CaptainFoamerang
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Zod as the villain for the first movie in a franchise reboot makes a lot of sense, because there's a lot of opportunity for the creative team to explore what separates Superman from Zod, in the sense that we're lucky that it was Kal-El that came to Earth and Ma and Pa Kent found and raised him in addition to the contrast of motivations and values.
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Is this even legal?
I mean, if it's based on characters created for CoH, doesn't Cryptic or NC or whoever own the rights to the characters since their inception? -
Quote:Meltzer might've screwed that up during his work on Justice League of America.Originally Posted by Samothrake
So, having seen more of the comic, I have to wonder when Red Tornado stopped being Earth's Air Elemental? -
And you can't see it from the main details on the product page but if you do a search for it on Amazon you'll see the release date is April 27, so it's not far away, folks!
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DC's ultimate savior is Spoiler?
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Quote:Stardust.Originally Posted by mousedroid
Robert DeNiro?
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Quote:I think the costume suffers from having too much going on with it so it ends up looking fake-ish. The mask is worse, though, they should have given him something physical to actually wear, cuz whoever just painted it on through CG did a bad job.Originally Posted by Zikar
Much better, but that mask/costume still looks dodgy sometimes. Still, it actually looks like a film I'd ignore that for now.
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Quote:I don't think Sinestro alone would be the main threat in the second of a trilogy. They might have have the Manhunters in the sequel or perhaps a living threat that Sinestro chooses to deal with in his own way.Originally Posted by Hazmatter
If there is a trilogy, I suspect the second will deal with the fall of Sinestro and the creation of the yellow power ring. The third... I could see either Star Sapphire or the Manhunters as antagonists, the latter choice possibly introducing Atrocitus and the massacre of Sector 666 as well.
"No man escapes the Manhunters!"
If they could somehow do the Sinestro Corps War for the third one by the time DC rolls out a couple more movies for the film universe they're building that would be sweet. -
Quote:Based on the color of it, it seems likely, though I could've swore the official synopsis mentioned Krona as well.Originally Posted by Talia_Rayvyn
I'm guessing the smokey orange monster thing is gonna be Parallax?
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Definitely looks better than what we've seen before, which probably has to due with the fact that this mostly deals with the space elements and has as little Blake Lively as possible.
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What's dumb about the quote from the OP is it seems like the actors who are considered to be the best alive regularly frequent sci-fi and fantasy movies, even when you discount the more contemporary actors who seek out Oscar bait movies as well.
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Quote:Yeah I was like half asleep when I saw that one. o.<Originally Posted by Cass_
Time travel? which is pretty much the central conceit of the movie.
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Quote:Fight Club was sci-fi?Originally Posted by Lothic
Pitt's been in plenty of sci-fi and fantasy projects ranging from Twelve Monkeys, Fight Club to even voice acting work on Sinbad movies. I hardly think he would count for the "exception" Ironik was looking for.
And what were the sci-fi elements of Twelve Monkeys again? I only saw it once and I just remember Pitt being a crazy person, can't recall a sci-fi aspect. -
What about Brad Pitt? Does Interview with a Vampire count as fantasy?
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Quote:Anywhere else we can see those or are you gonna share?Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
I've actually seen some nice high-res photos of the fire truck in question.
A buddy of mine was downtown the day they were doing some of the scenes and got some NICE pics of it. -
Quote:It's a good thing she's playing Lois Lane and not Plastic Man, then.Originally Posted by Residentx_EU
Amy Adam is Isla Fisher without the funny.
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/em gets popcorn
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Quote:I'd have to disagree about Snyder over-using a slow motion effect in the case of 300 and Watchmen because many of those shots were replicating the panels from the comics.Originally Posted by Ironik
Horse crap or bull crap, take your pick. How about instead of having to chew crap we eschew crap altogether?
You know what film uses slo-mo with an artistic (and restrained) degree? RED. That movie was not just the best action film of 2010, it's the best one in years. I can think of two really excellent scenes that use slo-mo for a period of seconds rather than minutes, all to emphasize the action rather than to fetishize it. Some of the slo-mo in 300 and Watchmen was just weird because it didn't seem to be doing anything other than be slow motion. A couple times it was used to good but mostly it wasn't.
