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http://www.moovienews.com/20160323-major-shakeup-for-warnerbros-and-dc.html

It's clear now that the long-awaited Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice has been met with some pretty harsh reactions from critics, holding close to a 40% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

I recently spoke with a source at Warner Bros who took place in a late-night conference call with execs following the initial flood of negative reviews. The call was moderated by exec Steve Spira and included many of the higher-ups at WB. Here's what my source had to say:

"WB execs are shitting their pants. If [Batman V Superman] makes less than a billion, [Zack] Snyder is out and Justice League will be delayed 8 months."


"Chris Nolan is being courted as a producer and George Miller, David Yates, Louis Letterier, and Vincenzo Natali are all being courted to take over Justice League."


"Wonder Woman is undergoing major rewrites to be more of a standalone film. Aquaman, Cyborg, and Green Lantern Corps. are all on the chopping block."


"Investors are planning a major takeover if [Batman V Superman] flops and have plans to install a board that will order the universe to be rebooted."
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>>81023489
NOBODY WATCH THE MOVIE. WE'LL GET BETTER FILMS DOWN THE ROAD.
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>Nolan
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>>81023542
>like i was gonna watch it anyways
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Who's david bowie's son again the guy that is doing the WoW movie, have him direct it.
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>>81023489
>random movie site no one has heard of
Yeah, I doubt they did all of that so fast anyways.
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>>81023489
It's official, SJWs are giving the movie their back. It's over.

http://www.themarysue.com/batman-v-superman-review/

>Snyder just keeps getting chances, and I have no idea why. Even on a technical level, this movie is frequently ugly. The clean urban scenes look the best, but most of the action sequences are messy (with the possible exception of a pretty good car chase through a city). Rather than ratcheting up tension and excitement by slowly building, they’re overdone and seem coated with so much CG that you just feel lost in a world you don’t recognize, and that CG coating is sometimes inexplicably overdone.
>By about the halfway point of sitting through it, I started to realize this is a real time-suck of a movie. I don’t care about any of the characters or the plot, the action isn’t even that entertaining, and the onslaught of sadistic imagery felt like something Snyder had waged against his audience. I haven’t observed such a begrudging response to a press screening since Transformers 4. If you didn’t know about Justice League coming up, all the cameos from upcoming characters would be baffling, but with the exception of Wonder Woman and Aquaman, I’m not full of hope about what’s to come (and I just feel bad that Ezra Miller will be on the receiving end of Flash comparisons). More than anything, I went home glad to still have the new X-Men and Captain America to cleanse the pallet of the nasty aftertaste Batman v Superman left behind.
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>>81023489
MAKE DCEU GREAT AGAIN

This is all good news senpai, but I still think BvS will make 1 billion even with shit reviews.
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>>81023584
He wouldn't do it anyway
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>>81023655
>actually looking forward to the new X-Men
kek
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I'm down with everything desu but I hope they don't fuck too much with WW. It's already far along enough that messing with it now is probably going to result in a complete disaster.
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>if it flops

I wish. The arrogance would be wiped off Snyder's face. But of course it won't happen. It's batman and superman, for fuck's sake. There is even Wonder Woman for the chicks. And all the clueless parents taking their kids expecting a kiddy movie.

It will make buckets of money, but unfortunately it would indeed be much better for us fans if it somehow flopped. They would actually be forced to rethink their strategy and stop riding on Nolan's dick thinking that everything has to be as dark and colorless as possible.

That thing about investor take-over and another reboot is bullshit. They won't reboot. They might make a soft reboot, which is just changing the people behind the cameras and going lighter and more colorful instead of the shitty Snyder grimdark but they won't recast. That'd be insane. And for fuck's sake, GET RID OF GOYER.
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>>81023489
Wouldn't surprise me if Aquaman, Cyborg and GLC were cut. Especially Cyborg and GLC.

I'm expecting Affleck to get another shot at Bats and I'm betting he'll get a 3 movie deal. Probably even as director.

MOS2 will probably still happen, but it's going to have a massive budget cut. Which could actually be interesting. It would force the production staff to be creative and not just give into CGI porn.
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>>81023489
>rewriting a movie that's already finished filming
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>>81023700
Hahahaha. Have they not seen the trailers? I swear people think Singer directed First Class so they all think it's going to be like that film.
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>>81023489
>WB execs are shitting their pants. If [Batman V Superman] makes less than a billion, [Zack] Snyder is out and Justice League will be delayed 8 months.
>if BvS makes less than a billion
Come on, of course it will make 1 billion. They should still fire Hack Snyder, should've never been put in charge of the DCEU.
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>>81023489
>Aquaman, Cyborg, and Green Lantern Corps. are all on the chopping block
Hal Jordan can be on CW Flash now!
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I'll take "Things That Didn't Happen for $1000," please.
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>>81023803
No way they will they cut out their black superhero these days.
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>>81023489
>David Yates, Louis Letterier
jesus fucking christ, are they incapable of hiring someone good?
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>>81023489
Shit Im a Marvelfag, but after Fury Road I would be hyped as fuck for a Miller directed Justice League.

Its up to you DCfriends, don't spend money on this movie.
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>>81023489
The funny part is that they're blaming everyone but themselves.


You know what killed this movie? Design by committee. Meddling. Compromises. Accelerated timetables. Focus groups. Test screenings.
Now it's blown up in their faces and they're panicking. A fucking laugh and a half, mates. A fucking laugh and a half.


Before some anon responds that MCU films are also controlled top-down by marvel studios... the difference is that Marvel studios was started by people who knew and worked in and gave a shit about comic books. Marvel was an outsider when they bought back movie rights to their properties, they were *not* Hollywood establishment. And at the end of the day, their creative decisions didn't come from some committee of Hollywood execs -- they came Kevin fucking Feige.

Warner Brothers can try to blame Snyder if they want. Hell, /co/ can try to blame Snyder. But at the end of the day, this cynical pandering mess of a movie is the responsibility of Warner Brothers. This is what happens when executives try to construct a film on paper and stuff it with tons of money and 'all the right talent' without having and fucking vision beyond hopping on a bandwagon and putting out something to compete for market share.
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>>81023929
WB only hires WB directors.

Imagine a JL movie directed by Brad Bird.
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>>81023971
Well we still have Rebirth announcements, might be good.
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>>81023929
The problem is that I'm not sure anyone good would want to be associated with the DCEU after BVS.
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>>81023962
But Fury Road was its own thing. Miller knows nothing about comic books. He is not a fan. Fury Road was Fury Road. Do you think a JL movie would be like Fury Road? You can't be serious.
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>>81023489
>Wonder Woman is undergoing major rewrites to be more of a standalone film
NO, you MORONS! It can be a standalone (hero fights one baddie for the span of the movie), but slide in tidbits of the larger universe! Do they have literal mentally handicapped people in the executive seats?
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In my head, the WB offices are like Spongebob's head in the FINE DINING AND BREATHING episode
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>>81023972
>Design by committee. Meddling. Compromises. Accelerated timetables. Focus groups. Test screenings.
History fucking repeats itself.
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How ironic.
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>>81024022
>Do they have literal mentally handicapped people in the executive seats?
They think muh 2deep4you and angst are the way to go because of one semi decent Nolan movie that made money because a main actor died. You tell me anon
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>>81024017
Didnt Miller want to direct a Justice League film years ago? So I would say he has to be at least a bit of a fan.

Also had a good directing record and is a very good at using the visual medium to tell a story, unlike Snyder.
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>>81024092

Reminder they literally said after Green Lantern flopped "We'll fix it by making the sequel darker and edgier."
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>>81023797
I don't think it will "flop" but the question is whether it will make a billion. This movie, with the two biggest heroes to ever exist, needs to make Avengers money. Hell, it needs to make Iron Man 3 money. Anything less would be a disappointment to everyone involved

Look at ASM2. That didn't bomb at all but it's reception and lower-than-expected returns caused Sony to share with Marvel
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Are there any pictures of Batman shitting his pants yet?
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>>81023972
"After all we're making a COMIC BOOK movie! lol!"
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>>81023489
Damn me and my friends have tickets already... I will try to convince them that the movie is garbage and that we should just gather around to drink and watch Netflix or something.

Fuck Snyder.
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>WB right now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrQcNwsjVEQ
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>Wonder Woman is undergoing major rewrites to be more of a standalone film.

but they already finished filming the movie last week
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well I guess they are going to have to kill jesse eisenberg
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It's a shame, their animated movies are on par with live action marvel ones, how do they keep fucking it up ?
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>>81023972
>You know what killed this movie? Design by committee. Meddling. Compromises. Accelerated timetables. Focus groups. Test screenings.
>Now it's blown up in their faces and they're panicking. A fucking laugh and a half, mates. A fucking laugh and a half.
While I agree that all those things are bad I'm a little bothered that you don't seem to include "hiring a bad director" in that list.
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>>81024022
WW has already finished filming aost all their shit. You really think they waste movie by scrapping and restarting when the real decider,the box office , isn't even out.
>oh no some critics didn't like it
>but the fans loved it
>who cares about the fans, we need to pander to a bunch of ppl who saw it for free
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>>81023584
He would never do it, he is above capeshit, His Batman movies were more crime dramas than real superheroes movies. And they were great
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Was that rumor about WB announcing BvS on Comic Con just three days after deciding to make the movie true?

After MoS's disappointment, critically and financially, they decided to add Batman in the movie three days before announcing it at Comic Con. At least that's what the rumor was about.
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>>81024180
>It's a shame, their animated movies are on par with live action marvel ones,
They've been getting shittier though
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>>81024200
they're probably just going to cut out all of the EU wank in it to make it a standalone film
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>>81024099
He wanted to adapt the OMAC series....it wasn't a very good script.
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>>81024170
>implying reshoots aren't a thing
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>>81023489
>install a board that will order the universe to be rebooted."
should have fucking done that in the fucking first place. god damn they are incompetent.
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>>81023489
I just read a quote from that Zack Snyder interview about Star Wars

>There’s a fun conversation — we filmed it, it’s not in the cut — but there’s a conversation when [Superman] saves the girl from the garment factory, we had a line where a guy goes, but now all the garment factory owners, they’re not concerned with safety because they just figure Superman will show up to save them if the building catches on fire. It’s sort of a catch-22 to being the ex machina, being the hand of God: the hand of God can’t be everywhere the same time. You’re headed for a fall.

>but now all the garment factory owners, they're not concerned with safety because they just figure Superman will show up to save them if the building catches on fire
>this line was originally in the film
this guy doesn't get Superman or comics at all
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>>81024185
>You know what killed this movie? Design by committee. Meddling. Compromises. Accelerated timetables. Focus groups. Test screenings.
>Now it's blown up in their faces and they're panicking. A fucking

Zack Snyder is surely a bad director. But even the shittiest of shitty summer blockbuster directors is capable of making something watchable given the right conditions.

Case and point: michael fucking bay
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>>81024034
I can see it.
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>>81024225
Snyder was scheming for months to get Batman. Little worm.
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>>81024237
So 75% of the movie? P
I'm not understanding what your saying.
WW from the looks of it is stand alone. You won't need to watch BvS to get this movie.
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Do you guys think that by this time next year there will be a BvS fan edit that is better than the theatrical cut?

I can totally see how they can mix MoS with BvS to a movie that is way more fun to watch. You can actually combine the metropolis fight in the building with heat-vision Zod with the opening scene with Bruce Wayne driving around the city.
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>>81024170
Its almost like OP is clickbait...but that can't be, everybody knows /co/ likes DC and wants this movie to do well...
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>>81024310
>fan edit that is better than the theatrical cut
Just like my Hobbit trilogy tbqh
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>>81023489
DC being sold to Marvel when?
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>>81024277
Why not? What's wrong?
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> Fresh: 35
>Rotten: 51

It feels like every time the Fresh meter gets 1 positive, it goes up 2 negative
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>"Investors are planning a major takeover if [Batman V Superman] flops and have plans to install a board that will order the universe to be rebooted."

I'm imaging the investors as Greek Gods warping reality to make this franchise happen.
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>>81024277
>“I was surprised with the fervency of the defense of the concept of Superman,” said Snyder. “I feel like they were taking it personally that I was trying to grow up their character.” Snyder also recalled being told that his film had more collateral damage than any other movie in recent memory, which was a claim that surprised him.

>“I went, really? And I said, well, what about ['Star Wars: The Force Awakens']?” said Snyder. “In ‘Star Wars’ they destroy five planets with billions of people on them. That’s gotta be one of the highest death toll movies in history, the new ‘Star Wars’ movie, if you just do the math.”

http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/zack-snyder-says-he-tried-grow-up-superman-man-steel
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>>81024310
If it's anything like Man of Steel (and it sounds like it is in the worst way) it'd require new scenes to be shot. You can't edit down a movie that's lacking, you need new raw material to work with.
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>>81023542
>NOBODY WATCH THE MOVIE. THAT WAY THEY CAN REBOOT IT AGAIN AND AGAIN UNTIL THEY GET IT RIGHT
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>>81024363
>“I feel like they were taking it personally that I was trying to grow up their character.”
Snyder's definition of a grown up seems to consist of 50% bitch, 50% assohole.
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Anyone else feel like the critics are being overly harsh to DC over this?

