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MoaM posted:Good lord, that's too much man; yo, ya'll really gonna go to a Blue Beetle movie? I ain't. Blue Beetle is maybe the most interesting film in that list, for me.  I mean, it's never even going to enter production, but still.
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MoaM posted:Good lord, that's too much man; yo, ya'll really gonna go to a Blue Beetle movie? I ain't. This is what people said about Guardians of the Galaxy, but it's DC movies so LOL.
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Dec 28, 2020 16:12
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I feel like the world has been looking for more Static Shock for a decade now and has just never properly gotten it.
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Dec 28, 2020 18:18
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Dawgstar posted:This is what people said about Guardians of the Galaxy, but it's DC movies so LOL. Yea, Guardians proved Marvel can make basically anything work, but DC can barely get their flagship characters to work. I have more faith in Marvel making a Dr Druid or Ka-Zar movie than The Batman.
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Dec 28, 2020 18:32
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Yeah, MCU's just a machine at this point. They can throw the Guardians, Ant-Man, the Eternals, or Shang Chi into it and it spits out a movie. Everything except apparently the Inhumans. I feel like i can actually make sensible predictions and guesses at the future of the MCU because its established a direction. I don't think that compares. Just because they're both comic franchises doesn't make their productions similar. DC's all over the place and I have absolutely no idea what to expect from it or what the next movie could be.
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Had there been a single movie that was taken off the slate or anything even close to being vaporware when they announced Guardians? That heavily helped people believe that Guardians would actually happen. DC seems to announce then shuffle poo poo off the schedule all the loving time so they say "New Gods!" and all I hear is "Flash."
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Dec 28, 2020 18:53
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RevKrule posted:Had there been a single movie that was taken off the slate or anything even close to being vaporware when they announced Guardians? That heavily helped people believe that Guardians would actually happen. DC seems to announce then shuffle poo poo off the schedule all the loving time so they say "New Gods!" and all I hear is "Flash." Ant-Man, I guess.
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Dec 28, 2020 19:02
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Marvel also had been left with nothing but B and C listers when they set out to make movies so by the time Guardians was due to come out they had already shown they could make people care about basically anything. Like, they made an Iron Man movie starring a washed up insurance liability of an actor and turned it into one of the biggest franchises in media within four years. People didn’t need to know anything about Guardians to show up for it, because they knew they liked Marvel. Also the trailer kicked buckets of rear end so that really helped.
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Dec 28, 2020 19:04
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The first Iron Man is a lot more Jon Favreau than Marvel at that time. He fought them on a lot of stuff, especially casting RDJ.
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Aphrodite posted:The first Iron Man is a lot more Jon Favreau than Marvel at that time. He fought them on a lot of stuff, especially casting RDJ. I still marvel (no pun intended) at Favreau's career arc. As an unknown guy, he starred in and wrote Swingers, which I was obsessed with back in college because I played sax and loved that late '90s swing music scene so much. Then he makes one of the most beloved Christmas movies in recent memory (Elf), one of the greatest food movies ever (Chef), starts the MCU with Iron Man and helps revitalize RDJ's career, and then helps revitalize the Star Wars franchise after the last EIGHT movies eroded a lot of lasting goodwill. And I know that isn't even all, but I can't think of too many director/producers in modern Hollywood with such an unblemished track record. He just seems to get what will make audiences happy.
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Dec 28, 2020 20:29
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:I still marvel (no pun intended) at Favreau's career arc. As an unknown guy, he starred in and wrote Swingers, which I was obsessed with back in college because I played sax and loved that late '90s swing music scene so much. Then he makes one of the most beloved Christmas movies in recent memory (Elf), one of the greatest food movies ever (Chef), starts the MCU with Iron Man and helps revitalize RDJ's career, and then helps revitalize the Star Wars franchise after the last EIGHT movies eroded a lot of lasting goodwill. And I know that isn't even all, but I can't think of too many director/producers in modern Hollywood with such an unblemished track record. He just seems to get what will make audiences happy. Lion King.
