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CelticPredator posted:The JL stream was one of my favorite things ever I was really sorry to miss out on that one, but I did catch BvS.
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McCloud posted:lol retroactively beaten, Teagone That's how they beat Darkseid.
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Alexander Hamilton posted:I still think nerds were just mad that Batman isn’t cool in BvS. Switch Wonder Woman & Batman’s roles and people would have been fine with it. There is definitely a current in fandom thought where being evil is simply playing the heel while being seen as embarrassing/cringe/awkward-but-not-in-the-cute-way is unforgivable, and Batman is often embarrassed in BvS.
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McSpanky posted:[citation needed] It is worth remembering that, despite whatever drama from whichever fans, Beevis pulled around 870 million at the box office and was the top selling bluray for a goodly while (iirc). That's more than either of the first two GotG films or any of the Thor movies. "People on twitter were obnoxious about it" is not an indicator of success or failure! (As DC would come to learn to their peril...) Schwarzwald fucked around with this message at 19:26 on May 11, 2023 |
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It's going to be the movie the Sony hacked emails wrote.
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McCloud posted:It also directly led to elon making a 420 joke about buying twitter which, unfortunately for all of is, apparently was legally binding That's only unfortunate because he's managed to keep the drat thing on life support instead of killing it. McCloud posted:Wake up, new details dropping lol, Sofia Boutella in a field of wheat is gonna be catnip to the haters.
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Grendels Dad posted:Superman is Dracula because he has a bitching cape and has a special relationship to the sun. ...Does Lois know about this special relationship?
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Nowadays comic book super heroes are thought of as their own distinct thing but it is useful not to forget that they're a straight progression of pulp stories, penny dreadfuls, and such.
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Only Kindness posted:OK, let's take that onboard and have like 7.29% less Krypton and lean less into mythology, say by 5.68%. Before I provide an answer: is Kurt Angle added to this mix?
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FilthyImp posted:Then, absent of any agency or hope for higher purpose, the Krytponians are more aptly described as homunculi? Funnily enough, I think MOS has enough material that you could make this argument sincerely. It'd be a little misanthropic, but it could be done. Halloween Jack posted:No, Kryptonians aren't created by jerking off into a container full of rotten garbage. Our boy Zack kept the film respectable, but we all know what's going on with those clone machines!
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Part of me really wants to watch Dollhouse since it seems to share so much with Sucker Punch, but drat — do I really want to watch twenty-six 45 minute episodes just to satisfy that curiosity?
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shoeberto posted:trying to put a super serious coat of paint on something that conceptually still feels pretty campy yeah it owns
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:We're in an aesthetic moment right now that's been termed "comfy" or "cozy" and the Snyderverse really doesn't get anywhere near that until ZSJL. The first two movies are not comforting films. They treat the audience like an adult who can handle the fact that "the world ain't all sunshine and rainbows" and that Superman, while awesomely powerful, can't really do much about systemic corruption. Things will not be ok. You, the viewer, will have to tackle that. That denies escapism and is not a comforting thought, but it's a far cry from "grimdark" - the fact that certain people reacted so strongly is instructive. I think this is right on the money. One of the most common elements in Snyder's films is how having and exercising power is either unpleasant or somehow fraught. There's an emphasis on how it makes a person culpable. Similarly, as much as Snyder's work get derided as propaganda for whatever right wing bugbear, the bigger complaint is that his work isn't didactic — and that's bad! Schwarzwald fucked around with this message at 04:31 on Jul 28, 2023 |
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I wonder how much of it was the MCU specifically and how much was the assumption that since ZS's films made money but were also kind of love-them-or-hate-them, that a more middle-of-the-road approach would be more profitable.
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I can't believe Zack Snyder supports Zeon.
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RBA Starblade posted:Mark Hamil was there too! Huh? The voice actor from Wizards?
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Xealot posted:I mean, yeah, the reasons are "these are the themes present in this story." Now that I think about it, that kind of thing tends to happen a lot in fictional stories...
