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TetsuoTW posted:Shazam had grown so rich, he wanted to retire. He took me to his cave and he told me his secret. 'I am not Captain Marvel' he said. 'My name is Billy; I inherited the power from the previous Captain Marvel, just as you will inherit it from me. The man I inherited it from is not the real Captain Marvel either. His name was Fawcett. The real Captain Marvel has been retired 15 years and living like a king in Patagonia.' This is a good post.
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Mar 10, 2016 20:57
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Spider-Man is already a four billion dollar franchise. Hollywood is going to continue shoving Spider-Man trilogies into your face holes forever and ever. [insert anime gif here]
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Mar 10, 2016 21:02
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Guy A. Person posted:I actually really hate the "Supes did 9/11" sentiment as well as the Thunderbolt Ross scene at the beginning of this new trailer implying that super people are responsible for disasters they get involved with. It strikes me as going up to a firefighter and saying "gee you seem to be at the scene of a lot of burning buildings". I'd be okay with it if Infinity War started this way, with the American military totally helpless in the face of Thanos, asking the Avengers for help and getting "lol no way" and then having to work their way down a list trying to get supers to help them.
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Mar 10, 2016 23:10
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Burkion posted:The interesting thing is that they give away Tony is the one in the wrong during the trailer. Like they're trying to make it ambiguous but it's pretty obvious. Steve Rogers is always right because he's always on the side of freedom. Tony Stark is the frightened reactionary trying to get control of an uncontrollable situation. I'm sure Tony will have good points but will bungle his execution, as per usual for his character and Marvel's flailing attempts to make shades of moral gray.
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Mar 11, 2016 02:29
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Looks like Stilt Man. The Daredevil tie in we've all been waiting for.
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Mar 11, 2016 02:35
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net cafe scandal posted:I noticed his tie was red in one scene - The Republican color. Can't have been a coincidence. His armor has also been red for decades? It's kind of his color now. 
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Mar 11, 2016 15:03
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I don't understand what's been going on at DC since nu52. Are Bruce Timm and Paul Dini the only ones who can write for these characters? I liked MoS but I can easily see why other people don't, and the only adaptation of DC that everyone seemed to enjoy were the DCAU cartoons.
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Mar 12, 2016 05:07
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Tezzor posted:It's not that complicated to understand why people think you're lying. It's first, obviously, because the movies CD feels the most compelled to defend - the prequels, Transformers, Man of Steel, etc - are, among the fanbase outside of this forum, generally considered among to be failed, embarrassing, bottom-tier trash for idiots. Of course, this isn't the whole story. There's also standard goon contrarianism; annoying when pro-Trump, baffling when pro-prequel. But really the main issue is how they defend these films that leads many to assume they're simply lying, either to themselves or others. If someone defends an Adam Sandler film by saying "I know Adam Sandler films are dumb but I like fart jokes even if I know they're not exactly high art" that's a comprehensible defense. When someone says "I like Adam Sandler movies because the man is a secret genius exploring the Jungian archetype of The Fool" then it's hard to not assume that the person is pulling your leg, and this is the standard type of the explanations for why these movies are actually good; not "I just like bright colors and explosions" but bloviating about vague and not-particularly-insightful notions of "artistry," overwrought and poorly-substantiated fan-theories and headcanons about secret depth and moral complexity, and, last, appeals to the sheer length of arguments rather than their points or value. I've read people refer positively to the 128-page rebuttal of The Phantom Menace review and the 30,000-word "Why The Transformers Films Are Good" character-vomit just because they are very long, as though their length meant anything in particular. I could, with no difficulty, dig up ten 300-page books that purport to rebut whatever your political and/or religious beliefs are. So it is not hard to see why people, when looking at both the quality of the subject of the defense and the quality of the defense itself, tend to find it easier to believe that people are deliberately lying or playing some kind of game, rather than these are really their sincere opinions. It is certainly easier and more comforting to believe than the alternative. There's also the common mistake people make that length of text = quality arguments. This of course is folly but there you are.
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Sir Kodiak posted:Huh, I had assumed HIJK was making a joke about Tezzor's wall of text. I'm not that clever. I agree with ImpAtom.
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The MSJ posted:X-Men Apocalypse just dropped a new trailer. I like that they're keeping it within a certain time period, that shot of the missiles is chilling.
