If they do a Logan-like approach, I'm fine with it.
If they do a Logan-like approach, I'm fine with it.
This is a surprisingly good discussion around Superman, Clark Kent, Christopher Reeve, and various aspects of secret identities:
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comm...nize_superman/
John Cena being considered for Shazam?
http://screenrant.com/shazam-movie-c...-plot-summary/
What curious trails we wander.
"How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home wine-making course and forgot how to drive?"
--Homer
Well it's brought up a lot, but look at Edgar Wright with Ant-Man. He wanted to make an Ant-Man movie for Marvel since before the MCU was even a thing. Once it became the only option to make an non-X-Men/Spider-Man without tying it into everything else, he stuck with it for a while, but only up until they began to force things like Falcon and Agent Carter cameos on him with rewrites behind his back and he started to feel like he wasn't the one directing the movie anymore. Sure there were likely other reasons, but there's no doubt that if Marvel Studios had an option for filmmakers to do work that doesn't need to shoehorn threads for an Avengers movie down the line due to a creative force other than their own, then they'll be more likely to take meetings.Quoting number8 (view post)
Not that they need to right now. DC does.
Last 11 things I really enjoyed:
Speed Racer (Wachowski/Wachowski, 2008)
Safe (Haynes, 1995)
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (Parker, 1999)
Beastie Boys Story (Jonze, 2020)
Bad Trip (Sakurai, 2020)
What's Up Doc? (Bogdanovich, 1972)
Diva (Beineix, 1981)
Delicatessen (Caro/Jeunet, 1991)
The Hunger (Scott, 1983)
Pineapple Express (Green, 2008)
Chungking Express (Wong, 1994)
I was with you up until this. Could you explain this thought more?Quoting Henry Gale (view post)
Just that before Wonder Woman they didn't have a great perception as being especially filmmaker-friendly (unless your name was Snyder) or critically praised, things they had in spades with Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy. So it's kind of funny that they're almost transparently trying to replicate that with possibly just making as many universe-detached Batman and Joker movies as possible. (Because how 'bout that Dark Knight, eh?)Quoting Skitch (view post)
Marvel is arguably in the most creatively and financially comfortable place a studio has ever been with so much successful output in such a short amount of time. By "Movie #2" the whole DCEU was being put into question, with a Batman they might still want to do away with despite what they might be publicly greenlighting.
They can't do a hard reset because they have a great Wonder Woman and high hopes that their Aquaman and Flash can steady things with their own unique solo films, but going into a Justice League that's most directly a continuation of BvS does them no favours for audience perceptions. WW surpassing all expectations is the best thing that could've happened to it for reinvested interest, but time will tell how much goodwill it sheds or gains for the DCEU at large on its own merits.
Again, this is the sort of problem I don't think Kevin Feige and Marvel Studios ever had. Their worst reviewed movies (2008's The Incredible Hulk and Thor: The Dark World five years and five movies later) are still "fresh" on RT and have the luxury of being perceived as minor in the grand scheme of their output.
So if we get a Matt Reeves Batman film without Affleck and a Todd Phillips Joker without Leto, then that's an exciting and interesting development for filmmakers and filmgoers who aren't completely won over by the mothership Batman they're currently committed to, but it also seemingly puts their competition with Marvel, universe to universe, as no longer their primary goal.
I really don't know what they do if the young Joker movie is a huge success and well-liked and they're still looking to bring back Leto for Suicide Squad 2 and its Harley spinoff. Restraint hasn't been their thing.
Last 11 things I really enjoyed:
Speed Racer (Wachowski/Wachowski, 2008)
Safe (Haynes, 1995)
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (Parker, 1999)
Beastie Boys Story (Jonze, 2020)
Bad Trip (Sakurai, 2020)
What's Up Doc? (Bogdanovich, 1972)
Diva (Beineix, 1981)
Delicatessen (Caro/Jeunet, 1991)
The Hunger (Scott, 1983)
Pineapple Express (Green, 2008)
Chungking Express (Wong, 1994)
As a grown man that still watches wrestling. . .I need to see John Cena and The Rock fight each other as comic book hero and villain on the big screen.Quoting Wryan (view post)
Last Five Films I've Seen (Out of 5)
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse (Mackesy, 2022) 4.5
Puss In Boots: The Last Wish (Crawford, 2022) 4
Confess, Fletch (Mottola, 2022) 3.5
M3GAN (Johnstone, 2023) 3.5
Turning Red (Shi, 2022) 4.5
Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953) 5
615 Film
Letterboxd
Playing a superhero in a movie is a step down from his full time job of being a superhero irl.
Movie Theater DiaryQuoting Donald Glover
Goddammit. Now I'm crying at work. Cena's the best.Quoting number8 (view post)
last four:
black widow - 8
zero dark thirty - 9
the muse - 7
freaky - 7
now reading:
lonesome dove - larry mcmurtry
Letterboxd
The Harrison Marathon - A Podcast About Harrison Ford
Yeh that was a cool video.
Damn, good stuff.
Losing is like fertilizer: it stinks for a while, then you get used to it. (Tony, Hibbing)
He has an excellent voice.
"How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home wine-making course and forgot how to drive?"
--Homer
Yeah that and the We Are America video are great stuff.
Last Five Films I've Seen (Out of 5)
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse (Mackesy, 2022) 4.5
Puss In Boots: The Last Wish (Crawford, 2022) 4
Confess, Fletch (Mottola, 2022) 3.5
M3GAN (Johnstone, 2023) 3.5
Turning Red (Shi, 2022) 4.5
Tokyo Story (Ozu, 1953) 5
615 Film
Letterboxd
Suicide Squad 2 will be directed by Gavin O'Connor
Gavin, you have 72 hours and three grams of cocaine, WRITE.
I can do it in 36 hours and 2 grams.
Losing is like fertilizer: it stinks for a while, then you get used to it. (Tony, Hibbing)
Looks like Jenkins is officially coming back to do the sequel.
http://variety.com/2017/film/news/pa...or-1202548413/
Hey, Barry Allen is a Rick & Morty fan.
I think you already made that post.
I did?
I think when the first JL trailer came out.
Give me an OMAC movie.
"All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"
"Rick...it's a flamethrower."
He also has a picture of Nikola Tesla, which makes him the ultimate internet boy.
Sounds like Snyder is done with the DCEU
https://www.wired.com/story/zack-sny...-iphone-movie/
He'll forever associate JL with devastation. I'd find it hard to return to a film set at all.