I can't count the number of reviews I've seen that claim "the movie isn't as fun as Marvel stuff" or "marvel movies flow better".

Phase 2 has been stale as FUCK. What the hell are the critics comparing things to?
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>>81024363
Seriously, how out of fucking touch is this guy?

Do you think he even realizes that's not even a good comparison or what?
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>>81023489
Mamoa is perfect for Lobo, how could've they fucked up so badly?
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>>81024411
Listen double dubs, that'd be a good thing.
You can't just keep adding ingredients hoping it'll even out indefinitely. Sometimes you just gotta throw out the batter and make some fresh.
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>>81024363
>comparing a franchise on a universal scale
>to something that's barely on a planetary scale
He's a fucking idiot allright
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>>81024423
IM3 wasn't amazing but not shit
Thor 2 was shit
TWS was GOAT Marvel
GotG was the success absolutely nobody predicted
AoU was a disappointment but led to them kicking out Wheedon so hope remained that marvel would learn for their mistakes
Ant-Man was perfectly okay

Better track record I'd say
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>>81024363
>>“I went, really? And I said, well, what about ['Star Wars: The Force Awakens']?” said Snyder. “In ‘Star Wars’ they destroy five planets with billions of people on them. That’s gotta be one of the highest death toll movies in history, the new ‘Star Wars’ movie, if you just do the math.”

Seeing the damage inflicted firsthand and then watching dull planets blow up are two entirely different things. It's really disturbing to hear a director of a visual medium say this.
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Oh fucking joy. I remember reading that Time Warner hasn't been doing so well financially. If this movie really does bomb, I guess it'll go up for sale and get acquired a by Chinese company or some shit.
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>>81024347
The lower the better.
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>>81024423
No. WB are the fucking devil. Disney may have neutered Marvel but at least Marvel movies are for the most part being made by people that actually read and enjoy comics.
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>>81024383
That is a good point, but according to most critics the movie is bloated, not lacking. If you take the good parts and cut away all the crap and add a few scenes from MoS it might make it better.
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>>81024164
>not going and deciding for yourself
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>>81023489
Executives care about money and not ratings right?

Nothing to worry about. The article is trying to equate critic scores with success to induce fear.
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>>81024213
Well the first one felt very Batman to me. It the next two that felt more crime dramas.
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>>81024461
This ain't Amazing Spiderman, bitch.

And let's at least let majority see it before burning it all for the insurance money.
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>>81023807
>what are reshoots
stupid trip poster
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>>81024423
I know this is going to fall on deaf ears but you don't actually need to compare movies to anything but themselves in order to say "This was boring." or "This was flashy and noisy, but not actually entertaining". Even the "This isn't as fun" isn't as in comparison to Marvel or as meaningless as your memes have declared it to be. many times It's saying that for all the pomp and circumstance the movie has, it lacks the character weight to invest the viewer.

Snyder's movies in general have ALWAYS had these problems. They look good when you take out of context screenshots, and scenes, and sure, that means you can do a nice little copypasta about how it's got such great cinematography and every frame is a painting and it's pure capekino, but looking good isn't all it takes to actually be a good movie.
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>>81024516
They mostly care about money but ratings also play a part if the money doesn't make up for it.
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Man, I didn't have any expectations for this movie, but I didn't actually expect it to bomb this hard review wise.

Probably the biggest surprise of the year so far. I'm curious how it will do at the box office and if the bad word of mouth will affect it.
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Do people really believe this is real or is this ironic shitposting?
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>>81024331
This reminds of a rumor that Disney was going to buy DC a while back.
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>>81024508
I don't want Snyder to keep shitting up the DC movies, I would take watching this movie later when the BD can be pirated if it meant that WB kick out Snyder.
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IT WAS JUST A PRANK

PLEASE TELL ME IT WAS JUST A PRANK
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>>81024423
Marvel stablished their character first. DC for some reason wants to make JL NOW. RIGHT. NOW. For some reason. They own DC, so it's not like they are going to lose the rights or something. But nope. They want it NOW. Fuck character development, audience getting familiarized with your characters, story-telling, etc. Fuck that shit. Let's throw everything together on screen NOW.
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>>81024561
Aren't there laws against monopolization?
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>>81023489
>"Chris Nolan is being courted as a producer and George Miller, David Yates, Louis Letterier, and Vincenzo Natali are all being courted to take over Justice League."
>"Investors are planning a major takeover if [Batman V Superman] flops and have plans to install a board that will order the universe to be rebooted."
This is contradictory information
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>>81024499
>That is a good point, but according to most critics the movie is bloated, not lacking.
Is that what you took away? Because what I've been seeing is both (which is possible).

For example, I just finished watching a review that says that the movie has a lot on Batman's motivations and characterization, but Luthor (who impacts a hell of a lot of the plot) seems to be doing stuff just for shits and giggles. That Clark's characterization is carried over from the last movie (where it was also lacking) and doesn't grow or develop. And that, most tellingly, the two guys never actually just TALK about their differences to each other. They talk about it to their supporting cast team mates (Alfred/Lois).

How do you edit that to work? You need new scenes.
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>>81024561
They really should.
Just keep Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash and Green Lantern and ditch the rest of the D-listers that make up DC.
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>>81023489
Fake as fuck, do you really think they didn't know that?
It's like they sat with Michael Bay and were like "If your movie gets bad reviews you're out of transformers"

I don't know if they're going to care about reviews, i just want Snyder to stay as a producer and George Miller to direct it Justice League. I mean, Snyder gave us the best costumes ever, he has a vision for comic books but fails at storytelling.
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>>81024331
Never.

WB owns DC comics. They'd never sell away all of those IPs to another company.
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>>81024568
Forgive our director

We taught him how to make movies wrong

As a joke
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>>81024587
I don't it can be considered monopolizing, though.
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>Lois Lane says stuff like, “I’m not a lady, I’m a journalist” and has stuff said to her like, “[In the men’s bathroom] You know, with balls like this, you belong in here.”

As if /co/ needed more reasons to get triggered by this movie.
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>>81024423
>phase 2 had been stale as fuck
Both phases have been made up of several mediocre movies with one or two great ones so far. but that's still a better track record than the DCEU
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While it's sad that the movie is getting blasted it's just another example that WB can't manage their intellectual properties well and people should expect that, but I would also like to say that before competent people were put in charge of marvel movies the only good movies they really had under there belt were Spiderman 1 and 2 and the first X Men movie some like the first Punisher and Blade movies are arguable, it's DCs turn now to stumble, just hope they get some actual people who can think before they burn the place down.
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What happened to the guy who directed this? He can't be the same guy who did Sucker Punch, Man Of Steel and now Batman v Superman, right?

When did the promising Snyder die and why/how?
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/co/, how do you fix this if you're Warner Bros.?
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>>81023489

Don't I wish.
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>>81024784
When CGI came
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>>81024543
b-b-b-b-but Marvel is worse!
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'Moovie' news?

The cows are learning...
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>>81024751
thats because they DC never focused on making more DC movies till nolans batman and Marvels sudden outpour of movies. if Marvel didn't make start making a ton of movies and hadn't been bought by Disney, they probably would have stuck to the formula of making a batman or superman remake every couple years.
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>>81024340
He's implying that the garment factory owners that had had their factory burn down and their workers saved by Superman will just remove all safety measures in future because Superman will just save them whenever. As if Superman has planetary spider-sense and just appears wherever someone is about to get hurt. Even Injustice Superman wouldn't go that far.

I mean the usual criticism of superheroes is that by glorifying violence they end up creating their own supervillains and endangering people. Another criticism is that they can't defeat human nature (see Watchmen). Those are pretty understandable criticisms.

Snyder is saying that his criticism is that superheroes will be so damn good at their job that either people will stop looking after themselves or that private companies will use it as an excuse to let people chop their fingers off in the workplace or something. Which is fucking bizarre. The point that I'm really trying to make, though, is that people put time and effort into filming that scene without thinking 'hold on, this is retarded.' Even further, though it didn't make the final cut, Snyder genuinely thinks it was a good scene.
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>>81024788
Fire Snyder, for one.

Get people who really care about these characters/comic books to oversee the DCEU. Someone who also knows what they're doing. Say what you want about Kevin Feige, but he's a great businessman and does care about the properties. DC having guys like Goyer that go "haha, Martian Manhunter is for virgins!" working on their movies is a pretty big red flag.
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>>81024549
Same. Between Affleck, Terrio, how long they've been supposedly sitting on the finished product, and WW being green-lit so early, I thought someone at WB would've noticed if it was a movie that wouldn't at least hit 60-70%.
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>>81024784
If Zack Snyder wants to direct The Fountainhead, he's probably an Objectivist. It figures he doesn't understand superheroes.
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>>81024279

The Rock was legit great.

Great action and acting.

Ed Harris and Tony Todd in particular give fantastic performances.
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>>81024582
>4 movies before JL
>Rushing
Never mind the JL has been in a number of media that casuals can tell who's who.
We don't need a standalone movie line up to a team up movie. Plenty of ensemble have down well without them.

Because Hawkeye's cameo in Thor made us care for him so much before Avengers. And his stand aline preoared us for tge farm scenes in AoU. We can make someone care about a character within the team up movie.
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>>81024788
I steal a few millions and leave for the Bahamas.
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>>81024788
>sell the rights to Disney
>Avengers vs. Justice League movie in 2024
>make approximately 10 fucktillion dollars
Go ahead, try to poke a hole in this plan.
I've invented a machine that prints money.
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>>81024784
he got married after DotD
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>B-but Moviebobo said it's bad, so it has to be good. R-right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTKDtoBR-2M

The Marvel wanking is pathetic. He can't come up with a criticism without licking good ol' marvel.
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>>81024543
>it lacks the character weight to invest the viewer.


Because his script has no character beats beyond

>RARGH I AM ANGSTY


Snyder has never made a Character-based movie. Fucking hell, he's never even written a worthwhile script.

Before he became a action sequence monkey for hire, he made his name by doing shot-for-shot adaptations of other people's work... and he wasn't even the first guy to do it.

Robert Rodriguiez's Sin City did everything that Watchmen or 300 did, but did it first, and did it better.


So besides, being a knockoff director that gets brought in to copy other people's style and blow up landmarks, he also has the dramatic instincts of a 14 year old boy.


If there's any director that needs to be clubbed into submission by a competent writer, it's Zack Fucking Snyder.


He should team up with kevin smith. Maybe they can make up for each others lopsided incompetence.
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>>81024180
The last few Batman animated films have sorta been copy-paste storylines.

Under the Red Hood and Son of Batman are almost the exact same fucking story.
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>>81024784
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>>81024277
There you go. Zack Snyder confirmed for Ayn Rand fanboy.
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>>81023489
GET GEORGE MILLER FOR FUCKS SAKE
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>>81024788
I suppose I'd "reboot" it, but I wouldn't make new origin stories for Batman or Superman. I might make a Year One type movie for Batman, come to think of it; it'd be pretty hard to convince the WB execs to kickstart the universe with a spearhead that isn't their top two guys. I'd prefer not to though. Give standalone movies to WW, Green Lantern, Flash, etc. Have that build up to the Justice League movie where Batman and Superman will appear.
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>>81024857
DC should never have tried a shared universe. It's a formula that relies exclusively on hype and the marketing for both MoS and BvS was garbage
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>>81024942
They don't even need to sell the rights for that. Just do a collaboration like Sony did with Spiderman.
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>>81023972
>Accelerated timetables

???

They had 3 years between this movie and the last.
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>>81024942
>sell the rights to Disney
>make approximately 10 fucktillion dollars
>THAT WARNER BROTHERS WON'T SEE BECAUSE THEY RETARDEDLY SOLD THE RIGHTS
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>>81025014
Marketing for MoS was pretty good though, those trailers were god-tier.

I don't know what happened with BvS, second trailer was particularly awful.
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>>81024942
>Go ahead, try to poke a hole in this plan.
Only flaw is that WB wouldn't get any money out of it.
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>"Investors are planning a major takeover if [Batman V Superman] flops and have plans to install a board that will order the universe to be rebooted."

Good.
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>>81024989
FUCK NO!
Keep George Miller out of this cancerous mess.
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>>81024886
Really, it speaks to the incompetence of WB as a studio more than anything.
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>>81024524
>Begins
Very Batman-y with elements of crime drama, but Batman comics themselves have crime drama in them so it's just Batman-y I guess. Also has elements of whatever genre has far-east ninjas and mountains and shit, also present in Batman comics whenever Ra's is around. Overall, pretty faithful.

>The Dark Knight
Still Batman-y as fuck, but more emphasis on the crime drama elements, because of the focus on Dent and Dawes and the GCPD. Just slightly less superheroy than Begins, but it makes it really distinct from most cape films. Still really faithful.

