The DC Movies Thread v AQUAMAN

[hefdaddy42]

Come on people, we're talking a comic book movie here, it's not like it's going to win an Oscar.

To me, that is no reason to settle for mediocrity.

Me, either.

Doesn't matter what kind of film you are making.  Any kind of film can be made well.

[The Trooper]

I have seen Bat.v. Sup in theater. Then the ultimate edition. I have been a big critic of it .More I watch it, I realize it is not really that bad. Finally did a movie night with my twin 10 year old sons. They loved it. In a weird way..........I looked at the movie in a different way. It is not as horrible as I have had feelings on. Guess to each their own. But I think they can roll with it if they get a good story. Affleck is a smart dude. If the studio gives him some sort of control, they may be able to wonders with the Batman/Superman/Justice League/universe.

[Adami]

I have seen Bat.v. Sup in theater. Then the ultimate edition. I have been a big critic of it .More I watch it, I realize it is not really that bad. Finally did a movie night with my twin 10 year old sons. They loved it. In a weird way..........I looked at the movie in a different way. It is not as horrible as I have had feelings on. Guess to each their own. But I think they can roll with it if they get a good story. Affleck is a smart dude. If the studio gives him some sort of control, they may be able to wonders with the Batman/Superman/Justice League/universe.

I saw the Ultimate Edition recently and I think I actually liked it less. Yes, 2 or so things were explained a little more, but not to any amount of satisfaction. The rest of the movie is still pretty terrible, in my opinion of course.

With the exception of Batman's warehouse fight scene, most other non-dream-state Batman scenes, and Wonder Woman's 10 minutes of screen time.

I have to give DCEU credit for being able to sprinkle in hope for future movies among their other ones. I didn't like Man of Steel, BvS or Suicide Squad, but for some reason, I'm still excited for Wonder Woman and especially The Flash.

Also, apparently Jared Leto is pretty pissed at WB about his treatment there.

[Polarbear]

Okay, so went and watched Suicide Squad last night..

My expectations couldn't have been lower, i was preparing for the worst. Guess what? I didn't hate it.

Negatives first:

You can clearly see that the WB-executives panicked after the results of BvS, and the final cut seemed like a desperate attempt to lighten up the mood. I'd say something like 30% of the jokes worked for me, and the other 70% fell completely flat. I'm sure, that the jokes that fell flat for me are from the reshoots. Also some of the dialogue was very cringe-worthy.

I couldn't care less about Enchantress and Incubus as the villains. I would have liked to see Enchantress in a better movie, but that is not going to happen now.

Stuff with Harley and Joker was the most interesting part with the movie, but there were huge chunks taken out of that. So it felt very disconnected from the rest of the movie.


Positives:

The performances from everyone involved, were spot on. You can see that David Ayer knows how to direct a large group of actors, and direct them well. The group chemistry also hit home for me.

I'm not completely sold on Leto as the Joker and he has very little to do here, but it's a solid start and he can improve in the future.

The jokes that did work for me, worked very well. Jai Courtney was funny as hell. Overall i had enough fun with the movie, that i can look past some of the flaws in the film.


It's not the Suicide Squad movie i wanted to see, but i had a good time overall. Haven't seen the BvS Extended cut, but this is better than BvS theatre cut.

6.5/10

[aurorablind]

Anyone seen this? The new "tactical suit" for the Justice League movie.



People are slamming it for looking too much like Nightowl in the Watchmen movies.
Personally it doesnt bother me. From the neck down it looks like something from the Arkham Series. The goggles are kind of wierd, but I guess we'll see what purpose they have in the movie.
I think the suit would have been perfect if they went for the glowing eyes-thing they did with the armored suit in BvS.

What do you guys think?

[King Postwhore]

People can complain 24/7.  Thank you Internet.   

[hefdaddy42]

I don't know.  It definitely resembles the character from Watchmen.

It's hard to say anything good about it without seeing it in action, or knowing the need of it.  It may be needed, I don't know.  But without that knowledge, it looks like "trying to be edgy and different for the sake of being edgy and different".

One of the (few) things done right in BvS was the look of Batman.  I just don't know why they would try to make a change.

[Accelerando]

Happy Batman Day ya'll! From Adam West to Kevin Conroy to Batfleck - May he always be the hero that we deserve, but not the one we need right now.

Speaking of Kevin Conroy, I recently watched Batman: Mask of the Phantasm the other day. Might have been the best Batman movie before the Christopher Nolan films

[Adami]

I recently watched Batman: Mask of the Phantasm the other day. Might have been the best Batman movie before the Christopher Nolan films

I can categorically prove that it is, in fact, not the best Batman movie.

