.Anyway, there’s going to be a Keaton Batman who may or may not share a universe with an Affleck Batman and there’s a Pattinson Batman who has nothing to do with either of them? And none of them have anything to do with the Phoenix Joker?
You know what they need? A big event where they all get collapsed into one version in a single universe.
They could call it… “Calamity”… uh… “Predicament”… uh… give me a minute to work on it, I’m sure there’s a cool name they could use… 
They fucked? 
John Wesley Shipp to guest-star on DC’s Stargirl as Golden Age Flash
I have always like Lennix as an actor and I liked his answers to these questions.
I am absolutely not paying $20 for this thing.
Damn… that’s more than what I thought… so 20 bucks for a 4 hours movie is indeed not that much. Here we pay less than 5 bucks for a regular showing, but I always thought it was expensive… I mean, it is all things considered, but I thought it was closer to foreign prices.
A normal cinema ticket here is about $3 on average I’d say.
I disagree on the $20 thing though because I think people have a very different mindset to renting online c0mpared to the experience of going to the movies. Even if there’s 3 of you and it’s potentially cheaper- a video rental was always lower than a cinema ticket, not higher. I don’t think I’d pay that much on principle whatever it was and just wait instead.
Am I the only cheap bastard here who would take his own snacks and drinks into the cinema?
Am I the only cheap bastard here who would take his own snacks and drinks into the cinema?
No.
The other element is what I have said all along. This is actually a niche product. There’s a certain group very keen indeed to see it, another bunch curious and 90% of the audience don’t know who Zach Snyder is.
In that scenario trying to get the maximum out of that first group is probably the best way to approach it. In publishing there are guys like Thames and Hudson that do quite well by making material with a fixed audience of a few thousand and charging $30-40 for them. Kickstarter works that way too really, big fans paying over the normal retail rates.
The curious group is only going to watch when it’s cheap and convenient anyway, the final group may see a picture of Superman/Batman/Wonder Woman and go ‘let’s watch that’ but aren’t going to seek it out and pay over and above their existing subscriptions.
Our local cinema staff always used to be very hardline on trying to bar non-cinema-bought snacks when I was a student. I once smuggled in a can of Lilt and half a packet of custard creams and felt like I’d stolen the crown jewels.
Can we just get this bollocks over with now. https://t.co/T1LurFjP84
— @ClassicXBooks (@ClassicXbooks) February 22, 2021
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Justice League: The Shocking, Exhilarating, Heartbreaking True Story of #TheSnyderCut
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/02/the-true-story-of-justice-league-snyder-cut
Justice League: The Shocking, Exhilarating, Heartbreaking True Story of #TheSnyderCut
Is it “they re-released a superhero film with some new bits”?
[Snyder] chose Gal Gadot to play Wonder Woman in Batman v Superman and produced Patty Jenkins’s stand-alone movie about the Amazonian princess. “I remember Gal saying to me, ‘Zack, I was going to quit the business. I was getting ready to just move back to Tel Aviv and just have a life there. I was done with Hollywood. I was going to do this one more audition.’ Then she came in, and I was like, ‘That’s my Wonder Woman.’” Now she’s the whole world’s.
Thanks, Zack!
They forgot to include Due South. 
I am absolutely not paying $20 for this thing.
I can’t believe there was a big discussion about this. Forget about the $20. Remember what movie we are talking about(yes, I know Jon, you would pay it, so remove yourself from Everbody else). How much $ would you pay for this? I have HBO MAX but if they ask for a surcharge I ain’t paying it.
I am absolutely not paying $20 for this thing.
I can’t believe there was a big discussion about this. Forget about the $20. Remember what movie we are talking about(yes, I know Jon, you would pay it, so remove yourself from Everbody else). How much $ would you pay for this? I have HBO MAX but if they ask for a surcharge I ain’t paying it.
They’d have to pay me a lot of money.
Justice League: The Shocking, Exhilarating, Heartbreaking True Story of #TheSnyderCut https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/02/the-true-story-of-justice-league-snyder-cut
Pretty good article… I really liked that they addressed this point:
At a time of stories of abusive creators, Snyder is an anomaly. Even executives who were sometimes at odds with him agree that he’s genuinely nice. “I’d be stronger than that,” says Silverman. “He’s a wonderful guy and fostered a wonderful working environment on his sets. He really valued the crew. He valued his cast.”
Considering how throughout the article they keep having to mention how this person and that person got fired amid scandals and all that. Kinda cool to see a nice person being acknowledged for once.
But it’s really aggravating to see that “toxic fans” narrative being perpetuated over and over again. You can clearly see how it’s now the false narrative of choice from the detractors to attack the movie, seeing that their previous narratives fell flat on their faces. Oh well…
No. My wife has an insulated lunch bag that looks just like a purse that we’ll stuff drinks and snacks in when we do go to the movies.