>The Dark Knight Rises
Feels like he's hardly Batman in it at all and is mostly Bruce Wayne. Toward the end, the action actually takes place during the day, so non-Batman. Bane feels more like a Bond villain than a Batman villain, first being seen in what's probably some Eastern European place (does Eastern Europe even exist in Batman comics? SO NOT BATMAN-Y). Not a lot of the Batman-y elements (Batsignal, Batmobile, etc). Doesn't really feel like a crime drama either, more like this kind of different take on a disaster film mixed with a Rocky film where he gets back up after being beat or something.
Overall, not very Batman-y at all. But I don't give a shit because I think Nolan at this point was allowed to do his own spin on things because he was capping off Batman's character arc and ending the legend in the way he saw fit. You have to do shit non-Batman-y to do new shit. So many staples of Batman today were at one point not.
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>>81025082

That's nothing new. The only movie studio that's a bigger fuck up than WB these days is Sony.
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>Green Lantern Corps is on the chopping block

M-maybe next time
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>>81024942
The fad on cape movies could be over by 2024
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>>81024549
Yeah, I didn't think it would be a good movie at all, but if reviewers eat up stuff like Avengers, I thought BvS couldn't do a whole lot worse.

This isn't a Company Wars thing, so nobody dare start that shit with me, I won't respond. I'm just saying, I thought MoS was mediocre, but in the same league as movies like The Incredible Hulk and The Avengers.
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>>81025055
With BvS they had to try and have it both ways. A trailer to convince MoS fans that it was still the same tone, and a second trailer to convince everyone that didn't like MoS that it would be changed to suit their tastes.

This movie never had a chance. It had to be damage control and sequel hooks AND still have time left over to explore the ideological differences between the characters. And even ignoring the fact that the director has never been good with the third, it's really obvious that the studio would be more concerned with the first two.,.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WChTqYlDjtI

But seriously though, I haven't seen the film yet and I'll reserve judgment until I do. I'm looking forward to it with cautious optimism. I don't see how people are actually arguing about whether this movie is good or horrible if they haven't watched it yet.

How are you guys shitposting without having seen the film...OH WAIT...
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>>81024784
While fun, it was a remake inferior to the original.

This pretty much confirms what most people say about Snyder: he's best when adapting or remaking an existing work.

If the story and character beats and concept are all already there, he's able to lift those thing and shoot them with style.

What he's not good at is creating anything original, ever... not even a pastiche.

Ironically, Sarah Polley went on to direct and write critically acclaimed dramas.
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>>81024539
Its already pretty stand alone what more can you do?
Its not setting up anything on par with Cap1 which set up Hydra, the tesseacrt, Bucky, and Cap for starters.
So how can you make it more standalone than what its already is?
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>>81024971
>UTRH and SoB were the almost identical
No they weren't...
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36 years later, and we still haven't gotten another good Superman movie.
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>>81025171
>I don't see how people are actually arguing about whether this movie is good or horrible if they haven't watched it yet.

We have people argue about comics being shit despite not reading them, lets not change a winning formula.
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The only way WB can get me to care about the DCEU is to cut ties with Snyder.

After seeing BVS I'm done. I won't see another DCEU movie until Snyder is gone.
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>>81024549
I ran a strawpoll on /tv/ before all of the reviews came out (full disclosure: it was after two rotten reviews had come out) trying to get people to predict what the final tomatometer would be. It seemed to me most people voted between 60 and 79. And you gotta take into account that /tv/ is probably going to have a lower opinion than the general pop. I'm astounded it's this low.
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>>81025135
GL is DC's F4 in terms of bullying isn't it?
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>>81025055
Personally MoS's trailers did nothing for me.
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>>81023972
>muh Marvel can literally do no wrong
next time let go of their dick before typing
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>>81025079
This.

Please don't ruin Miller, he's too good for this shit.
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>>81025095
>implying Batman wouldn't operate in the daytime if Gotham was in a crisis like it was in TDKR
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>>81025171
>that gif


ALL I WANT IS A GOLDEN AGE SUPERMAN MOVIE SET IN 1930S SCI-FI METROPOLIS THAT LOOKS LIKE THE MAX FLEISHER CARTOONS
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>>81025153
I've yet to see a cape movie that gave me as much joy as Avengers did when I first saw it. TWS is actually my favorite MCU movie, but seeing Avengers for the first time on screen is a whole other thing. Don't get me wrong, in hindsight and on rewatches it's pretty mediocre, but fuck me if it wasn't a great experience the first time I saw it in cinemas. For what it tried to acomplish, I'd say Avengers is one of the better cape movies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXPJ6xFvdWk
The footage of people in NY wearing Iron Man shirts and holding Captain America shields left me with a big smile on my face.
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>>81025217
That's the goddamn problem with this place. No one looks at the source material before giving an opinion. I wouldn't mind disagreeable opinions if they were formed after reading or watching. At least they'd be informed. This shit that has been going on since last night is ridiculous. There is no need for more than 2 of these threads to be up, but now we have around 12.

Holy shit, how about we watch the movie first.
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>>81023815
Or maybe BvS is really that bad?
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>>81024423
If you make a superhero movie it's going to be compared to other films in the same genre. Period. Deal with it.
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>>81025314

>WB will never decide to scrap all their live action DC projects and start work on a series of animated films
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>>81023972
Snyder is a terrible director who has literally never made a good film. He is an objectivist who is incapable of representing Superman well as a character. I'm not saying you are wrong but:
>bad director
>bad writer
>lead actor given far too much control over a project, including overseeing a rewrite
It's not just a committee thing.
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>>81023815
Maybe it is because people saw X-Men, X2, and DoFP???
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>>81024508
>spending 8 dollars and 152 minutes on something that could be really terrible
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>>81025352
Shit son, if they just put fucking New Frontier on the screen, that'd be a perfect Justice League opener. It'd also put the spotlight on my husbando Hal
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>Tfw nobody believed me when I said the Superman TAS special would be better than this.
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>>81025171
Underrated post
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I think that the whole capeshit (botch DCEU and MCU) industry should be burn to the ground ,It doesn't even generate new readers it just make Disney and WB have a couple more of billions in their pockets
Iñarritu is right capeshit is trash and it doesn't do justice to the comics.
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>>81025383
New Frontier really would be a fantastic way to do a JL live action movie.

Too bad it's a period piece, and WB wants to make superheroes modern and relevant through gritty faux-realism.
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>This clickbait thread
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>>81024423
Yep
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>>81023542
i wasnt going to anyway
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>>81025400
Yes and all it does is ruin the comics too
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>>81025314
>Golden age justice league

>Shazam and all the shazam family

>Superman deflecting meteors before breaking for lunch to receive a parade and a medal

>Wonder woman fightin nazis

>Batman fighting tommy-gun weilding gangsters

>Rocket ships with pointy fins
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>>81025420

Isn't WW set during WWI?
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>>81025171
we're not arguing whether it's good or horrible. Reviews are a thing and so is public opinion. Whether you personally liked the movie will have no effect on the future of the DCEU
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>>81025462
>Snyder talked shit about this guys movie
>Still sticks up for him

Damn, what a swell guy.
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>>81025400
Oh shut up, the Revenant had one of the shittiest, most idiotic conclusions imaginable.
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>>81025462
the writer of the worst MCU movie has no axe to grind against critics? Mmkay
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>>81025400
Nah fuck you, there are still some cape movies that I enjoy. Sure a lot of them are mediocre, but many are still enjoyable.

Just because a movie you anticipated bombed critically doesn't mean everything needs to burn down.
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>>81025528
He didn't write IM3 though
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>>81023807
>>rewriting a movie that's already finished filming


you know...
now they talking a reboot
or a recast
a new actress to play wondeeeer womaaaan
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>>81025382
>being afraid of taking the same gamble everyone makes whenever they go to the movies
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>>81025420
>>81025383
Honestly, you could modernise the central plot beats and characterizations present in The New Frontier easily, especially because you'd have more than 75 minutes.
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>>81025524
I see your Revenant and raise my Biutiful
>>81025545
I don't mean that all the cape movies are bad I mean that the capeshit industry has been really bad when it comes to quality for the last 5 years.
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What other directors primarily make movies for Warner. Other than the ones listed in OP, all I can think of is Alphonso Cuaron.
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>>81023489
>"Investors are planning a major takeover if [Batman V Superman] flops and have plans to install a board that will order the universe to be rebooted."
Wait, investors can do that? Like take over a company and put people they want in there? The fuck?
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>>81025462
>writer of Thor 2

but thats false, he wrote Thor 1 and X-Men: First Class
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>>81024582
You know, if they wanted to do that, they could make a standalone Justice League film pretty easily.

It's 7 characters, 3 of which are cultural icons. You can establish all those in the space of a single film no problem.
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>>81024784
>remake
>zombie horror
>some other third thing

He was never promising.
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you know what the worst case scenario would be? If I went to see the movie tomorrow and I actually really dug it. Then I'd just see chaos reign supreme because they pumped out a movie I thought was good.
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>>81024163


If Warner thinks about firing someone
They can start with that bitch!
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>on /co/
>where "comic book fans" post
>shitting it up with pre-reviews of BvS
>laughing and happy that it's getting shit on
>not being sad or buttmad that this is happening

You're either
1) MAHVELshill
2) you don't like capeshit

And I don't care if don't like capeshit, because most, if not all of you started your love for comics BECAUSE of capeshit. These are the two most iconic characters in the history of comics, and I believe it transcends to other media as well. Literally everyone knows Batman and Superman.

Pretty bummed out 2bh, but I'm still gonna watch it cause RT has always been ass, and I don't allow reviews to judge what I like and don't like.

And I also want to blame Mahvel, because before them, Nolan had made it okay for grimdark superhero movies, well at least Batman. After Mahvel, everyone now expects a light tone, super fight type movie that throws in jokes every so often. Fuck that shit.
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>>81025684
it's just the biggest baby response to criticism ever. The director for that Egyptian god movie did the same thing recently. "You don't like X because you decided before you saw X that you hated it!" Fuck off, make a good product and stop making excuses.
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>>81024170


a recast could be a great idea
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>>81025362
shhh, you cannot convince the snyderfag

its him against the world
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>>81025694
>some other 3rd thing
Is that a Cracked TV reference?
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>>81023542
We really won't get better films. We'll get equally bad films with new directorial names attached, or we'll just get no films at all.
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>>81025400
I sort of agree. It's an aggressively oversaturated market at this point and most of the movies aren't even that good once the novelty has worn off.

also tv will always be the better choice of platform for adapting cape comics
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>>81023489
>TFW I want BvS to do well
>But if it fails we might get Miller
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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>>81025755
But did do that. They turned out to be right but they had a hate against the movie for a number of reasons.
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>>81025751
I don't see it that way but we could just settle it in strawpoll

http://strawpoll.me/7164478
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>>81025673
Sure. Investors own the company. Execs work at their behest.

It's not necessarily easy, depending on a corporation's structure.
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>>81024788
Scrap it all and make it a 3D animated universe aimed at selling as much merchandise as possible, and see if Dave Filoni is willing to switch sides to direct a few of them. Poach more people from Disney and promote people from within the WB/DC cartoon studios. Bright, rich colours similar to Big Hero 6, the Incredibles etc. Give Geoff Johns and Grant Morrison big writing positions.

Meanwhile Ben Affleck makes his Batman trilogy.

The first wave of films would be
>the Curse of Shazam!
>the Green Lantern
>Wonder Woman
and Superman would make cameos in each one

I don't think it'd make them as much money as what they're doing now but if they aimed for Frozen-level merch sales they could make a killing
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>>81025673

Look up Disney some time.
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>>81023633
The funny thing is he was one of the five directors on the short list for MoS, and while easily the most talented, his pitch was basically what if Superman was like Dr. Manhattan.

Snyder was the only one with a pitch that resembled classic Superman, so he got the job and we've all been suffering since.
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>>81023797
>here is even Wonder Woman for the chicks

Women hate wonder woman though, the same way normal women hate cheerleaders.
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>Taking RT reviews seriously

I didn't go see F4ntastic cause I saw the trailers and they were awful, not cause some hipster critic from LA hated it.

What happened to people forming their own opinions? Did you not watch Birdman to know that critics write rave reviews based on their own premeditated beliefs to make a movie tank if they willed it?
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>>81025885
>The Green Lantern

As much as I'd love to see it, he should be a headliner. He needs to show up somewhere else preferably the Flash or something and work his way from there. People still have a bad taste in their mouth from the movie.
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>>81025847
Just don't buy a ticket then.
If you wanna see it in theaters sneak in or wait for a decent camrip to appear.
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>>81025856
I don't believe it for a second. Even if it were true, which it's not, the onus is on the filmmaker to make a movie that can't be hated.
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>>81025673
Do you not understand how a publicly traded company works??? The company *is* the investors. The executives are just employees hired by shareholders to manage business. Often they'll get shares as well, to ensure that they give a damn, but they generally don't own enough to make a difference if they get voted out.
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>>81024981
based as fuck Roger
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>>81025916
This. I'm kind of a DCkek or whatever so my opinion probably doesn't matter, but I don't understand the obsession with RT scores. I mean fucking Superman Returns and the Dark Knight Rises had a good RT score.
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>>81025916
I saw the trailers for BvS and they were awful. Just as bad as the F4ntastic trailers.

