCrotch
Nov 5, 2011

I AM UNJUSTIFIABLY PROUD OF MY SPAGHETTI BOLOGNESE RECIPE

YES, IT IS AN INCREDIBLY SIMPLE DISH

NO, IT IS NOT NORMAL TO USE A PEPPERAMI INSTEAD OF MINCED MEAT

YES, THERE IS TOO MUCH SALT IN MY RECIPE

NO, I WON'T STOP SHARING IT

more like BOLLOCKnese

a bone to pick posted:

they should revive Mel Brooks to direct it since the DCCU is a bad joke.

I just wanted to point out here that Mel Brooks isn't actually dead

achillesforever6
Apr 23, 2012

psst you wanna do a communism?

Randarkman posted:

Wonder Woman is supposed to be an amazon warrior queen or something, right? As in the amazons from Greek myth. What's she doing fighting in WW1?
She's supposed to be a representative of the Amazonian kingdom to the land of men and showed up to fight in WWII, but since Marvel beat DC to the punch with Captain America they decided to go back a World War to not look like copy cats.

Also CD has gotten really insufferable as of late with their bashing of Marvel because everything has to be shot by some auteur and not someone who just listens to Kevin Fiege on how they are making this movie.

LanceHunter
Nov 12, 2016

Beautiful People Club


super sweet best pal posted:

They should just hire some bondage porn director to make the WW movie. It'd save money, be truer to the source and would probably be more interesting than whatever they've come up with.

The Wachowskis would legitimately make the best possible Wonder Woman movie. It might still be a trainwreck, but it would be the best possible movie for that character.

achillesforever6 posted:

Also CD has gotten really insufferable as of late with their bashing of Marvel because everything has to be shot by some auteur and not someone who just listens to Kevin Fiege on how they are making this movie.

That's pretty ridiculous of them, because Marvel was definitely first out of the gate with "unexpectedly indie director doing a superhero movie" trend. Brian Singer on X-Men, John Favreau on Iron Man, Kenneth Branagh on Thor, Jose Whedon on The Avengers, and James Gunn on Guardians of the Galaxy. None of those guys were blockbuster directors, they were all somewhere on the indie/auteur spectrum before Marvel chose them.

Not that massive indie cred even matters when creating great movies. The Russo Brothers had by far the most workmanlike resume before Marvel, and still created some of its best films.

Quantum of Phallus
Dec 27, 2010

LanceHunter posted:

The Wachowskis would legitimately make the best possible Wonder Woman movie. It might still be a trainwreck, but it would be the best possible movie for that character.


That's pretty ridiculous of them, because Marvel was definitely first out of the gate with "unexpectedly indie director doing a superhero movie" trend. Brian Singer on X-Men, John Favreau on Iron Man, Kenneth Branagh on Thor, Jose Whedon on The Avengers, and James Gunn on Guardians of the Galaxy. None of those guys were blockbuster directors, they were all somewhere on the indie/auteur spectrum before Marvel chose them.

Not that massive indie cred even matters when creating great movies. The Russo Brothers had by far the most workmanlike resume before Marvel, and still created some of its best films.

This is a very good post

EmmyOk
Aug 11, 2013

LanceHunter posted:

The Wachowskis would legitimately make the best possible Wonder Woman movie. It might still be a trainwreck, but it would be the best possible movie for that character.


That's pretty ridiculous of them, because Marvel was definitely first out of the gate with "unexpectedly indie director doing a superhero movie" trend. Brian Singer on X-Men, John Favreau on Iron Man, Kenneth Branagh on Thor, Jose Whedon on The Avengers, and James Gunn on Guardians of the Galaxy. None of those guys were blockbuster directors, they were all somewhere on the indie/auteur spectrum before Marvel chose them.

Not that massive indie cred even matters when creating great movies. The Russo Brothers had by far the most workmanlike resume before Marvel, and still created some of its best films.

Agreed but the Xmans are sony

Quantum of Phallus
Dec 27, 2010

Xmen and Fantastic 4 (yikes) is fox, Spider-Man is Sony

EmmyOk
Aug 11, 2013

I should have said not Marvel, look what my hubris has brought me. I still would have really liked to see the version of Fantastic Four Josh Trank tried to make.

Hell Yeah
Dec 25, 2012

josh fuckin owns

Quantum of Phallus
Dec 27, 2010

EmmyOk posted:

I should have said not Marvel, look what my hubris has brought me. I still would have really liked to see the version of Fantastic Four Josh Trank tried to make.

Did you see the film? The reshoot scenes were so hilariously obvious. Kate Mara's wig 😳

Double Bill
Jan 29, 2006

Quantum of Phallus posted:

He made Apocalypto which is pretty much free pass for life.

Also more recently he directed Hacksaw Ridge which is a Good Movie

Mel Gibson... good?

Quantum of Phallus
Dec 27, 2010

Nobody will go see that with me but yeah he's a great director. Braveheart, Apocalypto and Passion of the Christ are great.

8-Bit Scholar
Jan 23, 2016

by FactsAreUseless
No, Mel Gibson is a loving lunatic, but he's good at directing.

