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"AQUAMAN" GETTING PAGE ONE REWRITE

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Oh, boy...

http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/rumor-justice-leagues-dafoe-play-atlantean-aquaman-being-rewritten
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Didn't they originally have two scripts being written, with Warner Bros picking the best one? Both scripts must have sucked, then.
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What does page one rewrite mean? Complete rewrite? Wonder if that has anything to do with the issues Wan was apparently having
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>>82723237
Literally starting fresh from page one. Everything scrapped and begun anew.
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>>82723213
They order two scripts and smash them together.
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>>82723191

>rumor
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>>82723191
Wow WB is really fumbling around with their movies. Do they actually want to make Superhero films or are they just striking the financial iron while it's hot, thanks to the other companies successes?
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The only thing they need to do is throw the script in the trash. Of all of the movies they're setting up, Aquaman is the biggest potential bust. Think about it.

It's an underwater movie so it's gonna be expensive as fuck. Whether it's CGI or practical effects water aint cheap. Then you have the point where unlike characters like Cyborg and Flash, Aquaman is still a joke and profit toxic. I saw reports that as soon as the Aquaman LEGO Dimensions pack was released, it immediately went to clearance. Stores fucking knew they couldn't give that shit away and down priced it from the start.

And what licensing deals are they gonna get for Aquaman? Cyborg could get some tech related ones and Flash could get some fast food tie in or some sports related thing but what company want's to stick Aquamans face on their packages? This movie is just a bad idea.
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>>82723295
>hollywood execs
>being capable of 'wanting' anything other than the safe profits they can find in a floundering industry
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>>82723191
>Devin Faraci
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>>82723322
I don't get it, why is Aquaman considered such a joke character compared to other superheroes? He doesn't seem to be any lamer than others.

I'm more of a Marvelfag so I'm not really familiar with the DC universe and its characters. I don't really understand why he'd be a riskier character than say, Ant-Man, the Guardians or Captain America.
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>>82723322
Exactly.

If WB had been smart they would've kicked Zacky-boy off after MoS, made films for Superman, Batman, WW, Flash and GL (along with SS, I guess), then released JL and have a few awesome Aquaman and Cyborg scenes to get people hyped for their movies.

Instead people are going to associate Aquaman with BvS, MoS and (the probably terrible) JL. Aquaman simply cannot carry a movie under those circumstances.
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>>82723286

People are going to be in denial until this turd drops, aren't they?
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>>82723370
Superfriends cartoon.
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>>82723370
Superfriends, Robot Chicken and Family Guy. He is the joke character that is powerless out of water and can only talk to fish.

None of this is actually true but if you tell them to read a comic book or watch that episode of BatB, they'll ignore you (as a best case scenario). I love Aquaman and I actually quite like the Mamoa angle but its associated with BvS which people hate.
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>>82723370
He has a dorky name that doesn't sound cool, he has a dorky costume that doesn't look cool, and he's portrayed as largely useless in non-comic media.
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>>82723376
Yes.
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inb4
>how Warner killed the Superhero Movie Genre
all over youtube after aquaman and JL drops
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Disney should be total cunts and put Namor in their movie that releases right before Aquaman does.
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>>82723448
Isn't Namor at Universal or something?
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>>82723469
Yep. They could probably make Namor bang She-Hulk movie or something.
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>>82723469
I think they have the distribution rights, or at least a cut of the profits, but marvel owns the rights to use the character, same with the hulk.
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>>82723504
So no namor in movies
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>>82723213
this is a process for every single movie made. They hire multiple writers to present their script, then they get another group of people to review/edit/ it and modify it more.
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>>82723191

Okay, and? The movie isn't even going to start shooting until well into next year due to Justice League. They most likely want to rewrite it so that it'll be less expensive. Or Wan's got some new ideas that require a major rew-write. People are acting like headless chickens any time DC related movie news is reported as a rumor now.
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>>82723191
>source = birth movie death
>Devin Faraci

Oh nothing to see here. Fucking retard is spazzing a lot these days just throwing any rumor out there so he gets for more publicity.
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>>82723376
SUICIDE SQUAD HAS NO JOKES
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>>82723433
>Can't match Marvel
>can barely keep up with Fox
>NEW PLAN
>CRASH THIS INDUSTRY
>WITH NO SURVIVORS
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>>82723191
Probably to add more "FUN"®!!!

>>82724846
I would welcome this, honestly.
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>/co/ believe in baseless rumors
>...again
Teenage girls are less prone to gossiping.
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>>82723191
I find all this "change the movie even before of release to fit the tastes of the audience" disturbing.

I mean, is like that brillant minds that say X or Y videogame franchise has to change because "people doesn't like that any more" and "it has to go to the new times", then they sell shit compared with what they sold before changing it.
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>>82723295
They want to make Nolan style cape movies only bleaker, slightly less realistic and more serious.
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>>82723191
>>82723191
>>82723191
>>82723191
>>82723191

>Birth.Movies.Death.

>Devin Faraci

>unnamed sources
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>>82723213
Read
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>>82723376
Terrio is going to make BvS the GOAT, anon. Haven't you heard?
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>why is Aquaman considered such a joke character compared to other superheroes?

Because he's considered a joke character.

So if what >>82723322 said is true when you release a toy of the character, the stores immediately trash it, which means that everybody sees the character as a joke even more.

Basically normies are fucking stupid.
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>>82723370
C-lister character nobody knew until the Superfriends cartoon happened
He became famous but at the cost of being the joke character
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>caring
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No one besides internet kiddies cares at all. I and everyone else just want quality proper Batman films. Not gonna see Aquashit. Not gonna see Flashit. Not gonna see Wonder Jew. Not gonna Super Fag. And fucking hell I'm definitely not going to see Cybore.

Green Lantern Corps may be great. Don't really care either way.
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>>82723191
>a movie getting a script rewrite

Woah man that stuff never happens!
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>>82723370
>I don't really understand why he'd be a riskier character than say, Ant-Man, the Guardians or Captain America.
None of those characters ever had the level of recognition that Aquaman has had. It's just that all of Aquaman's recognition has been negative.

>>82723406
>he has a dorky costume that doesn't look cool
Relative. You could argue that pretty much every superhero's costume is dorky in some incarnation.
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>>82723191
>hack director of Flash gets fired
>PANIC

>hack writers of Aquaman get fired
>PANIC

Why are the good news for the DCEU always turned into something bad?
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>>82726700
Mostly company war fags. People like Devin Faraci who lives off rumors via 'insider sources' and Youtube channels like IGN, Machinima and any other tryhard fag channel that report these and get 100k views.
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>>82723191
>Dafoe
>Atlantean
so Ocean Master?
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>>82723191
want there going to be some Cthulhu like stuff involved
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It's like the character is eternally cursed or something.
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This is what pisses me off about this entire universe, WB is being reactive rather than innovative. In theory you should get a good director with vision nad having a basic understanding and interest in the source material. This shit right here screams "this is popular now, we need to tweak it". Corporate, by the numbers, at its finest
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>>82727989
>WB is being reactive rather than innovative.
probably because everyone shits all over everything they try.
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>>82726700
>E-everything is f-f-fine...
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>>82727585
He's playing a good guy.
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>>82728092
They've tried giving Zack Snyder keys to their cinematic universe. Zack Snyder!
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>>82728264
i like MoS and BvS tho
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>>82728301
>WB is being reactive
>Because people bully their decisions
>But they gave the franchise to Snyder
>But I like him

You can't have this both ways anon
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>>82728301
That's like your opinion dude that is not going to be heard over overwhelming criticism and Zack Snyder's "Muh Oscar winning screenwriter! Your just Mahvel drones, a babies! RAPE! RAPE! RAPE!"
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>>82723191
The problem with DC is that most of it's heroes aside from Batman are really lame and they have been made living jokes for decades.
Hell, if it wasn't for Nolan, Batman would still be a joke.
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>>82728443
>Hell, if it wasn't for Burton, Batman would still be a joke.
fixed
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>>82728488
Those were good, but Batman Forever and Batman and Robin trashed Batman's mainstream reputation for almost a decade, or even more considering the really succesful one was The Dark Knight and not Batman Begins.
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>>82728443
You don't actually truly believe this, do you?

They have THOUSANDS of characters, and you think most of them are lame?

Jesus Christ.
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>>82728531
Warner Bros. are thinking the same.
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>>82728512
Burton's movies showed you could do a Batman that wasn't campy Adam West. Yeah, Forever and B&R ruined that run of movies, but it didn't ruin Batman. Batman stayed popular.
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Whats infuriating is that WB is sitting on a goldmine and they've fumbled on nearly every turn. Aquaman, The Flash, Wonder Woman, each has the potential for good film making. If they didn't have such apathy for the material and hired competent people they'd be sitting pretty. But apparently we cant have nice things
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>>82724846
On one hand I wouldn't get all the shit I want in movies. On the other hand, all the normies will leave the comics be. Difficult decision
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>>82728602
>Whats infuriating is that WB is sitting on a goldmine and they've fumbled on nearly every turn.
Yep. Their movies suck. Their comics suck. Even the animated stuff sucks now.

WB and DC management needs to be completely replaced
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>>82728602
The problem is that they have.
I believe if they put the guys in charge of the DCAU in charge of the DCEU they could make some really good movies and that people would like them.
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>>82728531
Not him, but that's WB's mindset.
That's why they are making everything so dark, or why Snyder thinks doing everything so dark is good, because he thinks superheroes are ridiculous.
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>>82728531
It's mind blowing what Disney has done to these fucking retards.
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No one's going to see an Aquaman movie. He's a complete joke, even the Ant-Man movie stood better chances.