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Mar 17, 2016 14:48
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Jose Oquendo posted:Is this the last one for her contract? Just sayin. The timeline has been changed so she doesn't necessarily have to survive this movie. I'm 90% sure this is her last one. Fingers crossed for a recast if they bring back Mystique.
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Mar 17, 2016 15:22
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AOU was enjoyable and I'd watch the party scenes again for the character interaction but the rest of it...mehhhhhhhhhhhhh
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Mar 23, 2016 01:24
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Rough Lobster posted:EXCELSioorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Staaaaaaaaan!
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Mar 23, 2016 01:54
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Just got back from Dawn of Justice and I loved every single minute of it. I can see where all the complaints are coming from but I don't care because that movie pushed every single one of my narrative buttons. Whoever called it operatic and baroque was 100% on point and the movie was fantastic for it. Snyder raided every aspect of art history he could find and what a fantastic result. Marvel has everything bubblegum colored and everyone quips all over the place while thousands of people die in New York City via alien invasion. Dawn of Justice actually treats that subject with seriousness and gravity which I really respect and holy poo poo that color scheme is amazing, everything is gold and green and black. Wonder Woman was loving A+. Batfleck was a little over the top but who cares about the missteps when everything else he did was so on point? Eisenburg was great. More Eisenburg please. I even liked Cavill even though he was so serious, he and Amy Adams really loving sold Lois and Clark for me as a love story. Loved them too. Dawn of Justice was loving great and I'm very excited about DC's new cinematic universe, I thought they handled the introduction very well. This is going to rock.
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Doflamingo posted:Do you think most people enjoyed Man of Steel, as well? Yes.
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MoS seems to be more that, Clark only seems like a god from our limited perspective. He still lives on a farm and has a mother that he loves very much. He still makes dumb mistakes. He falls in love. He isn't infallible and it's our mistake to think he is. BvS carries on this theme.
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:Just watched the animated Batman Superman movie, World's Finest for the billionth time. It's amazing that they managed to put so much awesome content into something with only one hour of runtime. Kinda puts BvS in a different perspective. If they would have just done BvS scene for scene from this animated movie I would have been totally fine with it. That movie had the benefit of BTAS and STAS though. BvS was basically Justice League: We're Currently in Beta which meant they had to build up their mythology as much as they could in a limited run time.
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CelticPredator posted:Iron Man murdered terrorists who were keeping him hostage to make weapons to kill more people. Probably would've chopped his head off too. I mean no one's supposed to be okay with someone trying to flamethrower Clark's mom? That's what it's bad? And that's why that guy was a bad person, because he wanted to flamethrower Martha? People seem really shocked that DC comic book movies have bad people doing bad things, and that heroes get really pissed at bad things happening. "The power of love" is Jesus' super power, not Superman's.
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Mar 27, 2016 21:34
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TFRazorsaw posted:considering the movie spends a lot of time in effort to equate Superman with Jesus... So? Superman has solved problems by punching them since his inception. I mean if we want to go full Captain Planet and have his power be The Power of Heart than that's cool, but that isn't what Supes has been about in the past. He's been about personal sacrifice for the greater good of mankind for a while now but that doesn't mean that comic book fans wouldn't get enraged at Supes trying to hug it out with people.
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TFRazorsaw posted:I actually want that, though? I mean, that'd be pretty great. Me too actually. I kind of like that the DCAU went there with Supes, like he tries to reach out to Lex when they find out he has cancer and Supes immediately tries to help him.  But that doesn't make this dramatic stuff any less enjoyable to me. It's just a different kind of Trinity. If I want lighthearted jokes while they blow up skyscrapers I can go rewatch JLU for that. For a dark and sober take I enjoyed the hell out of BvS. These things can coexist and there's nothing offensive about dark and sober. Phylodox posted:Wait, someone flamethrowers Ma Kent?!? What the ever loving hell?!? I'm starting to feel like I should see this movie just to witness firsthand how insane it is. "Emotional breakdown"
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TFRazorsaw posted:Also, it occurs to me that if DC doesn't want to be compared to the Marvel universe, they shouldn't bloody well invite it. I mean, the set up for Darkseid is the exact same as as the set up for Thanos short of him actually showing up, Wonder Woman is as essential to this story as Black Widow was to Iron Man 2, and there's more call forwards per capita in this movie than the majority of stuff from Phase 1. I mean, using DC's actual counterpart to Thanos (to the point the latter is often called a stand-in for the former in regards to the actual media) is transparent enough. Thanos wants the Infinity Gauntlet from almost Day 1, we don't know what Darkseid's deal is yet. Just that he's been summoned.