Did it have shark repellent? Exactly.

[Accelerando]

  Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb

I assume you know about this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R1Q8U80fQI

[Adami]

I would pay good money for a dark gritty remake of the 60's Batman movie.

I don't mean rewrite it. Oh no. I just want all modern style effects, modern dark gritty costume designs and settings with actors giving dark gritty performances (basically I want it to look exactly like a modern DC movie) but keep the exact same script, word for word, of the original.

[Accelerando]

Dude that Shark scene would be lit   

[Kotowboy]

Dude that Shark scene would be lit   

[Adami]

So The Flash just lost its director.

Not sure if it's important or not.

[King Postwhore]

Looking at the movies he's directed, I'm OK with it Adami.

Now, I hope you all have shark repellant spray in your utility belt.

[hefdaddy42]

So The Flash just lost its director.

Not sure if it's important or not.

Pretty sure it's not important to ME.

[BlackInk]

I don't love Man of Steel of Dawn of Justice, and I think Suicide Squad is trash, but for some reason I have been super hyped about the Justice League movie lately. I just want to see it.

[hefdaddy42]

I also want to see it.

Hopefully they don't fuck it up.

[Accelerando]

It's just exciting that we're finally going to get a Justice League film. There's been a few times that a JLA movie has been in development, most famously the George Miller film that starred Arnie Hammer as Batman. It only took WB to create a movie universe for DC Comics. It's amusing that just like The Avengers was created after the success of Justice League of America comics, the DC Extended Universe was created after the success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

I don't want to start a DC vs Marvel thing, because my god, what a time it is to be alive and to be a comic book fan.

[aurorablind]

New Wonder Woman trailer! Looks great 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q8fG0TtVAY

[Zantera]

I'm not as sold as most people on WW. One moment it looks like a serious movie dealing with war and the consequences of it, and then it goes full on Xena warrior princess.

[King Postwhore]

But she is a warrior princess.

[hefdaddy42]

But she is a warrior princess.

Yeah.

[Zantera]

But she is a warrior princess.

Sure but the tone still feels off. You don't make a dark & serious tone about Xena. But I'm also worried because Gal Gadot is not a great actress and in every scene of the trailer she looks confused. It's one thing to appear in limited scenes in a team-movie and do well and another to carry your own movie.

[King Postwhore]

Of all the DC movies I'm not too worried about this one.  I can't tell you why.

[hefdaddy42]

Of all the DC movies I'm not too worried about this one.  I can't tell you why.

It's because even though she is one of the Big 3, she is definitely 3rd out of 3, so if it sucks it doesn't matter as much as the other 2 sucking.

[King Postwhore]

I understand your thought process but this is really the first treatment as a lead for Wonder Woman.  That should make anyone worried but I'm not.

[Zantera]

I could see the reasoning because Zack Snyder isn't behind the camera so this movie could theoretically benefit from that. I hope the movie wins me over. I'm really not interested in Wonder Woman or her own movie, but I'm also that dumb guy who goes and sees every superhero movie so this will be no different. Maybe it will win me over, maybe it won't. I think the trailers have been fine so far, I'm not as sold on them as a lot of people, but they also haven't been that bad either so.

[hefdaddy42]

I haven't seen the other DCU films in theaters, and I won't see that one in theater either.

[King Postwhore]

What else is weird is that 2 trailers have been released and the movis is what, 8 months still out?  That feelsounds like a mistake to me. 

[Zantera]

What else is weird is that 2 trailers have been released and the movis is what, 8 months still out?  That feelsounds like a mistake to me.

It's a consequence of BvS and Suicide Squad's negative reception. They're putting out the Wonder Woman trailers as fast as they can to shift focus from "boy those movies were bad" to "look, this one will be better". Maybe it will, maybe it won't, but it is indeed very early to have put out 2 trailers. They risk over-exposing people to the point where we have seen the movie before it comes out (from 5 trailers) or they risk the buzz dying off before the movie comes out. But it is very much their response to how people responded to BvS and SS.

[BlackInk]

I have this strong feeling that the WW movie will be fine. Not especially good, not especially bad, just "eh, it was fine".

[aurorablind]

I just saw Suicide Squad - The Extended Edition.
The original version is a 6/10 IMO. I give the extended version 6.3/10. Some cool extra scenes, but they didn't really do anything to make the movie better.

[Adami]

I saw that extra scene of Dr. Quin..whatever chase down Joker on the motorcycle?

Oh god, it was awful.

[hefdaddy42]

Finally saw Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice.

I cried on the inside.  What I saw on screen were largely NOT the characters I loved from my comic-collecting days.  Although Wonder Woman was pretty cool.