Comic Book Movies

[gunswordfist]

Fially saw Deadpool on Saturday. I thought a lot of the humor tried too hard up until Colossus came. Then it got great.

This movie did so much right. They got in Al, Ajax, Bob, Weasel, made Weasel a lot more interesting by replacing his role with some old guy no one cares about and they retold DP's origin very well.

Spoiler

I am so surprised Vanessa lived. I thought she was going to die from the flashback, all the way up to the end. I wonder if she'll be a mutant in the sequel.

[close]

There's so many characters I want to see in the sequels. Unfortunately there's zero percent chance we'll get Spider-Man or Bullseye (Bullseye's DP appearances are what put him in my top 30 villains list, believe it or not.) Oh and no Thanos. I don't know who owns Taskmaster but chances of him showing up probably aren't good.

Anyway, I wonder if T-Ray is next. If they do the plot twist..yeah, that's going to be confusing as fuck and make the first movie very existence make people's head hurt...lol I hope they di it but keep it ambiguous.

[Daikun]

Here's the Justice League logo.

[GregX]

[Dr. Insomniac]

I'm highly amused by the irony of the Die Hard director saying movies like Captain America are too macho.

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

Only having that one quote to go off of, it really sounds like he hasn't actually seen any of the movies that he's criticizing. It feels like he just looked at a poster of one of the Captain America movies and based his opinion of an entire genre of film on that alone. This guy from the comments section even points out how a Captain America movie of all things basically disproves his entire statement about the superhero film genre:

I'm not gonna insult him because he gave me The Predator; but I wish he actually watched the movies before judging them so harshly. I mean, Cap: TWS basically went against the very notion of the hyper americanized hero by making him question his govt.

oh well.

But what's also striking is this choice quote right here, which is the height of hypocrisy:

A kid used to be able to learn how a man or woman should act by watching films

So, the guy goes on about superhero movies and modern movies in general being fascist, and then goes on to praise how older movies used to teach people about how they "SHOULD" act, and on top of that these role-models had to be gender specific? Either that's a severe mis-translation, or Mr. McTiernan doesn't actually know what the definition of fascist actually means.

Furthermore, this is coming from the guy who's movies almost exclusively featured male leads saving the day, and women serving as little more than damsels needing to be rescued.

Don't get me wrong, I love movies like Predator, The Hunt for Red October, and Die Hard to death. They are all some of my favorite movies of all time. But me thinks that a certain director has gone rather senile since the 90's ended and he lost all relevance. Either that or he's just trying to stir up some attention for himself.

[Dr. Insomniac]

He also called Fury Road corporate filth while giving praise to Argo, a movie literally about Hollywood producers saving the day.

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

Well, for what it's worth I really like Argo. It's my favorite 2012 film. What John Mctiernan said is still stupid, though, and I have a hunch that he knows it. I can't believe that the guy who made Die Hard is this idiotic. I really do think that he's just after the attention that this will give him, for whatever reason.

[Avaitor]

I sometimes wonder when directors bemoan about comic book movies, they do so out of jealousy. Emmerich said something similar recently, and of course there's Snyder's bitterness towards the MCU.

[Peanutbutter]

So the trailer for Justice League has been released................................................








































































...........................................................................and it actually LOOKS FRICKING GOOOOD!!!!!








https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gglkYMGRYlE

[gunswordfist]

I like this Flash.

[Dr. Insomniac]

Your Harley, sir.

[Spark Of Spirit]

The trailer for Justice League alone was better than any of Snyder's movies. He's clearly not in charge of this one despite officially directing it.

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

Eh, The final Batman V Superman trailer and the last couple of Suicide Squad trailers also had a similar tone. To me, all it shows is that DC is responding to the criticism of their movies being too up their own ass in grimdark bull-shit.

This Justice League trailer compiles some footage from a movie that has just barely begun filming. It'll take a lot more than some slap-dash humor thrown together to convince me that this movie will be any good, especially with Snyder's name still attached to it.

[Spark Of Spirit]

According to Midnight's Edge, Ben Affleck has far more pull with this movie than he did with BvS. He's involved in the script writing and production as well as being an executive producer. It might be because his films have been successes while Snyder's have been disappointments critically and financially, and he was really disappointed with BvS.

But we'll have to see. The sooner Snyder is quashed, the better things will get.

[gunswordfist]

The trailer for Justice League alone was better than any of Snyder's movies. He's clearly not in charge of this one despite officially directing it.

Yes, that trailer was excellent!!!