The reviews confirm all of my suspicions.
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>believing moovies

I mean none of this is unlikely (besides the WW rewrites when it's already wrapped shooting), just lol
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>>81025382
No one's stopping you from walking out
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>>81024730
From what I remember, she just said "I'm a journalist" not the lady party
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I'm going to boycott the fucking hell out of this movie? Who's with me?
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>>81025941
I've seen it, most came from having white people as Egyptian gods and the fact these myth based movies don't do very well at least the last couple haven't.
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>>81025874
Posts on different threads for the past two days say otherwise anonkun
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>>81025970
nah I don't agree with that opinion at all. I hate trailers, I want to go into a movie knowing as little as possible. But how am I supposed to know which movies to see? Boom, a review aggregator site like RT is a god-send.
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>>81025751
Why cant I be laughing at how funny fanboys reactions are, but crying on the inside because I wanted this to be good at the same time?
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>>81025898
>his pitch was basically what if Superman was like Dr. Manhattan.
That sounds horrible
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>>81025916
I've been very skeptical of the movie since seeing the trailers. The reviews do not help.
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>>81025798
Spongebob.
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>>81026063
that's about where I'm at. Throw in the morbid curiosity about what WB is going to do now that they've apparently built 10 years worth of properties on bad foundation.
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>>81025751
Or
3) I don't like Snyder and wish he would get away from DC so they could get a better director
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>>81025751
I'm laughing because I FUCKING CALLED IT.

The second I saw the trailer for MoS, I knew it was garbage.

The second I heard that Snyder was behind BvS, I gave up.

I can't even begin to care anymore, but I take satisfaction in being able to call it.
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>>81025206
Christopher Reeves was a great Superman/Clark, but the movies weren't good.
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You guys know it's all fake right?
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>>81026047
But anon, you're a person, not a critic. WHy wouldn't you see a movie based on what people liked?
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>>81024543
Snyder movies are like looking at the sun. It looks really cool in small doses but hurts your head and is more painful the longer you watch.
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>>81024665
People said Lucas would never sell star wars too
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>>81026166
because I can't see every movie in the world. There are certain movies I will always see regardless of critical response like this one, but the for the vast majority of movies I factor in critical response significantly into whether I'm going to see it.
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>>81025653
At least the symbolism of Biutiful was kinda subtle compared to that shitty Oscarbait Bear-rape movie.

>Hurr Durr be visually born 7 times over the course of the movie! So artsy! Nobody's going to notice this shit!
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>>81025916
I'm not exactly glowing toward BvS' trailers either
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>>81025945
>>81025673
>>81025882
>>81025887

The hilarious part is that you people think investors would throw out the entire fucking board of Time Warner just because of a fuck-up at Warner Bros., their box office/film division. You do realize that the vast majority of revenue for Warner comes from Turner, their cable network division, right?
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>>81025916

>what happened to forming your own opinion?
>didnt you learn your opinion from birdman like me?
>stop forming your own opinion on the validity of reviews and share my opinion, which I got from a film
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>>81024137
Meanwhile at Disney
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>>81025971
>Just as bad as the F4ntastic trailers.

Bullshit, BvS never had this
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>>81023584
Yeah, to produce.
I was optimistic about this movie but come on... look at the RT scores, look at his track record, look at the spoilers.
Less than 40% is unacceptable, he has made 1 good movie and the spoilers? Jesus.

You know what the worst part is? They had an excellent director ON PAYROLL. Ben Affleck (love him or hate him) is an excellent director who loves the characters.

I guarantee most of us know these characters better than Snyder. I have no problem with Superman killing as a last resort. I don't love it but whatever.

It needs to be retooled. Look at Fox. After X-Men 3 and Origins flopped they learned you can't just rely on name brand recognition. First Class, Wolverine, DoFP and Deadpool have all been at the very least solid both with critics and at the BO.

IMO- here's what they need to do.

Fire Zack Snyder out of a catapult

Push JL

Get Affleck to direct a Batman movie.

Get Miller to do Superman.

Get someone competent for Shazam (it has The Rock in it so it'll make money) make it clearly lighthearted and FUN.

Fucking push back Flash until Lord and Miller agree to write and direct.

Get Duncan Jones on for GLC. Throw money at Elba until he agrees to be John Stewart.

They should have got Coogler for Cyborg but they didn't so make it a Teen Titans movie.

James Wan Aquaman sounds pretty cool but push it because Aquaman=joke.
>>
The medium that's seemed to always give DC characters their fair shake is animation. It's a damn shame that action cartoons on TV died out just around the time that DC could have used it the most.
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>>81025171
I saw it. I liked it, but now I'm afraid I was just hyped to see it early. Gonna see it again tomorrow

There were definitely problems, but I wouldn't have guessed that most of even the good reviews would be "meh"
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>>81025751
>And I also want to blame Mahvel, because before them, Nolan had made it okay for grimdark superhero movies,
MCU started in the same year than TDK anon, i find pathetic your excuse
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>>81025481
I didn't know how much I wanted this until you told me....damn you anon

d-damn you....
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> Snyder is out and Justice League will be delayed 8 months

Fucking good riddance. Then they'll have time and a good director to make a decent movie for once.
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>>81026254

>This film should be like Marvel movies is a critic review I take seriously
>Implying critics writing rave reviews is anything new
>I need other people to think for me, and tell me what to think before I can make up my own mind
>I'm practically a brainless sheep is what I am
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>>81025352
The public doesn't watch (2D) animated films anymore. WB wants more of that Batman money.
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>>81026302
The problem is that I'm not sure anyone would want to direct a batman or justice league movie now.
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>>81026329
TDKR even came out 2 months after Avengers, and with great reviews
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>>81026329

>MCU started in the same year as TDK

Uh clearly the MCU didn't have damn near the same influence now that it had then.
>>
This what they get for trying to copy the MCU.

Say what you will about the MCU, but it was a huge creative and financial gamble for Marvel. Remember, the first few MCU films were made before they were bought by Disney. They took out a huge loan for Iron Man and Hulk. Those movies fail and Marvel doesn't exist today. They made the MCU to survive, the DCEU is being made just to jump on someone elses bandwagon.
>>
It's clear that the next DC film has to be fan-pleasing the same way Deadpool was to make up for Fox screwing up with Fantastic Four. WB has destroyed all the goodwill Nolan built up with his Batman films. Serious changes need to be made, before WB and DC become more of a laughing stock.
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>>81026363

>implying implications

I just thought you were a hypocrite for telling people to form their own opinions while directly referencing something that would influence their opinion (and presumably influenced yours as well)

It's like trying to use propaganda to criticise propaganda, it's silly.
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>>81026420
see >>81026396
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>>81024363
Snyder, the difference was that in Star War, none of the characters could prevent it and none of them WERE DESTROYING PLANETS.
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>>81026457

So critics writing rave reviews is propaganda to you?
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>>81026440
That had a movie verse planned for years. Marvel just was about to get theirs out while Warner was still recovering from the writers strike that stopped theirs.
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How are there so many fan reviews on RT? Over a 1000.
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>>81026568
Lol ok
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>>81026448
What can they even do? It just looks like people will look for excuses to shit on them and from what I can see, DC/WB can't even get their shit together to do a good movie animated or live action. I wonder if they'd even consider just saying fuck it to live action and try out an animated approach.
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>>81024363
Related.

http://io9.gizmodo.com/a-brief-history-of-zack-snyder-defending-the-end-of-man-1763888746

Snyder trying to use the "real comic book fans know" excuse is funny, considering those are the people most pissed about Superman being a neck-snapper.
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>>81026470

This is a review I just plucked out of TDKR rotten tomatoes page.

>T-t-tooo dark for meee
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>>81024363
>“I feel like they were taking it personally that I was trying to grow up their character.”
Um, yeah, no.
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>>81026624
>It's a dark night indeed

Really? That's the best he could come up with?
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>>81024582
This

And you know what? WB were LAUGHING THEIR ASSES OFF at Marvel when they said they were doing an Avengers movie. "Why would we put ALL of our IPs in one movie that will make 100 mil when we can make 7 separate ones that will make 100 mil each?!?" And when Avengers cranked it in? Holy shit did they change their tune...
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>>81026562

No?
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>>81026568
Even if that were true that the 2007 writer's strike, which occurred while Iron Man was already filming by the way, did halt the creation of the DCCU it would have still been after Marvel already started there because Iron Man was already being made and not in some vague planning stage.
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>>81026448
>It's clear that the next DC film has to be fan-pleasing the same way Deadpool was to make up for Fox screwing up with Fantastic Four.

I actually wouldn't be surprised if Suicide Squad does this.
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>>81026659
Truly, they were an Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
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>>81026699
>Even if that were true

But it is true.

JL: Mortal was literally a week away from filming when it was shitcanned.
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>>81023489
>Wonder Woman is undergoing major rewrites to be more of a standalone film

It already finished filming retard. If you want to make up rumours, at least research a bit.
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>>81023971
Their comics are still better than marvels so it's a double edged sword right now. Especially if we get a Tom King batman. That's gonna be rad as fuck.
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>>81026448
I think Suicide Squad looks promising. BvS was always that one that worried me.

If, hypothetically, BvS bombs and SS does well, what will the DCEU look like?
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>>81026746
Question. If the writer's strike is what caused them to drop JL:Mortal, how? If they were already a week from filming, presumably, the script has already been completed and sent to the actors who have presumably been cast.
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>>81023972
So was the Avengers and it didn't shit the bed like this. Things like hover bats, drowning horses and jars of piss aren't something that gets added by executive meddling (haven't seen it so I don't know if the bat and horse things are real). They stuck with their auteur director, a really bad one, and now they're seeing the results.
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>>81026782
It's called reshoots. Star Trek Beyond is literally in them right this moment. And that's coming out in like 4 months.
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>>81026806
All the D-listers get movies as WB's incompetent management throws it all at the wall in hopes something will stick.

Alternatively, lots and lots of ST sequels. Bad ones.
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>>81026855
I'm pretty sure it was more Nolan than the writer's strike. He didn't want another Batman running around at the same time as his.
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>>81026855

The script needed perfecting.
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>>81026855

On average a third of a movie will be rewritten during production. A lot of time they write placeholder scenes for a script outline.

Dialog is often very subject to change, and reshoots are often necessary to streamline films.
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>>81026609
>Linking to io9
Just kill yourself.
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>>81026806
Affleck may still be Batman. Eisenberg supposedly has a cameo as Luthor in Suicide Squad.

Gadot as Wonder Woman will depend on how well the Wonder Woman film does.

They might soft reboot it so that there's no reference to Man of Steel or BvS and pretend the films never happened.
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I genuinely hope Suicide Squad does well, because it is the same universe and even some of the same characters, but a totally different director and tone. I don't want the DCCU on the chopping block because Snyder is shit, I'd like Snyder on the chopping block and someone better in charge of the universe. If Suicide Squad is well received and makes a ton of money, its success becomes a direct indictment of Snyder who managed to fuck up a movie with two of the most iconic and well loved superheroes in it (and also Wonder Woman).
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>>81026706
>I actually wouldn't be surprised if Suicide Squad does this.

Too many characters, and only one potential scene stealer.

The audience will be thrilled when the joker is onscreen and miserable for every moment that he isn't.

DC is hoping for a guardians of the Galaxy hit but I am very skeptical they will pull that off.
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>>81024942
>Avengers vs. Justice League movie
What a snoozefest
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>>81025900
"normal women" dont hate cheerleaders, crazy bitches hate cheerleaders
well-adjusted women who can appreciate other women in roles of success love wonder woman, even if they dont always like her outfit
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>>81024363
I like how he always tries to hide behind this "it was too mature and smart for you" bullshit, when MoS was not a mature or smart movie.

It's like he just thinks anybody who disliked it wanted another Donner film.

I would had loved a mature, serious Superman film. MoS wasn't it.
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>>81025751
You seem to forget that there's people who think the movie looked like a huge turd, and feel vindicated that it's being called a huge turd.

They announced it with a quote from TDKR, which is a great comic but a horrible choice of influence for a follow-up to a Superman that was already considered too bleak and depressing. I knew any potential success was ruined with that announcement. Snyder clearly doesn't understand what people like about these characters and I'm glad this film is failing.
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>>81026806
>>81026706
SS looks like a surprise hit in the making. The Comic-Con trailer got mad views and was received way better than BvS. SS being a hit would show the DCEU is salvageable and may persuade WB to give Snyder less power over the DC kingdom.
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>>81026964
It's got Harley for the waifubait, Joker for the girls and Boomer for the true patricians. I think it outta do well depending on just how serious it is.
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>>81024363

By saying stuff like this, he only makes nerds hate him more.
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>an insider at WB told us
Nuh uh my dad works at Disney he told me they're buying DC
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>>81024277
Zack Snyder sucks, but he's not wrong here.

Ever read Elliot S! Maggin's "Must There be a Superman"? It's pretty much Superman wrangling with the exact same problem and it's considered a classic.

>>81024986
He probably is, but what's Randian about that?