If they want to make a successful Aquaman movie, introduce him in the Justice League movie. Show normies that he can be cool, then try afterwards. A pre-JL Aquaman movie would be sent out to die.
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>>82728765
He is in the Justice League movie.
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>>82728696
They need people with mentality like the DCAU people but being a good cartoonist isn't the same as being good at live action, you can't just put them on the movies and think it would work.
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>>82728747
It's what WB has failed to do, man, and deep down you know that.
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>>82728765
You'd be surprised what one trailer could do
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>>82728784
Sure, I mean have the guys in the DCAU be like Kevin Feige in the MCU, guide the others, but let other directors and such make their own things.
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>>82728765

how new are you?
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>>82728765
This is the kind of thing people said about Ant-Man and GotG before they came out though.
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>>82723191

>Mysteries of the deep
>Things are occuring, unknown beyond your ability to sense or know about them
>Go in search of the phenomonen
>It turns out something ancient is rising
>Build up to prevent this from happening
>Some ancient maguffin(atlantean)
>Its a race against time
>just in time to see all your efforts fail
>It rises
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>>82728765
shit bait
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>>82728696
>if they put the guys in charge of the DCAU in charge of the DCEU
the DCAU sucks bad. do you fuckers actually watch these animated movies or just repeat old shit you hear online?

most of them have been crap and there's only be a couple decent ones since DCAU decided to go New 52 with Flashpoint Paradox.
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>>82728941
Thats not the DCAU you fucktard. Theyre referring to the people behind JLU and the related shows
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>>82728941
The DCAU is BTAS, STAS, Beyond, JL, JLU, Static, and Zeta. And maybe that shitty Gotham Girls web series I think? I think the only movies that count would be Phantasm, Return of the Joker, and Mystery of the Batwoman. Brainaic Attacks is not canon despite the art style.
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>>82728993
>>82729006
>implying Timm hasn't produced those and most DC animated movies
and they allll suck. DC hasn't produced anything good in forever. when's the last time they pulled off a good animated series? ten years ago?

you people are living in the past. there is no good DC in any format any more.

you better hope Rebirth isn't Stillbirth because DC is coasting on fumes.
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>>82723191
Damage Control Extended Universe.
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>>82729111
The movies do suck but Timm hasn't been in charge of the recent ones, it's mostly Tucker (who did do some DCAU work but clearly the movies aren't in his wheelhouse given that his actual brainchild in BATB was so good). And no one is saying he should do it alone, we all know Dini was the real mastermind not Timm. And they also did not do a well with anyone above street level after STAS anyway so it would require additional input from someone who can handle higher power levels.

I kind of blame Johns for not being more assertive though. This sort of thing is part of his job anyway and I don't see anything of him in the movies. Maybe it's just a corporate structure thing that he can't break though but I see nothing of his influence in the final products.
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>>82729277
>I see nothing of his influence in the final products.
apparently he was shocked at the bad reviews for BvS. we'll probably see Johns version of Darkseid, which makes me sad.

WB executives probably outrank DC executives
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>>82726700
Flash's director wasn't fired, he walked

Scripts are basically contract work; you write a script, submit it, and if the studio accepts it, you get paid. But it typically ends there. In some cases, people do have contracts with studios to write exclusively for them,however, i.e. Goyer for WB.

Tl;dr stop
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>>82726055
Where is that collage with the Oscars involved in BvS?
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>>82729488
He was tapped to write, then let good of.
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>>82723376
>are going to be in denial until this turd drops

And for years afterwards, anon.
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>>82728443
>The problem with DC is that most of it's heroes aside from Batman are really lame and they have been made living jokes for decades.
Oh fuck off with this ignorant bullshit.

The sad thing is, with the way WB has no faith in any of their properties that isn't Batman and to a lesser extent, Superman, they only fuel these kinds of beliefs.

Literally ALL they need is the confidence that Marvel has and some people who know what they're doing in charge. All they need. But they can't even do that.

>>82728531
The DCU is just as magical and cool as the MU and some of us even prefer it. But WB doesn't seem to think so.
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>>82729716
What I wouldnt give to be a fly on the WB corporate office or read emails about all the drama
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>>82723405
>Superfriends, Robot Chicken and Family Guy. He is the joke character that is powerless out of water and can only talk to fish.
>None of this is actually true but if you tell them to read a comic book or watch that episode of BatB, they'll ignore you (as a best case scenario). I love Aquaman and I actually quite like the Mamoa angle but its associated with BvS which people hate.
My nigga.
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>>82729277
>we all know Dini was the real mastermind not Timm.
Come on, anon. I like Dini as much as the next guy, but this just simply isn't very true. Reminder that Dini's actual comic book work is decent at best. He's not really *that* good.
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>>82729747
When this whole effort started with "We'll make a gritty realistic take on Superman's mythology", I knew the entire DCCU had been poisoned by the success of The Dark Knight.

We could have had a bright mythology with charming characters that exude the best aspects of their comic versions. Instead we have the most extreme Elseworlds-inspired versions, while autistic fanboys have been conditioned to sneer at "quips" and hate "fun".

The Elseworlds were always weird treats for the most dedicated and immersed fans. They are a stupid choice for the flagship interpretations of the DC universe. 70 years of good feelings pissed down a hole.
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>>82723191
>Snyder Aquaman
>Literally walks on water
>By the climax of the movie, he finally dives
>Water turns into wine
>Dies of alcohol poison
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>>82729877
Boo fuckin hoo dude, read a comic.
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>>82729911
>All the sea life dies of alcohol poisoning
>Aquaman destroys fishing trawlers in a drunken rage

Fixed that for you.
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>>82729877
to be fair, when most people demand optimistic and "fun" Superman, they're talking about the Chris Reeve movies or STAS, not comics. the comics have just as much of the MoS and BvS Superman as they do they other versions of him.
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>>82729958
Oh, I forgot "You just don't read comics", thanks Aspie.
My problem is that I've spent the last 36 years reading better comics than you have.

That's why I don't think Face-off Joker, Necksnapper Wonder Woman and Man of Ruthlessness are good fucking comics.
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>>82726055
It was the goat, in a biblical sense.
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>>82728401
Shaken, not stirred.
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>>82730017
>not muh heroes
get over it
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>>82729990
>the comics have just as much of the MoS and BvS Superman as they do they other versions of him.

What is cherrypicking?
Stuff like Miller's TDKR is an out of continuity limited seriers, against miles of regular comics.
Setting that aside, people clearly do not adhere to the heroes being interpreted in this Dark Universe fashion.

They've misconstrued Heat Legend's singular appeal into the idea that their entire universe needs to be seen through this dark prism of costume-less angst and dread. Which is how you get to the Suicide Squad all dressing like Bane.
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>>82730112
>Says the guy making tear-stained defenses of Snyder erry day.
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>>82730198
> tear-stained defenses of Snyder erry day.
fuck you i'm not crying. i have allergies and its dusty in here
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>>82729958
Name a comic he should read then.
Because he could read Birthright, or Secret Origins, or All Star,
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>>82723405
>He is the joke character that is powerless out of water and can only talk to fish.
How strong/durable would you have to be to casually walk around at the bottom of the ocean?
>Spidey
>Thing
>Hulk
I'm 99% sure AM would CRUSH Cap in a fight with or w/o his shield.
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>>82730273
As I've been reading DC comics since I uncovered boxes of them in my grandmother's basement in 1974, I laugh at the idea that some 20 yr old comic pirate is telling me to "reed moor".
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>>82730328
Bro, I don't give a shit about your street cred.
I really, really don't. So kindly fuck off.
I just find it funny that Snyderfags always go "LOL READ A COMIC" and then never actually name which comics people should be reading.
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>>82730320
>I'm 99% sure _______ would CRUSH Cap

Yes, the DC heroes are made out of fairy dust and impossibility. Which is why trying to do "realistic" Supr SRS BZNSS takes on them in movies is just a stupid waste of time.
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>>82729877
So? If you want that Superman, just go read the ones that match to what you want.
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>>82730328
>been reading DC comics since 1974
that doesn't make you an authority on any thing.
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>>82730367
Go salve your fanny, newfag.
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>"Justice League Part One" arrives in theaters on November 17, 2017;
>"Aquaman" is currently slated for a July 27, 2018 release.

I didn't know this. Is that shitty 10 second teaser in BvS actually the only set-up we're getting for Arthur before JL?

I figured the solo movies were coming before the team-up. Yeah that's how the MCU did it but it's also basic common sense
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>>82725670
underrated post
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>>82730409
Nice try Joey.
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>>82730438
Yeah, when I was watching Man of Steel I cringed so hard when they introduced General Swanwick. Why didn't they give him a move to set him up first. .
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>>82730438
In comics a lot of times characters are introduced in team stories before they get their solos. There's no single way to do it.
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>>82730438
>it's also basic common sense
there's no reason to think spinning off characters from a team to solo movies wouldn't work too. it's not like DC characters aren't household names for the most part.

or do you just want all comic book movies and franchises to be as formulaic as possible?
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>>82730423
>So? If you want that Superman, just go read the ones that match to what you want.

The broad and enduring appeal of Superman as a mythic character is built on those stories, not on 90's elseworld wankstering.
MAYBE it would be a good idea to spend $250 million making movies that are true to the aspects of his character than have appealed over the decades, and NOT man-children's "Crush yo Head" Superman?

Save THAT shit for the comic readers who want to seek out that kind of story.
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>>82730438
You don't need a movie long set up for any single character, really.

That being said, that teaser was indeed shitty.
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>>82730545
>The broad and enduring appeal of Superman as a mythic character is built on those stories
100% bullshit. i bet the vast majority of non-comic book reading Superman "fans" can't name a single classic Superman story arc. People have an idealized version of Superman that's based mostly on symbolism.
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>>82730665
>can't name a single classic Superman story arc.

The Superman stories of yesteryear, that formed the foundation of Superman as a character, did not have "arcs".
"Story Arcs" is a fan-insider term that no one outside of a comic shop gives a single fuck about.

Your parent's familiarity and comfort with Superman has not a fucking thing to do with "Such-and-such Arc" of Superman or "Writer X's run".
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>Steppenwolf.

How do you pronounce it?
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>>82730435
Can't. I'm too busy reading Superman:Secret Origins as I bought the trade on discount during FCBD.
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>>82730545

That doesn't really describe Snyder's Superman. They're about good triumphing over evil, that's not particularly "90s elseworlds wankstering".

People aren't really looking at the movies objectively. They're saying that a movie with THIS scene is "90s":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlINHSnUx9k [Embed]

Note that this is one of the best scenes in superhero movies. There aren't many equals.

Here's Snyder talking about Superman:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOJj2zw2goM
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>>82730744
that's the point, numbnuts. people can't tell you what they saw about Superman do in any format. They just know symbolism and slogans, e.g. Truth, Justice, and the American Way(tm).

Seriously, you're clinging on to a Superman that hasn't existed in decades. It didn't even exist except as reruns in your lifetime.

Get over it.
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>>82730744
>"I've never read any old comics but I can tell you what people think about them!"

fuck off /tv/
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>>82730665
Their inability to name arcs doesn't actually conflict with the idea that his general perception is antithetical to Snyder's representation.
I've already anticipated your response to what I'm about to say, but I'll say it anyway. If one of your main inspirations for adapting Superman is not Superman, but Miracleman, then you're not actually adapting Superman.
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>>82730823
my nuts are extremely sensitive!
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And live-action comic book material that appeals directly to "hip" young fans who think that people like Johns or Jim Lee are the Olde Masters of comics is fine if you are doing a cheap basic cable show.

