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sitnspin:
Millar is basically a teenage edge lord who never grew up.

Blue Kitty:
DC Fandome is over and here's some good stuff from it

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLOp_6uPccQ
But more importantly, Suicide Squad actually looks good/fun
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8tWKJwyG6Y

BenRG:
Okay, seen the Batman and Suicide Squad 2 trailers. I might be coming across as a bit burned out but really my only thoughts are as follows:

The Batman - Look, can we come to terms with the fact that Christopher Nolan got Batman as dark as the character can get without being taken ludicrously OOC? Trying to one-up the Dark Knight Trilogy is a futile exercise and will only make Batman an increasingly fringe character for a fringe audience. Also, am I the only one tired of Batman movies whose colour pallate is black, dark grey, dark brown, occasionally dark green and even more occasionally searing white spotliights for 'dramatic sillhouettes'. I want to see the motion pictures that I go to see, not just hear them as I squint at indistinct darting shadows;

Suicide Squad 2 - Hrm. Looks like Warner Brothers hasn't tired of throwing bundles of money into this particular trash fire of a franchise. Looks like James Gunn has decided to go with the 'deafen and dazzle the audience into submission' pattern of action flicks.

Method of Madness:
Probably an unpopular opinion, but I liked WW1984 a lot. Definitely flawed, but it was a lot of fun, and it was more consistent than the first one. Also, a guy named Chris plays a guy named Steve who shows up about 66-67 years after apparently dying in a plane crash. Probably one of the more specific coincidences in comic book movies.

Torlek:

--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 27 Dec 2020, 07:37 ---Probably an unpopular opinion, but I liked WW1984 a lot. Definitely flawed, but it was a lot of fun, and it was more consistent than the first one.

--- End quote ---

It wasn't as bad as a lot of reviews seem to paint it as, but it was disjointed as all hell. It didn't suffer the huge drop in logic in the third act like the first one did, but that's mainly because the logic was completely scattershot throughout. The bones of a good movie are there (a lot of people are fussing about the macguffin, but it's a perfectly valid comic book macguffin, especially in a universe where the world-ending widgets from the big team up movie were called "mother boxes") and Pine, Pascal (I just love watching this guy go full ham) and Wiig are doing great work with their roles. But Gadot just doesn't have enough acting capability to carry a movie (also the way she chooses which words to emphasize when speaking English is still baffling) and the entire Egypt sequence needed to be axed in favor of an extended WH action scene and some actual explanation of what the hell was going on with Max Lord.

(click to show/hide)And this isn't even touching on the whole problem of consent when it comes to the guy Steve's spirit possessed. He reappears and neither of them question it, they just go straight to bonetown. Then, instead of Diana realizing that she had to give up on her wish because it's stealing some random person's life, Steve has to convince her because "you need your powers to win." This was a prime chance to expand on the whole "the truth is bigger" and "nothing good comes from lies" lines they had been telegraphing earlier.
So, yes, decently fun but WAY too stupid.

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