Ayn Rand
>Don't feel compelled to help people because it's immoral to think other people come first because I was scared by the Bolsheviks as a kid and never got over it

This
>Doing the right thing is good, but what if it has bad consequences, like people with power not facing their responsibilities because you're around, this putting the people under them in danger?
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>>81026855
Yep, but on a big production you will have rewrites at various stages.

For real, though, they were so close to making it. There's shots of the cast together with Miller ready to make the film.
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>>81026624
These are reviews Snyder wishes he could get.
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>>81026982
>"it was too mature and smart for you" bullshit
It's not bullshit. he really is too smart and mature for the average comic book nerd. If he wasn't then retards wouldn't be complaining about MoS.
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>>81026964
>Too many characters
How?
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>>81024363
>I feel like they were taking it personally that I was trying to grow up their character.

Jeez, and to think I defended this guy.
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>>81027054
>putting your insider at risk, and letting him lose his job by announcing their name because a guy on the internet doesn't believe you
Catch 22, innit?
Take the high road, never believe anything.
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>>81027127
I will be forever butthurt that this got shitcanned.
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>>81026373
I think Affleck would want to do a Batman movie. Its like saying Reynolds would never want to do another Deadpool film after Origins. I think they should give creative control over to someone who knows the universe- preferably a team of Grant Morrison and Geoff Johns for the comics side and a good producer for the film side.

There is no DC bias. DC have just made 2 bad movies in a row.
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>>81026373
I don't think people would be so quick to perceive Batman and Superman as cancer just yet. At this point we have Donner, Burton, and Nolan who've shown they are beloved, and Schumacher and Snyder who've shown they are toxic. If anything, WB having gone through the cycle more than once just confirms that THEY need to get their shit straight when choosing who is directing. I'd imagine there are countless directors who'd love to take a crack at them. Fuck it. First Class it up. Go back to Batfleck beginning, and start the universe there. Follow it up with present day Flashpoint, MoS and BvS never happened, and follow that up with Superman starting in his 20's instead of 33 since the Kents are changed via Flashpoint to actually be the Kents, and not what Snyder gave us.
The fucking universe is salvageable, and there is so much about this universe that absolutely should be salvaged, but they need to get Snyder, and his obsession with Watchmen philosophy thrown the fuck out yesterday.
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>>81027175
Audiences get confused if there are more than two people on screen at once.
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>>81027150
I don't think I saw the same movie they did...
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>>81023489
It can still make a billion even if it sucks. Just look at Transformers; all four of them were huge critical failures but they all made shedloads of money.
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>>81027329
>I don't think people would be so quick to perceive Batman and Superman as cancer just yet.

As franchises, they're basically unkillable at this point. It's not like Green Lantern, where the character's name is forever marred in the public perception by his one big release. It's like when a bad Bond film comes out; people don't think 'James Bond sucks, I'll never watch another film with him in', they think 'the last James Bond film sucked, I hope this one will be better'. Same here.
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>>81026241
Uh huh.

Anon, Time Warner is a group of media companies. Warner Bros. is a studio, and an independent company within the group.

Time Warner is not a single company with a single set of assets. Things that CW own aren't things that Warner Bros. own; that's not how assets work.

The article is specifically talking about Warner Bros., which has its own shareholders, and they will be looking at how WB has managed to have two straight years of fuckups. This is their slate not just for this year but for the next decade - if they're getting it wrong now, the shares will dive, Time Warner's shares will dive for doing nothing about it (as major shareholders of Warner Bros.), and Newscorp will end up owning Time Warner by the middle of next year.

>>81023797
You're probably right about the soft reboot, but it will kill most of the projects they currently have in development. The investor thing is a very real threat at this point - you rest on your laurels on this and before you know it you're MGMing all over the place.

Part of the concern of the shareholders is that WB are putting out ever more expensive movies expecting ever larger grosses, and you just can't expect a billion dollars each time. Last year they were thinking they'd got the perfect start - the Wachowskis, a brand new original franchise with some hot stars, the perfect tentpole movie. Flopped like a motherfucker because it was bad. Franchise dead on arrival when what should have happened according to plan would be the sequel already filming.

They can't afford a third year like this. BvS has to make an absurd amount of money just to break even; if it hurts the gross of Wonder Woman and Suicide Squad, they're fucked and it's Chapter 11 time. So yeah, they'll be looking at who's dead wood.
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>>81027329
I think suicide squad and wonder woman would need to come out first and WB really needs a solid plan and creative team preferably mostly from the comics department. I don't think a director is going to want to latch on to a fucked dceu with no plan or support. And if Affleck hasn't signed on to direct a Batman film yet, I doubt he will anytime soon now.
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>>81027150
I think Spectacle is the key word with Nolan films. They're "dark" but they are a really entertaining show which is why they're so goddamn fun.

Like, in Nolan's films Batman a lot of amazing stuff happens, a stadium blows up while the players try to run away from the danger, the Joker does that crazy ass shit with the boats, among others, it's all a big show. I think they said it best in Half in the Bag's review of The Dark Knight Rises, that they seem to go so far just to entertain the audience.

Meanwhile in Snyder's everything's just bombastic, they punch each other and a bunch of shit gets destroyed and a lot of people die and its miserable.

Again, Nolan's show is the "fun" in the argument so many critics keep dropping around, not necessarily stupid one-liners.
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>>81027323
I think given the way he's conducted himself over this movie and the problems it so clearly has, there's a good chance he's out even if he's the best part of the movie.

Never let a fanboy loose on the script. It will suffer.

>>81027329
Schumacher's first movie was fine. Even his second has some stronger points than Batman Begins, but overall the effect is not good.

You can't really go to Batfleck beginning because he's 43. With the best will in the world, you're not going to get a whole movie of him looking 20-something without building a CGI Ben Affleck. There just isn't enough vaseline in LA to fix those cracks.

>>81027416
It can, but there's a serious question over whether it will. If it drops off like Man of Steel and Green Lantern did, the strong opening weekend it's predicted for won't do a damn bit of good.
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>>81027175
I kinda see where he's coming from.
Even though it's an ensemble movie most of the marketing has been
>HEY LOOK! THE JOKER! HARLEY! WILL SMITH PLAYING WILL SMITH! And uhhh... Shit, hold on... Uhhh... Captain Croc, I think? Never mind the other ones, THE JOKER!

What's the point of a big cast if you're gonna gravitate towards 3 people and let the other ones get fucked?
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>>81027624
Pa Kent would be a lot more fun if he'd put on a Bane voice while he's talking about drowning horses and children
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>>81026964
>>81027333
I think the Marvel movies have proven that people can learn to like new characters. Hell no one knew about Antman, Hawkeye, Black Widow, and everyone in Guardians and look how popular they've become.

I'll be honest I don't expect SS to do exceptionally well but from the current reaction it has been getting it has a chance.
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>>81026262
Did the turret completely banish?
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>>81027624
>I think Spectacle is the key word with Nolan films.

This is codeword for "The Goyer script is asinine garbage, the characterization is awful, but shit explodes real cool"
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>>81023489
The thing i noticed most from this is that it has been receiving mixed reviews from CRITICS. Every non critic ive seen has gushed about how amazing it was, and ive seen maybe four or five people talking about how they dislike how serious it is.
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>>81027784
Yup.
Quality at its finest.
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>>81027175

Audiences struggle with more than 5 named characters. It is really quite sad.

Even in something like the "hateful 8" we had those idiot women in the audience loudly whispering 'WHO IS THAT GUY AGAIN?" and "WHY DID HE KILL HIM?" And it was that loud raspy whisper that everyone can hear two rows in front and two behind.

I wish I could say that is rare, but no.

tl;dr

Suicide Squad has a fuckhuge roster. Some characters you may be interested in may only be getting 2-3 lines. Meanwhile the casual viewers won't be interested in any of them.
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>>81027791
Is Snyder shit at explosions? Should WB actually have hired Michael Bay instead?
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Moovie News, the website with the most proven track record in the business.
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>Fresh: 36
>Rotten: 59

BRING ME BACK TO LIIIIIIIIIFE
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>>81027667
because it's suicide squad and half the point is most of the team members dying?
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Rotten Tomatoes critics consensus
>Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice smothers a potentially powerful story -- and some of America's most iconic superheroes -- in a grim whirlwind of effects-driven action.

What a load of horseshit. This is the least critical and nicest critic consensus for a low scoring movie I've ever seen on that site. This WB using their partial ownership of Rotten tomatoes as a means of damage control.
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>>81027809
>Every non critic ive seen has gushed about how amazing it was
Considering that the film isn't even out yet, wouldn't these just be fanboys?
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>>81027848
I don't know, anon; the characters are at least visually distinct, so the talkative people who don't pay attention are at least going to be able to bother their friends with names like 'Crocodile Man' and 'Clown Girl' and 'Australian Hobo' and 'Will Smith'.
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>>81027329
Flashpoint would be the easiest way to fix this
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>>81027416
Two things

1. Yes it "can" make a billion but "will" it make a billion

2. Do you really want your second movie in your universe, the one supposed to be directly competing with Marvel, to be thought of as anywhere close to Transformers?
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>>81027914
it's already out in Europe.
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>>81027848
REMINDER THAT IF BOOMERANG DIES, WE RIOT
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>>81027775

Marvel gets away with it because they don't introduce more than a handful of characters in any one movie.

Guardians was pushing it with a team of 5 new heroes and they were all very distinct from each other. That is the upper limit for what the audience can handle in a cape film.
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>>81027934
Exactly. I'm not saying I love the original story, but it's core premise absolutely lends itself to rebooting the universe more organically than Kitty Pride using her amped ability to move Wolverine backwards in time.
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>>81027910
Honestly, from what I'm hearing it sounds accurate

All show, no substance but it had potential that it completely fucked up.
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>>81027914
Fanboys and friends of the filmmakers.
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>>81028007
Age of Ultron was pretty bloated.
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>>81028007
>Guardians was pushing it with a team of 5 new heroes and they were all very distinct from each other. That is the upper limit for what the audience can handle in a cape film.

I don't think that there's an upper limit overall, just an upper limit for main characters.

I think that you could have a Batman film with at least 3-4 Batfamily members and 4-5 rogues appearing without the audience getting confused. Audiences will let more slide than you think.
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>>81024363
>I was trying to grow up their character.
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>>81027695
I don't think they even had to have Pa Kent being such a downer. It's ok to have parents being loving and nice, it'd been a nice contrast from the rest of the movie.
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>>81028048
That's a crossover movie with four films of hype behind it to begin with. It's supposed to be bloated
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>>81027972
You're right, my mistake.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2975590/releaseinfo
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>>81023972

Grant Morrison tried to warn us.
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>>81025924
introducing gl in the flash movie and setting up their friendship would be the best thing for GL if they're not putting him in JL1
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>>81028048

Not to the point where the characters lost.

People complain a lot about Ultron, but that had nothing to do with the character count.

Vision and the twins were well presented and recieved, to the point where a lot of people where pissed they wasted Quicksilver like that.
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>>81023489
Oh boy, more studio flailing and more executive meddling. That'll fix everything!

>rework Justice League
>rework Wonder Woman
Jesus Christ, I can only imagine how shit that would turn out if it actually happens.
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>>81028139
>We're never going to get the Flash/GL buddy cop movie
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>>81024354
They imagine themselves that way, too.
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I won't go to sleep a peaceful night this entire month until BvS crosses a billion. I NEED DC to be successful in my soul

Article is bs btw lol
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>>81028048

Civil war will have an even bigger roster, but none of them should be new to the audience besides black panther and arguably spider man.

The point was that marvel only introduces a few new characters in any one film, but as their universe grows so does their roster.

This is why some critics accuse DC of rushing things. Too many new characters too soon will hurt them.
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>>81027791
And it worked in Nolan's movies but not in Snyder's movies. You know, Snyder, a director known for his showmanship.
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>>81028308
DC doesn't need four two-hour long commercials to hype up Justice Legaue.
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>>81024962
Speaking of what does silent Bob have to say about the movie now that its out? Im sure he wont bash it becuase buddyfleck is in it but im curious if he has any critisism/
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>>81028358
Yes, just like how they only needed one movie to hype up BvS

I mean everybody knows Batman and Superman and Wondy right? No need for expansions or build up for anything
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>>81025758
agree
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>>81028244
I'm still pissed at whoever got my hopes up with those rumors a year or so ago. B/

flash/GL team up movie would be a great contrast to how dark and gritty everything in the dceu is.
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>>81028074
>you could have a Batman film with at least 3-4 Batfamily members and 4-5 rogues appearing without the audience getting confused

batman + robin + batgirl

vs

Bane + Poison Ivy + Mr Freeze

They had to do an origin story for four out of those six characters in a single movie and it was an absolute clusterfuck.

The movie obviously had other problems but trying to develop that many new characters and make the audience care or at least be partially interested in them was difficult.

I wish more film makers had the balls to just introduce characters (especially "badguys") without having to waste time on backstory. Joker in the dark knight was perfect. He was just there, and any time he tried to tell the story about his disfigured face he would either be lying or get interrupted.
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>>81026624
Glad to know its jam packed full of Jesus imagery again.
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>>81028308
>>81028358
DC has the saving grace that all of their main Justice League heroes are a lot more famous and well known than Iron Man was.