Sneaky sneaky!
I normally buy my popcorn and my drinks at the cinema, unless I want a Dr. Pepper in which case I bring my own in, but rarely buy candy there. It’s not a price issue, it’s just that I’m very picky with my candy and if I want candy I’m going to have to go to a niche candy store with a lot of import to find the right stuff.
Am I the only cheap bastard here who would take his own snacks and drinks into the cinema?
A few years ago a new iPic theater opened in town, and Liz and I were comped two tickets during the debut week (we saw JASON BOURNE). In case you’re not aware, iPic is one of those chains where a waitperson takes your food-and-drink order while you’re in your seat, and brings the food to you while you’re watching the film. Since I was watching the movie for free, I felt obliged to order food. It would have been much cheaper to see BOURNE at the nearby AMC theater and sneak my snacks and water in.
We did, however, enjoy the evening, and can understand the attraction of such theaters as a new way of enjoying the movie-going experience.
I’ve never been to a cinema that has that service. How does it work in practice? It sounds like a bit of a distraction having people scurrying around the theatre delivering food and drink while the movie plays.
I’ve never been to a cinema that has that service. How does it work in practice? It sounds like a bit of a distraction having people scurrying around the theatre delivering food and drink while the movie plays.
I have been to a couple, here and in the US.
You either get an individual table or a platform in front of you, there’s a button to call a waiter. It’s not in practice that disruptive, most people order the bulk of what they want before the film starts and the staff are pretty attuned to not get in the way, ducking down and whispering.
I went to one in Austin Texas, ordered a craft beer before the show, another halfway through, you’d cause as much disruption going for a pee.
I’ve never been to a cinema that has that service. How does it work in practice? It sounds like a bit of a distraction having people scurrying around the theatre delivering food and drink while the movie plays.
It’s totally a distraction. I enjoyed the novelty of the experience, but I don’t see myself doing it again; I prefer to focus on the screen, not on the person delivering my food and drink. One of the friends we went with has gone back a few more times with his wife and/or son, but he’s definitely into being waited on while sitting back in a big plush chair watching a big screen; to him, the experience is more entertaining than the actual film. To each his own, I guess..
It’s not in practice that disruptive
It’s totally a distraction.
Fight! Fight! Fight!
Ha ha, I suspect like most cinema experiences it depends a lot on your fellow patrons.
In publishing there are guys like Thames and Hudson that do quite well by making material with a fixed audience of a few thousand and charging $30-40 for them.
Closer to home, that also describes Marvel and DC.
And we pay it every time…
Back when I was at uni and had no money, we’d smuggle great big backpacks’ worth of beer into the cinemas. Luckily they wouldn’t check them. There was also one multiplex where you could sneak from one theatre to the other and watch multiple movies. We’d start in the afternoon and get properly drunk watching movies in the cinema.
These days, I buy my beer there. They need all the support they can get, and I can afford it better now.
Am I the only cheap bastard here who would take his own snacks and drinks into the cinema?
I have a super power that allows me to go two hours without needing to eat or drink.
Saves me a fortune.
Closer to home, that also describes Marvel and DC. And we pay it every time…
It does but to be fair to them a large chunk of that is full colour printing costs for illustrations.
A lot of these specialist interest books are basic prose and cheap as chips to print, they charge the $30-40 purely because the print runs are so small, any less and there’s no way to support it as a business.
I would say it is pretty similar to the Omnibus/Absolute model though as they have really small print runs too.
garjones wrote:
It’s not in practice that disruptivenjerry wrote:
It’s totally a distraction.Fight! Fight! Fight!
No conflict here — it’s not disruptive to the rest of the audience, but it necessarily is a distraction to the person being served at that moment.
Am I the only cheap bastard here who would take his own snacks and drinks into the cinema?
I have a super power that allows me to go two hours without needing to eat or drink.
Saves me a fortune.
Nah, if you’re not spending the last hour of the latest superhero movie in a battle of the wills against your bladder, wondering how on earth this tactical blunder has come to be yet again, you’re missing out.
‘Superman’ Reboot In The Works At Warner Bros With Ta-Nehisi Coates Writing, J.J. Abrams Producing
Deadline has confirmed that author Ta-Nehisi Coates is writing a Superman reboot feature for Warner Bros and DC, which J.J. Abrams is producing under his Bad Robot label.
Hannah Minghella will serve as producer. No plot yet and no attachments despite the fact that we’ve heard how Henry Cavill is eager to get back into the cape.
Coates is attached to a Ryan Coogler directed drama feature entitled Wrong Answer about a math teacher in Atlanta who is scandalized when he looks to get funding for his school by altering his students’ test scores. Michael Jordan is attached to Wrong Answer.