When you start producing tentpole wide-market movies about them, you can't act surprised that Critics are unenthused and audiences are tepid in responding to them.

This is the reason why Marvel didn't use the Right-wing dickbag Captain America out of the Ultimate Universe that they've heavily but carefully sampled.
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Ever wonder if Snyder would be better suited for a New Gods movie?
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>>82730868
Snyder's Superman movies aren't particularly dark or edgy.

I mean, have you seen Blade? That's dark and edgy..

Again, this is Man of Steel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlINHSnUx9k
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>>82730750
>They're saying that a movie with THIS scene is "90s":
No, they're saying THIS scene is 90s.
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>>82730853
>If one of your main inspirations for adapting Superman is not Superman, but Miracleman,

Miracleman is a darker book that Superman.
Snyder could have pulled off Miracleman (with a better writer), because to audiences he's an unknown quantity.
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>>82730810
goddammit. why are you posting this grim and gritty shit? i'm trying to have a good day not stare into the empty void of existential crisis until only lethargic ennui saves me from slitting my wrists.
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>>82730937

What do you even mean by "90s" now?

Superman is threatened by a vision of the apocalypse that Zod intends to bring about. It's a dark scene, but, you know, that's the point. It's supposed to be horrible.

And it's not even that fucking dark.
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>>82730928
now THAT'S Cherry-picking.
You select the single bright, dialogue-less scene from the film? You could have just posted the trailers, which contain the entirety of the 6 minutes of Hope in the film.

I could post the Jet liner rescue scene from Superman Returns and go "But look what a great movie this is!".
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>>82730937
>superman given of vision of human annihilation
>literally told we'll genocide your planet
>fights and stops it
>"You're a monster, Zod, and I'm going to stop you."
>WHY IS SUPERMAN SO GRIM AND GRITTY
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>>82730928
Cherry picking one of three scenes that is executed with elementary manipulative techniques is not a fair or balanced summation of the entire work.

But yes, that 3 minutes ten seconds of movie is fine, It's the other 2 hours and 25 minutes people take issue with.
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>>82731057
It is all in the execution and the details, my friend.
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>>82731042
The film is at times dark.

But scenes like the first flight are climactic and rise above the darkness.

This is called storytelling.

Here is another scene that is not 90s dark and edgy, whatever that is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyG5axoTtlc
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>>82730928

damm senpai, those 3 min alone were better than anything mcu has done.
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>>82723191
>Devin Faraci
the fucker is on a one man crusade against the dceu
he's actually doing more damage to it than Snyder himself
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>>82731128
Killing Zod had consequences. It's a lot of what drives BvS.
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>>82730536
People are still bitching about a Black Widow movie and Black Panther was introduced in CW; I don't know what people are bitching about.

>>82730438
So all this shit is over a script rewrite for a film that won't be released for a little over two years? To put things in perspective, the Doctor Strange script was rewritten last year, principal photography wrapped a month ago, and the film has a release date for November.
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>>82731132
>climactic
That's not what that word means. That scene is literally an hour away from the climax.
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>>82731132
Superman meaninglessly destroys two businesses and drags a fight into the middle of a town for no raisin.

Yeah pretty bad.
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>>82731099
>Cherry picking one of three scenes that is executed with elementary manipulative techniques is not a fair or balanced summation of the entire work.


Yes, these scenes defy the film's oppressive tone.

This is the point. The film shows darkness being overcome.

The counterpoint would be to post scenes that are grimdark.

Here is a scene that is not grimdark:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqlaXylsMwQ
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>>82731176
No it didn't.
Zod's existence had consequences certainly (and so did Clark's), but his death didn't. It continues to be framed as an unambiguously good thing.
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>>82723604

Its incredible how far the WB/DC hate has gone. Any little news or rumor turn into click bait bullshit.
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>>82731191

It's climactic to the first half of the film, doofus.

It's also climactic sense that there's rising action that reaches a crescendo.

>>82731207

Still not grimdark.


People seem to be incapable of reading the tone, especially when they've gone so long without watching the movie.
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>>82731191
If anything, the scene is "We've forced you to watch Clark drift around interminably like Bill Bixby, and put you through TWO tellings of his space-opera origin (that you already knew), so here's a reward, 3 minutes of what you actually paid to see."

That's what the First Flight scene is.
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>>82731227
It's about balance, man, and the balance in MoS is skewed towards the cynical. Finding exceptions dos not negate the aggregate.
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>>82731207
it's his first day on the job and he's obviously furious about Zod fucking with his mom. why do people expect Superman to appear fully formed without mistakes.

why is a mid-town fight surprising or so shocking. it happens all the fucking time in Superman comics, movies, and cartoons without showing him save people. sudden in this movie it's the biggest problem in the world. you'd think people would rather just watch him save kittens from trees and help little old ladies across the road for 2.5 hours.

why weren't people butthurt when the US military strafed and bombed Smallville?
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>>82731304
>People seem to be incapable of reading the tone, especially when they've gone so long without watching the movie.

>The critics and the audiences and the most of the fans ARE JUST WRONG DOODY HEADS!

This argument never stops being adorable.
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>>82731304
>It's climactic to the first half of the film, doofus.
>It's also climactic sense that there's rising action that reaches a crescendo.
Right. So you're just gonna use words to mean whatever you want in an attempt to sound smart.
While we're on the subject of rising actions and climaxes why's the denouement fr Man of Steel so dogshit?
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>>82726700

you can thank Disney for the creation of these drones.
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>>82731329
>it's his first day on the job and he's obviously furious about Zod fucking with his mom. why do people expect Superman to appear fully formed without mistakes.
They don't. They expect attempts, not success.
Kind of like how you reward Snyder for trying different things rather than succoring with them,
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>>82731329
>why do people expect Superman to appear fully formed without mistakes.

He's in fucking KANSAS.
He literally made a bee-line for what is probably the only pocket of dense civilization for 100 miles in any direction, ostensibly so Snyder could indulge his CGI destructan fetish.

Because the most important aspect of Superman is how much shit is blowing up.
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>>82731368
You forgot one of your "Based snyder is god" images
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>>82731368
>See me try to win The Biggest Faggot in this thread!
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>>82731322
>It's about balance, man, and the balance in MoS is skewed towards the cynical. Finding exceptions dos not negate the aggregate.

This is an absolutely retarded way to look at stories.

Stories are not equations where you need to evaluate "aggregate" or some other nonsense.

here is a scene that is not grimdark.

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

And I can already hear you posting "but that's fucking edgy shit". But holy fuck if you think that's edgy shit then please stick to cartoons.
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>>82731422
oh look heres one of them now!
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>>82731349

But people are repeatedly misreading the movies. It's getting pretty ridiculous.

They're well-directed sci-fi superhero movies. Occasionally there's some niggling choice, but people have elevated them into some nefarious anti-art that threatens to destroy humanity, which can only be stopped by image macros.
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>>82731444
That's not edgy, its just pure autism.
Clark could have let that guy break his hand on him, lightly smacked him down, but instead meeps off to the parking lot to go fuck up a truck.
It's badly written Goyer.
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>>82731444
>Stories are not equations where you need to evaluate "aggregate" or some other nonsense.
Yeah, they are. The total takeaway matters more than individual scenes.
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>>82731354

The cut from Zod's death to the drone is pretty bad, but it's good.


Can't wait to see people argue that the movie's ending isn't indicative of what the movie is about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBt8fqYTxLo
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>>82723191
>ctrl + F
>more gritty
>0 (zero) hits
DC YOU FUCKING MONGS!
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>>82731485
>sci-fi
OOOOOOOOh you're that guy.
Bro. Sci-fi runs a huge gamut irrespective of tone from Pluto Nash to Blade Runner. Is Man of Steel sci-fi? Sure it is. So's Superman Returns. So's Iron Man. So's Green Lantern.
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>>82731485
There's no relentless conspiracy to shit on Man of Steel. Thor 2 or Fant4stic was panned and mocked and people moved on.

There's a relentless effort to reframe the Snyder films as "well-directed" as you put it, and it's met with genuine cynicism, because people object to that idea.
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>>82729877
This fucking post exactly.

>while autistic fanboys have been conditioned to sneer at "quips" and hate "fun".
Fucking for real. It's like they forget that at the end of the day, superheroes are supposed to be FUN and that DC was always more about that sort of fun than Marvel, which makes this tonal discrepancy between DC's comics and their cinematic universe all the more jarring.
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>>82731551

The aggregate of MoS is Superman overcoming in a world that is corrupt but worth protecting.

That seems the opposite of "dark and edgy" to me.

>>82731507

Hmmm yeah, I guess the movie didn't have enough Superman hurting people weaker than him.
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>>82731556
It's rushed. Extremely rushed.
You seem to be under the impression that "USE WARM COLORS" is all it takes to make a scene happy and forget everything that's happened around it.
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>>82731613
B-But you haven't read enough DARK N GRITTY DC comics!11!!!!!!
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>>82731619
>The aggregate of MoS is Superman overcoming in a world that is corrupt but worth protecting.
For you, perhaps. For huge swaths of audience? Including those that don't feel the need to dig through a pile of shit for a few nuggets that are worth salvaging? Not so much.
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>>82731619
>Hmmm yeah, I guess the movie didn't have enough Superman hurting people weaker than him.
I'd rather have a guy punch me out than destroy my quarter million dollar livelihood in the middle of Alaska. That's what people picking bar fights expect to. If someone acts shitty to you at a party and you stalk out and burn his car up, you are just being a sociopathic fuck.
But that's just me.
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jesus fucking christ, you are all faggots. what the fuck happened
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>>82731606
>There's no relentless conspiracy

Of course there isn't.

It's just a very wide-spread and persistent mindset that leads to people misreading these movies.

If you want to prove that Snyder films aren't well directed, you need to actually show how they aren't.'

Like, what part of MoS for example is badly directed? Not edited, acted, or written, but directed. Refer to composition or cinematography. Don't go to just "it's a CGI fest", that's not a criticism.

>>82731613

MoS and BvS are pretty fun.

>>82731600
>Bro. Sci-fi runs a huge gamut irrespective of tone from Pluto Nash to Blade Runner. Is Man of Steel sci-fi? Sure it is. So's Superman Returns. So's Iron Man. So's Green Lantern.