Everyone knows Supes, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, the Flash. And thanks to the TV shows, they know Green Arrow as well. Captain Marvel and Cyborg are a bit of an issue, but they're totally protagonist worthy characters that people can get behind.

I just have no idea why DC is so incompetent lately. I really blame Nolan well received movies basically putting in their heads, "Yep, we need him, his themes, and his people in every single film"

Unlike Marvel when it became clear that Whedon was incompetent, they threw him away and brought in based Russos.
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>>81028582
I really do love how they do a certain thing with Superman that just so happens to coincide with the fact that BvS comes out on Easter weekend

Truly subtlety at it's finest
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>>81024459
Maybe for Nubo. Fucking twink-ass baywatch-reject
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>>81025818
best you can hope for is dumb fun, or adaptations on stand alone series within each character, something that doesn't require you to need a backstory for a character or an opening telling you what everything leading up to it was.

second best id dumb fun, and dark/gritty world does not open itself up for dumb fun, especially if you want a sub R rating.
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DC execs were right, BvS is too deep for most people.
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>Making Batman a sociopath
>Make Superman a psychopath
>Both are men of murder
Great ideas, guys.
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>>81028535
Yeah, I should have clarified, some of those rogues/batfamily members would be side characters or 1 scene characters.

I'm assuming that this provisional film would be happening in a Gotham where Batman has already been operating for a while, like the Arkham games.

>I wish more film makers had the balls to just introduce characters (especially "badguys") without having to waste time on backstory.

You're absolutely right on this count, and that's what I was getting at. Movies don't become crowded from having a lot of superheroes/villains in, they become so from the belief that each needs a backstory to be shown and a lengthy story arc.
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>>81028739
This is problematic when you are by definition making entertainment for "most people".
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>>81028739
Boy, that's not pretentious.

>You're just too stupid to understand my story about super powered men in their underwear dealing with jars of piss.
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>>81028759
Rejected titles:

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Death
World's Bloodiest
Murderbros
Weekend at Luthors (one of the rewrites got weird, don't ask)
KillDeath 5000: Blood Dead
You better believe this Batman is gonna kill the Joker
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I just came back from the theater and as a long time Batman fan the movie was a fucking 10 out of 10.

I cant comprehend who the fuck in their right mind would give it lower than an 8
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>>81028854
yeah, needs more quips, marginalized characterization and death toll toned down to two digits in fear of being too grim
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>>81028951
b-b-but rotten tomatoes and Batman killing thugs
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>>81028964
>marginalized characterization
It has plenty of that already, apparently.
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>>81028583
>DC has the saving grace that all of their main Justice League heroes are a lot more famous and well known than Iron Man was

This may have been true for 1978. The superfriends had a much more successful cartoon franchise in the 70s and into the 80s.

By the 1990s and well into the 2000s most of the DC heroes were dropping off the radar for normalfags. A few members are cultural icons but green lantern certainly wasn't one of them.

By the year 2000 if you asked a guy on the street to name three DC heroes he would struggle to get 3.
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>>81028739
Or maybe it was too deep for itself
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>>81028951
>Batman the only thing almost universally praised about it
>A Batman fan loved it
Who could have guessed that?
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>>81029014
But the DCAU was in full swing by that point and then became JL/U which pretty much every kid, teen and older teen was watching at that point
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>>81029041

Only for Americans
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>>81028997
>95% of batman killings happen in a dream sequence
>2 or 3 dudes dying INDIRECTLY because of Batman


The problem is probably that all the faggy movie critics were expecting Avengers: Batman and Superman team up to battle evil without any blood or death at all because this is a kids movie :D-edition
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>>81029014
>he would struggle to get 3.

Oh come on. Literally any of the characters in OP's post, plus Robin, Joker, etc.
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>>81028759
Technically I think it's the other way around. Batman is the psychopath and Superman is the sociopath.
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Is it me or does Snyder/the script completely seem to ignore Supes' non-combat powers? They say the senator chick gets blown up in his presence, right? Could he not hear or notice with his vision the bomb which I guess would stand out in a courtroom? What about Batman's identity, if he really wanted him to stop his vigilante career why not just look through his mask and "blackmail" him?

Of course I'm only basing these questions on what I've heard from leaks and reviews, I might be wrong, but it just kinda feels weird that the super vision and hearing are never mentioned
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Fresh: 37
Rotten: 62

A joyless slog.

Soren Anderson
Seattle Times
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>>81028739
Not for all the patricians on IMDB
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>>81024163
is this a new meme? who is this bitch?
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>>81029135
Did you take a piss or something during the movie?

Supes literally says "I didnt notice it because i wasnt paying attention" to Lois
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>>81029101
it's "wait a minute, this is not aping Reeves Superman! wtf is this shit!" kneejerk reaction all over again.
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>>81029163
Diane Nelson, boss of bosses at DC Comics
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>>81023489
Yup. Critics hate Snyder. If Suicide Squad and Wonder Woman get better reviews than this one, it'll prove my point
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>>81029206
Instead of just proving they are better movies?
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>>81029135
Snyder has a tendency to forget everything about the characters, even the rest of the movie, in order to make scenes work.

That's how you can have (for example) Jonathan Kent go "If people find out my kid is an alien it'll ruin society" but he takes absolutely no precautions beyond a stern lecture to preserve that secret; he won't take Clark out of school after he had a superpower freakout and home school him. He'll take alien artifacts to universities to get studied. Because those scenes need him to regardless of how they'll change the context or characterization in the other scenes and thus the rest of the movie.
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>>81029264
Snyder is the best director ever. Spelberg, Herzog, Hitchock, Kubrick, all those guys are shit. They cower in fear of the Zack Attack
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>>81027848
>Audiences struggle with more than 5 named characters. It is really quite sad.


Very low energy. Sad. I have a plan to make batman great again.
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>Make the TV Universe Earth 1
>Make the Snyderverse Earth 3
>Make movies take place in TV Universe from now on
Done
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>>81029135
Couldnt put some spoiler tags fakkit
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I'm legit mad that this movie isn't doing well.
It was an amazing experience and because of these clueless critics expecting something entirely different we probably won't be seeing any of the other stories hinted at in the movie.
At least not told in the same way.

For fucks sake
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>>81029206
>If Suicide Squad and Wonder Woman get better reviews than this one, it'll prove my point

Or it will prove that they are more enjoyable and less misguided films. Critics did not make green lantern fail.

People who believe in an anti-snyder or anti-DC conspiracy are being silly. A bad movie is a bad movie.
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>>81029206
Or it's possible Snyder is a bad director?
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>>81029385
>a bad movie is a bad movie
Yeah but this movie isn't bad.
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>>81029377
Grow up.
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>>81029375
Oh, I'm sorry anon, I was on my phone
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>>81029416
>"Grow up"
>said by Anonymous on a japanese cartoon image boards section for comic books
w e w
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>>81029201
>Diane Nelson, boss of bosses at DC Comics


Responsible for shits like that:
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>>81029206
>Critics hate Snyder.
More likely, critics hate bad movies.
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>>81029451
Some of us know how to be on a Japanese cartoon image board section for comic books without putting SO much emotional investment in a corporate product.

Not saying that emotional investment is bad but you got to know when to cut the rope.
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>>81029415
Agreed. Best capefilm since the Dark Knight. Even exceeds it in some ways.
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>>81028759
>>Making Batman a sociopath
>>Make Superman a psychopath
>>Both are men of murder
>Great ideas, guys.

We are glad you liked it
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>/co/ thinks Hollywood's as bizarrely obsessed with RT as they are

When, as in by which year, did /co/ become so far up its own ass?
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>>81029521
I'll third that, it even manages to slightly top the brilliance of Fantastic 4.
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>>81029377
I'm sure your check is in the mail, DCuck. Nice pitch.
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>>81029541
Nepotism. Not even once.

You ruined the Nu52 Wonder Woman and now this.
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>>81029601
Hey, could you ask your boss when i'll get to see a new reboot of Spider-Man, Marveloser?

two can play that game
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>>81023489
>WB execs are shitting their pants. If [Batman V Superman] makes less than a billion, [Zack] Snyder is out and Justice League will be delayed 8 months."
To quote Blizzard

Uh-huh. Cool. Totally.
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>>81029415
>Yeah but this movie isn't bad.

We will know after about 10 days of regular box office release.

People who see it early are the dedicated fanboys. They will be the most forgiving of any faults. Critics have seen it and found many faults but many people distrust critics. It is unclear if it shit movie or not at this point.

The normalfags will see it at some point in the next 10 days, and if it suffers an enormous drop for weekend #2 that will confirm if it is a bad movie or not. You cannot mask bad word of mouth.

This movie will obviously do better than Green lantern, but it has to do a lot better (north of $1 billion box office).
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>>81029562
Disney has this board whipped
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>"This isnt like Deadpool at all! :((("
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>>81023542
People said the same about the teenage mutant ninja turtles movie

They were proven wrong
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>>81029583
Alright, slightly controversial opinion: I think this masterpiece has what it takes to dethrone Steel.
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> RT is owned by Warner
> still doesn't censor bad BvS reviews

See people, this is corporativism working right!
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>>81029800
Damn. I'm glad I'm not a DC fag.
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Why do people get so triggered when they say the movie needed more jokes?

They're not saying it should be an AoU quip-a-minute fest, they're saying it should have some sense of even a little bit of humanistic light-heartedness that would make the audience want to relate better to the characters. The Dark Knight trilogy has plenty of moments of humor or sarcasm in it, something like that
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>>81029756
But Out of the Shadows does look better than the last one.
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>>81029868
The Joker killed my family.
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>>81029868
>People who hate Marvel movies, who may or may not like the Snyderverse hear "the movie needed more jokes" as a dog whistle that WB needs to make its DC movies more like Marvel, despite the two statement being completely mutually exclusive.
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>>81029903
He was still Jack Napier then, Bruce.
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>over 100 reviews now
>38% on RT

I've been looking forward to this since I was a kid. It's not fair.
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>>81029928
Fuck. Didn't mean to greentext this.
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>>81029951
and the audience scores is above 80. Holly shit people you will not have the same opinion as a critic, they go into movies with different mindsets then normal audience members.
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>>81029951
HAHHAHAHAHA!!!
Sucks to be you!
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>>81029951
Even the audience score that defenders of MoS hold up against its critic rating is dropping. It was at high 90's this morning, and is currently down to 83.
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>>81024942
>Go ahead, try to poke a hole in this plan.
It gives Disney even more control then what they should have.
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>>81029885
Yeah that's my point. People said
>Don't watch the new movie, we will get a better one if they don't.

But people watched the new movie, and now we get a better once because of it.
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>>81030026
and it will change again once it releases in the U.S. Whether it will go up or down I don't know but it's not done moving.
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>>81029951
You got it back in 1997. I have no idea why you're sad. I have no idea why any of you guys are sad. I have no idea why any of you are invested in this movie. We've had an infinitely superior version for almost twenty years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkd-kQpHH7A
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This shit isn't even worth torrenting, is it?
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>>81030084

This. Cartoon DC has always been better than Live Action DC. Just take solace in that.
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>>81030061
I agree.
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>>81030021
>and the audience scores is above 80.
The movie still isn't actually out yet in the US. Which means the score is already dropping from early releasing countries and pre-screenings. It should be in the 90s if not 100% still, not the 80s.
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>>81025481
This sounds amazing.
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>>81029868
Not everything needs jokes, period, and the insistence that every cape movie, because this is a complaint completely unique to this genre needs them, is merely a results of people jumping on the Avengers bandwagon. Most tragedies don't have them, most epics, like the Odyssey, don't have them, and, though I didn't mind them, I don't think anyone else would have been terribly dismayed if Hunchback had axed the Gargoyles or the prequel trilogy, Jar Jar Binks.

I don't think I even saw "not enough humor" as a complaint before 2012.
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>>81030124
>It should be in the 90s if not 100% still, not the 80s.
Why? If 80% of the people from those countries liked it, ti will be at 80%. Then when more reviews come in, it will change based on the %. It could very well go up once it get's here.
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>>81025481
Wouldn't fit in this universe's tone, sadly.
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>>81030183
>Not everything needs jokes, period
Yes but everything, if you're selling it to a mass audience needs to be identifiable or at least be able to have us understand that the characters are human. It doesn't even have to be jokes, it can be anything that indicates that these characters are ones we can identify with as people. If you have none of that or pretend to be deeper than you actually are, what's the point about caring for anybody in them?
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>>81025643
>modernized New Frontier

But nobody's having dogfights with Al-Qeuda.
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Huh. I keep reading that Metropolis and Gotham are next to each other in this movie.

That seems ... weird to me. For some reason i always imagined them on the opposite coasts of US.

