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Davros1 posted:They are not good. a few silly particuulars aside they aren't that bad, and those are mostly things that'd be changed in converting to film anyway (and editing for continuity with the prequels, because the clone wars weren't on film) the general dynamic where Thrawn and the imperial remnant is definitely on the losing end and doing their best to try to scrape something together out of what little resources they have left is a nice reversal Honestly though what I really want is the Jedi Prince series to be adapted for Star Wars Rebels, I think it'd be a huge step up for them.
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I think I'm the only one who thought the Yuuzhan Vong were interesting and could make for good movie villains. They'd still be an evil empire, but they're bio-organic, Force immune, pain worshipping alchemists. That'd be a loving sweet hook for new villains.
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Jun 2, 2018 17:55
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Zaphod42 posted:But that's just it, DBZ understood this too. DBZ has moments mid-fight where people stop, talk, transform, etc. in order to create tension and relief and conflict. Okay I gotta give you that one. That's a fair take. Honestly I haven't checked out any live action DC movies since I've been hearing only not-good things about them. The animated stuff has been pretty decent in comparison though and that's cool.
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Tunicate posted:a few silly particuulars aside they aren't that bad, and those are mostly things that'd be changed in converting to film anyway You'd hope. You can't say for sure that they'd drop "Can look at a culture's artwork and immediately know what their military strategy would be" thing. And those Force bubble lizards(?) could be the new Porgs!
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Jun 2, 2018 18:02
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Len posted:Im familiar enough with the comics to know a two part movie was going to end with everyone getting disappeared and then undoing everything in the next one. Downey Jr and Evans didn't go in the first place.
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Jun 2, 2018 18:06
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Jedit posted:Downey Jr and Evans didn't go in the first place. Honestly I already forgot who all disappeared and who didn't
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Jun 2, 2018 18:07
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Zaphod42 posted:But that's just it, DBZ understood this too. DBZ has moments mid-fight where people stop, talk, transform, etc. in order to create tension and relief and conflict. Also, a thing I've been saying as a pipe dream since high school. I'd watch Power Rangers if they had Jackie Chan doing choreography. Someone made a video on how Marvel's action scenes lack impact and that's a fair point. Android Apocalypse posted:My IIMM is about how we’re so easily connected to Hollywood news so that genuine surprise moments in franchise movies are muted because we know stuff like movie star contracts. If you didn’t know that RDJ & Chris Evans were in the final movie contract, or that Tom Holland & Chadwick Bosenan were signed on for more movies, would you be more surprised at the end of Infinity War? I mean, it's a comic book movie. The medium famous for killing and bringing characters back from the dead. Also, it's all made up anyway, they can invent whatever reason they want to kill/unkill anyone. When I saw the second Pirates of the Carribean movie I was surprised they killed Jack and then surprised when they went to bring him back in the next movie. Didn't expect it but not knowing it didn't turn the movie into a ten or anything.
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Jun 2, 2018 18:23
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And DC couldn't even wait until another film before hinting that Superman was still alive at the end of BvS
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Jun 2, 2018 18:25
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Davros1 posted:You'd hope. You can't say for sure that they'd drop "Can look at a culture's artwork and immediately know what their military strategy would be" thing. And those Force bubble lizards(?) could be the new Porgs! The art thing is a cool affectation that isn't particularly core to the plot, and offers a good excuse to do neat things with visual effects in the scenes where the villains are scheming.
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Jun 2, 2018 18:31
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Len posted:Honestly I already forgot who all disappeared and who didn't All the original Avengers stayed, which is probably going to be the deciding factor on who gets axed for real or not in Infinity Harder I'm guessing everyone except Hemsworth and maybe Johannsen gets out.
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Wheat Loaf posted:I haven't read the Thrawn trilogy in about 15 years. I don't know if they're actually good or if it's just because I liked it when I was 11.
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Davros1 posted:And DC couldn't even wait until another film before hinting that Superman was still alive at the end of BvS Yeah, they're no Arthur Conan Doyle. But then again how long did they pretend Superman was dead after fighting Doomsday in the comic? A year if even that long? Samuringa posted:All the original Avengers stayed, which is probably going to be the deciding factor on who gets axed for real or not in Infinity Harder Everyone assumes Drax is dead but in fact he simply...remained very still...becoming invisible to the naked eye.