...didn't South Park make this joke?

oohhboy
Jun 8, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Hell Yeah posted:

josh fuckin owns

He is an excellent catalyst to be the butt of jokes. Without him would would not know the wonders of juicy Shaq meat.

At this point he knows what his purpose is which the last video made abundantly clear.

Libelous Slander
May 1, 2009

... you're just creepy ...

oohhboy posted:

He is an excellent catalyst to be the butt of jokes. Without him would would not know the wonders of juicy Shaq meat.

At this point he knows what his purpose is which the last video made abundantly clear.
This thread is full of Joshs and i love it.

Indolent Bastard
Oct 26, 2007

I WON THIS AMAZING AVATAR! I'M A WINNER! WOOOOO!

Double Bill posted:

Also more recently he directed Hacksaw Ridge which is a Good Movie

I respectfully disagree. It was shot well enough, but that's about all I have to say that is positive. I didn't hate it, but I certainly wished I could have my 2+ hours back once it was over.

a bone to pick
Sep 14, 2011

by FactsAreUseless
Yeah I don't get the unbridled love of Hacksaw Ridge, I saw it, it was OK. Not a fan of the heavy Christian overtones that were all over the movie but should have expected that from Mel Gibson.

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

Double Bill posted:

Mel Gibson... good?

I'm still not willing to go this far, but I'll admit being Jewish makes me a bit biased.

Quantum of Phallus
Dec 27, 2010

Dunno how anyone in the world can think Apocalypto is a bad film, regardless of the director's views.

old bean factory
Nov 18, 2006

Will ya close the fucking doors?!
What did made me roll my eyes was his bully-become-best-buds going all Rambo several times with his BAR, hip firing down dozens of Japanese soldiers. He's not a historical figure like John Basilone who picked up a Browning machine gun, burning himself in the process, and did save his buddies. That's badass, whatever the other guy did was just Hollywood nonsense.

Was an OK movie and is about a real hero, but doubt I'll watch it again.

The Archaic
Jul 6, 2003

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Hacksaw Ridge at least had some good character arcs and the audience kind of grew to like them and connect as well. This is why I was saying earlier it's a better movie than Rogue One because the moments of joy were actually earned.

Also Vince Vaughn as an army sergeant felt out of place at first but he was probably my favourite part.

Zzulu
May 15, 2009

(▰˘v˘▰)
mel gibson good.

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL01beNaip8

The Anime Liker
Aug 8, 2009

by VideoGames
Hot take: Braveheart looks like a made for tv movie and isn't even kinda good, and passion of the christ was a loving cartoon.

Haven't seen Apocalypto but everyone cums on that movie so one day I'll give it a chance.

Also, the official ranking of Batman movies:

Batman The Movie (Adam West)
Batman 89
Batman Returns
Lego Batman
Mask of the Phantasm
Batman and Robin
Batman Begins
The Dark Knight Rises
[other DCAU films]
The Lego Movie
The Dark Knight
Batman Forever
Beavis

Quantum of Phallus
Dec 27, 2010

A GLISTENING HODOR posted:

Haven't seen Apocalypto

yikes

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

A GLISTENING HODOR posted:

Also, the official ranking of Batman movies:

I can never trust your opinion on anything ever again.

You put The Dark Knight third from the bottom? UNDER the Dark Knight Rises?

The Anime Liker
Aug 8, 2009

by VideoGames

WampaLord posted:

I can never trust your opinion on anything ever again.

You put The Dark Knight third from the bottom?

Dark Knight Sucks, So What?

a bone to pick
Sep 14, 2011

by FactsAreUseless
The best part of apocalypto is that guy in the beginning they're making fun of cuz he has trouble getting a boner or something.

The Anime Liker
Aug 8, 2009

by VideoGames
Lego Batman owns because they poo poo all over how stupid the two boats scene in the Dark Knight was.

Mulaney Power Move
Dec 30, 2004

great directors in comic book movies are lost on me because i never liked comic books and i can't get into that stuff enough to take it seriously, and yet i too am a wrestling fan (no vinyl).

Krinkle
Feb 9, 2003

Ah do believe Ah've got the vapors...
Ah mean the farts


Someone in here eventually mentioned the history buffs youtube guy and while apocalypto was a fantastic movie apparently mel gibson confused mayans with aztecs and there were timetravelling conquistadors who showed up eight hundred years too soon.
I mean I don't give a poo poo but it wow that conflation really pissed that guy off. Haha.

Hackers film 1995
Nov 4, 2009

Hack the planet!

fyi: jack was the lead singer in the band, midnight oil

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Endless Trash
Aug 12, 2007


Krinkle posted:

Someone in here eventually mentioned the history buffs youtube guy and while apocalypto was a fantastic movie apparently mel gibson confused mayans with aztecs and there were timetravelling conquistadors who showed up eight hundred years too soon.
I mean I don't give a poo poo but it wow that conflation really pissed that guy off. Haha.

Kinda mad at you right now for making me look that up and attempt to watch it.

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