The DC Movies Thread v AQUAMAN

[bosk1]

  "THE.  TIDE. HAS. TURNED." for an Aquaman movie would be the best movie tagline of all time.

[King Postwhore]

 

[hefdaddy42]

STOP GIVING SNYDER IDEAS

[Accelerando]

The final trailer for Batman V Superman is here, and it's ten times better than the last trailer we got

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cle_rKBpZ28


  Can we talk about the beginning part of this trailer and how it contains some of the best Batman action sequences ever captured?!? Can't wait for this!

[Kotowboy]

When did Batman become superhuman ?

He's lifting guys and throwing them 50 ft...

[Adami]

The final trailer for Batman V Superman is here, and it's ten times better than the last trailer we got

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cle_rKBpZ28


  Can we talk about the beginning part of this trailer and how it contains some of the best Batman action sequences ever captured?!? Can't wait for this!

These trailers are such a roller coaster ride. When I saw the first real trailer for BvS, I was so pumped. I'm not a DC fan and that trailer was amazing. Then the 2nd trailer with Doomsday came out and I completely lost interest. Everything about it was just awful. Then this new trailer came out and it's a mixed bag. The Batman stuff is incredible. All of the Wonder Woman and Superman stuff though just seemed silly to me. Though I admit, there two great scenes. The scene where Ssuperman touches Batman, which sends him flying, and of course the last scene where Batman blocks Superman and Superman is shocked. Great scene.

That said. I suspect this movie will be okay. I anticipate great Batman stuff but silly rest of the movie. Of all the superhero movies on 2016, it's the one I'm least excited for. Cap, Deadpool, Suicide Squad and Dr. Strange are all much more highly anticipated. Mostly due to that awful 2nd trailer and some of the really silly aspects of this one.

[Adami]

When did Batman become superhuman ?

He's lifting guys and throwing them 50 ft...

That's one problem a lot of people had with Watchmen too. They were supposed to be human beings (except one) yet were throwing people around and doing things impossible for any human. Must be how Zack Snyder melds the comic world with the real one.

[Kotowboy]

I hate Superman for demolishing Metropolis , including one of my buildings, i;m gonna get into a fight with him which might damage even more property !

[Accelerando]

Well, this isn't Christopher Nolan's grounded interpretation of the character. How you see Batman beating up the bad guys in this trailer is how he beat up the bad guys in the comic books.

[King Postwhore]

I hate Superman for demolishing Metropolis , including one of my buildings, i;m gonna get into a fight with him which might damage even more property !

His mind is on stopping him to end more building damage silly.

[jingle.boy]

These trailers are such a roller coaster ride. When I saw the first real trailer for BvS, I was so pumped. I'm not a DC fan and that trailer was amazing. Then the 2nd trailer with Doomsday came out and I completely lost interest. Everything about it was just awful. Then this new trailer came out and it's a mixed bag. The Batman stuff is incredible. All of the Wonder Woman and Superman stuff though just seemed silly to me. Though I admit, there two great scenes. The scene where Ssuperman touches Batman, which sends him flying, and of course the last scene where Batman blocks Superman and Superman is shocked. Great scene.

That said. I suspect this movie will be okay. I anticipate great Batman stuff but silly rest of the movie. Of all the superhero movies on 2016, it's the one I'm least excited for. Cap, Deadpool, Suicide Squad and Dr. Strange are all much more highly anticipated. Mostly due to that awful 2nd trailer and some of the really silly aspects of this one.

Nailed it.

[The Trooper]

I so wanted to hope I would like BVS but with each shitty trailer I think this movie is "doomed".

[kaos2900]

That was a MUCH better trailer than the first. It's really just too bad that the second trailer showed the whole movie and spoiled it. How the hell do you make a movie called Batman VS Superman and then in the trailer show them working together??? Who ever approved that second trailer should be fired and banned from Hollywood. The other thing this film has going against it is Jessie Eissenberg. Can't stand him. I'm thinking this will be good not great. I am looking forward to a stand alone Batman film. I actually think that Ben Afflec will make a better Batman than Bale.