That doesn't really contradict anything.
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>>82731507
Superman not beating that guy up called back to the bully scene when he was a kid.

Were you superbutthurt when Clark beat up the diner bully in Superman II?
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>>82731647
>"NOT EVERY DC COMIC IS BRIGHT, VIBRANT, AND FUN, SO THAT MAKES IT OKAY THAT THE DCEU ISN'T!!"
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>>82731739
>MoS and BvS are pretty fun.
Maybe in the sense that the action sequences are really cool to watch. But otherwise, these are Superman movies that try their damned hardest to be as 'not-fun' as possible.
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>>82731703
>i'd rather superman ruin my face than ruin my truck
think about what the fuck you just said
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>>82731619
>Creep harassing waitress
>White-knight myself into the altercation
>"Oh shit he didn't behave!" spill spaghetti helplessly
>Run out and blow up a semi truck in the lot, because I'm not using my powers for my Dad

Fucking Christ, Superman is supposed to be in his 30's, not a 10 yr old autistic child.
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>>82731684
if you had to dig deep to understand what MoS, or BvS for that matter, was about then you're just fucking dumb. that's all there is to it.
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Man of Steel's tone just does not fit Superman. It would be a much better fit for Aquaman and Martian Manhunter, however.
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>>82731785
"I'm a pussy who doesn't go to parties, and think that people who dump beer on Big Guy's heads aren't willing to risk a broken nose"

That's what you are saying.
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>Those sources also say that a majority of "Justice League" will be shot on sets against a green screen, so director Zack Snyder can "utilize background replacement" like he did on "300." This will both allow him greater control over the look of the film and keep set photos from location shoots from leaking online.

Shit's gonna look hilariously bad
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>>82731739
Anon what is your understanding of a director's role? Because you seem to be attributing cinematography to him but not creative decisions and that's not accurate. The role of the director includes creative decisions. Are you sure you're not confusing a Director with a Director of Photography? Because I can see how you might confuse the two, but those are different jobs.

If, for example, the actors give a bland take, the director is the guy that says "I want another take, and this time emote more here." or conversely he says "That's a good take. That's what we'll use." So in that regard yes, the director has control over acting. And that's just one example.
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>>82731684

There's nothing particularly bad in MoS. People are just ideologically opposed to a Superman who has to deal with a corrupt world. They've repeatedly stated that they want a brighter, more cartoonish Superman. So the criticism tends to be based on how the movie doesn't fit expectations.

>>82731630
>You seem to be under the impression that "USE WARM COLORS" is all it takes to make a scene happy and forget everything that's happened around it.

It's not supposed to make you forget. It would be dumb to make people forget the movie.

The movie ends on the hopeful note on Superman joining the rest of humanity for the first time in his life.

But I also think it needed more smoothing out to be more satisfying.

>>82731703
Superman is poorly adjusted in that scene. That is the point. He represses himself, but then lashes out.

That is the point.
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>>82731790
>Superman is supposed to be in his 30's, not a 10 yr old autistic child.
Basically, that's what MoS was about though: a person with super powers becoming a man. Jor-El and Jonathan Kent's lessons and examples were all about manhood and choices.
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>>82731807
I agree. Which is why it's really sad you guys are trying to find meaning in what is ultimately just a bad movie. Just let it be a bad movie. Stop trying to find hidden symbols and grand conspiracies holding it down. It can just suck.
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>>82731836
Superman doesn't punch down.
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>>82731848
>Superman is poorly adjusted in that scene. That is the point.

That Superman is 33 and moping around like an emo High School kid is a terrible fucking point to be making in a Big Movie.
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>>82731807

You see the opposite phenomenon of people digging deeper into MoS and BvS to NOT understand it.

>>82731840

300 looks good though.

>>82731847

Yes, you're right, i was being overly narrow.

Unfortunately you haven't shown how Snyder directed MoS and BvS poorly. Maybe post a scene that's not well directed?
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>>82731891
Superman solves all his problems in the Snyder films by punching down.
All of them.
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>>82731848
>There's nothing particularly bad in MoS. People are just ideologically opposed to a Superman who has to deal with a corrupt world. T
I think one of the fundamental misunderstandings you have is that we see the world through Superman's eyes. If the world is shown to be corrupt, you need to establish why it's worth saving. Snyder doesn't, because objectivism.


>The movie ends on the hopeful note on Superman joining the rest of humanity for the first time in his life.
What happened to that by the way? Because I was told for three years that BvS would give us a Superman with even rudimentary social skills and we didn't get it there either.
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>>82731406
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SWk2b8JKqg

That's the first part of the final confrontation in IM2. The action starts about two minutes in. He doesn't attempt to take the fight out of the expo until two minutes later. He takes the fight to a highway running through downtown LA. He then goes back to the expo.
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I hope they pull a little more from the Brave and the Bold version.
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>Aquaman's hair will be CGI

Something about that makes me laugh.
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>>82731913
>That Superman is 33 and moping around like an emo High School kid is a terrible fucking point to be making in a Big Movie.

That's a silly argument. You're not looking at the actual scene. That's not really moping like an "emo high school kid". he's a frustrated working-class dude.
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>>82731883
it's not a bad movie. neither is BvS. I saw both without reading criticism, and I loved and understood both. i'm not going to change my opinion because internet idiots want to misrepresent scenes
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so if we get superman darkseid dance off.. will you asshole be happy?
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>>82731980
Drifter busboys are not "working class".
Working Class men get in fights when they are angry, they don't do enough property destruction to get sent to prison.
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>>82731840
Have you seen the sets for most superhero films? That's normal.
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>>82732004
When Snyder dances off the WB team that will be a good start.
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>>82731956
>I think one of the fundamental misunderstandings you have is that we see the world through Superman's eyes. If the world is shown to be corrupt, you need to establish why it's worth saving.

Because people deserve better. They shouldn't end up like Krypton, trapped and paralyzed by the systems they have built.

This is pretty obvious.

>Snyder doesn't, because objectivism.


Snyder and his movies aren't objectivist.


>What happened to that by the way? Because I was told for three years that BvS would give us a Superman with even rudimentary social skills and we didn't get it there either.


BvS isnt' about how Clark Kent has trouble fitting in. It's the opposite, it's about how SUPERMAN has trouble fitting in.
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>>82731943
>300 looks good though.

For what it was trying to do (a motion comic book), and in 2006... maybe

Imagine a Justice League movie with those fake ass backgrounds and bloom effects
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>>82732062
Because "Clark Kent" is murdered off, like Jimmy Olson.
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>>82732026
Getting into a fight when you're angry will get you sent to prison anyways.
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>>82732026

Superman grew up on a farm in Kansas. He works at bars and oil derricks. When he wants to relax he cracks open a beer-

He's a working-class dude through and through,
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>>82732088
>Implying Snyderfags aren't already masturbating to the idea.
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>>82732051
It's normal to have a lot of green screen (and this is the case for MoS and BvS as well), but they are saying there will be MORE green screen. Like Sucker Punch.
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>>82731943
>Unfortunately you haven't shown how Snyder directed MoS and BvS poorly. Maybe post a scene that's not well directed?
I can't do that. Not because the movie are good, but because the problem aren't individual scenes (persay). but rather how those individual scenes fit together into the narrative. Which is why I think what you're doing with this whole "look at this individual scene and only this scene" is such a dishonest way to go about critiquing the movie.

I can build a house out of bricks and leave out cement. You look at it and go "Oh well these bricks are fine!" but without that cement would you still want to live in it?

Like, for example, the Jesus imagery in the two movies. Symbolic? Sure! (If elementary). Effective! Only kind of, because Snyder uses it too much. It can't be, as people claim, an attempt to show how the world views Clark, when Snyder keeps hammering on the allegory button even when nobody is around to project that onto him. And no, the audience isn't the one doing it; the audience is an impartial observer. By forcibly over-relaying on the metaphor Snyder completely ruins it. And that's one of those things that, if you just look at one scene, it won't be obvious. But as a whole?
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>>82732106
>Getting into a fight when you're angry will get you sent to prison anyways.

No junior, it will get you sent down to the local jailhouse. Destroying a semi truck and electrical poles with vandalism will get you sent to prison.
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>>82732062
>Because people deserve better.
Why?
>Snyder and his movies aren't objectivist.
Well that's just blatantly untrue.
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>>82732162
Honestly, punching out a harassing asshole in the middle of Nowhere, Alaska will probably just get you a slice of pie from a grateful waitress.
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>>82732144
>I can't do that. Not because the movie are good, but because the problem aren't individual scenes (persay). but rather how those individual scenes fit together into the narrative. Which is why I think what you're doing with this whole "look at this individual scene and only this scene" is such a dishonest way to go about critiquing the movie.

You need to point out what's actually left out. Cohesion? The movie's pretty understandable. Hope? Good overcomes evil and corruption.

>Like, for example, the Jesus imagery in the two movies. Symbolic? Sure! (If elementary). Effective! Only kind of, because Snyder uses it too much.

Not really. There's similarities pointed out but the movies also emphasise the differences. Superman is more Christian than Christ.

I think that's fair description of BvS: it's about a Christian who is mistaken for Christ.
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I'd rather Snyderfags stop expecting us to analzye his work like Kubrik...

..and just admit that a 33 yr old virginal momma's boy with social awkwardness and boiling inner rage is just their perfect self-insert hero.
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>>82732128
Look up the set photos from Avengers, even the location shooting was covered in green screen. Most of the Battle of New York was shot on a set. CGI background replacement is pretty much the new normal.
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>>82732166
>Why?

The better question is why you need to ask this.

That humanity deserves good is a given. The movie doesn't argue against that even if the world is corrupt.

>Well that's just blatantly untrue.

I hate to resort to this, but Snyder being an Objectivist... is a meme. His movies aren't about objectivism.

MoS has a priest state that even if the world is corrupt, you need to take a leap of faith and trust in humanity.

BvS ends with the self-made lone warrior is humbled and the proletarian hero sacrificing himself to save humanity.

That seems like the opposite of objectivism.
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>>82732365

isnt that who Superman is
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>>82730409
Confirmed for literally not reading comics.

Half the Marvel Universe is fucking reality warpers.
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>>82732470
Name three that aren't villains.
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>>82732162
Well golly gee, Grandpa, maybe back in your day starting a fight in public ended with the sheriff saying "boys will be boys" and letting you cool off in the drunk tank, but where I'm from it'll get you an assault charge.
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>>82729111
>this delusion
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>>82732518
"Pithy remarks are cancer and fun triggers my autism levels."
You are pitied, to be honest bro.
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>>82732498
Never been villains at all or have switched sides?
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>>82732536
He's in a bar in Alaska, not a campus in California.
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>>82732518

Try harder, he says.