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NorgLyle posted:It was definitely because you were 11 but there's absolutely no shame in that. I still have a special place in my heart for Dragons of Winter Darkness, the second Dragonlance novel, and having checked it out again in my 30s I can completely see why 11 year old me loved it while at the same time enjoying just how bad it really turns out to be. The thing is that I still enjoy going back and re-reading the Star Wars comics I liked then from time to time. I don't know. I guess it's because so much of Star Wars is visual, so comics and games can hold up better than novels.
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RareAcumen posted:Yeah, they're no Arthur Conan Doyle. But then again how long did they pretend Superman was dead after fighting Doomsday in the comic? A year if even that long?
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The only time DC heroes took any damage in a fight was when Batman and Superman beat the poo poo out if each other. Bat's armor got ffuuuuccckkkkeeedd up and Superman got kinda...well he got a scratch. Compared to something simple like the Winter soldier scene where cap leaps out an elevator and lands on his shield and is laying there like "FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK THAT HURT". Marvel has some kinda realism where DC just has IT'S DARK AND GRIM AND THIS MEANS IT'S COOL RIGHT?
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Jun 2, 2018 21:10
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I still don't get motherfucking Cyborg showing up the last DC crapfest. You're a Teen Titan, fucker, you don't come without the other cooler Titans! And always, why was the Green Lantern was Ryan Reynolds, everyone I knew wanted the one from the animated series. "WTF why is the Green Lantern some white dude?"
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Jun 2, 2018 21:29
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John Stewart Lantern, hell yes. Played by either Idris Elba (I know, he's like the obvious choice) or Rocky Carroll. I think Michael B Jordon is a little too young for Stewart yet; he needs someone a little older, I think.
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Jun 2, 2018 21:33
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A few years ago there was a rumour that Denzel Washington could be playing Green Lantern... but he'd still just be Hal Jordan.
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Jun 2, 2018 21:39
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Should be Guy Gardner.
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Leavemywife posted:John Stewart Lantern, hell yes. Played by either Idris Elba (I know, he's like the obvious choice) or Rocky Carroll. I think Michael B Jordon is a little too young for Stewart yet; he needs someone a little older, I think. Idris Elba John Stewart would be amazing. I grew up with Hal Jordan and Kyle Rayner but the DCAU John Stewart was fantastic too. And probably a more interesting character overall.
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Jun 2, 2018 22:25
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Cowslips Warren posted:I still don't get motherfucking Cyborg showing up the last DC crapfest. You're a Teen Titan, fucker, you don't come without the other cooler Titans! Every ten years or so, DC tries to push Cyborg as one of the big guns of the DC universe, but no one buys it, and he ends up going back to the Titans
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BiggerBoat posted:In Dark Knight, he got changed in like 45 seconds somehow. Quick changes; I watched the Crying Freeman live-action film and this bit made me lmao; gets out of a full three-piece suit, tie and shoes in eight seconds  reminded me of 
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Davros1 posted:Every ten years or so, DC tries to push Cyborg as one of the big guns of the DC universe, but no one buys it, and he ends up going back to the Titans Cause the head dude at DC for the movies has a boner for cyborg. Same reason why Barry Allen is always the flash. MY CHILDHOOD WAS AMAZING AND NOTHING CAN CHANGE kinda ruins the dccu.
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I still think WIl Smith might have made a good Hal Jordan if he hadn't gotten tabbed as Deadshot. Similarly, I think the idea of "Dwayne Johnson as Black Adam" is a freakin' waste when he should just be Shazam (God, I hate they're doing that as the name. Why couldn't they at least keep Captain Thunder if they couldn't go with Capt. Marvel?) I've said that a hundred times, probably. It adds some more diversity to the DCEU if you're looking for that, and he's got a really distinctive look that could lend itself to a take on the traditional Shazam look. He could probably bring some comedy and some drama into a cartoony sort of character and might help get people invested in the ultimate concept of 'kid says magic word, becomes ultimate superhero.'
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I wouldn’t mind a Guy Gardner Green Lantern, but I suspect Warner Bros/DC will screw it up.