[hefdaddy42]

These trailers are such a roller coaster ride. When I saw the first real trailer for BvS, I was so pumped. I'm not a DC fan and that trailer was amazing. Then the 2nd trailer with Doomsday came out and I completely lost interest. Everything about it was just awful. Then this new trailer came out and it's a mixed bag. The Batman stuff is incredible. All of the Wonder Woman and Superman stuff though just seemed silly to me. Though I admit, there two great scenes. The scene where Ssuperman touches Batman, which sends him flying, and of course the last scene where Batman blocks Superman and Superman is shocked. Great scene.

That said. I suspect this movie will be okay. I anticipate great Batman stuff but silly rest of the movie. Of all the superhero movies on 2016, it's the one I'm least excited for. Cap, Deadpool, Suicide Squad and Dr. Strange are all much more highly anticipated. Mostly due to that awful 2nd trailer and some of the really silly aspects of this one.

This guy knows what's up.

[Zantera]

The Batman stuff is really what keeps my interest up. Affleck looks great, this version of Batman looks great, and I even like the weird decision of making Alfred more important by having his own command center at the batcave, helping Batman with the tactical stuff. As soon as it cuts to Superman, I'm reminded by how lukewarm I was on Man of Steel, and overall I just never cared for Superman. I know he's one of the most iconic superheroes, but to me he was always too powerful, and I never got into him, the same way I did with Spider-Man or Batman.

[Accelerando]

^^ That's why I enjoyed parts of Man of Steel because we see a vulnerable Superman. I know people are upset that they are not getting the squeaky clean Superman movies like the ones with Christopher Reeve, which they were great, and the first two Superman films are still the top ten Comic Book movies of all time. As great as they were, they are nothing like the Superman comics I read growing up, from John Byrne's The Man of Steel series in the 80's and onwards, which show Superman dealing with moral issues and becoming vulnerable.

I highly suggest folks pick up All-Star Superman, Secret Origin, Birthright, and Red Son

[Accelerando]

Justice League will start filming April 11!!!

https://www.ew.com/article/2016/02/21/justice-league-starts-April-11

The legal maxim, “Justice delayed is justice denied” wasn’t meant to apply to superhero films, but the epic wait is finally over for DC fans.

Zack Snyder’s Justice League — Part 1 is officially a go at Warner Bros. and will begin filming on April 11, a little over two weeks after the release of Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, the director and studio tell EW.

“The idea that we could begin to boot up a Justice League concept was a cool thing,” says Snyder, who also directed 2013’s Man of Steel and has become one of the key figures in shaping DC’s connected film universe. 

“It was a little bit of an ‘about time’ moment, and I don’t blame [the studio] for feeling that way, because it’s a long time coming,” he said. “But I do feel like it’s a little bit of a creative hurdle. It seems like an easy thing to do at first glance, the idea that, ‘Oh, we just get the rest of the superheroes in there.’ But you have to [establish] a world where they can exist.”

Dawn of Justice, which hits theaters March 25, focuses on a clash between Superman (played again by Henry Cavill) and a new Batman/Bruce Wayne, portrayed by Ben Affleck, who is seething with rage toward the Kryptonian over the destruction unleashed on Metropolis in Man of Steel. The film also features a major role for Wonder Woman (played by Gal Gadot), which is — astoundingly — the first time the character has appeared in a live-action feature film in her 75-year history.

Other famous DC characters also make brief appearances in that movie — Ezra Miller as the Flash, Jason Momoa as Aquaman, and Ray Fisher as Cyborg — but while Batman and Superman battle it out in the main storyline, those are cameos that mainly lay groundwork for a broader universe in Justice League.

Fans can be forgiven for wondering if they’d ever really get to see all of DC’s heroes on one side. But this time, there’s no doubt. It’s happening, and Snyder is currently in the U.K. prepping for the start.