Pot, meet kettle.
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>>82732578
I mean, no villains who reformed for a bit to help out.
I am talking heroes with their own books or on teams long running.
Since HALF the Marvel Universe is reality warpers, this shouldn't pose any problem at all!
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>>82732381
>That humanity deserves good is a given.
No, it isn't.
>The movie doesn't argue against that even if the world is corrupt.
Yes, it does, by virtue of that same corruption.
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>>82732578
And now you just look stupid.
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>>82723282
So Civil War and BvS?
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>>82723602
>this is a process for every single movie made.
Nope, not even close. Only Wb is having 3+ scripts written at the same time for their properties
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>>82723376
I mean there was another rumor that said James Wan was gonna drop out of Aquaman but then he posted a picture of him in front a big Aquaman mural and even told people not to shit on Faraci.
No, I'm not gonna believe rumors.
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>>82732659
>No, it isn't.

That's kind of a bleak outlook dude.

I just generally assume that people are worth saving.
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>>82724846
>WB succesfully killing superhero movies for the 3rd time
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>>82725738
>/v/edditor
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>>82731368
>Snydefags spam /co/ and /tv/ with capekino threads since 2014
>call others drones
you reap what you sow
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>>82723370
Aquaman has been seen as a joke in popular culture for years. If you ask casual fans, they'll probably tell you that Aquaman's lame but DC has been trying really hard to sell him as a badass recently (Injustice comes to mind). He's known well enough, but he doesn't have a good reputation.

As compared to Ant-Man, the Guardians, and Cap, who may not have been popular before but they weren't necessarily considered to be just jokes. Then they got put through the Marvel Hype Machine; any bad reputation they may have had was swept away, and the marketing guys could rely on selling them simply because they were Marvel and Marvel is popular. Aquaman not only has his own shoddy reputation, but it's a DCCU movie, something that hasn't proven to be marketing gold. The deck is stacked against this one, sadly.
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This is the Aquaman that could change his public opinion
not kidding. i used to sit down with my sibblings when BatB came on and they actually loved aquaman, it was their favorite character next to Batman and Blue Beetle
if only we got a Aquaman movie in the vein of the pirates of the caribean, with the main priority being swashbuckling adventures with a charismatic protag
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>>82732962
It would be great if Aquamomoa just looked like a brute but was actually a fun "oldschool hero"
And Momoa himself is a fun guy
But they just make him be angry brute all the time
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>>82732962
>>82733059
B-but "quips"!
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>>82733172
is ''quips'' the cuck of /co/?
something you say when you have no argument what so ever?
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>>82732595
I live in Bumfuck, Alabama. Still get you an assault charge.

>>82732625
Franklin Richard, Scarlet Witch, Jean Grey, Sentry, Wiccan, Rick Jones, Nate Grey, Legion, Eden Fesi, Captain Universe, Freedom Ring, Crusader, and Sleepwalker. That's not even getting into the magical characters who can alter reality.
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>>82732928
>Aquaman has been seen as a joke in popular culture for years.
Aquaman isn't part of popular culture, he's an inside joke that comic neckbeards and cartoon oldfags get.

Your momma could tell what Spider-Man or Batman's origins were, and probably name several of their supporting characters.

They MIGHT recognize a picture of Aquaman in the proper context.
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>>82733223
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>>82732751
There are no givens in a narrative. Only what you establish.
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>>82732962
i genuinely like the Pirates movies so a swashbuckling fantasy superhero movie would be amazing. You could have chase scenes where he rides sharks and stuff.

Or you could make it like Flash Gordon underwater.
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>>82733208
It's something you use to remind people of their shame and failure.

Cuckolds are failures as men, and Quips are failures in writing.
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>>82733223
This is what I never got. DC has the reputation as being OP when Marvel character objectively have more and greater powers.
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>>82733348
but 4chan is shame and failure: the image board
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>>82723376
People aren't going to just accept what your corporate masters are telling us to, no.

Fuck off Mouseketeer.
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>>82723191
>rumor
>Faraci
How does this guy keep getting cited all the damn time?
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>>82733420
That's not all of them, just what's listed on the Marvel wiki. Though the vague way >>82732625 phrased his statement he can exclude every single one by redefining his terms.
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>>82723376
>Birth.Movies.Death.

>Devin Faraci

>unnamed sources
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>>82728822
Guardians were practically unknown to the masses and the trailer had undoubtedly the "cool factor". Trailer presented them as a wise-cracking rag-tag team of funny characters. 99% react positively to a presentation like that. Antman was a risk but I argue that Guardians definitely paved the way for it and made the audience willing to look at it. Word of mouth spread that the movie was a fun action comedy like Guardians.

There's no so such luck with Aquaman, not with the way WB/DC is running their movie brands into the ground. The majority thinks of Aquaman as a joke whether it's true or not. It's deeply rooted into pop culture at this point. I would personally advice them to either scrap him entirely or embrace his reputation by making him an official comedy.
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>>82733541
If you're a Marveldrone he feeds your sense of superiority, if you're a DCuck he feeds your sense of outrage. If you actually follow the filmmaking process you ignore him.
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>>82733223
>Rick Jones, Franklin
Supporting characters, plot-devices that generally don't act as heroes at all. Especially the hilarious "Destiiny Force"
>Scarlet Witch, Wiccan
While Scarlet Witch is a probability alterer (sometimes), she only uses reality warp under special plot conditions. Still I give you these two.
>Nate Grey
Super-psychic, not a reality warper
>Legion
A non-villain for an entire short limited series.
>Eden Fesi
He teleports by "altering reality". He just Teleports. That's not a Reality Warper.
>Captain Universe
Are we gonna count the Cosmic Cube and anyone possessing it? Another plot device temporary power boost. You can't call Hal Jordan a reality warper just because he was one for a bit.
>Freedom Ring
Who?.jpg. Literally a five-issue trivia question no one could answer.
>Crusader
See: Cosmic Cube
>Sleepwalker
He transmutes small objects
>That's not even getting into the magical characters who can alter reality.
That's because aside from Kulan Gath and villains like him, magical heroes generally don't do this except under crazy circumstances with some greater power/one-shot boost behind them.

You had to get to fucking Freedom Ring trying to make even three, I think that says it all.
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>>82733244
>Aquaman isn't part of popular culture
I argue that anybody who watches Seth Macfarlane's or Seth Green's cartoons likely knows Aquaman by their definition ("Aquaman" = "lamest superhero ever").
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>>82733728
you already got wrecked, just accept it you fucking autist.
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>>82733614
Look, you were right: >>82733728
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>>82733768
he can't accept that Marvel is literally DBZ tier writing
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>>82733541
he was right about the BvS test screenings being negative
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>>82733752
Only butt-flustered comic book neckbeards remember Aquaman from Family Guy's interminable seasons.
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>>82733768
>>82733772
>Use the entire interwebs
>come up with a questionable list with maybe 3 non Z-list characters on it.

"S-see! HALF THE MARVEL UNIVERSE"
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>>82733752
/co/ culture does not equal "popular culture".
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>>82723448
Namor is even more of a joke to normies, he's basically discount aquaman.
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>>82733824
>>82733884
If Family Guy is "/co/ culture" then it definitely does. I will have to ask you both to deal with this fact to the extent of your abilities.
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>>82733924
And yet they made audiences love Cap's 70's "Black Friend".
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>>82733928
Shitting on Family Guy is part of /co/'s culture.
To popular culture, Family Guy is just a show they watch for cheap lulz when bored.
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>>82733924
>implying normies even know who the fuck Namor is
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>>82733823
No he wasn't. The only thing he was "right" about was the movie being bad, which he was pretty much saying from the start before there was a trailer possibly before there was even a script. The beauty part of the chances of him being wrong was that he could still stick to his guns & just act like a typical film snob if it was popularly received.

Like if you hate DC stuff, bully for you, but this is the same faggot that said "DareDevil would be shit" to "You're a misogynist if you like JJ more than DD." Also the brilliant mind behind such hypocrisies as bitching about the White Washing of Exodus: Gods & Kings, but snickering & sneering at people bitching about ScarJo playing a woman named Motoko Kusanagi.
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>>82733728
Called it on the redefining.

Of course, applying your arbitrary definitions of what counts towards reality warping also excludes every single villainous one as well. Using Scarlet Witch and and Wiccan as your baseline puts them far ahead of anything else.
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Aquaman is popular culture with or without Family Guy. In fact, I didn't know about this "lol people think Aquaman is lame because of Family Guy" thing until recently (I'm not American).

He was probably more famous than Green Lantern before the JL cartoon.
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>>82733952
Cap's Black Friend isn't a sexually aggressive asshole with a penchant for chasing after married women and using speedos as formal wear.
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>>82734050
>Called it on the redefining.

>Half the Marvel Universe is Reality Warpers
>Name 3 that aren't villains
>Immediately hedges for ex-villains to be included
>Includes ex-villains anyway after a google search
>Some people on the list aren't even reality warpers
>CALLED IT ON THE REDEFINING

Your original point was stupidly inaccurate, you can't even remotely defend it without bringing in obscure one-shot characters, and you claim Great Success.

Whatever helps you, I suppose.
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>>82734062
hes famous as a joke
Gen X thinks hes a joke because of the Superfriends show making him useless outside of talking to fish
Gen Y think hes a joke because of shows like family guy and south park making fun of him
now Gen Z thinks hes a joke because of internet culture
Aquaman is famous, but not in a way WB or DC want
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>>82734128
>Cap's Black Friend isn't a sexually aggressive asshole with a penchant for chasing after married women

Yeah, they could never bring a sexual playboy asshole to the big screen, audiences would never go for it.
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>>82734203
He's not famous, outside of comic book and cartoon circles.
Generations of people do NOT think about him, one way or the other.
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>>82734203
You forgot that he's a Spongebob parody character (that kids didn't get).
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>>82734203
The point was that he is part of popular culture

Aquaman comes to mind when people think about an aquatic hero.
Aquaman comes to mind when people think about a lame hero.

There's both good and bad in his popularity, but he is popular.
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>>82734203
>now Gen Z thinks hes a joke because of internet culture
>Thinks Gen Z jokes about Aquaman on the internet
>Probably raged because Peter Parker couldn't name an AT-AT.