As the national correspondent for The Atlantic, Coates covered cultural, social and political issues, specifically that of African Americans and white supremacy. He has written for The Village Voice, TIME and has contributed to the New York Times Magazine, Washington Post and more. His non-fiction books include The Beautiful Struggle, Between the World and Me, and We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy. Between the World and Me won the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Of note, Coates has written a Black Panther and a Captain America series for Marvel Comics. Coates received a special thanks credit on Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame and Black Panther.
Abrams has a big half billion deal over at WarnerMedia which he closed in September 2019.
As we first told you in January 2020, Bad Robot and Warner are developing the Justice League Dark Universe for film and TV. Justice League Dark (or JLD team) first appeared in the September 2011 issue of Justice League Dark #1 featuring such superheros, mostly occult and offbeat, as John Constantine, mystic and fortune teller Madame Xanadu, Deadman, Shade, the Changing Man, and Zatanna. The roster is much larger, and members joined later on, with Swamp Thing being added in issue 19. Given their powers, they typically handled situations outside of the scope of the traditional Justice League, which includes Wonder Woman, Batman, Superman, Aquaman and The Flash. Shadow and Act had the news about Coates.
Coates is great. He could potentially write something really special if WB doesn’t muck it up. Which they will. Still that’s some unexpectedly cool sounding news.
I've got to be honest. I remember how JJ did Star Wars and Star Trek. I wish he would stay away from DC.
— Grumpy Old Bruce 🦇 (@BruceWayne5150) February 26, 2021
I thought JJ Abrams’ take on STAR TREK was great — it paid homage to the original Roddenberry work via the inclusion of Leonard Nimoy as “old” Spock, and not tinkering too much with the basic personalities of the main characters — curmudgeonly McCoy, overdramatic Scottie, rules-breaking Kirk, etc. I also think he directed one of the best films in the MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE series (#3). Hopefully he’s learned his lesson about trying too hard from his STAR WARS run, and can put the DC franchise on the right track.
Hopefully he’s learned his lesson about trying too hard from his STAR WARS run, and can put the DC franchise on the right track.
I think with Star Wars, I think he was too busy checking off boxes on a corporate checklist (especially the last one) to really do a decent job.
I thought JJ Abrams’ take on STAR TREK was great — it paid homage to the original Roddenberry work via the inclusion of Leonard Nimoy as “old” Spock, and not tinkering too much with the basic personalities of the main characters — curmudgeonly McCoy, overdramatic Scottie, rules-breaking Kirk, etc.
Ok… Years ago, when the first Abrams Trek movie came out, there was a MWer named Joshua who didn’t like it because it wasn’t quite in line with Rodenberry’s formula and vision. I thought Joshua was off, but over time I am starting to see his point. Abrams’ Trek movies is nothing like the TOS episodes, just a different take for a new generation weaned on Fast and the Furious movies and other franchises. I just wish that we can get a movie like the TOS episodes.
And even Marina Sirtis has something to say:
Marina Sirtis has Strong Opinions About the J.J. Abrams ‘Star Trek’ Movies
You also mentioned Mission:Impossible which are nothing like the TOS episodes. They are just Tom Cruise action movies with the M:I label on them. I think you get now what I am saying.
Why can’t movie versions be true to the original material?
Why can’t movie versions be true to the original material?
In the case of Star Trek it was because the original material was old, tired and nobody was buying it any more. It wasn’t a creative decision, it was a financial one.
It’s amazing how quickly the Abrams Trek suffered the same fate though. What was it… three movies before nobody gave a damn any more?
It was about midway through the second one.
Pfff… just give Cavill a fuckin’ sequel already… u_u
Man Of Steel 2: Can We Just Forget Those Other Movies Ever Happened?
It’s great that Coates is involved, but Abrams has never made a movie that wasn’t thotoughly mediocre. With him rebooting Superman, I can already taste the blandness.
And Trek’s biggest problem wasn’t whether it was true to the original show or not, it was that it was a nostalgia splurge rather than a movie (or two) in its own right.
I dunno, I’m not a Star Trek fan, but I throughly enjoyed it as a very solid action sci-fi. I wasn’t even bothered with the inclusion of OG Spock, since it kinda worked (clumsily, but still) within the plot. I’ve probably rewatched that many more times than I probably should’ve.
Also, the best thing about that pitch meeting is the lens flares going up and down all throughout… that guy is a genius xD
I’m reading the trivia page on IMDb for the upcoming The Batman movie and found this entry:
“Robert Pattinson described his Batman as flawed, unlike traditional comic book characters.”
