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

[Starscream Soundwave]

And here's Hopeman's victim:

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

And here's Hopeman's victim:

The guy is burned and has a knife stuck in his head. That looks Batman's modus operandi.

 

[jye4ever]

Too bad, it deserves a spot in the top 5 worldwide. CW will probably end it's run in the 9 or 10 spot.

I agree, CW deserves the box office love more than AOU.

 

[spindrift]

I agree, CW deserves the box office love more than AOU.

well DUH....CW a better film but think it's going to really drop off fast now...

 

[Zodach]

I think super hero movie fatigue is going to start affecting these films no matter how good they are. I mean Deadpool, BvS, Civil War, and XM:Apoc all in the first 5 months of the year. That's a heavy schedule for the genre.

 

[spindrift]

I think super hero movie fatigue is going to start affecting these films no matter how good they are. I mean Deadpool, BvS, Civil War, and XM:Apoc all in the first 5 months of the year. That's a heavy schedule for the genre.

 

[IrishJedi]

I think super hero movie fatigue is going to start affecting these films no matter how good they are. I mean Deadpool, BvS, Civil War, and XM:Apoc all in the first 5 months of the year. That's a heavy schedule for the genre.

So, you're saying SUICIDE SQUAD and DOCTOR STRANGE should be concerned?

Personally, I think each is different enough from the usual superhero fare, and should do fine.

I'm still boycotting DR. STRANGE unless Steve Ditko is properly credited, though. And if they fail to do that yet still stick a stupid Stan Lee cameo in that film, then **** THEM and I will pull for that film to fail. But it won't.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

So, you're saying SUICIDE SQUAD and DOCTOR STRANGE should be concerned?

Personally, I think each is different enough from the usual superhero fare, and should do fine.

I'm still boycotting DR. STRANGE unless Steve Ditko is properly credited, though. And if they fail to do that yet still stick a stupid Stan Lee cameo in that film, then **** THEM and I will pull for that film to fail. But it won't.

Why wouldn't he?

 

[kryptonianmutie]

Suicide Squad will be just fine. Marvel should be worried about Doctor Strange though.

 

[IrishJedi]

Why wouldn't he?

Because Marvel are routinely *******s about that kind of thing.

Doctor Strange is 97% a Steve Ditko creation. All Stan Lee did was come up with the name (which is arguably the cheesiest aspect of the character ).

 

[Khev]

Did he not get credited for Spider-Man?

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

Would you be happy if Disney actually uses that line for proper accreditation?

"Doctor Strange is 97% a Steve Ditko creation. All Stan Lee did was come up with the name (which is arguably the cheesiest aspect of the character)"

 

[IrishJedi]

Did he not get credited for Spider-Man?

He did (after a lot of Marvel writers and artists pitched a fit after an early internal screening). Stan Lee was still credited first, though, which is also ********. But a win's a win.

 

[IrishJedi]

Would you be happy if Disney actually uses that line for proper accreditation?

I'll be happy when Stan Lee stops getting credit for stuff he didn't actually have much to do with artistically.

The problem is... the hagiography around him now is already so bad, I know it's going to be just insufferable once he croaks. Seriously, **** that guy and the millions of acolytes who continue to buy his BS.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

Dr. Strange was a very lazy name. That'd be like calling a character a Thing...oh wait..

 

[spindrift]

Ditko won't get credit? Hilarious and sad. 98% of the world thinks Lee created all the big Marvel heroes himself.

 

[IrishJedi]

Ditko won't get credit?

I didn't say he wouldn't. I said he BETTER.

98% of the world thinks Lee created all the big Marvel heroes himself.

I know. And it's B.S. I especially love when people credit him for Captain America, a character whose creation he literally had NOTHING to do with. Cap is 100% Joe Simon and Jack Kirby... and at least they get credited for it now. But it wasn't until recently that Kirby started getting proper creator credit from Marvel.

Never one to mince words, Alan Moore explained it best:

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

I'll be happy when Stan Lee stops getting credit for stuff he didn't have much to do with artistically.

The problem is... the hagiography around him now is already so bad, I know it's going to be just insufferable once he croaks. Seriously, **** that guy and the millions of acolytes who continue to buy his ********.

Well, the same can be said about Walt Disney, George Lucas, Bob Kane and plenty of other creators that get way too much credit for other people's work. I don't know how much Lee was involved in creating all those books and characters, but I still respect the guy.

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

Suicide Squad will be just fine. Marvel should be worried about Doctor Strange though.

Nah, I think Dr. Strange will be just fine

 

[Khev]

I know. And it's B.S. I especially love when people credit him for Captain America, a character whose creation he literally had NOTHING to do with. Cap is 100% Joe Simon and Jack Kirby...

I do wish that Joe Simon got to do the "I thought he'd be taller" cameo in CA:TFA instead of Stan Lee. They did give Simon and his family a private advance screening of it though which was nice (especially since he died later that same year.) Stan Lee is of course interviewed on the TFA special features disc and at least he himself specifies that he only came up with the idea to have Cap frozen in ice and that the character's creation was all Jack and Joe.