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That belt really matches the tone of his arms and legs. Fantastic choice.
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previous page Savage Dragon vs Darkseid
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He needs something to look forward to while working his day job at McDonald’s…
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those 2 pictures look very different to me but yours does say Kirby. I did a google search on Darkseid by Kirby to get mine. Weird.
Dave’s Darkseid was from The Hunger Dogs. Kirby had left comics and had been working in animation for Hannah Barbara before he came back and did The Hunger Dogs in 1985, so his style had changed considerably by then – not for the better IMO.
I think the Snyder Darkseid looks terrible – his head is too narrow and the stone texture just looks ridiculous. Compare that to Thanos, and they’re leagues apart. I’d be willing to bet they don’t get a tenth of the performance out of him that Josh Brolin and the animators gave Thanos as well.
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I think the Snyder Darkseid looks terrible – his head is too narrow and the stone texture just looks ridiculous. Compare that to Thanos, and they’re leagues apart. I’d be willing to bet they don’t get a tenth of the performance out of him that Josh Brolin and the animators gave Thanos as well.
For the few minutes he’s gonna be in, that’s more than enough. Plus, I’ll post it again just because, but this looks very much fine to me… more than fine, really:
Darkseid #SnyderCut pic.twitter.com/T0zHR3fcIl
— Zack Snyder's Justice League (@snydercut) March 10, 2021
Steppenwolf looks amazing… there are some shots where you can see how his armour contracts and expands around his face (low quality though)… pretty neat:
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Anyway, back to the movie design – I have no great love for Snyder but I honestly think this is a pretty decent stab at bringing the Kirby look to live-action.
Yeah, I think that’s a pretty cool Darkseid. I’d like to see the Darkseid scenes, too, even if I am less interested in the rest of the movie.
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Heh… so we got 2017, then 2020:
And now we got 2021:
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Heh… so we got 2017, then 2020:
And now we got 2021:
2025:
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Gotta go fast!
Oh, and their updated chart for upcoming projects:
That second Suicide Squad thing confused me, but that’s the videogame coming out at some point, same with the Gotham Knights logo. Didn’t know they were developping Zatanna or Batgirl… or Blue Beetle… wtf?
Also, weird they don’t showcase the Flash TV show, Black Lightning, LoT or Stargirl… are those ending or what?
Oh wait, they didn’t include Titans or Doom Patrol either… well I guess it’s WB being WB again… why wouldn’t they include all that stuff just to showcase all the stuff they have? I mean, they included SG, BW, S&L, Harley Quinn…
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Here’s what they think about you. pic.twitter.com/V9CR5COT2p
— Only Gob Forgives (@FilmGob) March 13, 2021
Wait isn’t that asshole a CB writer? Anyways… gotta love it, the press keeps saying “the Snyder fandom is toxic”, but they always conveniently ignore all of these morons…
Anyways, it’s funny I guess… first I was a clut member, then I was a russian bot, now I’m a terrorist… I wonder what’s next? Aliens?
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Anyways… gotta love it, the press keeps saying “the Snyder fandom is toxic”, but they always conveniently ignore all of these morons…
I don’t really understand the negativity over it (or Joker, recently). I did find Snyder’s other films fairly unsuccessful dramatically but not awful enough to really hate. BvS the ultimate edition is pretty hard to get through. It was interminably boring, but not that much worse than any number of blockbuster movies that don’t get as much hate. And there are many good moments just not enough satisfying scenes.
nevertheless, I am going to watch Justice League next week. Probably not all at once though. Took me three days to get through BvS.
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Probably not all at once though. Took me three days to get through BvS.
Fair enough… good news is, it’s divided in 6 chapters, so at least it shouldn’t be so jarring taking a break
Also… just saw this, not gonna lie, it’s pretty fucking bad-ass… is this the new “this is sparta”?
New TV spot! Connie Nielsen is such a badass!#SnyderCut #ZackSnydersJusticeLeague pic.twitter.com/7ZIAFR2CA3
— All Things Zack Snyder (@AllThingsSnyder) March 13, 2021
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Wait isn’t that asshole a CB writer?
Right! I like his young adult book back in the nineties, The Waiting Place. Jesus, Slave Labour Graphics… are they still around?
Anyway, yeah, so he dared crack a joke at the expense of the Snyder Cut? He must be a monster.
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Unexpected. For those in the UK with access to Now TV, the Snyder Cut will be free and available from 18 March.
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Nice… I don’t know who’s responsible for it, but whoever they are, they did an amazing job of licensing this movie worldwide in a rather short amount of time.