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>>82734241
You are out of touch with reality.
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>>82734241
im pretty sure if you asked a random person who aquaman was the awnser will always be
>''that guy who talks to fish right?''
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>>82734314
He's about as "popular" as Sonny from the Cocoa Puffs cereal box.
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>>82734356
that makes him (barely) recognizeable.
Those same people could not answer basic questions about Aquaman that they could about actually popular characters like the Hulk or Wonder Woman.
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>>82733510
Yeah let's defend the big corporation from another corporation.
Brilliant
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>>82734455
Warner Brothers isn't a big corporation, it's a place of visionaries and artistes with sophisticated tastes in refined entertainment.
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>>82733803
Its not even that, half those characters have been in some good shit. It jus sickens me to see "adults" try and start this company war shit.

>>82733860
Quit moving the goalposts you fucking manchild.
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>>82734562
>Adults
>on /co/
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>>82734562
>Quit moving the goalposts you fucking manchild.

Your list included Freedom Ring.
Nothing more be said about your "Half Marvel" claim.
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>>82734692
What? I didnt even write the fucking list.
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>>82734692
Freedom Ring gets introduced and dies in a matter of 2-3 issues
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>>82731028
>Superman is threatened by a vision of the apocalypse that Zod intends to bring about.

It's a psychic alien mindmeld using technology never mentioned before or after, and never to be mentioned again because it's just a paper-thin excuse for Superman to be swallowed into a pit of skulls.

Why is there a pit of skull in Kansas? Why are their nuclear explosions? Isn't Zod's plan to turn Earth into Krypton?

It's a dumb scene in a dumb movie.
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>An Aquaman rumor thread became a Man of Steel defense thread
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>>82729111

the movies have mostly been good until the reboot
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>>82723191
>DC is taking so long to make Aquaman that they are not going to be able to contain the IMPERIUS REX coming for them ON THEIR LEFT during Black Phanter.
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>>82737257
I really fucking wish Namor's rights weren't a fucking mess. I'd love to see him giving the Avengers a hand against Thanos on Infinity War.
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>>82728822
Unlike Aquaman, GotG and Ant-Man had ZERO reputation.

Aquaman is well known by a lot of people, they (wrongly) know him as a joke.
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>>82723370
>I don't get it, why is Aquaman considered such a joke character compared to other superheroes?

Darkseid is invading!

Superman, take down their giant robot!

Batman, come up with a strategy!

Flash, go warn the President and the Pentagon!

Green Lantern, take out their flyers!

Wonder Woman, take out the ground troops

Aquaman... Pppppt! You go talk to some fish
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>>82737393
Shouldn't his rights be on the same level as Hulk's?
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>>82737535
I think you people are overworking this, honestly.

All Aquaman needs is a strong portrayal in Justice League and he'll be set. If they nail the character as they have done in the New 52, I doubt most people will hold some jokes about him against the new take.
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>>82737257
>This delusion.

You realize Justice League is coming out next year, which is gonna intro Aquaman before his solo film, correct?
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>>82737559
Aquaman is an ocean wizard, not the Beastmaster
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>>82737257
>yfw Namor is added to MCU after Aquaman
>yfw he will always and forever be "Marvel's Aquaman"
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>>82730423
But anon YOU are in the minority people don't want dark grimdark universes if they did DCCU wouldn't be critically panned by EVERYBODY. So if you like this shit you go read elseworld comics.
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>>82726566

"They ambushed me when I wasn't expecting it"

Who EXPECTS to get ambushed?
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The funny thing is that people think Aquaman gets shit on because of Super Friends.

He gets shit on because he's just a very boring character in general and is usually rather redundant.

Seamaster and Black Manta? That's his gallery? Great.
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>>82726566

That's why it's called an ambush.
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>>82733655
Devin Faraci is the Rich Johnston of comic book movies.

Never let the two meet, for it shall bring about the end of times.
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>>82739070

He's been right almost as much as he's been wrong.
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>>82739095
You're bound to get something right when you're throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks.
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>>82731176
>Killing Zod had consequences.

Yeah. It made me swear off DC movies
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>>82731276
>>82739940

the main consequence of Zod's death was the creation of Doomsday and thus Superman's death. HOW DO YOU NOT GET THIS YOU FUCKING RETARDS
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>>82731739
>MoS and BvS are pretty fun.

Sheeple like you are the reason why movies are shit these days. You are literally cancer.
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>>82740154
>Superman's "death"
>any impact at all
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>>82737628
Sort of.
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>>82738407
He already is Marvel's Aquaman
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>>82731848
>There's nothing particularly bad in MoS.

cough cough MURDER cough cough
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>>82731961

A "Brave and the Bold" style bombastic Aquaman movie played for humor would be the only way an Aquaman movie would have a chance. Any attempt to play Aquaman off as serious is going to get shot down in flames.

Green Lantern badly crippled DC movies. Aquaman will kill them entirely
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>>82723191
>Additionally, B.M.D. states that "Aquaman" has gone back to a page one rewrite in the last week
>B.M.D. states
>B.M.D.

>Sites still reporting on the shit that Faraci comes up with
When will people learn?
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>>82739940
Did you have a problem with the Avengers killing people left and right in CW? What about when Cap and Bucky killed a bunch of completely innocent German special forces guys?
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>>82731980
>he's a frustrated working-class dude.

That doesnt excuse destroying another man's source of income.
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>>82740154
>and thus Superman's death.
It's hard to consider this a consequence when it couldn't even stick for 15 minutes and was largely an arbitrary decision in order to further Batman's influence over the universe.

Sure, you can tell me about how it's going to humble Clark and make him more human and people like him now, except I heard all that shit after Man of Steel and they didn't make good on it then either.
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>>82732112
>He's a working-class dude through and through,

Who murders people
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>>82740819
>murders
I don't think you know what that word means.
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>>82740740
i aint that guy, but did you watch the scene? cap went out of his way to save all of them, this was even a big point of the scene

hell, bucky wasn't even trying to kill, he just wasn't trying NOT to
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>>82740919
>Cap pushes a guys head into a solid concrete wall so hard that a head shaped chunk falls away
>Bucky hits a guy in the stomach with a solid battering ram so hard that he literally flips
I'm sure they're both fine. not even mentioning all of Crossbones men that the Avengers straight up murdered in the beginning
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>>82740992
both of the dudes getting kicked around were peak-of-their-physicality seals or delta or even higher, and were wearing thick as hell body armor and helmets

it wouldn't kill, but it wouldn't feel good, and you can nitpick all you want, but at the end of the day it's specifically shown that cap is saving them, so that's what you should take away from the scene; he wasn't killing them
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>>82738378

Talks to fish
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>>82741044
Keep telling yourself that.
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>>82740869

Ending someone's life,

Id say snapping someone's neck qualifies as murder
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>>82741125
i'll meet you halfway and say that other avengers ARE shown killing baddies in the movie; i'm not arguing that there's no death in a marvel movie. hell, cap even kills when he absolutely has to

but then again, those avengers and captain america aren't superman. superman's expected to not kill
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>>82741090
Yeah I mean, and Falcon in the comics talks to birds and Ant-Man talks to ants but they can do other things than that.

Which I'm sure they will portray in Justice League as well.
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>>82741173
>superman's expected to not kill
Except for all the times he has before.

It's not like he went straight for the kill with Zod. He was begging him to stop so that he wouldn't have to kill him. There was literally nothing else he could've done.

Really the only problem with Superman killing Zod was that Snyder should've emphasized that there was nothing else Superman could've done and that every second he let Zod live more innocents were being killed.
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>>82741165
>if someone breaks into my house after killing a bunch of my neighbors and is about to kill my family if I kill them first I murdered them
?
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>>82723191
Prediction: Aquaman and Cyborg will not be made.
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>>82741324
>Really the only problem with Superman killing Zod was that Snyder should've emphasized that there was nothing else Superman could've done and that every second he let Zod live more innocents were being killed.

and then i realized you were living in denial

your "superman" is bombing, execs are scrambling to stop the bleeding, and justice league will perform below expectations, and the only thing you have to blame is how poorly snyder characterized superman

that's literally it

you had to face the music someday, and i hope i helped you face it today. if not, oh well. have a good one
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>>82728724
>Snyder thinks superheroes are ridiculous so he takes them seriously
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>>82740992
I like how when Superman knocks a guy through a wall that guy is fine and Clark hasn't killed anyone, but when the much weaker Captain America does it to a guy wearing a helmet, that guy is definitely dead.
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>>82741437
Perhaps I should've added 'in the context of that movie'

Is Snyder's Supes MY Supes? Fuck no. But unlike most /co/ autists I can actually look at something as a stand alone piece of work.
>not muh Superman
Isn't a fucking valid criticism.
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>>82741378
Not that guy, but yes. You did.
It was justifiable, and self defense, but it's still murder.
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>>82741544
>It was justifiable, and self defense
>but it's still murder.
Fucking how?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=define+murder
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>>82741534
there should never have been a "context of that movie" because that movie should never have existed

and yes, i think it's fair to say "not muh superman" when what i consider to be muh superman is the incarnation of him that audiences would most definitely love; a light hearted and hopeful, heroic superhero that you can look up to. marvel's shown that sunny protagonists can sell big, just look at antman, and superman written well can pull that off in spades

i just feel like not enough respect is being given to the character. it's fine to take him on a spin, but don't change his core beliefs
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>>82741534
You know, for people that keep screaming "NOT MUH SUPERMAN" as defense I gotta ask. Whose Superman is this?
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>>82741604
Because self defense is an accepted legal defense but the act itself is still unlawful. You'll still get arrested and go to trial, but you'll get off.
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>>82741438
>grimdark means seriouz
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>>82741638
>because that movie should never have existed
I agree
>muh superman is the incarnation of him that audiences would most definitely love; a light hearted and hopeful, heroic superhero that you can look up to
I agree
>i just feel like not enough respect is being given to the character.
I agree

But we didn't get any of those things so we HAVE to judge it as a stand alone piece of work. You can't say something is automatically shit just because it isn't what we wanted.
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>>82741438
You know it's funny. Snyder jerks off to Alan Moore and the like but he ignores that really famous Moore quote where he says that Superheroes should be for kids and as soon as you try to make them dark and serious for adults, you've fucked up.
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>>82741744
>But we didn't get any of those things so we HAVE to judge it as a stand alone piece of work.
Is that really possible given how referential it is?
I mean, the symbolism alone requires you to look outside of the work itself for context and clarity.