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:I still marvel (no pun intended) at Favreau's career arc. As an unknown guy, he starred in and wrote Swingers, which I was obsessed with back in college because I played sax and loved that late '90s swing music scene so much. Then he makes one of the most beloved Christmas movies in recent memory (Elf), one of the greatest food movies ever (Chef), starts the MCU with Iron Man and helps revitalize RDJ's career, and then helps revitalize the Star Wars franchise after the last EIGHT movies eroded a lot of lasting goodwill. And I know that isn't even all, but I can't think of too many director/producers in modern Hollywood with such an unblemished track record. He just seems to get what will make audiences happy. Hey it's only 7 movies. Star Wars purists love Rogue One.
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Vince MechMahon posted:Lion King. Was it bad? I don't have any nostalgia for Disney stuff, so I didn't pay any attention when it came out.
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:Was it bad? I don't have any nostalgia for Disney stuff, so I didn't pay any attention when it came out. Awful, soulless tripe.
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Lion King is an amazing tech demo but like almost all the Disney remakes it is utter garbage. Favreau really likes the new tech stuff through. There's some stuff that I thought must have been filmed at a live location in the mandalorian that was actually done in a virtual set. Monaghan fucked around with this message at 21:10 on Dec 28, 2020 |
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Dec 28, 2020 21:06
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The Volume, their digital backdrop/lighting rig is a direct outgrowth of the digital set stuff they did with Lion King so whatever else can be said about it, there's a case to be made that there's no Mandalorian without the Lion King remake.
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Dec 28, 2020 21:07
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Big Bad Voodoo Lou posted:I still marvel (no pun intended) at Favreau's career arc. As an unknown guy, he starred in and wrote Swingers, which I was obsessed with back in college because I played sax and loved that late '90s swing music scene so much. Then he makes one of the most beloved Christmas movies in recent memory (Elf), one of the greatest food movies ever (Chef), starts the MCU with Iron Man and helps revitalize RDJ's career, and then helps revitalize the Star Wars franchise after the last EIGHT movies eroded a lot of lasting goodwill. And I know that isn't even all, but I can't think of too many director/producers in modern Hollywood with such an unblemished track record. He just seems to get what will make audiences happy. He made Cowboys vs Aliens. Which I THOUGHT I wanted. So I guess I can't blame him for making the same mistake I did.
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RevKrule posted:Had there been a single movie that was taken off the slate or anything even close to being vaporware when they announced Guardians? That heavily helped people believe that Guardians would actually happen. DC seems to announce then shuffle poo poo off the schedule all the loving time so they say "New Gods!" and all I hear is "Flash." They announced Inhumans in like 2014 and that... turned out to be not what they were promising.
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Dec 28, 2020 22:06
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AngryBooch posted:They announced Inhumans in like 2014 and that... turned out to be not what they were promising. I think Inhumand was at the tail end of the Ike Perlmutter debacle. Dude was an egomaniac cheapskate with bad taste, and he seemed to mostly want to shovel garbage out as rapidly as possible for a quick buck rather than take the time and money (and cooperation) needed to develop something that could become a consistent, stable resource.
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The funniest thing with the Lion King is that it made 1.6 billion dollar, so we get a sequel by Barry Jenkins (Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk).
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I think DC works best as TV shows and Marvel works best as movies.
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Mr Hootington posted:I think DC works best as TV shows and Marvel works best as movies. Doom Patrol is superior to basically every single DC live action movie, it's true.
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Dec 28, 2020 22:26
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ImpAtom posted:Doom Patrol is superior to basically every single DC live action movie, it's true. Both Batman shows are better than 7 of the 11 live action batman movies.
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Dec 28, 2020 22:32
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STAC Goat posted:He made Cowboys vs Aliens. Hey, that movie gave me cowboys, aliens, and scenery shots of places from my childhood. Didn't need anything more.