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Reviews are in for ZSJL: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/zack_snyders_justice_league
Consensus seems to be that it’s better than the theatrical cut, but that it’s far too long and self-indulgent.
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Grass is green, sky is blue…
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I’d say it’s pretty difficult to make a 4 hour movie that doesn’t feel overlong and self-indulgent to some extent. Good to see if getting some solid reviews, though. Lord knows it would have been hard to make something worse than the slop Whedon and WB put out 3 1/2 years ago. But as a fan of the property, I always want these movies to be good so hopefully I agree with the early reviews and end up being entertained.
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It would’ve been nice to get the mini-series thing, but I guess it was too much of a hassle in terms of legalities… still though, it’s chaptered and you don’t need to watch it in one go… the problem is reviewers HAVE TO, if they want to get their reviews out early… so yeah, that kinda skews thing a little bit.
But at any rate “long and self indulgent” was the whole point of the project so…
Anyways, yeah it’s nice to see the high score it’s got, but it’s probably gonna plummet once it releases… doesn’t matter though, the only thing that matters is how well it does financially which is something we won’t know anyways, unless it’s good enough to make a sequel announcement I suppose.
Oh, also: “By the way, that much-discussed “we live in a society” line from the trailer? He says something else entirely.” hahaha, I knew it!!! cheeky Snyder!
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DC’s Stargirl Season 2 First Look: Eclipso Unleashes an Ancient Evil
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I know there’s a lot of Gail Simone fans in here, so for what it’s worth (huge twitter thread):
Okay, let ,me tell you about JLA. There won’t be any #SnyderCut spoilers, this is about the concept.
When I was a kid, I lived on a farm, and we were poor. All I wanted to do was read, so I read everything I could find, but I read a lot I didn’t love because it was there. 1/
— Gail Simone (@GailSimone) March 16, 2021
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Okay so this is… weird… Did they really give Endgame a better score than IW?? =P
So anyways… apparently Snyder’s now an “auteur” (I’ve been reading/hearing that word all over the place, not just there)… where’s the eye-rolling smiley?
Also, I wonder how will WB handle the fallout from all of this… eh, who am I kidding? “Badly”, of course. Oh, they’re about to have a fun day tomorrow xD
Lastly… 10 hours to go babyyyyyy!!!! hype
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I’m so excited!
Yea!
Time to research Eureka seven
I really am going to watch the Justice League. Why will I do this to myself?
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I’m so excited!
Yea!
Time to research Eureka seven
I really am going to watch the Justice League. Why will I do this to myself?
Watch Eureka Seven instead, it has robots surfing in the sky
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I watched the Snyder Cut yesterday.
It was very, very pretty and way better than the Whedon version.
Not without faults though. In particular some of the voice-over work was awful, especially Gal Gadots, and music choices felt out of place and outright bad.
I’m not going to dive in hard to all the faults (or all the goods for that matter) but it was worth my time. The best of the DC Snyder movies.
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Well NOW I’m interested…!
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Clearly this is Warner Brothers trying to undermine the movie one more time
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Well I watched it… and regret terribly doing so, because fuckin Prime Video didn’t let me watch in HD (because of whatever random bullshit anti-recording requirements, like… who even understands that sort of shit… they’re completely crazy), so I had to watch a VERY shitty low definition version where everything looked pixelated and quite shitty… Did I say shitty?
Anyhow… I was planning on doing a second viewing, so I guess I’ll need to resort to torrenting it anyways to get a proper HD image… ffs… well the good news is that it was priced at the amazing price of 3 dollars here in Mexico, so no biggie… at least I didn’t waste my money (although I spoiled my first viewing) and now I can pirate it guilt-free =P
But seriously what the fuck is up with these rental services? No wonder people pirate things… u_u
Anyhow… it’s 6 am, so I ain’t gonna discuss it much, plus I’m waiting to see it with a good quality, but from what I could see, it was good… pretty much what was advertised… gotta say, that 4hrs runtime definetly flies by with ease, VERY well paced, which really surprised me. In the end, the important thing is that this actually feels like a fucking Justice League movie, and not like a rushed hodge podge of shit. That’s really all we wanted… mission accomplished, warts and all
Last thing: Interesting that you can see how you could trim it down to the fabled 214 runtime (what was supposed to be the OG “snydercut”)… I don’t mind the extra fluff though, might as well put everything in at this point, but yeah, a 3.5 hrs long movie was definetly doable without losing anything.
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quite shitty… Did I say shitty?
This is the pull quote I’m taking from Jon’s review.
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This is the pull quote I’m taking from Jon’s review.