If there's instances of Snyder implementing unnecessarily I think it's more of a product of a bad habit that I think he actually is developing, and that is to use a lot of music in his films. There's nothing wrong with using music in movies, but when you do this, you usually want to draw on the emotion and effect that's associated with the song, and it was noticeable in Sucker Punch that he used slower versions of the songs to fit the drawn out shots. It's less noticeable when someone like Tarantino does this because he paces out the shots to fit the song and create a more cohesive atmosphere. -
Quote:I'll probably wait until getting The King's Speech from Netflix. I'm worried it'll be too much like The Queen.Originally Posted by Ironik
Are you dissing The King's Speech? If you haven't seen it, you should. It is emotional, it is powerful, it is hilarious. It is, however, subtle. Unlike Snyder's over the top video game style of bombastic filmmaking, it gets under your skin by doing things most people aren't even aware off. For instance, Snyder does slo-mo, then explosion, then twirly-fighty thing. Rinse, repeat. In The King's Speech, when the king is first starting to open up to the speech therapist, the camera has a very slight Dutch tilt to it. Colin Firth is also off-center in the frame. What this does is make you slightly uneasy and you don't know why. Gradually, as he overcomes his difficulty, he starts to take center screen and the frame becomes level again and they start shooting him from below rather than from above. What that does is make you feel subconsciously that he's regaining his confidence and taking control of his problem.
It's that attention to detail that won it all those Oscars. It's a superb script that's brilliantly acted, but it's so much more than that and so much better than anything Snyder has ever done.
However, I've recently violated my rule about not buying movies until after seeing them with my recent purchases of Oscar-nominated films from this year, specifically 127 Hours, The Fighter, and Black Swan. -
Quote:But how did what you saw in the trailers compare to what you saw on the screen? Did the trailers build up too much expectation and you left the theater feeling disappointed?Originally Posted by TrueGentleman
The irony is, Sucker Punch bucked today's established marketing technique of using the trailer to pre-sell the movie by delivering a capsule version of it with snippets of the best dialogue, funniest jokes, coolest sequences, climactic scenes, or the denouement to the point where the audience has the vague sensation of having already seen the movie. In this case, though, there were some very disappointed fans when they saw the final product.
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Quote:From the trailers, sure, but what did you think after seeing the movie?Originally Posted by TrueGentleman
And from the trailers, I thought that there was a chance Snyder could bring the cool to Sucker Punch, even after seeing previous movies of his. The mounting evidence from interviews, featurettes, and other such pre-marketing deflated that possibility. With Super, all of that has only whetted my anticipation, and since the director's previous movies, Slither and The Specials, have been good low-budget fun, there's a reassuring track record.
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Quote:Basically.Originally Posted by ZephyrWind
Really? Does it bother you that Supergirl is a thin little girl who is almost as string as Superman?
Let's face it, Buffy was a comic book, just in a different medium. Her strength had nothing to do with her physical mass any more than Supergirl's does.
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Quote:All that's left is to include the Spice Girls if they want to set a record for number of televisions broken simultaneously.Originally Posted by Cowman
I just got really, really sad all of a sudden.
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Quote:Hey I didn't think it was all that bad, but a lot of the Buffy fans on these boards seem to think that the fourth season is the worst, at least that's the sense I've gotten.Originally Posted by ZephyrWind
You've gotta be kidding me. The fourth season is the only one the wife and I have on DVD. I mean, just the "Hush" episode alone was worth it.
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Quote:They need to lock down Brad Bird before Marvel gets a hold of him.Originally Posted by Ironik
I can not think of any time in cinema history where a studio has hatched the plan to create an intertwined series of films the way Marvel is doing it. There have been one-off crossovers and two different series jammed together (Jason v. Freddy, Alien v. Predator), but as far as I can recall intentionally creating a "movie cycle" is unique.
A JLA film is going to have an uphill battle if Christian Bale doesn't participate, because the Marvel plan is so audacious and the individual characters have established audiences behind them. If they're starting off fresh, that's a chore and a half for them.