Wow. Batman has been flawed for a long time, even Superman has flaws that are acknowledged throughout his stories. What does “traditional” mean in this sentence? Golden Age comic book characters?
Steve Sensible wrote:
Mission: Impossible 3 is the best Mission by far.Fuck no, the action scenes were way boring and there was nothing in the plot that really kept my interest, either. It’s the MI film I liked least of all of them
Haha! I’ve never understood why M:I3 is so divisive, but it’s right up there with Man of Steel in terms of its defenders and haters.
Here, because nobody asked, is why I love it:
The screenplay is ruthlessly efficient: It’s about a world-ending threat – The Rabbit’s Foot – but nobody even knows what it is – because it doesn’t matter! It’s just a McGuffin, so the screenwriters are like, “look, we’re not going to insult you with some pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo, it’s just a Very Bad Thing, that Ethan needs to keep out of the hands of the bad-guys.”
“And when it comes to Ethan recovering it from a secure vault in a high-tech facility, we’re not going to show you yet another heist scene – just assume that he’s doing cool shit on wires again!” Cut to: Ethan jumping out of a tenth-storey window.
Also, Abrams has a gift for making you care about characters we’ve only just met. When Lindsay dies at the end of that opening action scene, you really feel it, despite the fact she’s only had about 5 minutes of screen-time. He did a similar thing in Star Trek, making you care about the plight of George Kirk, even though we barely know him.
It’s full of Competence Porn, and that gets me hard: I thought the action scenes were pretty cool actually, particularly when Ethan and Lindsay are throwing guns to one another in slow-mo, taking out a machine-gun-toting bad guy with a single bullet, then rapelling down the side of a building, landing on a van, sliding off the roof, jumping into a helicopter, which then gets chased by another helicopter which shoots missiles at them whilst they fly through the blades of wind-turbines. And all with hardly any distracting CGI! Seriously, what’s not to love about that!
Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Owen Davian is the Scariest Bad Guy Ever! Even superheroic Ethan Hunt is rattled by him. And he’s a Scientologist!
Anyway, that’ll do… I really love this movie. The ending isn’t up to much, and it’s about as deep as a puddle, but it’s an A+ popcorn movie, and it doesn’t pretend to be anything more than that.
Steve Sensible gets it.
The first M:I film was too much a Brian DePalma film redeemed only by Vanessa Redgrave’s performance as Max. The second film (the worst one, IMO) was very much a John Woo film with an unfortunately lackluster performance by Dougray Scott and not enough for the wonderful Thandie Newton to do.
Mission: Impossible III was the first film that was about the characters as much as the Maguffin. It’s the film that made me care about Ethan Hunt and to actively dislike his antagonist (the late, great Philip Seymour Hoffman).
The subsequent films have ultimate action, ultimate thrills, ultimate exotic locations, and lots of vehicles getting destroyed, and they are very entertaining, but I sometimes get them mixed up with each other because they all seem to follow the same formula.
The absolute best part of Mission Imopossible 2 is that it gave us Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. But yeah, I like MI:III. Largely due to Hoffman’s role, but overall it just worked for me. I’ve liked every MI film after it too.
Wow… Apparently no one here has ever watched the original M:I.
You don’t know the difference.
I have seen the original series and that is why seeing these Tom Cruise action movies under the name gets me upset.
Wow… Apparently no one here has ever watched the original M:I.
Au contraire, my friend. I remember watching the original series with Martin Landau and Barbara Bain all the way up to the end with Lynda Day George. The concepts remain the same — the main character gets a mission, assembles the team for the job, and, with seconds to spare, succeeds in completing the mission. The only real difference with the film series is a much bigger budget and better special effects.
If you want to dive into a slaughtering of an original series, I’d recommend the A-Team movie. While it has some bits that are quite fun, I do find it atrocious that they took the original series concept of “no killing” and turn it around. In the movie, Boscos entire character arc is about “being okay with murder”.
Congratulations are in order:
Here we go again ❤✋🏻🧿@JaronVarsano pic.twitter.com/q7T60wA10R
— Gal Gadot (@GalGadot) March 1, 2021
I think it would work better with something a little more upbeat. Maybe Wake Me Up Before You Go Go by Wham.
Or maybe something a little more self-referential like “the first cut is the deepest”.
Rick Astley – Never gonna give you up.
Or maybe something a little more self-referential like “the first cut is the deepest”.
Old Red Eyes is Back by The Beautiful South.
Neverending Story by Limahl.
Stop! by the Spice Girls.
For the full Snyder effect you’d need the opening credits to be set to the entirety of something like All Around The World by Oasis, which lasts for 9 minutes 20 seconds.
For the inevitable director’s cut of the opening credits then incorporate All Around The World (Reprise) for an added 2 minutes 10 seconds.