That’s my review yeah, for fuckin’ Amazon Prime Video… man I’m still pissed… u_u
Ummm, Zack Snyder?
What? I’m talking about a scene IN the snydercut that they cut for some idiotic reason in the theatrical cut…
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fuckin’ Amazon Prime Video
Queen Hippolytta has a sex tape!?
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Actually now that I think about it, most of the “recent” footage is at the end, so yeah they really only shot like 5 minutes of new footage in 2020.
That’s less than I thought. Did most of the cost go on CGI stuff then?
Oh for sure… I’d say most of whatever they gave him went to finish the VFX and the sound FX probably, Junkie XL had to score 3.5 hours too… the new footage pertains to the “knightmare” bits in the movie and they’re really short, oh and the 2 MM bits which are super short too… I mean, he did say they only shot for 3 days, so that’s really not a lot…
Anyhow, unfortunately there’s still a lot of CGI shots that look iffy… but hey, considering it’s FOUR hours, and they only had 6-7 months to put this huge thing together, it’s actually not bad.
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That’s less than I thought. Did most of the cost go on CGI stuff then?
Probably.
The CGI was a bit uneven. Not like outright bad at any point, but some parts were clearly better than others.
The bad bits were, to me, sound mixing, some of the voice-overs and the ending. Not the ending of the main conflict, but there were too many endings going on after that. The epilogue was the one bit that could’ve been shortened to serve the movie better. The new Knightfall stuff at the very end was literally the worst part.
There was also a scene around the middle (?) where Martian Manhunter impersonates Martha Kent and that scene was just outright inexplicable, and it reminds me of some of the weird and disjointed storytelling antics of Snyders previous movies. Apart from that scene and the Knightfall scene at the end, I felt Snyder showed some decent restraint and focused on setting up a quite simple plot to look really spectacular. And succeeded in doing so. I’m pleasantly surprised.
To be fair, I said “well paced” not fast paced
What I said wasn’t in response to you as such, just a general observation. Action movies and superhero movies tend to be described as fast-paced every so often and this movie was quite the opposite and that’s worthy to take note of. It was slow-paced (and, as you say, well-paced).
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Oops I haven’t been putting things in spoilers because I’m assuming you guys don’t give a fuck (since you’ve repeatedly said so), so tell me if I should… I’ll be extra vague for now cause I’m lazy =P
Anyhow, I completely agree with Anders, specially about the second bit he posted… weirdest part is he actually had that planned from the begining, because if I didn’t know better, I’d think it’s something he decided to add/change last minute… but no, it ain’t, and honestly, not only it doesn’t work AT ALL, both visually and in terms of plot, but it flat out diminished the scene right before it which I thought was a really nice and tender moment.
And about the Knightmare stuff… eh… I didn’t mind it too much, it wasn’t necessary AT ALL, and it kinda feels like a last FUCK YOU to WB, if I’m being honest… it was nice seeing a bit more of those characters though, so again, can’t complain too much… Plus it does set up some interesting stuff that they could delve into IF they decide they want to do something with it…
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it flat out diminished the scene right before it which I thought was a really nice and tender moment.
100% agree.
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It’s the same outline yeah… that’s why I didn’t start a dedicated thread… it’s weird because on the one hand it is the same movie, yet on the other it’s sooo different…
But if you’re planning on watching it, there might be some bits you won’t want spoiled, not because they’re important plot points, but rather because they’re surprises, like how they dispose of Steppenwolf… which is VERY different in this one… or what Flash does in the final battle, which is certainly not pose like an asshole on the ground or push a truck around.
They really redeemed Barry in this one… he’s kinda the same, quirky and funny(ish), but he’s not a fuckin dumbass like in the other one… in this one he knows what he’s doing and boy, he can do some cool shit.
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Interesting that you can see how you could trim it down to the fabled 214 runtime
Yeah just run the slo-mo bits at normal time and it’s done.
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It’s the same outline yeah… that’s why I didn’t start a dedicated thread… it’s weird because on the one hand it is the same movie, yet on the other it’s sooo different…
But if you’re planning on watching it, there might be some bits you won’t want spoiled, not because they’re important plot points, but rather because they’re surprises, like how they dispose of Steppenwolf… which is VERY different in this one… or what Flash does in the final battle, which is certainly not pose like an asshole on the ground or push a truck around.
They really redeemed Barry in this one… he’s kinda the same, quirky and funny(ish), but he’s not a fuckin dumbass like in the other one… in this one he knows what he’s doing and boy, he can do some cool shit.
Fair enough – maybe safest to spoiler-tag anything genuinely new then.