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Dec 28, 2020 22:38
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I quite enjoyed Cowboys & Aliens, but honestly I like westerns, alien invasions, and the mixing of both, and it's not really something that comes around often. And honestly, give me a fun movie and I'm very willing to forgive it for being dumb or bad.
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ImpAtom posted:Doom Patrol is superior to basically every single DC live action movie, it's true. Hell, Legends of Tomorrow is better than every single DC movie.
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Mr Hootington posted:Both Batman shows are better than 7 of the 11 live action batman movies. There are at least 5 Batman shows!
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Phylodox posted:Hell, Legends of Tomorrow is better than every single DC movie. It's better than every marvel movie too
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Ugly In The Morning posted:
Isn't it not a sequel? I feel like Gunn said it isn't a sequel because his is called The Suicide Squad rather than Suicide Squad
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Dec 29, 2020 02:36
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notthegoatseguy posted:Isn't it not a sequel? I feel like Gunn said it isn't a sequel because his is called The Suicide Squad rather than Suicide Squad It's not a direct sequel but it doesn't contradict the first one and features several of the same cast members.
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My impression is that they wanted to "reboot" it because the first was such a disaster and Idris Elba was cast as Deadshot to replace Will Smith but Margot Robbie and a bunch others got brought back. Then someone realized that was very stupid too so they made Elba someone else and now its a "soft reboot" which I guess just means they're gonna not directly reference the first one. But who cares unless you like bring Enchantress back or something? DCEU is so unnecessarily messy.
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ImpAtom posted:There are at least 5 Batman shows! I only counted the live action. If we expand to animated, 7 out of 9 batman shows are better than 8 of the 13 batman movies.
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STAC Goat posted:My impression is that they wanted to "reboot" it because the first was such a disaster and Idris Elba was cast as Deadshot to replace Will Smith but Margot Robbie and a bunch others got brought back. Then someone realized that was very stupid too so they made Elba someone else and now its a "soft reboot" which I guess just means they're gonna not directly reference the first one. But who cares unless you like bring Enchantress back or something? DCEU is so unnecessarily messy. They changed Elba’s character because they realized that they probably want to be able to get Smith back down the line.
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Stupid question about WW1984 I don't think warrants spoiling: did they ever actually use the name 'Cheetah' in the movie? Duh you see the shoes early on, then the punk clothes, then "I want to be an Apex predator", then the final fight, it's the loving Cheetah but they don't ever out and out call her the name do they?
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Cael posted:Stupid question about WW1984 I don't think warrants spoiling: did they ever actually use the name 'Cheetah' in the movie? Duh you see the shoes early on, then the punk clothes, then "I want to be an Apex predator", then the final fight, it's the loving Cheetah but they don't ever out and out call her the name do they? No they never say the name.
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I can't remember, has any DCEU movie actually called Diana "Wonder Woman"?
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muscles like this! posted:I can't remember, has any DCEU movie actually called Diana "Wonder Woman"? Definitely not in her two movies, not sure about BvS or JL.
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"I wonder, woman," Clark growled at the question, his eyes glowing red.
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"Boy, I'm just so tired of all these Wonder Women" Does make me remember a podcast riffing on BvS that rightly pointed out the entire stupidity of Lex Luthor having a set of files about these heroes with logos/emblems for their names which he would have no way of knowing and in some cases they wouldn't even HAVE established names. "WW . . . well clearly she's a woman so she's Woman Woman".
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It's definitely kinda weird that these films have to play around the setup of WW being a secret figure that's been hidden all these years, but she's also just out there in full costume all the time talking with everyone, she doesn't wear a mask, she led a siege into the White House??, and also she uses the exact same name -- Diana Prince -- in World War I, in the 80s, and also the 00s, doing apparently the exact same vocation. And I don't think it's ever actually going to be explained, it's just...Hypertime or whatever.
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