But not sure which ones. They are all stand-ins for New York anyway, that's true
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>>81030183
The Dark Knight had jokes.
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>>81030344
They are usually interpreted to be fairly close and on the east coast.
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>>81030362
HOCKEY PADS
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>>81030362
Of course it did; it had the Joker.
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>>81023489
>Wonder Woman is undergoing major rewrites to be more of a standalone film
Bullshit. The film's in post production.
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I don't know, from reading the reviews it seems to me that the pacing/cramming of plot points is the biggest issue. It not being "fun" is secondary.
I mean shit, The Dark Knight was not fun at all but it was critically praised.
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>>81023489
>that will order the universe to be rebooted."
I can see Snyder getting the boot, JL being delayed, another director being brought in and the rest of the slate being re-worked. But I really can't see them rebooting the entire thing. That'd set them back 5+ years. Would they keep any of the cast? People are praising Batfleck so would they keep just him but take BvS out of the new continuity?

They won't reboot.
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>>81030299
>You know my father sat me down, right here. Told me what Wayne Manor was built on. I'm older now than my father ever was. This is my legacy.

From what I hear, this movie isn't lacking in that at all.
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>>81030434
I could see a soft reboot like what the incredible hulk was.
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>>81030183
>I don't think I even saw "not enough humor" as a complaint before 2012.
Guess the movie
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>>81030416
So you agree that The Dark Knight was a childish and immature movie that was copying the Avengers.
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>>81029868

>They're not saying it should be an AoU quip-a-minute fest

That's exactly what they're saying. They want to watch Batman and Superman high five each other.
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>>81023489
It's impressive how much they fucked up.
How do you spend $400 million without making sure that your product is actually good?
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>>81030530
Batman Begins?
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>>81030426
Didn't stop Fan4stick from getting reshoots.

>>81030467
>Batman gets all the depth and character development and important
Surprise surprise.
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>>81029562
I actually liked this one.
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>>81030416
Bruce, Alfred and Lucius joked more in that movie than the Joker did.
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>>81025481

Fuck you anon, now I wanna cry because this'll never happen. ;__;
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>>81029101

This is the saddest and most retarded excuse of all from these apologists.

Blade had better reviews. Deadpool has better reviews. Let's take company wars out of this; the Nolan Trilogy all have better reviews.

It's not intellectualism, it's not snobbishness, it's not Le epic quips meme. The movie is hack bullshit and anyone with half a brain knew since the first trailer dropped.
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>>81030542
They don't care if it's good or not, it's already projected to make more then that. If it makes money they don't give a flying fuck about review scores, why do you think Snyder is still here? MoS made money.
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Anyone read this supposed insiders summary from the DCEU reddit?
>https://www.reddit.com/r/DC_Cinematic/comments/4bmo6w/a_breakdown_from_a_studio_production_pov_of_why/

Apparently WB have known it would get this kind of reception all along. Shouldn't panic unless/until JL1 is a flop.
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>>81030362
>You must be Harvey's squeeze. And you are beautiful.
Yeah, it did.
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>>81030563
No, this is Batman Begins.
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>>81030362
>The Dark Knight had jokes.

Heath Ledger's joker barely cracked any jokes and to this day it still triggers fan boys.
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>>81023489
>I recently spoke with a source at Warner Bros who took place in a late-night conference call with execs

>463 replies to this thread
>nobody has questioned the validity of the source

Come on, /co/, you're better than this.
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>>81030660

>>nobody has questioned the validity of the source

You can't read can you?
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>>81030570
>Superman was never real. Just the dream of a farmer from Kansas...
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I am seriously interested what will they do now.

They invested a lot of time into this, they found a lot of actors, pumped up a lot of ads for "the new DCEU", already have 2 more movies in some stage of preparations that are all in this world.

I don't think they can just say "fuck it" and stop/restart.... but they also cannot continue without Snyder since he started a lot of the visual ideas...

They didn't just commit to one franchise with this, they tried to one-up Marvel and make a multi-franchise....

So I am really really interested how will they escape this.

I think they will leave JLA for Zack, but they will slash the budget a lot and they will make it one movie instead of two separate ones. And they will make preparations to move it away.

....Marvel is repetitive and samey, a lot, BUT at least they have Feige who is running ship smoothly. The proof that he is really the mastermind are the TV shows that are *not* under him - they are much worse than the movies and much less cohesive, in my opinion at least.
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>>81030616
That's the line that won Heath the Oscar.
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Take me back in time to Comic Con 2015 before the pain of this
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>>81030602
It's true that this movie will probably still make a lot of money, but the fact that it isn't actually good means that the whole expansive universe they're setting up is kind of fucked.
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>>81030718
WAKE ME UP
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>>81030720
Not really, they can adjust based on the reviews. To late for WW but it's not Snyder so the movie still has a chance to be good. As long as they don't lose money they can adjust based on the feedback they get.
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>>81030183

Humour is a dramatic relief, it cuts the tension and prevents the action from becoming overly monotone and dull. Changes in pacing or tone help to layer the movie and keep the audience from suffering from emotional exhaustion from overexposure to single-element storytelling. This is basic shit that goes back to fucking Shakespeare, this is why it's taught in school.
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>>81030712
That's the line he committed suicide for.

He'd rather fuck her brother.
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>>81030603
I don't believe him. "The critiques mean nothing" in regard to the success of the movie due to ticket pre-ordering before the embargo was lifted? Bullshit, ticket pre-orders probably make up less than 1% of the overall sales
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>>81030817
But that rule does not apply to horror and thriller
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>>81030183
I agree with you 100%, not everything needs jokes.
However, when dealing with something as nonsensical as fucking super heroes, DC has gone way too far in the other direction.
Would MoS have done better if every other line was a snarky remark? No.
Would it have done better if it took itself less seriously? Yea, probably.

DC has taken the dark and brooding formula that worked once a decade ago and is applying it to every fucking movie.
I know /co/'s biggest gripe with the MCU is its quips, but seriously is DC handling it any better with "THIS IS A SERIOUS MOVIE ONLY TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY. FEEL EMOTIONAL FOR THIS MAN IN TIGHTS FLYING AROUND THE WORLD. HE IS SAD, YOU SHOULD BE SAD TOO."
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>>81030660
They're really not.
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>>81030817
>BUT WHERE'S THE HUMOR

My Lit professor didn't get the memo, and keeps feeding me humorless garbage, like 1984 and For Whom the Bell Tolls.
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>>81030692
That line doesn't make any sense. Which Farmer? Certainly not Jonathan.
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>>81030888
Anon, Transformers was a failure to critics and look how much they made. If critics had any real impact that would not have been the case.
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>>81030925
>Would it have done better if it took itself less seriously? Yea, probably.
But why should it, over at Marvel nothing in serious. I want DC movies to have something to set itself different from Marvel
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>>81030993
Transformers is different because it's teflon. There are demonstrable differences in superhero worldwide gross due to critical reception.
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>>81031002
>I want DC movies to have something to set itself different from Marvel

Well they are bad movies, that sets them apart from Marvel.
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>>81030925
I think the problem is the lack of contrast and this movie makes it really apparent as I kind of suspected it would. This is the problem with using Batman as you go to solution for literally everything; it removes any tonal contrast In a movie that's supposed to be about conflicting ideologies and tones.


They've done EXACTLY what people accuse Marvel of doing and made everything based on one singular note and tone and the only difference is because that tone is maudlin (not even serious, just kind of cynical and pessimistic) we're supposed to think it's somehow deep or smarter.
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>>81031036
>>81030993

Let's be real here, Transformers scores with the mass audience because while they are brain-dead visual flare movies, they are also "fun" to watch. But when you make a movie that's a brain-dead visual flare that ISN'T fun to watch, it's instead a 2 and a half hour SLOG, don't be surprised people don't flock to it.
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>>81031002
Did you just ignore his entire post? He wasn't saying make it like Marvel. He was just saying not to go too far in the opposite direction. There's such a thing as moderation.
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>>81030945
1984 was laden with humor, like how the chocolate ration had been halved but in three days they'd declare "good news, war is going swimmingly so we've raised the chocolate ration' and then not actually raise it back up
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>>81030603
One of the more interesting things from the SONY mail leaks (that everyone more or less forgot) was that the insiders don't really know that much more than general public.

At least judging from what they wrote, even the studio heads don't really know much about what is happening in other studios.

So I don't think an insider from *another* company would really know much about WB plan.

Also I don't think the movie will make money just on pre-sales and franchising. But it's true that this hype-bust cycles are annoying but working (Disney pumping up Star War for basically 2 years was really bad, but then it made the sweet sweet cash).
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>>81031002
Honestly, we're seeing why it should
Superman and Wonder Woman and a lot of DC characters have a problem where because they're so powerful they tend to alienate people. They become icons rather than characters with desires and dreams and goals.

If you take them down a peg that might be "disrespectful", but it would also humanize them and make them accessible in a way they sorely need in order to remain current and garner mass appeal.

And while I know you've probably stopped reading and are already typing about how Man of Steel did that and made Clark human with fears and paranoia and weakness, that's not exactly what I'm talking about, or what we got. They didn't do it well because Snyder still bought into that "superheroes are modern mythology" crap and spent all that time alienating Clark from humanity ANYWAY, and there is absolutely nothing more haughty and pretentious than a god figure. Fear and paranoia needs to be balanced with love and charm and levity, otherwise you at best get a whiny protagonist, and at worse, you paint a picture of a universe that doesn't want or need heroes, or even particularly deserve them.

And that's the biggest problem. One a bunch of reviews are even pointing out but we're ignoring it because they use the dreaded F word; the Snyderverse seems to question the utility of superheroes at all, while asking to be a part of the club.
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Congratulations /co/. WB has now put you in charge of the DCEU....what do you do? Keeping in mind they want results relatively quickly so a reboot is off the table. MoS, BvS, SS and WW are still canon.

How do you fix it without starting again?
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>>81028485
Just hope for blue and gold my friend.
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>>81031336
In Booster we trust.
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>>81031316
Make Crisis on Infinite Earths and make Flash/Arrow/Supergirl somehow canon in this universe.

It can be done! They already established multiverse on there!
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>>81031316
Hypercrisis . This isn't the actual DCU. The real one shows up to save them from Darkseid.tThe audience goes with it.

That's the only way to fix things with my hands tied so much otherwise.
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>>81031156

The last transformers movies made all their money in China. That is why there is so much pandering in it.

>Beijing will answer Hong Kong's call for help!

$250 million domestic and china pushed it over $1 billion.
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>>81031192
And notice how the chocolate scene is quite relevant to the characters' development (it showcases how Winston doesn't buy The Party's propaganda anymore) and adds to the story and setting (the kind of lies-filled society Oceania is), so it isn't awkward or forced like Marvel's/Whedon's brand of quippy, snarky, "LOL ISNT DIS SO CRAAAAAZY?!?! HUH? *wink* *wink*" that feels like they're stopping the movie just to throw in some lame lines like "With the benefit of hindsight..." or "Dance off, bro! Meme and you!"
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>>81031002
We've had two movies now that show it should take itself less seriously.
Now you can have a serious cape shit, the Nolan trilogy proved that, but Superman is not the Dark Knight.
Hell, even the Nolan trilogy had its jokes, basically every line from Morgan Freeman and Michael Caine was a snarky quip.

MoS is so fucking laughably try hard I can't believe anyone's able to take it seriously.

Like I said it's possible to have a serious cape and I understand wanting one, but melodrama and making everything fucking depressing and completely lacking in any kind of boy does not a serious cape make.

>>81031083
At the end of the day the secret to Marvel getting widespread critical acclaim and DC trying and failing to put out one half decent movie is at least Marvel has the smart idea of stepping back and saying "Look, we have dudes in onesies punching fucking aliens, dude, might as well have some fun with it."

If you don't believe me go ahead and ask Josh Trank how his career's doing.
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>>81031450
Exactly, thats what the film lacks in the first place.
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>>81024331
If you want Bendis in your DC Comics, sure, because he's itching to write Superman and Plasticman.
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>>81031002
>I want DC movies to have something to set itself different from Marvel
This isn't a situation where its one or the other. Stop working in totals
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>>81031490
You mean BvS or a Marvel film?
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>>81031316
Cast Gilbert Gottfried as Mxyzptlk.
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>>81027210
Ditto that Mark guy even did a good defense explanation for Supes killing Zod than Snyder could eve rmuster.
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>>81031477
>ask Josh Trank how his career's doing
It's because of the tweet, I think.
If you take a dump on the movie screen the worst thing you can do is say that you were forced to take a dump.
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>>81031535
BvS.
The closest we get is Grannys Peach Tea
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>>81031430
I'd be okay with this.
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>>81030183
The Odyssey doesn't go out of its way to tell jokes, but it has comedic elements (hell, it's a classical Comedy, being defined as a story with a sympathetic central character whose fortunes rise to an eventual happy ending); Odysseus is essentially a Comic Hero, often hungry and concerned about how he's dressed. There are fantastic and absurd elements that set changing moods.
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>>81025734
What awful shit has she done? I am curious.
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>>81031595
For a while I was thinking you are talking about Batman: Odyssey.

Hell someone should start to storytime that in this thread, it would be more fun than endlessly talking about BvS.
>>
As others said, Nolanbats was "serious" and it still received a ton of positive reviews and reception. The Netflix Marvel series are dark as hell, but everyone loves them. Even The Winter Soldier, which is easily the most serious Marvel movie, and it's considered by a wide margin to be the best Marvel movie so far.