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A lot of the mid '10s turn on Snyder came down to exactly how disturbing he portrays violence. The moralizing is downstream of that discomfort.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The hyper-stylisation and intensity is key to that. Especially in a cinema environment, the action scenes and setpieces are almost overwhelming, designed to make a strong impact. That works both for making it scary AND making it cool. In the same sense that comedy and horror are often two sides of the same coin, so are trauma and coolness. Every toddler who cries at the Night at Bald mountain segment in Fantasia goes on to remember it as their favorite. Turpitude posted:Writing this just made me realise that my favorite Silver Surfer story from back in the day also features that hero being forced to kill a genocidal psycho. I guess having all this power, trying to be a pacifist and do the right thing, and then being forced to kill has resonated with me since I was a kid. Sometimes you just have to kill these assholes and it sucks but that is part of being a godlike entity Haus of Decline's Steven Universe vs Hitler comic really cut to the quick on that discourse.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Also says something given one of his established backstory moments is writing an essay in school defending the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Rorschach becomes an increasingly better person throughout the comic, and that's why he needed to be killed.
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AccountSupervisor posted:And yeah from what Ive gathered it seems once again they made the mistake of not just letting the full vision/directors cut be the standard cut.  that every Snyder film is like this.
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Like, you really do have to hand it to the man for being a success while having an approach that's repeatedly proven completely antithetical to studio limits.
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"Grim dark" has been taken to mean approximately five hundred things over the years but lets not forget the term comes from a Warhammer 40k tag line. "It looks like Warhammer 40k" is one of the original meanings of the term.
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Ferrinus posted:The season finale was bonkers. Is it part of the Snyder canon and therefore appropriate for discussion in this thread? Well, if we look to Barthes, Rebel Moons is taking some inspiration from the King Arthur stories, right? We might see a Le Morte d' yet!
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Tea Party Crasher posted:When people start discussing The Last Jedi I feel like an alcoholic at a party where everyone else is drinking. Be cool tea party, everybody else can handle it but you, just go outside where you won't be tempted. You know it's tempting but it's not worth it You bet your rear end when my friends talk about Star Wars/Star Trek/MCU/Snyder/whatever nerd property I shut my rear end up. There's a time and a place for vomiting up my heinous nerd opinions and that's this website.
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Halloween Jack posted:The difference between Moore's and Snyder's take on Rorschach is simply that Snyder has sympathy for him. I can't find the quote off hand, but didn't Neil Gaiman once report that Alan Moore cried after killing Rorschach off?
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Fangz posted:The other way round. Rorschach wants nuclear Armageddon to be back on the table. Even Manhattan refuses to accept the atrocity that would ensue if Rorschach would be allowed to live. That's why he kills him. turning a big dial taht says "Genocide" on it and constantly look back at god for approval like a contestant on the price is right
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well why not posted:[getting the old razzledazzle eight times consecutively] I am studying his limitations [lying face down in a puddle of my own blood and spit] download complete
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Admiral Noble is the kind of person who wants to come across as a person like Zod.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Zack Snyder’s Mutant League Football, obviously. I'VE BEEN SAYING THIS
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No Luck Needed posted:the scifi elements were more warhammer 40k than heavy metal I cannot possibly overemphasize how much WH 40k cribs from Heavy Metal.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:That was the exact moment that I loved the movie. "Oh, the West doesn't use AI!" (except for the suicide bombers) I loved the machine at the airport where it was clearly just a robot person but without limbs or a head. Absolutely twisted poo poo that the characters don't give a second thought to.
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No Luck Needed posted:the joe rogan podcast is comedy gold, Zack Snyder says that batman and superman should kill and "put his stank" on those films. Wonder why they did so bad? BvS was a tremendous hit that earned just shy of a billion dollars.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:This is literally how a nine year old thinks. It's ok if they beat people down, send them to the hospital, smash their teeth out, take the law into their own hand...they didn't kill. This entire perspective is incredibly childish, it's what they were banking on when they invented these codes back in the 40s. Nine year olds have their action figures kill each other all the time when they're not gunning their friends down in Destiny 2 or whatever is hot now. "Heroes don't kill" is a marketer angle to get their product past parent watch groups. It's CCA poo poo. Schwarzwald fucked around with this message at 19:04 on Mar 12, 2024 |
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CelticPredator posted:I wish man of steel had an actual epilogue to the final battle instead of that stupid drone scene. Yeah, I don't think MoS needs a Snyder style extra 30 minute cut but an extra 3 might tighten the experience.
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McCloud posted:God forbid that Clark Kent feels apprehensive about wielding absolute power One of the earlier moments that suggested that the Snyder hatedom may have lost the plot was seeing a bunch of nominally progressive folk decrying how the autistic-coded Clark doesn't smile enough.
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