When a guy like Snyder recreates famous scenes from comics, ripping them off wholesale, can I really look at just the final product and disregard that source material he's aping so poorly?
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>>82741744
i can and i did, bitch

the movie sucked
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>>82729990
Correction. When people demand an optimistic and "fun" Superman they almost always reference All-Star, an Elseworld, ironically, while dismissing Byrne's run, which was not. Also, don't drag STAS through the mud by conflating it with these people. DCAU Superman was a multi-layered and flawed character.
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>>82741856
I see people posting that page all the time. Since I've never read that run and since you guys obviously have I just gotta ask:

How come Superman isn't also being affected by the kryptonite? Its radiation can't be directed in such a way that it is affecting those guys across the room but not him. That's why he needs containment suits just to be around the stuff.
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>>82741417
Only way that happens is if Justice League bombs, and why would you want that, faggot?
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>>82723191
>Devin Faraci
it just seems odd to me that he's the only one in the entire industry that has inside sources and every media outlet spreads the rumor from his site
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>>82741803
Except none of that really applies to MoS. You don't any outside information to understand 100% of the story and Superman's character. In preparation for BvS I watched it with some non-cape family and they had no problems following the story. It was a completely stand alone piece of work.

BvS on the otherhand was a fucking mess of the sort of stuff you're talking about. I had those same family members lean over to ask me who/what/when/why at least half a dozen times during BvS and I had to spend at least 1/2 an hour after the movie was finished explaining more shit.
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>>82741951
Pocket-universe Kryptonite only affects Pocket-universe Kryptonians. (Pocket-universe Krypto demonstrated that the hard way when he tried to use Gold Kryptonite against Byrne Superman.)
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>>82741856
It's almost as if the people that complain have never actually read a Superman book but just have some vague idea about "what he's supposed to be" and/or are Marveldrones like Slott who'll come up with some excuse as to why this isn't valid
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>>82742038
My bad. I thought were were talking about BvS.
Nah, in Man of Steel it's certainty more self-contained.

Having said that, the movie did seem to be preoccupied with and profiting off of preconceptions about the character. Like the whole "no kill" code that's so controversial. For the record I have no problem with a Superman that kills, but I don't think Man of Steel earned it because of the backwards way it goes about justifying it. There's no time at all spent on establishing Clark as being especially opposed to killing anyone or anything. He's willing to let his own father die out of "what ifs" so his horror at having killed Zod feels hollow at best.
Why do I bring this up? Because the context needed for that kind of genre/character bucking move isn't in this movie. It's in the zeitgeist's perception of Superman and what the character means. It's extracurricular.

And I don't really thin Clark's character arc is organic. And in fact, many character decisions seem forced by the narrative rather than stuff that made sense given their previously established characterization. A lot of the plot beats came off as contradictory.
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>>82742103
Okay, another question. How come nobody ever storytimes or even posts the page after that? Because the denouement is a big part of an action like that.
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>>82742115
He doesn't kill anyone in Birthright. I read that.
I haven't finished Secret Origins yet though, so, you know, don't spoil it if he kills someone there.
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>>82739095
Oh fuck off, he's only been "right" in the same sense that a broken clock has been "right". It's like playing roulette. You're bound to be right if you just stick to betting on black.
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>>82742276
I guess because the next pages are just Zod and Faora begging for their lives (and Quex-Ul choking Zod out for trying to throw him under the bus). There's no extra trolling value for MoS threads, so it's only worth it for people who think Faora offering to be Superman's slave is hot.
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>>82730017
Holy FUCK you're old.
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>>82742250
I agree. Those are pretty much the reasons why I don't think MoS is a particularly good movie.

The problem is that 90% of the fanbase couldn't give a shit about any of that and only dislike it because
>not muh Superman
When that's the least of DCEU's problems. Same sort of thing with Batman in BvS.
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>>82742276
>>82742398

Pic related
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>>82742462
I think the underlying sentiment is the same, and that you're faulting an inability to express that sentiment.

Man of Steel is too busy triying to deconstruct a convention and genre codifier to give an accurate adaptation of it. In that sense, it is not the convention; it cannot be and deconstruct itself at the same time. It isn't, in fact, Superman.. Not just their Superman, but anyone's.
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>>82742480
...I dunno man. The fact that Clark buries them on the moon and cries that tear is something. It's definitely got more subtle weight to it than a big NOOOOOOOO scream followed b him being kinda hot.
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>>82742115
Broad perceptions are all that matter when you're making a movie for a mass audience instead of just a comic book reading audience. Otherwise stick to direct to dvd animation for the specialist market.
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>>82740992
Cap and Bucky are army men you know, trained to kill
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>>82742115
If Man of Steel were a direct 1 to 1 adaptation of the Byrnes comic of the same name, there would not have been a problem.

The problem is that Snyder tried to mix the Byrnes Superman with Birthright (in which Clark has such a sanctity for life that he's a vegan, due to soul vision), Erth One (in which Clark is, at best, a selfish and reluctant youth that has to be quilted into heroism in the first place) and with Miracleman (which, as you might gather from the name isn't even Superman at all.)

Any ONE of those comics would've made a good movie. Mashing all four of them together with a side of Jesus Allegory? That's a recipe for a clusterfuck.

I read comics. One at a time.
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>>82741856
I am so sick of seeing that shit story as an excuse for MoS' horrible script.
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>>82741686
and it is no longer classified as murder. if youre getting off it either isnt murder, plain and simple, or someone else did the murdering
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>>82731444
the film logic behind the scene is this

>set up asshole character
>no confrontation even though he deserves it
>truck gets smashed
it's a gag and a release for the audience who got the fulfillment of guy-got-what-was-coming


it's a simple scene, and deserves nowhere near the discussion it gets
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>>82740557
of a genocidal fundamentalist

nothing bad with presenting that in a movie, and the way it plays out is done at least competently
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>>82742822
Earth One is a meme.

The only real thematic similarity between Man of Steel and Earth is the superficial elements like the colour grading.

JMS's Clark is an asshole whereas Cavill's Clark is fairly subdued and takes on a lot of burden and generally seems to be full of doubts and worries about his place in the world while holding it up with a stiff upper lip.

Earth One's Superman is selfish and angry and fairly petty. He dreams of burning a foreign Dictator for actively denying his aid of his country and his solution to this is to arm a rebellion militia. Directly contrast that with Cavill Supes' actions where he has been explicitly dealing with good Samaritan acts alone and regularly considers the consequences of the actions he has on the world. MoS/BvS has barely anything in common with Earth One.


You obviously don't read comics, just stare at the pretty pictures or you'd be able to draw basic conclusions about characterisation otherwise.
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>>82742115
>BAWW BUT MUH COMIC BOOK RUN THAT SOLD POORLY BY A TERRIBLE WRITER HAS SUPERMAN KILLING THAT MEANS IT'S OKAY FOR MASS AUDIENCES TO BE SOLD A MOVIE WHERE SUPERMAN KILLS

>BAWWW Y-YOU'RE JUST N-NOT REAL FANS!!
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>>82742115
It's because everyone already has a preconceived notion on the character of Superman, and 95% of them have never read a comic book. Their only reference is maybe STAS, JLU, Donner movies, Superman Returns etc pretty much just cartoons and films.

And Synder's version is so much of a deviation that it sticks out so much.
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>>82741856
DCAU supes sucked
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>>82732144
funny thing about the christ allusions in the movie, you guys have only been able to single out the scenes that have direct visual cues, all while not reading the scene in relation to other elements within it. hell, i don't even like the movie but the extent to which people bash his use of certain words while not reading the full sentences that contain those words doesn't have merit

hell, no one here even understanding what snyder wants to do with the superman character
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>>82744538
He was good in STAS, pretty ok in JL, and shitty in JLU
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>>82744570
>all while not reading the scene in relation to other elements within it.
You mean like Clark's relative ages during plot points? Because I've been pointing that out for years.
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>>82744463
>he only real thematic similarity between Man of Steel and Earth is the superficial elements like the colour grading.
I was thinking more direct narrative similarity given that Zod flat out apes Tyrell's "You are not alone" speech to the world. But sure, keep saying I don't read comics and just don't get based snyder's kinography.
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>>82732381
>>82732659
>>82733308
the "why" of saving people is, guess what,
hope.
the flashbacks reveal to things, clark has basic empathy for his fellow man, and jonathan always saw the huge potential and risk within clark, to the point of telling him that "good character or bad, that man will change the world"
once clark meets jor-el what he and the audience gets is a full reasoning for superman, spreading hope "Embodied within that hope is the fundamental belief in the potential of every person to be a force for good. That's what you can bring them."
also hope in the individual, in individual choice
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>>82744580
I will never understand people who hate superman's character arc in the DCAU. It's fucking excellent. He even has his glorious redemption speech where he tries to disband the League and everyone stands up for him.

I understand if Snyder's take isn't your cup of tea, but disliking DCAU Supes pretty much proves you're just a tasteless shit who will only ever like a boring mary sue version of the character.
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>>82745016
Maybe they just hate all the jobbing
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>>82728765
>If they want to make a successful Aquaman movie, introduce him in the Justice League movie. Show normies that he can be cool, then try afterwards.

That's literally what's happening.
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>>82745144
Everyone jobbed on that show, man.
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>>82741856

DCAU Supes will always be my Supes.
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>>82731613
>DC was always more about that sort of fun than Marvel

Every DC comic I've tried, even Demon Knights which /co/ swore by, involves gruesomely violent death and rape. I don't think I've ever READ a Green Lantern comic where someone hasn't been brutally killed on panel. Where are these fun and spunky DC comics?
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>>82744755
None of that actually answered the question. Because you didn't understand the question. You just spouted a bunch of shit about hope.

The "why" is "why should Clark care about people". It's "why do these people deserve saving". His basic empathy is a given, not an established trait.
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>>82731958
>He doesn't attempt to take the fight out of the expo until two minutes later.

LITERALLY the first thing he says is "lets take this outside". If he stayed there, the robots would have mowed down the thousands of people that were directly behind Tony. The people outside could at least run for cover.

>He takes the fight to a highway running through downtown LA.

He's literally surrounded by city. Where the hell is he supposed to go. Under an overpass at night is pretty good all things considered.

>He then goes back to the expo.

Because robots decided to start attacking civilians instead of chasing him. Did you watch your own clip.