A previous Justice League movie was planned in 2007, with Mad Max: Fury Road director George Miller at the helm, and many of the main characters had been cast: Armie Hammer as Batman, D.J. Catrona as Superman, Megan Gale as Wonder Woman, Common as Green Lantern, and Adam Brody as the Flash. Then the project collapsed due to the 2007-08 Writers Guild strike when the script wasn’t ready in time to begin principal photography and many of the deals lapsed.

Wonder Woman was also supposed to get her own feature back in 2005 when Joss Whedon was developing a story that he planned to write and direct, but that project also notoriously never came to fruition. Finally, Diana Prince’s Amazonian alter-ego will get a stand-alone in between Batman v. Superman and Justice League.

Wonder Woman, directed by Patty Jenkins (Monster) and starring Gadot, is currently shooting and will be released on June 23, 2017. That film will be followed up just a few months later by Snyder’s Justice League, which will debut Nov. 17, 2017.

In the meantime, on Aug. 5 we’ll be getting DC’s Suicide Squad from writer-director David Ayer, with Jared Leto as the Joker, Will Smith as Deadshot, and Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, among many others.

Justice League will shoot at the Warner Bros. Leavesden studios in southeast England, as well as various locations around London and in Iceland. While this film is being designated Part 1, the follow-up installment, which will shoot separately, is already on the studio’s release schedule for 2019, following standalone movies for The Flash and Aquaman (both planned for 2018).

After Justice League — Part 2, Warner Bros. has plans for a Cyborg movie with Fisher, and a new take on Green Lantern, although an actor for that role hasn’t been revealed yet and those movies, set for somewhere in 2020, haven’t been given release dates.

There may also be other DC movies that turn up in the meantime, according to Warner Bros. A Ben Affleck-directed Batman movie is one possibility.

Dwayne Johnson has tweeted about playing the villain Black Adam in a Warner Bros./New Line production of DC’s Shazam, and that movie has been announced by the studio for 2019, but it’s not clear whether it’s part of the same narrartive as the other movies.

While three years passed between the release Man of Steel and Batman v. Superman, that was mainly because the various creative teams were mapping out so many interlocked stories. “The studio really wants us to try and pace it up, as far as —now we have an idea where we’re going,” Snyder says.

[Kotowboy]

This is how i'd rank them :

1. Superman 1978

2. Superman II

3. Superman Returns

4. Man Of Steel

5. Superman III

6. Superman IV

[Accelerando]

Superman, after all these years, still is one of the greatest comic book films ever, and still hard to top the masterful storytelling and script from Mario Puzo. Plus that John Williams score 

[Kotowboy]

I'd enjoy Man Of Steel a lot more if that 40 minute battle was a LOT shorter.

Oh and if Superman did anything heroic.

Um..and if he didn't kill Zod.

[Accelerando]

But he killed Zod in Superman II and NOBODY is complaining about that! And under the circumstances in Man of Steel, Superman was more justified to killing Zod in that film than he was in Superman II. In Superman II, he killed Zod with a smile on his face! Lol

Also, Supes wore the Cape for like two days in Man of Steel. He was heroic in stopping a murderous Kryptonian army from destroying Earth.

I'm not trying to defend Man of Steel, because I had issues with its story construction and pacing. How the character was handled was not one of them.

Man of Steel was better than Superman Returns lol

[King Postwhore]

Exactly. People forget that there is other versions of Superman where he had to kill but didn't. That is what Man Of Steel was. 

[BlackInk]

I thought the moment when he killed Zod in MoS was great, and they really made a point to show how awful he felt about it.

[hefdaddy42]

But he killed Zod in Superman II and NOBODY is complaining about that!

I complain about it.  The Donner films (I & II) get a lot more love than they deserve.  They are hokey as hell, and are filled with stuff that was invented for the films, having no basis in the comics.

