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People are much more dicks to you, the smaller your role is. I could only get cast as a cop, thug, or somehow urban person more often than not as an extra. They typically only want so many brown people to color a scene in movies, and it gets worse the lower you are on the totem pole.
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I don't know what thread to put this in but here's some cool real life comic book movie inventions Green Goblin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv5JQnmD1Yk Star Wars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AymYhmayWz4 Wolverine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF4DoCY0cNg Thor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_8Xhzt5YQI Iron Man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAL6BUl6-rM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VVj55ZfpgA Batmobile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4cOZWVi8Gc BONUS: BAtman gets busted https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eABNv_iIhY
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Real big missed opportunity to get Hemsworth to try and lift the hammer.
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Mar 8, 2022 17:11
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https://twitter.com/cushbomb/status/1500988394456772610
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Mar 8, 2022 17:16
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Bat Dick? Would be cool to see a Nightwing movie
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Mar 8, 2022 20:00
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American History X except it's Arkham Asylum.
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Mar 8, 2022 20:15
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFcuCZq9k94
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Surely they'll course correct and go light eventually, no? Give us a bright movie with Batman taking on someone fantastical like Clayface.
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Mar 8, 2022 21:15
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Why correct the course when the course is working fine?
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Mar 8, 2022 21:34
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Also the trend only really manifests in marketing. The tone of the actual movies is all over the show.
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Mar 8, 2022 21:58
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I keep seeing stuff like Batman Begins described as "dark and gritty" which is very useful as a descriptor because it makes it plain that the person using it has not watched the movie
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2house2fly posted:I keep seeing stuff like Batman Begins described as "dark and gritty" which is very useful as a descriptor because it makes it plain that the person using it has not watched the movie I get your point, but you have to remember that the last Batman movie before that was Batman and Robin. Begins is loving Taxi Driver compared to that.
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2house2fly posted:I keep seeing stuff like Batman Begins described as "dark and gritty" which is very useful as a descriptor because it makes it plain that the person using it has not watched the movie It's the first batman film set in anything like the recognisably real world at least, and that in itself makes it more "gritty" I guess.
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2house2fly posted:I keep seeing stuff like Batman Begins described as "dark and gritty" which is very useful as a descriptor because it makes it plain that the person using it has not watched the movie Batman Begins is… *shudder* …tactical realism Batman movie
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Mar 9, 2022 03:07
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Looking back on it, The Dark Knight trilogy was really Batman as a globetrotting adventure.
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Gatts posted:Batman Begins is… *shudder* …tactical realism Batman movie There's a microwave that doesn't work on humans.
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It would be pretty awesome if in the climax they turned on the thing and Ra's henchman who fit some reason has a new York mob voice goes "Hey boss ya know I been thinking, this things supposed to explode all the water, right? But ain't humans something like 70 percent water?" Then ra's goes "oh poo poo!" Starts desperately turning a crank to try and stop it And they all explode.
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Dark & Gritty is a fairly vague descriptor and the interpretation of it is normally down to the beholder. To me it's always meant something with "dark" themes and a sort of tangible and textured world with a focus on dirt, grime, decay etc. That's just me though, and others may define it differently, a bit like everyone's definition of the boundaries of certain genres differs. Batman Begins would qualify for me but partially, as suggested above, the contrast to previous versions. It is no more dark and gritty than The Matrix, but the Matrix doesn't have prior lighter versions to define itself against, whereas Batman does. "Dark & Gritty" also gets used as a pejorative, which confuses things, as it is not always clear if someone is just trying to honestly describe a tone, or to dunk on it.
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'Darkness' refers to the literal brightness of the image (e.g. whether a scene takes place at night), while 'grittiness' is the degree to which the characters are enjoying themselves. Nothing else actually matters.
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DARKNESS NO PARENTS
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In the grim darkness of the 21st century there is only Batman
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We were so worried about Jokerfication we never stopped to think about Batmanification Actually wasn't that a thing around post TDK, Skyfall even has James Bond flat out be Batman complete with dead parents and his own Alfred
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I don't think gritty honestly refers to the mood of a piece or how a character is feeling. To me, gritty just means not having a sheen or polish to it. Once, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, and The Dark Knight are all gritty in my mind despite the films containing different tones and being very different genres. Gritty just refers to a lack of Hollywood polish in favor of a world that is if not realistic, has a sense of lived in texture to its own reality. That's why it is indeed silly in my mind when people call Snyder's work gritty. I get what they mean, but his stuff is like the exact opposite of gritty no matter how jars of pee you put in it.