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I watched it intermittently during the day today, basically between meetings I couldn’t get out of. I enjoyed it a lot. There were genuine tears of joy in my eyes a couple of times. It’s a slow burn movie. The action, when it comes, is very good, but in between those scenes it slows right down. But, the cast and the imagery keep it captivating throughout. It’s so much better than the theatrical version it’s incredible, but I doubt it will do much to convert those who don’t like Snyder’s work or style.
I signed up to a free 7 day Now TV pass for this, so I’ll be watching at least once more in the next week. And, will be buying the Blu Ray (should there be one).
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I signed up to a free 7 day Now TV pass for this, so I’ll be watching at least once more in the next week. And, will be buying the Blu Ray (should there be one).
Really glad you enjoyed it! =)
Okay so I rewatched it in bits and pieces… and hell yeah it does look pretty in HD… =P
The downside is that some of the CGI looks worse, of course, but eh… it’s overall okay… I wish it was better, much better, but it is what it is
That epilogue scene with the bat-tank, even though it’s super CGI-y, I don’t care, I fucking loved that crazy Snyder said “yeah fuck it, let’s put the Miller bat-tank in there too because why not”… at least it off-sets some of his other more questionable choices… but that’s what you get with a massive geek.
Anyways, anyone else planning on watching it?
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Oh, I will definitely be watching it. Been looking forward to it for a long time, but have really gotten excited with the good press.
Sunday afternoon is my plan.Yelled out loud when it came up on the search (here in Canada it’s on Crave, but I didn’t know if it was the ‘upper tier’ that has a streaming catalog also (and some shows do go to that only), or what I get (just HBO Canada plus 3 Crave channels).
Sure enough it’s on those channels, meaning I’ll be able to record it and keep it on my PVR as long as I want.
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In Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021), Barry Allen breaks a window by simply touching it. This is because Windows no longer supports Flash. pic.twitter.com/E79RMRj8ZZ
— 🎧 Solo (@BravelySolo) March 18, 2021
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watching the Snyder cut in spurts over the weekend.
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f that was cut out of the Whedon version it was a mistake
There is some news that came out in the last month or so that suggests Whedon likes his women fearful
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I’ll find the time to watch it when my kid is here over the Easter Holidays. I’m sure he will enjoy it, too.
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I didn’t think anything could potentially be worse than Avengers: Endgame
I fucking love and adore Avengers: Endgame. I couldn’t give the first toss that the time travel logic makes no sense (it never does).
It is an amazing piece of fanservice where every moment they set up in advance and is deserved, when a character pops through a portal we like it because they set it up so the fans did.
If I feel a little down my therapy is playing Endgame audience reaction videos. It’s amazing.
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I fucking love and adore Avengers: Endgame. I couldn’t give the first toss that the time travel logic makes no sense (it never does). It is an amazing piece of fanservice where every moment they set up in advance and is deserved, when a character pops through a portal we like it because they set it up so the fans did. If I feel a little down my therapy is playing Endgame audience reaction videos. It’s amazing.
Gar, you piece of shit! Now I’m rewatching Avengers: Endgame! All because of this post! How dare you make my day?
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The second half was more enjoyable than the first for me. No surprise since it’s when the team is together and stuff is happening. Ultimately, the Snyder Cut was a better product, but one I’m not likely to revisit. It’s just too long and is really just a lot of set up for another movie that’s never going to get made. Cool to see a version of what was initially planned, but beyond that it’s just kind of a tease.
One thing I was confused about, which may have just been me not paying enough attention, was that for some reason Steppenwolf and no one from Apokolips seemed to know Earth was the planet that fought back and defeated Darkseid all those years ago until Steppenwolf finds the anti-life equation etched into the ground. That was confusing considering he was there gathering the Mother Boxes which could only be there if it was the planet that beat Darkseid. Again, maybe I just missed something.
I’m also bummed that Andy Muschietti is the person they ultimately got to direct The Flash movie. IT Chapter 2 is one of the worst movies I’ve seen in a while. The VFX in both chapters were so goofy and the creative choices he made were mostly terrible.
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So I watched it all in 4 hours. Don’t do that..
I really like Batfleck and Alfred, the big showdown at the end was so much better in this version but dear god I felt every second of that run time. There were points where I was laughing out loud at bits that were meant to be Very Cool and weren’t.
Snyder is kinda what would happen if Michael Bay though he was Very Smart. But he’s nowhere near as good a director as Bay.
I never want to see Jarred Leto in anything, ever.
So, it’s a better film but that’s not saying a whole lot. There might be a good film in here but fuck the slo mo and the sad music.
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