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TFRazorsaw posted:knowing what I know about Darkseid, replace the infinity gems with "anti-life" and they'll be good to go. Either way it will lead to a Heroic Battle For Earth between him and all the heroes, just with more Jesus metaphors. And it'll be great!  dingdingdingdingding
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Darko posted:There's a legitimately large chance of Disney/Marvel taking over how superhero movies, and to a lesser extent, summer blockbusters are created for a while. If alternatives don't succeed, there is a chance for a bit of a genre monopoly as people try to ape them or fail, which no movie fan should want. But Superman killed Zod and that's terrible!
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:The MCU films resolve themselves by killing/destroying the villains almost every time - Iron Man kills Stane/Iron Monger, Iron Man 2 blows up Ivan Vanko/Whiplash, Captain America implodes the Red Skull with the Tesseract, Guardians of the Galaxy vaporise Ronan, Ant-Man violently crushes Yellowjacket by sabotaging his shrinking equipment, etc etc.. They solve the supervillain problem by just making them go away because they're operating under standard comicbook/action movie rules where killing the irredeemable villain is framed as being good and right and justified. When Marvel superheroes complete their trials they look like this: This is a good post, I'm going to rub it all over my face.
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Hat Thoughts posted:To me, that sounds like an interesting movie if it was capable of evoking such a strong emotional reaction from you. And it isn't universal. I walked out euphoric and...hopeful, really. Excited for the great renewal to come. So no, the movie didn't set out to make its audience feel bad.
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Shageletic posted:Isn't BvS making like all the money right now? The key to box office success: giving comic book nerds tummy aches.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:The most entertaining part about the Spawn comics will always be the legal battle between McFarlane and Neil Gaiman and the wacky outcome.  Jesus, Neil.
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Rurea posted:Why are there two Spider-Men? I want to say this is when there were a bunch of Skrulls running around as sleeper agent duplicates.
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I would be cool with Loki appearing in Infinity War because Hiddleston is amazing to watch.
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I saw each LOTR film more than ten times. FOTR was 18 times, TTT 16 and ROTK 17. I wrote it all down in a journal which is how I know this.
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ImpAtom posted:I... I guess I'm impressed you found enough time in the day. It was over an eight month period and I was 11-13 at the time.
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Hat Thoughts posted:What's wrong with a movie taking itself seriously? It makes the audience feel bad about themselves when characters react to the destruction of an entire city with shock and horror rather than laughing it off with shawarma jokes. Mass murder via alien invasion should be a fun time for the whole family.
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Slugworth posted:This is gonna sound crazy, but maybe there's room for both styles? No! Impossible! All superhero movies must be the same! Gyges posted:I seriously have no idea what people are even talking about anymore with DC movies being totally dour and grimdark but Netflix Daredevil is lighthearted. Are we just randomly throwing out mood adjectives when talking about movies now? Seriously, at one point Matt beats up a man for molesting his daughter, that's the exact opposite of light hearted.
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CelticPredator posted:It's amazing. My first avatar replacement! Watch One Punch Man. You would like it.
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CelticPredator posted:The Joker was both bad, and quite fun to watch. A treat for the emotions. If you will. A little bit of both...in equal measure.
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oddium posted:benedict cumberbunch is good, and will probably be a good doctor strange I am actually excited for it because out of all the things that sucked in the Hobbit movies, Smaug was not one of them. Cummberbund has a good grasp of the surreal. Also can Purlmutter just loving go to hell and give me my Daredevil/Thor crossover please. What the gently caress is wrong with these companies that there's an ACTUAL RIVALRY between the tv and movie divisions? HIJK fucked around with this message at 00:33 on Apr 9, 2016 |
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achillesforever6 posted:
But if they brought the movies and tv shows together, they would make ALL THE MONEY. gently caress that noise I guess. Who needs more profit anyway.
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TetsuoTW posted:I'm kind of surprised there are still people who aren't tired of Shyamalamadingdong-ing Cumberbatch's name. you didn't have to draw attention to my dyslexia
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