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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Feige has said he wants the first one to be set in high school and have a real John Hughes vibe. So it's just going to be another MCU movie, but with 80's songs playing in the background every now and then?
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MCU films don't actually resemble silver age comics
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Mar 22, 2016 03:33
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I think the main point he's conveying is that no one actually cares about lethality and destruction in blockbuster films, they just want the filmmakers to let them know that they can feel good about it.
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Mar 23, 2016 23:20
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I don't really get the complaint that BvS was too depressing at all. I feel like it ends up in a much more optimistic, hopeful place than MOS did.
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Mar 28, 2016 06:54
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TFRazorsaw posted:So again, there's nothing they have to gain by being supremacist jerks, and they reject coexistence because of a fixation on their own nostalgia. I guess that's a fair bit less hollow. How is Lex not nuanced?
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Mar 28, 2016 07:06
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TFRazorsaw posted:The movie spends all of five minutes detailing what drives him and what his background is. Say what you will about the Thor movies, but we ar least get time spent dwelling on Loki's perspective and why he has daddy issues. Hell, even in its own universe, MOS spends a lot of energy on dwelling on Zod's pain at losing his people. Another comparison is Fisk in Daredevil, whose abuse is elaborated upon. Likewise, as monstrously irredeemable as he is, Killgrave's childhood that allegedly drove him to villainy is given context even as it raises questions to its legitimacy. Not having a super fleshed out backstory isn't the same thing as not being nuanced. He isn't motivated by being abused as a child, he's motivated by the fact that he's an impotent weirdo whose desires to be taken seriously are overshadowed by the massive forces he is playing around with. Lex's entire character is centered around being taken seriously by other people, to the point where he gets visibly flustered every time he screws up one of his pre-written villain speeches. He's an interesting mirror of Bruce Wayne in that the arrival of Superman amplifies his prior obsession and breaks him; Bruce viewed the destruction of the WayneCorp building as him losing his family on a larger scale, and Lex views Superman as an even larger shadow that he is stuck under after spending his entire life trying to fill his father's footsteps. Bruce realized that Superman is only a man and learns to accept him in order to fulfill his role as a protector, Lex cannot view Superman as anything but a god and loses everything in his quest to destroy him or drag him down to his own level. Snowglobe of Doom posted:A weird thing that BvS does is re-establish the "Superman just blunders into situations and doesn't care about or even acknowledge all the collateral damage" complaint that people had about the destruction of Metropolis scene and turns that into a plot point around the massacre in the African village, but then flips that by revealing the African massacre was masterminded by Lex and wasn't Superman's fault in the slightest and people are dopes for doubting Superman's actions (which I'm interpreting as a really unsubtle dig at the people complaining about Mos) but then at the climax of BvS they have another Kryptonian-versus-Kryptonian battle where a whole bunch of buildings are 9/11'ed but this time they make it clear that civilians weren't in danger. C'mon guys, can we stick with just the one history revision instead of piling them up like this? I thought the African woman was testifying about the negative side effects that came after the militia was taken out, not the battle itself. This would fit in with Pa Kent's anecdote about the horses.
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Guy A. Person posted:- I think a lot of families with kids didn't necessarily take them to the movies on a busy holiday weekend, and (again anecdotally) kids want to see Superman and Batman punch each other in the balls. This could potentially be hurt by some of the violence, but I don't really think it was too bad. I think this is the key. Contrary to what the internet would like you to believe, young kids love stuff like BvS and Transformers and I think the film will cross the $1b mark on the back of families and casual moviegoers.
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Mar 28, 2016 18:18
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Barry Convex posted:Uh, I'm pretty sure including Thursday night previews as part of Friday's total is common practice, not something invented for BvS. I think the point he's making is that there wasn't a significant drop in between Friday and Saturday, BvS just made more money than usual on Thursday night
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Dark_Tzitzimine posted:http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2016/03/31/suicide-squad-reshoots-bode-well-for-the-dc-movieverse Isn't Devin Faraci's site the one that constantly brings up "inside sources" that say that WB is perpetually secretly terrified about their own tentpole films?
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Mar 31, 2016 18:59
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My favorite Devin Faraci story is the time he claimed that all anime was for pedophiles, immediately blocked anyone who disagreed, then compared the blowback to being a victim of domestic abuse
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Mar 31, 2016 23:28
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Why can't a film about World War I be fun?
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Apr 1, 2016 19:05
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Burkion posted:That's not actually what happened. It's honestly kind of funny that people think that ASM2 not meeting expectations "saved" the franchise. The next Spider-Man film sounds like a complete clusterfuck because allegedly Sony and Marvel keep arguing about what direction to take the movie in.
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Apr 3, 2016 18:29
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Yaws posted:I'm looking forward to Suicide Squad as well but mostly due to the second trailer and the rumor that they're doing reshoots to lighten the tone. It's already been confirmed by multiple cast members that this isn't happening.
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Apr 3, 2016 22:23
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:Can someone explain whats up with Ike Perlmutter? First I'm hearing the name and not sure what I'm looking for on Google. Ike Perlmutter owns Marvel Comics and was once in charge of the film division before Feige booted him off. He's notorious for being a weirdo conservative rear end in a top hat, to the point where almost no photos of him exist on the internet.
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Apr 8, 2016 23:36
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That's a very good trailer.
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Apr 11, 2016 03:17
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https://twitter.com/_doraxx/status/719444475018362880 this film is going to own
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Apr 11, 2016 18:25
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I don't think it's contradictory to say that the action scenes in TWS are great for an MCU film and average for an action film in general.
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Apr 13, 2016 23:41
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Man of Steel made almost all its money back through product placement, and I wouldn't be surprised to hear that the same is the case with BvS. People seem to forget that there's more to what makes a film successful than box office (ASM2 is a weird outlier in that Sony didnt have merchandising rights so a much larger importance was put on box office). Most of the doomsaying about this film's performance seems to be coming from people who desperately want the film to be considered a flop (I'm sure WB wishes it could have made more money but that could be said of every film). We'll never know how successful BvS really was because we don't have access to the sales WB made through merchandise and product placement nor do we know what their internal metrics and expectations were. All we have to go on are the studio's actions going forward, and they don't seem particularly spooked by the film's performance.
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Apr 30, 2016 17:03
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Guy A. Person posted:Finding out that the Norse gods were aliens all along doesn't really answer the question of "who created the universe we currently live in" tho. For a lot of Christians it probably if anything answers the questions of "why did various people from all over the world worship different sets of Gods*" which not only isn't incompatible with Christianity, you could argue it compliments it. I think the comics addressed this by saying that above all the various gods is a capital-G God that created the Marvel universe.
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Jul 15, 2016 20:50
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Invalid Validation posted:I don't think most of the people who post in this thread like superheroes or the comics they spend a lot of time reading. Hating superhero comics is like the prime prerequisite for every superhero comics fan.
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That's a really good poster.
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Jul 22, 2016 17:56
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I can't remember the last time I read or cared about reviews for a major blockbuster movie
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My personal philosophy for what makes art good and worthwhile is significantly different from most critics I've read, so sometimes negative reviews can be a positive for me and vice versa.
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