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It's weird to me how a lot of people seem to be circling back around to kind of half poo poo on the Nolan trilogy. I'll go to bat (heh) for BB and TDK, despite their problems and even with TDKR I still find a lot to like. I re-watched them recently with my kid and thought they held up really well. I think it's better than the Raimi Spider-man trilogy and still more interesting than like 75% of Marvel movies, which I'm burned out on. I really wish Netflix had held onto their shows and been the ones folding Moon Knight into that little universe. I think DD, JJ s1 and Punisher s1 are my favorite comic book movie anythings from the last decade. Luke Cage had a lot going for it too.
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Batman Begins was realistic in the sense of good writing and acting and people with realistic motivations, emotions, and reactions. The plot itself is cockamamie comic book stuff but you look past it because the characters and their drives are compelling. Over time, I think the common perception of the trilogy got mutated into being “realistic” with everything (it wasnt) which then got turned into being “dark and gritty”.
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Dark and gritty is how I prefer my coffee. (If the grind is too fine then it goes right through my press's filter.)
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live with fruit posted:Looking back on it, The Dark Knight trilogy was really Batman as a globetrotting adventure. Watching Batman Begins, Casino Royale/Quantum of Solace, Dark Knight/Inception, Skyfall, and Dark Knight Rises gives an appreciation for how that section of Nolan's filmography and (most of) Daniel Craig Bond interplay with each other. And then the last two Craigs go into the MCU.
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At least the Craig Bond mini-franchise was able to end.
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Chairman Capone posted:Watching Batman Begins, Casino Royale/Quantum of Solace, Dark Knight/Inception, Skyfall, and Dark Knight Rises gives an appreciation for how that section of Nolan's filmography and (most of) Daniel Craig Bond interplay with each other. That's not fair. No MCU movie has been as boring as No Time to Die. MCU movies are usually at least trying to be entertaining popcorn flicks, even if they fail. I don't know what the gently caress No Time to Die was trying to do. Some MCU movies have been pointless, plenty have been vapid, big bags of nothing beyond, "look at the funny man shoot the laser!", but none have been as soul crushingly, "oh my god make it end" boring as No Time to Die. Well, okay, Eternals comes close. thrawn527 fucked around with this message at 19:04 on Mar 9, 2022 |
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NTTD's biggest fault is wasting Ana De Armas and Jeffrey Wright
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hiddenriverninja posted:NTTD's biggest fault is wasting Ana De Armas and Jeffrey Wright And these are both pretty big faults. I know it's been said to death, but Ana De Armas was a breath of fresh air in that movie, this small needed bright spot, and then 15 minutes later she was gone. Criminal. thrawn527 fucked around with this message at 19:50 on Mar 9, 2022 |
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No Time to Die was a blast. It was no more “boring” than any Connery Bond flick
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Man, all this talk about DARKNESS is just making me wonder why we never got a Darkness movie or at least a TV show. They adapted that other comic from Ennis but I thought Darkness was his most popular unique work. Plus I remember people liking the video game 10 or 15 years ago when Sin City was a hit and superhero movies were starting to take off. The Darkness is like the perfect combo of those two.
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NikkolasKing posted:Man, all this talk about DARKNESS is just making me wonder why we never got a Darkness movie or at least a TV show. They adapted that other comic from Ennis but I thought Darkness was his most popular unique work. They blew all the budget and audience interest on two separate Witchblade shows.
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Mat Cauthon posted:They blew all the budget and audience interest on two separate Witchblade shows. Budget maybe, but audience interest would depend on knowing enough about Darkness to connect it to Witchbade.
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CelticPredator posted:No Time to Die was a blast. It was no more “boring” than any Connery Bond flick Yea, it was good enough to get me to rewatch all of the Craig movies.
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Black Adam, The Flash, and Aquaman 2 delayed, Shazam! 2 moved up https://twitter.com/ERCboxoffice/status/1501657313924452352 https://twitter.com/THR/status/1501666826027249667
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thrawn527 posted:And these are both pretty big faults. I know it's been said to death, but Ana De Armas was a breath of fresh air in that movie, this small needed bright spot, and then 15 minutes later she was gone. I skipped No Time to Die mostly because of Knives Out. Because there was just no loving way a Bond film was going to even approach the chemistry/alchemy Craig and De Armas has in that movie.
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Everyone posted:I skipped No Time to Die mostly because of Knives Out. Because there was just no loving way a Bond film was going to even approach the chemistry/alchemy Craig and De Armas has in that movie. I think it definitely does, it's just that they basically only show that chemistry for a single setpiece.
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