Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (March 24th, 2016)

[DiFabio]

What's the Dark Knight?

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

Dark Knight isn't going to be forgotten.

Already did

 

[jye4ever]

What's the Dark Knight?

An evening at the Kardashians?

 

[RIDDICK]

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

An evening at the Kardashians?

At least they could make good use of the night vision

 

[DiFabio]

At least they could make good use of the night vision

Oh man.

 

[batfan08]

Looking at the soundtrack, it's kind of hilarious. "Do you bleed?" "Men are still good." "This is My World." "Blood of My Blood." Is this Batman V Superman or the "Provo, Utah Church of Christ Co-Ed Choir's" annual Easter album?

 

[tylerdurden]

Subjective or not, negative or positive - it's just people talking about stuff.
I like to read and hear all opinions, especialy the one's I may not agree with.
They may change my mind, help to understand or see/unsee things.
Nothing is offensive unless you take it as such.

So far acting and dialogs feels bad for sure because people expected this film to be very dark and thoughtful. That's the fault of false marketing prior to the third trailer, not ours. Maybe the film ISN'T very dark, maybe it's just another cheesy Bay-style flick? Time will tell, but for now people has every right to be confused.

i'm not offended by the differing opinions. this IS a forum after all. i do enjoy reading other people's opinions. but when it starts to get pretty one-sided, that's when i start to tune out. having said that, the nonsense spewed by some people here who're clearly just trolling can be quite entertaining.

 

[EVILFACE]

Why is the Zod theme playing?

Doomsday's theme now.

 

[jye4ever]

At least they could make good use of the night vision

Looking at the soundtrack, it's kind of hilarious. "Do you bleed?" "Men are still good." "This is My World." "Blood of My Blood." Is this Batman V Superman or the "Provo, Utah Church of Christ Co-Ed Choir's" annual Easter album?

Doomsday's theme now.

 

[GasparZizou]

Oh man, why did they have to give away the remix of Arcade? I expected some motifs from MoS to have continuity but they should've given something new.

Btw it's not Zod's theme per say, The Kryptnonians "theme" is a little snippet in the 2nd part of Arcade, the rest of Arcade was used in other parts of the movie which is what we hear in this new song.

T2 is a masterclass in film-making and will always be one of the greatest sequels of all time.

Thank gawd they never made another one . . .

The only post worth quoting from the last 20 pages

Aliens is better than The Force Awakens. Better characters who feel real, better effects, no CGI BS and overall a better made film from start to finish. You can tell Cameron was trying to tell a story with a new tone instead of trying to sell toys for man children.

Oh my bad, this one is pretty nice too.

Ain't that the truth?

Dark Knight isn't going to be forgotten.

 

[DiFabio]

What about my Jamie Lee Curtis post? I thought for sure while everyone else was puzzled, good ole' Gaspar would have gotten it.

 

[a-dev]

The only post worth quoting from the last 20 pages

I'm disgusted I didn't make the grade. I attribute it to your failings rather than mine. Hrmpph

 

[GasparZizou]

I'm disgusted I didn't make the grade. I attribute it to your failings rather than mine. Hrmpph

I'm sorry, there was a lot I just skimmed over because too many words, if you point it out to me I'll gladly submit it for revision.

What about my Jamie Lee Curtis post? I thought for sure while everyone else was puzzled, good ole' Gaspar would have gotten it.

That's funny.

What's funnier than this is that she's a ****ing millionaire, ****ing 10/10's left and right, and acting in epic ****ing movies while you ugly loser post on an discussion board all day and haven't even kissed a girl. I know why you hate her so much. It's because you're jealous. You want to be in that chair but it won't ever happen in your pathetic life because you don't have what it takes. Jamie Lee Curtis does, and that's why she gets paid the big bucks. She doesn't give a **** about any of you or about this ****ing stretchmarks ******** (as she just showed) Keep jacking off to pictures of Arnold while he's the one jacking Jamie Lee Curtis off. **** off, ******.

 

[GasparZizou]

I had to modify it a little cause it's hard to find one that fits, I guess it was a bit forced.

 

[a-dev]

So Difabio was paraphrasing/quoting something?

 

[a-dev]

Would I really post something like that?

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[YankeesFanboy]

Who wrote this ****? Harry? C'est de la merde!

 

[crows]

I just question the longevity of any of these movies, really, because it really seems like the genre movie lost its significance by gaining its popularity. That sounds like a ridiculous statement, but if you look at Superman or Star Wars, they blew people's minds and became iconic films. Now, it seems like these things only really matter when they haven't come out, yet.