I mean, they are light years better than III & IV, but they aren't really that good, either as adaptations of the source material or as just films. 

That's always been the fate of the Warner Brothers/DC films.  They seem to be extremely uncomfortable just putting the damn character from the comics on screen.  It's like they don't trust that what works on paper will work on screen.  Even in their best films, like the Nolan Batman films, which are extraordinary films and well deserving of all their accolades, that's not really the Batman from the comics.  That's Nolan's idea of what the Batman from the comics should have been.

It's not a problem that Marvel has displayed in the MCU films.  Which is one big reason that those films have been so successful.  They trust the source material.

[ariich]

That's always been the fate of the Warner Brothers/DC films.  They seem to be extremely uncomfortable just putting the damn character from the comics on screen.  It's like they don't trust that what works on paper will work on screen.  Even in their best films, like the Nolan Batman films, which are extraordinary films and well deserving of all their accolades, that's not really the Batman from the comics.  That's Nolan's idea of what the Batman from the comics should have been.

I haven't really read the comics, but I was of the impression that Nolan's Batman was very close to the Batman in some of the comics. The character has been in a hell of a lot of comics over the years.

[hefdaddy42]

The tone was very similar to the most-loved presentations of the character.  Nolan definitely had the closest approach.

I also appreciated that he displayed the mental aspect of the character, his detective skills.

But I wasn't a huge fan of the scenes showing Batman in combat while in full costume.  The costume was very bulky, almost like armor, and wouldn't account for the fluidity of motion shown by the character in the comics.  The combat footage of Batman shown in the latest B v. S trailer is MUCH closer to the Batman of the comics, and the presentation of Batman is very much my attraction to the upcoming film.  THAT Batman looks like the Batman from the comics, IMHO.

[Zantera]

Nolan's Batman was definitely a very unique take on Batman. If anything I'd say the new Batman in BvS looks like the best/most accurate Batman we've ever gotten, but that doesn't mean the movie will be great. Nolan knew what made a great Batman film even if he took some liberties. This might be closer to the Batman we know, but they still gotta nail the script and everything else.

[Accelerando]

I loved the concept of Nolan's Batman. Let's take a super hero with no super powers in a very fantastical world and put him in a much grounded world. It worked brilliantly, and he didn't tarnish the character doing it.

[King Postwhore]

It felt real.  Ledger's Joker seemed like he could happen. As the movie went on his hair got progressively greasy.  You could imagine a crazy man not showering and obsessing like his character did.

[hefdaddy42]

So apparently there will be a Blu-ray version of B v. S called The Ultimate Edition which will be rated R for violence.

Is that really necessary?

[Accelerando]

From the director of Dawn of the Dead, 300, and Watchmen....are you really surprised? Lol

[Adami]

So apparently there will be a Blu-ray version of B v. S called The Ultimate Edition which will be rated R for violence.

Is that really necessary?

Just the first sign that some studios did not learn the right lessons from Deadpool. However, since it's just an alternate version on the blu-ray, it's not a huge deal.

Though, does anyone else remember than the first of the modern comic book movies was rated R? Blade.

[Kotowboy]

Rumour has it that there will be ANOTHER Fantastic 4 movie but R rated

The fantastic 4 franchise reminds me of the scene in RoboCop 2 with all the failed models that all commit suicide

https://t.co/z2z0kqMaWI < - - just replace " robocop 2 " with " The fantastic 4 "

[Adami]

Rumour has it that there will be ANOTHER Fantastic 4 movie but R rated

The fantastic 4 franchise reminds me of the scene in RoboCop 2 with all the failed models that all commit suicide

Other than random people saying it (much like this post I'm responding to) I have seen no rumors what so ever. Someone making a comment about it on a website is not a rumor.

[Podaar]

Though, does anyone else remember than the first of the modern comic book movies was rated R? Blade.

I certainly do! Blade is a personal favorite of mine.

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