Drunken asshole Tony Stark is more of a hero in those 6 minutes than Superman was in the entirety of MoS.
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>>82745016
I rewatched everything last year. It just didn't make sense to me why he randomly got so much angrier after JL. Maybe if he had his own show or they did some spotlight episodes on him to explain his point of view I would have gotten it but it felt like they just randomly started writing another character in his place rather than a logical progression. He acted like a bratty teen for most of the Cadmus arc rather than a man experiencing that sort of distrust and associated frustration. It wasn't a bad idea but a poor execution.

It's not a perfection thing. I don't even mind Young Justice Superman like some people do. The execution of that JLU storyline for him just rubbed me completely the wrong way.
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>>82745636
that's like too vague yet broad a topic to tackle in the movie in question
hell, to answer that for clark on screen would be to answer that for everyone irl
what the movie shows is that he is empathic
why? again, it's shit our own scientists haven't fully worked out which is why the simple idea of hope is sufficient in as a reasoning within the movie for what he does.
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>>82746018
>that's like too vague yet broad a topic to tackle in the movie in question
Other movies do it just fine.
>hell, to answer that for clark on screen would be to answer that for everyone irl
No. He just has to answer for himself. It's just presented as sort of an inorganic given that we're supposed to accept.
>what the movie shows is that he is empathic
But not why.
>why? again, it's shit our own scientists haven't fully worked out which is why the simple idea of hope is sufficient in as a reasoning within the movie for what he does.
It's a story. You can make up reasons why. Others do it successful all the time. What's Snyder's excuse?
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>>82745178
Batman never jobbed. Aquaman wasn't around enough to job.
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>>82746182
why a person should care for others has never been addressed in capeshit as far as i know, and in film in general the movie always revolves around that, being as the movie is about a man discovering purpose and creating an identity

and this is probably going to rub you the wrong way but i don't think anyone 'should' care about anyone else, it's a choice. to focus on that question alone i think would take the whole focus of the movie, given that that isn't the focus of the narrative i don't see how that could be named as a fault of it.
you're saying that the movie should have established the world as a blank state, and then gone through both sides of saving/intervening/caring about the world which again, doesn't fit the narrative and also is summated by the idea of hope and faith within the movie. clark doesn't trust zod but he isn't sure if he can trust humanity, he puts faith in humanity and is rewarded.
what do think is a movie that does a good job of explaining why one should care/think humanity is worth saving while also showing why we shouldn't think the opposite
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>>82746909
somethings i thought were unclear:
*in film in general movies that address the individual's reasoning for empathy to others always revolve around that, MoS is about a man discovering purpose and taking up an identity based on that
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>>82746909
>why a person should care for others has never been addressed in capeshit as far as i know
Pretty much every Marvel character except Cap establishes why, Most of the time it's a form of survivor's guilt. And to be fair normally this isn't an issue. But when you frame altruism as a bad thing that carries consequences, the setting as intrinsically cynical, and the protagonist as naturally passive and antisocial, it does start to be the question as to why he's suddenly destined or even trying to be earth's greatest hero and humanity's champion.

I don't believe Man of Steel Clark wants to be Superman. Or that he'd even try to be in the first place. The decision is inorganic to his character arc. His goodness is presumed and innate rather than etablished. He's good because Superman is good, end of story.

You don't know what I'm saying .You're just bleating "hope" like a good little sheep until I get tired of you.
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>>82746969
>MoS is about a man discovering purpose and taking up an identity based on that
And if that purpose is helping people then you gotta reason out why. "Because space dad told me the movie was dragging and it was time to get to the point" is a shallow as fuck reason by itself.
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Devin Faraci is a horrible person
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>>82747336
i can't recall the workings of marvel movies so i can't comment there

>But when you frame altruism as a bad thing that carries consequences, the setting as intrinsically cynical, and the protagonist as naturally passive and antisocial
i don't think either movie does this and i don't think these are bad ideas in themselves either
again it's about identity and life purpose, clark knows he has these gifts but doesn't know how to go about using them. he helps people, but he has to move on every time he does to avoid the social effects of his interventions
what his meeting with jor-el does is inform him of his personal truth and his own potential, and the goal is never to be the greatest hero, it's simply to help humanity forward as best he can
the hope thing can actually be hollow as well, as it is a catch all phrase

i don't see what you're getting at with wanting the movie to explain goodness, what the movie does is show that he helps because he can. he sees certain dire situations and intervenes. i don't see what there is to gain from having a sort of situation where there's a sort of threatening fire building through the movie and clark is wondering for almost two hours 'should i do anything about that'. unless you're really down for sequences where we get immersed in a somewhat serious exploration of ethics through history to the current day
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>>82748270
>again it's about identity and life purpose, clark knows he has these gifts but doesn't know how to go about using them. he helps people, but he has to move on every time he does to avoid the social effects of his interventions
>he helps people
Again. Why.
It's the main thing the guy does, it's the fulfillment of his purpose (which according to you is the entire crux of the plot), and the reasoning behind it is completely breezed over? What sense does that make?

The way they frame Clark's upbringing, and the fact that he's a drifter with no social ties? In any other movie that's the kind of backstory you'd give to a school shooter or a serial killer. Here they gave it to Superman. Without establishing why, despite what we're shown, he wants to help people at all. It's an inorganic thing we're supposed to expect solely so that the movie can continue unabated.
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>>82748398
>drifter with no social ties? In any other movie that's the kind of backstory you'd give to a school shooter or a serial killer
dude..... i guess movies may do that but only to play with certain social fears of the outsider and so on
i don't know. you're right though

if you had the script how would you explain why he helps people
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>>82748491
i'm not him, but if you mean you want the why for man of steel helping people? other than being good natured himself, there is no why. he's raised by a terrible rendition of pa kent who literally tells him he shouldn't be saving people, and a mother who enforces those beliefs constantly.

he's also bullied and picked on, and nobody protects him until it goes too far, and he's left segregated and alone. an outcast. for anyone else, this would lead to bitterness and self hatred, but for him, it somehow leads to wanting to protect the same people who try to keep him down throughout his life

really, i'm going on a tangent here, but man of steel honestly sucked a lot of ass, for so many reasons. it was cool to look at visually and seeing superman fight is always fun, but that's it

also dat soundtrack is real good
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>>82749615
>literally tells him he shouldn't be saving people
"you have to decide what kind of man you're growing up to be, clark. because whoever that man is, good character or bad, he's going to change the world"
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>>82732740
Literally did damage control to keep his job after news got about of his clashing with DC over creative direction, it was all a ruse!
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>>82723359
Who's writing his first comic book next month.
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>>82743703
But Batman doesn't differentiate himself from the villains by limiting his killing to manslaughter. It's not the no murder rule. It's the no fucking killing rule. BvS Batman directly shoots up and explodes a car full of people with a batmobile-mounted machinegun. That's not Batman.
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>>82748270
>i don't think either movie does this and i don't think these are bad ideas in themselves either
MoS: Pa Kent tells Superman that self-preservation is more important than saving lives.
BvS: Pa Kent tells a story about being a hero, eating hero cake and inadvertently killing the neighbors' horses.
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>>82731042
>>82731099
>cherry picking
>manipulative techniques
>How to tell the world I'm a retard 101
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>>82750342
how is that anything but a completely ambiguous, "choose your own adventure" statement?
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>>82750342
that sentence doesn't actually motivate anything in one way or the other, it's very neutral

sorry if i'm replying multiple times, for some reason i'm not seeing my post
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>>82750817
MoS: your actions no matter how noble can indirectly have terrible consequences because of people's fear
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>>82723191
I will check the article in a moment but are you telling me that's the costume we are getting for aquaman

It's fucking horrible
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>>82723282
>just two

This is the real problem. Should've ordered ten and made it REALLY a crazy.
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>>82723322
I think a lot of the bad reputation aquaman got from super friends was fixed by brave and the bold.
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>>82723191
they need to get james cameron to direct it.
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>>82732761
>WB succesfully killing superhero movies for the 3rd time
Yeah, good luck with that. If capeflicks could survive the 90s they can survive anything.
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>>82742480
What's that "What?"
Did he reconsider about the pleasures offer?
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>>82750817
BvS: Ma Kent tells Superman he has zero responsibility to alleviate people's fears after they've been scared shitless by the amount of destruction he can casually cause.

Like, I can get Kevin Costkent's speech in MoS as that of a scared parent trying to figure out how to best protect his son, but over the two movies it becomes a pattern of the Kents giving Clark really fucking horrible advice whenever they're on screen.
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>>82751980
the homosexual director is to blame for this
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Aquaman is such a joke his thread is hijacked by MoS arguments.
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>>82723191
There was a water fight!
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>>82752572
In Donner Superman Pa Kent had some of those same fears. But he grew older and wiser past those fears.

http://youtu.be/QUUGDRxJnFU
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>>82751358
How many people watched Brave and the Bold.
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>>82753892
No one who worked on BvS did that's for sure.
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>>82726055
And it has
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>>82728663
comic would probably crash since they've become reliant on the influx of cinema normies

they'd probably make even worse comics to pander to whatever normies they can

certainly the big 2 anyway
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>>82723191
DC has a lot of uneasy characters that would fit the whole 'Deadpool' and 'Guardians of the Galaxy' kooky superhero niche

As much as /co/ likes to shit on those films for joking and being popular, they did a good job of owning the bizarreness of their source material.

If they just embraced how weird the concept of Aquaman is (not necessarily in a memey-jokey way) they'd probably do a lot better. I think they've made a misstep in relying on brand awareness too. To me their best best would have been to start with relative unknowns so that no-one has any expectations or misconceptions.

I'd like to have seen an Animal-Man film personally.
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>>82728512
We still had BTAS.
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>>82732962
>if only we got a Aquaman movie in the vein of the pirates of the caribean, with the main priority being swashbuckling adventures with a charismatic protag

Surely you mean "The Time Aquaman Wore an Eye Patch to Infiltrate a Crew of Pirates."
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>>82740791
>Sure, you can tell me about how it's going to humble Clark and make him more human and people like him now

How would that even work, anyway

>Superman dies
>"Oh no, poor guy. Truly he was as human and faulty as us all, we were foolish to compare him to a god"
>Superman resurrects
>"W-well, i'm sure he's just like us..."
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Haven't read it but let me guess
It's Devin Faraci
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>>82741856
>>82742115
It's almost as if both the director and his fans only have out of context panels to justify the movie's directions

>But Superman killed Zod before! (Please ignore that it's in a story where Zod killed literally the whole planet and Superman aknowledges he's executing him only because of that reason)
>But Batman shot people in DKR! (Please ignore that he only did it non-lethally and that half the comic is about how Batman still refuses to murder criminals)
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