The Avengers, for instance. Pretty massive movie; the first superhero team ever in live-action, and everybody seemed to love it, but do people really talk about it? Hell, I actually forgot that Age of Ultron came out last year, I **** you not. My buddy and I went to see the Revenant, and, while we were waiting, he asked me what my favorite movie was. I started going through the list and said, "what were the Marvel ones? There was Ant-Man, but wasn't there another one," until it clicked for me that there was an Avengers movie and I had forgotten about it.

Do people talk about either of those movies right now, though? All I hear is "I'm so excited about Infinity War." I guess what I'm trying to say is that by packaging it up and selling it to mass audiences, we've simultaneously eradicated the magic that made you believe a man can fly. Sure, you'll feel it, when the movie premieres and you're surrounded by fans excited for the "next big thing," but it's fleeting. Uncle George ****ed up later on, but when he made Star Wars, he took people to a place that they'd never been before, and that's coming from a guy who wasn't even born when it came out. When you're churning these things out on an annual basis, though, you may capitalize on the current zeitgeist, but you lose that cultural significance.

That doesn't matter to these studios, though. Their primary goal is to make money, after all, and I could very well be wrong, but I genuinely believe that the days of hearing Superman's name alongside the likes of Cool Hand Luke and The Godfather are long since over.

The DC movies are the most forgettable of all. Except Reeve Superman

Nah....

STM
STM2
Batman 89
Batman Returns
BB
TDK

all DC, all great!

Hell, even B&R, for the lolz of course!

The reason batfan forgot about Age of Ultron is only because Age of Ultron is a pretty bad movie.

people tend to forget bad movies, There is a reason most people dont remember thor 2, (Some people don't even know it came out...) but everyone remembers the first Iron Man... or the second Captain America.

if a movie is good, it will be remembered. It will become epic. Age of Ultron is far from epic. it is forgettable

 

[jye4ever]

A long time ago I told you that there had been some arguments behind the scenes on Wonder Woman before Michelle McLaren left - among other things the filmmaker and producers were debating what time period in which to set the film. Zack Snyder, I was told, wanted it in the Crimean War, while the director wanted WWI. McLaren is off the film, but it turns out she won that particular fight. Chris Pine reveals that Wonder Woman, in which he plays love interest Steve Trevor, is indeed set in WWI.

Talking to the Toronto Sun he had this to say about the film, and about his role as Steve Trevor:

Steve Trevor is a rogue-ish, cynical realist who's seen the awful brutish nature of modern civilization. He's a worldly guy, a charming guy and it's going to be a great, fun film. There are some incredibly deep, interesting and morally relevant themes.

Patty Jenkins is just directing the daylights out of it. It's shot beautifully, feels so wonderfully period, but also has this wonderful pop sensibility. It's a period we don't see often; it's usually World War II. Our costume design is incredible. We have scenes with, like, 500 extras all in period dress.


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He's right - we rarely get WWI films. Technically Wonder Woman's story begins in WWII (I mean, depending on which iteration of the character you're going with, but her first introduction was WWII), but WWI offers real richness. We forget this because of the Holocaust and the atom bomb, but at the turn of the century WWI looked like the apocalypse. It laid waste to Europe. It devoured an entire generation. Mechanized warfare changed the face of war, and WWI was where humanity figured it out, at an incredble and ugly price. There's a reason why it was called "The War to End All Wars." At the time it seemed impossible that anyone who lived through WWI would ever want to go to war again. But cue Germany, round 2...

At any rate, the horror and misery of WWI makes for a good counterpoint for Wonder Woman's mission to Man's World. She's here, at least in the comics, to bring peace and goodness to the world. When she arrived during WWII it was weird because, horrible as that war was, it had clearly defined good guys and bad guys - I can't imagine a reasonable person making a case for the Axis Powers. WWI, though? It's a murky war that was the result of a lot of long-festering nonsense that had rotted away at the harmony in Europe, a powder keg that was just waiting for the right spark - in this case the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand.

This also adds potential layers to Trevor, as Pine notes. He's lived through the Industrial Revolution and seen the change in the world, and he's seen how much worse it's getting as WWI rages around him. Perhaps Wonder Woman, new to Man's World, brings a kind of hope to him? Or maybe he's just another Han Solo knock-off, who knows.

At any rate this is the DC Movieverse film for which I'm most hopeful. A different time period, a unique directorial perspective and, if the whispers I hear from inside Batman v Superman are correct, Gal Gadot in a role she was born to play.