You can be serious and you can be dark, you can even be both at the same time, but you have to do it well. Somethine that Snyder clearly doesnt know how to do.

>>81030701
SS is going to be decent (at least I hope) and JL part is already going to start filming in 3 weeks.

What I could see is retooling WW to be more standalone, drop Snyder from JL part 2, and push up the Batfleck solo movie. Everything else (Aquaman, Flash, Cybrog) will go under heavy ass retooling.
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>>81023489
Please tell me this is real
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>>81030602

MoS made them 42 million $ of profit.

Half of box office don't go to the studio. So if they invested 400 million $ it needs to make 800 million to start making any money.

And I really doubt this movie will make much more than 800 million. Not with that press and word of mouth.
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>>81031450
>"Dance off, bro! Meme and you!"
Man you guys are still trying to force that.
Even though that scene literally ends with
"What are you doing" "I'm being a distraction!"
I mean, it's literally explained. I thought you liked that. After all, Snyder can't do a single scene without explaining it at the end in a bunch of tired exposition.
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>>81025181
>he's best when adapting or remaking an existing work.

Well I guess not anymore
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>>81027848

Out of SS cast only Harley is rather well known. Mainstream don't know or care about the rest of them.

It's like if they made the Avengers movie without the previous solo movies.
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>>81031658
And serious doesn't even need to be serious.
Look at the funerals of Jim Henson and Graham Chapman. They're still serious. They're still UTTERLY HEARTBREAKING. But you know what? They've still got levity!
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>>81031697
Let them have it, dude. DC fans aren't exactly having an easy go.

But it does say a lot that most criticism toward the MCU is either extremely exaggerated or a boldface lie.
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>>81023489
This is super fake but I agree that they better keep Snyder away from the director chair and hire someone to look after DCEU maybe Miller, he's a hit or miss lately but he's a good visionary for this kind of stuff.
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>>81031780
*Serious doesn't need to be somber, I mean.
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>>81031754
>Joker
>not well known
>Will Smith
>not well known
Kek
And if you are seriously comparing the fucking SS to Avengers your delusional. Each Guardian didn't need a solo movie
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>>81031754
Who is Joker?
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>>81031754
SS isn't trying to sell you multiple movie franchises like Avengers or BvS. All the characters being "introduced" here are only for her, and they're also already established so they can go over their origins fast.
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>>81031788
No, fuck that. Stop.
Stop acting like this is even a DC fan thing.
This is a Snyder dick riding thing. This is a bunch of contrarian faggots going "THIS PIECE OF SHIT IS GOLD BECAUSE NO ONE LIKES IT" and trying to come up with anything and everything to justify it. A bunch of autistic cunts creating elaborate conspiracies rather than admit ONE director is shit as his job, because that'd be the end of the goddamn world.

I love DC. They have better comics, better cartoons, better games. And before Snyder, I would have even said they had better movies. You can be a DC fan and still hate Snyder. It's absolutely fucking possible to do both and the sooner the lot of them grow up and realize this the better off DC will be.
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>>81031881
How can one person be so wrong?
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>>81031675
I kinda know where you get that number but let me say this, it's bullshit. Anyway, I hope they will keep Snyder from director chair from now on and don't let him touch it again, he should be executive producer at best.
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>>81031754
>It's like if they made the Avengers movie without the previous solo movies.
But they did exactly that with GotG. Now I'm not trying to say SS is going to be a hit for sure, but I am just saying that you can make a movie with lesser-known characters as long as it's a good movie.
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>>81028535
I remember leaving TDK thinking "Wow, you can do so much more with a cape film when you're not bogged down in origins."
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>>81031881
I liked Man of Steel, but it really looks like BvS is just a bad movie.
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>>81031658
But what did the Nolan trilogy, DD and Winter Soldier have in common?
Prepare yourself, and I'm gonna put a trigger warning here: Quips

Almost everything Alfred and Fox said in the trilogy was a smartass quip.
Foggy in DD was the comic relief.
And Winter Soldier, well fuck do i even need to continue?

The point I'm making is there's a formula to success in serious cape shits and it rhymes with whips.
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>>81031923
By backing a horseshit director like he's some kind of majestic auteur for no fucking reason and using a bunch of MUH CAPEKINO memes to justify it.
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>>81031954

GoG made 700 million $. Less than half of Avengers. And it had a smaller cast than SS.
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>>81029116
Normalfags can't tell the difference between DC and Marvel, not even with all of the branding. They'd probably say Superman, Batman and Spider-Man.
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>>81031743
No, 300 and Watchmen were self contained stories that he had to heavily borrow from to get the movie right. The dialogue was almost all written for him. He had too much storytelling freedom with BvS
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>>81031986
Well, yes, they need something to lessen he tension and let the audience breath, and not be sufficating from the oppresive atmosphere that MoS and BvS have.
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>>81031754
Well, I think you got it wrong SS =/= Avenger but SS = GotG so there's no problem if the director and screen writer is good enough.
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>>81032004
>They have better comics, better cartoons, better games. And before Snyder, I would have even said they had better movies

I was referring more to this.
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>>81027848
>Audiences struggle with more than 5 named characters.

Lord of the Rings had tons.
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>>81032013
It was still considered a massive success for what it was because they weren't expecting Avengers money. I doubt they're expecting Justice League money from SS.
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>>81029495
They liked Boyhood and that was a bullshit waste of 10 years and 2 and a half hours.
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>>81032069
I love sci-fi/fantasy and here are all the LOTR characters I can name off the top of my head:

Bilbo, Frodo Samwise, Sarumon, Gandalf, Aragon, Sauron... that's it.
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>>81025320
This. My first time watching Avengers in theatres is to this day one my best cinema experiences.
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>>81032061
>better comiics
Currently, yes, I'd say that of the two, DC has some better books than Marvel. I will admit that this is largely objective and dependent on your pull list, however.

>Better cartoons
Marvel's animation has always suffered from rights issues. While CURRENTLY DC's offerings aren't great (and what, consist exclusively of Teen Titans Go?) I'd say that the DCAU alone puts them ahead of most of Marvel's forays into animation. The closest thing Marvel had was Spectacular Spider-Man and EMH and those got cancelled because Loeb thinks kids can't into continuity. And their replacements are memetically bad.

>better games.
Marvel is on a "freemium mobile games kick that really disappoints me. The last thing they made that wasn't this was MvC3. i guess you could count the Lego game, but then you'd have to count all 3 of the Lego Batman games so again, DC has an edge there between that, the Akrham series, and Injustice.

>And before Snyder, I would have even said they had better movies

I actually like the vast majority of the MCU and I'd still say that the first two Noaln movies blow them all out of the water as actual narratives with depth.

So yes, I stand by what I said.
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>>81032203
What about Gimli and Smeagol?
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>>81030588
Joker had 2 huge jokes though (the fire truck and his half of the money being on the bottom.) He just didn't explain them because it's not funny if you do.
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>>81025320
It's basically like Spider Man 2. Awesome when you first saw it, mediocre in hindsight
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>>81032284
oh and Legolas. But yeah I think most people don't remember names. Ask a Game of Thrones fan who hasn't read the books to name 5 characters. People can't retain information about a large cast of characters unless they're really invested in the series.
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>>81032264
The current comics from both of them suck.
Marvel has a better back catalog though.

DCAU is GOAT, but anything else they made has sucked.

All DC has that are any good are the Arkham games. Ultimate Alliance, X-Men Legends and some of the Spider-Man games (to name a few) shit all over their offerings.

Spider-Man, Captain America, X-Men, The Punisher (Thomas Jane) vs Superman 1 and 2 (Christopher Reeve) and the Batman movies. I'd say Marvel comes out ahead.
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>>81032013
>GoG made 700 million $. Less than half of Avengers.

If only they'd made solo movies about Starlord, Rocket and Groot (separate ones, then a team-up, obviously), and all the rest first. That would have been a really good idea.
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>>81031638
All right, I will do it myself, finally found it on disk.

This discussion bores me, BvS is shit, everyone knows it's shit, even its defenders silently know it's shit.

Let's read Batman: Odyssey instead!
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>>81032518
> That's how it starts. The fever, the rage, the feeling of powerlessness that turns good men... cruel.
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>>81032425
John Snow
Sean Bean
Dinklage
Khalessi
Momoa
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>>81032558
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>>81031986
This guy gets it.
Mark my words, screen cap my post, when SS comes out it'll be just as jokey and GotG-esque as the trailer implies and it will be the best DC movie since TDK.
DC fans will have a fucking aneurysm over the fact that quips saved the DCCU.
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>>81032596
Criminals are superstitious and cowardly lot.
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>>81032486
>The Punisher (Thomas Jane)
"No." Thomas Jane was great but the rest is no.
You also have to remember its not just the Nolan films, its the Nolan films and the Burton films. So its more like

2+1+5 v 2 + 4
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>>81032641
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>>81024875
I think its telling that Snyder just voiced Lex Luthors main gripe with Superman and shot a scene for it. Superman doesn't make us weaker, he makes us stronger by showing us without our faults.
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>>81032577
>Spelled Jon wrong
>actor names instead of character names
>Khalessi

...must...not...rage
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>>81032675
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>>81032619
Hell quips are a staple of comic books themselves. I mean no one wants an AoU-level of spitfiring Whedonesque bullshit, but a comic book movie shouldn't have to play like a Lovecraft book.
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>>81032703
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>>81032750
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>>81032425
I don't watch the show or read the book, but I'll give it a shot.
John Snow
Kal Drogo
Ned Stark?
Jauffrey
The Mountain
The Hound
Tyrion Lannister?
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>>81032775
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>>81032815
This is just awesome in its insanity.
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>>81032663
That's what I meant by the Batman movies.
Marvel has made good movies with various characters.
DC only has Superman and Batman.
Therefore Marvel is better at movies.
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>>81032856
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>>81032723
That's just Whedon, though.
Every character being a clever twat firing off snarky remarks like a machine gun with quips for ammo is kinda his thing.
I'm not making excuses for him, I'm just saying.
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>>81032069

The characters in LotR are mostly broken up into small groups who followed separate paths. They were only briefly together for one small part of the trilogy. This made things much more manageable.

In the first film it was the 4 hobbits and their adventures. They were then joined by a group of bodyguards who all had a very small role (they would steal the spotlight in the later films though). None of the characters besides Frodo needed an origin story. The other character did a few cool moves but otherwise vanished to the background.

Overall it was a collection of short self-contained stories as each group of adventurers went in a different direction with different goals. This made it much easier for the casuals in the audience to follow.

I am more worried that the suicide squad will be more like the Hobbit. Of the 13 dwarves only about 4 or 5 of them were memorable and the rest had maybe a line or two thrown in. They were just background characters because the cast was so big.

Add to that the fact that the Joker will be stealing all the good scenes and it will pretty much be will smith and Harley on screen for much of the film. The rest of the SS will share the fate of Dwarves #9 through #13.
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>>81023489
>BVS comes as close to flopping as a mega-release superhero movie can
>DC brand is enormously tarnished
>in the moment of weakness, Disney buys out the competition
>Batman confirmed for KH3
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>>81032893
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>>81032974
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Most Internet reviewers likely knew whether they were gonna give a positive or negative review before seeing it, so...
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>>81033009
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>>81033045
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>>81033075
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>>81033026
We need a BvS damage control bingo card.
"THE REVIEWERS ARE BIASED!" can be center square.
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>>81033026
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>>81033103
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>>81033149
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>>81033185
This is art.
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>>81033223
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>>81033267
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>>81033322
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>>81033427
The first issue ends and I successfully killed the thread, job well done.

Will continue in another BvS thread later.
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>>81024784
I'm the only one who thinks this movie was bad?
When I saw the trailer I couldn't believe it had positive review. I gave it the benefit of the doubt and watched it with some friends. And it was as bad as the trailer promised.
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>>81023655
>I hate Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luther... He’s somewhere between Johnny Depp’s Willy Wonka and Christian Bale’s Patrick Bateman

Well I'm sold
Also, I would LOVE to hear what the SJW's consider to be the
>"trans-misogynistic, trying-to-be-a “joke” of the film"
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>>81024543
great post
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>>81024279
Consider this: Michael Bay agreed to shit out Transformers 4 because he wanted the money to make "Pain and Gain," which is controversial but I'd consider it to be a really great film. It's great because it's flat-out Michael Bay, but KNOWS that it is, and all the people and events fit into that crazy world. They know they're making a loud, ugly film about loud, ugly people and it works.

What did Zack Snyder make when he had the same chance? His passion project was "Sucker Punch," and nothing more needs to be said.
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>>81024363
Both were awful, but for different reasons.

MoS seemed to fetishize the destruction and did nothing to show Superman trying to stop it.

TFA was just lame one-upmanship. "We need to make our Death Star bigger and better by blowing up FIVE planets." BUT Po and Finn didn't make out right afterwards.
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>>81034059
I really hope Po/Finn is a thing in episode VIII.

That scene with them meeting back up after Finn thought Po died gave me goosebumps.
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