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Detective Comics Cinematic Universe (formerly Man of Steel)
Blue Kitty:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 05 Apr 2016, 21:26 ---I forget if this was brought up already (or if I brought it up), but why the fuck would criminals react poorly to criminals had been branded by Batman?
Criminal: Hey, fellow criminal! Batman stopped you from committing crimes, you are therefore my enemy! Even though he probably had a hand in my incarceration as well!
More than pretty much everything else, what the hell?
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From what I remember there's usually a hierarchy in Prison with some crimes being looked down upon more than others, like pedophilia. I guess they thought that someone marked with the Bat's mark must be really bad and killing them would curry favor with Batman
(On a side note, can you believe it's actually curry favor? I would have thought it was some other kind of spelling, but nope, curry. Had to look that one up)
TheEvilDog:
Saw Batman vs Superman on Friday and I have to say, I feel very "meh" about it. I mean, its not the worst superhero film I've seen, but its also nowhere near the best either.
That said, the highlights for me included:
-Jeremy Irons as Alfred, but then he's always gold.
-Lawrence Fishburne as Perry White, again gold.
-And I guess some of the fight scenes...
I don't know, I just felt like it was the cinematic version of a child playing with two toys and bashing them together. Or they were flinging stuff at the wall and seeing what would stick. And don't get me started on the dream sequences...or the number of them. It just felt like an incoherent mess.
Something I have noticed with the DC and Marvel films, it kind of feels like DC are finding people who might seem popular or cool at the moment, compared to Marvel, who search for people who could really be their characters - Robert Downey Jr.'s over-the-top-ness as Tony Stark, Mark Ruffalo's tragic-and-tired turn as Bruce Banner and so on.
At this stage I'm just wondering how bad the Suicide Squad is going to drop and how many people are going to flock to Captain America: Civil War.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: TheEvilDog on 10 Apr 2016, 07:03 ---At this stage I'm just wondering how bad the Suicide Squad is going to drop and how many people are going to flock to Captain America: Civil War.
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Twitter chatter regarding the recent preview showing of Captain America - Civil War has been very positive. If it does extra well compared to BvS, then a major shake-up in DCCU could follow.
Blue Kitty:
Even after Batman vs. Superman I'm very optimistic about Suicide Squad
Neko_Ali:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 10 Apr 2016, 08:12 ---
--- Quote from: TheEvilDog on 10 Apr 2016, 07:03 ---At this stage I'm just wondering how bad the Suicide Squad is going to drop and how many people are going to flock to Captain America: Civil War.
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Twitter chatter regarding the recent preview showing of Captain America - Civil War has been very positive. If it does extra well compared to BvS, then a major shake-up in DCCU could follow.
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I honestly don't see this. It's like the the success of the MCU movies is a surprise anymore. And honestly, the reasons why they are a success shouldn't be a surprise either. But people keep getting it wrong anyway. The latest was Deadpool being an R rated movie with violence, low brow humor and cursing... HEY! Let's do super hero movies like that because it worked! No... It worked for Deadpool. It doesn't work for Superman. Neither does turning Superman into Superbatman or SuperGrimDarkEmoMan.
The people in charge of the DC live action movies have consistently failed for a very long time because they are blinded by their one success story, Batman. They keep failing to grasp the reasons why. They keeps say "grim and semi-realistic Batman is a big seller, so grim and semi-realistic is the way to go!' Noooo.. People keep telling you. That works for Batman, because it can fit his character. It doesn't work for Superman because that's not his character. It's a matter of respecting the character and staying true to the vision.. That's why each MCU movie can be a success while still being wildly different in tone. They give each character the movie that fits them. They don't try to shoe horn Captain America into a Deadpool style blood and dark humor fest. They have Thor fighting gods and monsters, not dealing with shadowy government organizations in a high tech spy thriller...
And the crazy thing is... The DC animated movies have always been consistently great, and always popular. Because they don't try to reinvent the characters into something they are not.... Well, aside from Teen Titans Go. And the less said about that abomination, the better.
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