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JediTalentAgent posted:I still think WIl Smith might have made a good Hal Jordan if he hadn't gotten tabbed as Deadshot. Similarly, I think the idea of "Dwayne Johnson as Black Adam" is a freakin' waste when he should just be Shazam (God, I hate they're doing that as the name. Why couldn't they at least keep Captain Thunder if they couldn't go with Capt. Marvel?) Only downside to using him as Shazam is that I cannot imagine anyone else as Black Adam. To be fair though, I don't know that many middle eastern looking muscular dudes.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Only downside to using him as Shazam is that I cannot imagine anyone else as Black Adam. To be fair though, I don't know that many middle eastern looking muscular dudes. The Iron Sheik
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The odd thing about that is you might not need a really buff Black Adam, or you similarly play around with is 'Black Adam' form/mythology. Rock Shazam being all huge and muscly is maybe a response of it being the an immature power fantasy of a kid. Black Adam might actually look upon such a form with a bit of amusement. All this magical might, but this childish expression of it is hardly the wisdom of Solomon. Getting into maybe some DBZ territory/symbolism of his character: The guy who becomes Black Adam might have an internal perspective that has him seeking a more 'perfect' expression of his power as Adam. Throw in some 'his form nearly the perfect golden ratio' or something, maybe have his gradually go from projecting an emphasis on the 'gold' part of the look/design and eventually giving way to a more traditional black/gold.
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True, I'm just going off the last like, 20 years of comics he's been in. He's a regular dude in his Teth body, but he's basically on par with Superman with his body in Black Adam form. However they handle it, I hope it'll be well. I imagine if they let Snyder anywhere near it, it'll be rear end though.
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Jun 3, 2018 05:15
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The next DC movie villain should be Nina Dowd.
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Deadpool 2 Besides just being a weird movie in general, they didn't really show Deadpool putting himself back together after he gets injured. He just kinda shows up in another scene healed for the most part. I am glad that they finally stopped picking on poor Colossus here. And acknowledging how weird it was that no other X-Men besides him and Negasonic Teenage Warhead seemed to be around. Gaunab posted:The next DC movie villain should be Nina Dowd. I want the next DC movie to be Superman trying to deal with Mr. Mxyzptlk or that time Deathstroke drugged him while trying to kill Bruce Wayne because Wayne told him to wear his clothes on a cruise. https://imgur.com/a/zhYVl#nQeCrWI
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"We're not so different you and I" is a terrible cliché mainly because it causes the protagonist to question themselves when it's a totally loving stupid comparison.
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What about the extended scene of him growing his legs back
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Mu Zeta posted:What about the extended scene of him growing his legs back I was looking more for putting his arms back in the right direction or something. Like, he spins his head around like Daffy Duck with his beak and that was fine but eh. I dunno, I guess I just wanted them to play around with it more. And also give some info on Cable's arm considering it was making noise the entire movie and I had to wonder if it was sentient too or something.
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I also wondered how exactly Deadpool regenerated when he blew himself up. Did the rest of his body sprout out of his decapitated head? Was there a Deadpool with a toddler body and a grotesque Wade head waddling around the mansion for a while? Would all the dismembered pieces grow into a whole individual Wade with sentience and everything?
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Panfilo posted:I also wondered how exactly Deadpool regenerated when he blew himself up. Did the rest of his body sprout out of his decapitated head? Was there a Deadpool with a toddler body and a grotesque Wade head waddling around the mansion for a while? I had the mental image of Colossus doing a bit of a jigsaw puzzle with Wade's various pieces.
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Leavemywife posted:I had the mental image of Colossus doing a bit of a jigsaw puzzle with Wade's various pieces. As you're meant to. Deadpool's regeneration is somewhat inconsistent in how it works, but him being a serial breaker of fourth walls it's more than reasonable to say it works in whatever way would be funniest. Cable's arm isn't sentient, and it also isn't artificial. Cable is infected with a techno-organic virus which has transformed parts of his natural body into the machinery you see. It's possibly part of why he tolerates Deadpool in the comics - they're both living with cancer that their powers keep in check.
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Leavemywife posted:I had the mental image of Colossus doing a bit of a jigsaw puzzle with Wade's various pieces. Same. I assumed they grabbed all the parts and just put all the pieces against where they should connect and they all attached themselves like Ethan Winters does with his leg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozWvwI-ehls
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RareAcumen posted:And acknowledging how weird it was that no other X-Men besides him and Negasonic Teenage Warhead seemed to be around. I coulda sworn Deadpool made a crack about that in the first movie.
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