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HamburgerTime Since: Apr, 2010
#16927: Jan 24th 2024 at 8:26:03 PM

So we've got Nina Mazursky, Weasel(?), either Blight or Dr. Phosphorus, the Bride, (no idea), either Frankenstein or Patchwork Man II, and GI Robot.

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#16928: Jan 24th 2024 at 8:49:53 PM

I do see why they had the Bride downgrade from 4 arms back to 2. Can't wait to see how Frank is portrayed given how badass he is in the comics.

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#16929: Jan 24th 2024 at 9:04:41 PM

Hoping he isn't turned into your typical lumbering oath brute.

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#16930: Jan 24th 2024 at 9:16:30 PM

Hopefully he takes after his DC comic counterpart who's a sword-and-gun akimbo wielding, motorcycle-riding badass. Or at least be like his variant in Van Helsing who has No Indoor Voice.

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#16931: Jan 24th 2024 at 9:38:06 PM

I've always liked Dr.Phosphorus. It'll be cool to see what he looks like in live action.

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#16933: Jan 29th 2024 at 3:43:53 PM

Sasha Calle got a rough deal. I hope she finds success elsewhere.

Does Hyperion have a female cousin?

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#16934: Jan 30th 2024 at 1:39:17 PM

I’m hearing that they might start production on the Supergirl movie by autumn. So with any luck, they’ll announce a director by then.

Source is this Deadline article: https://deadline.com/2024/01/supergirl-milly-alcock-james-gunn-1235808896/

Edited by BigBadShadow25 on Jan 30th 2024 at 4:40:28 AM

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#16935: Jan 30th 2024 at 1:52:25 PM

I'm late but what are your guys' thoughts on Aquaman 2?

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#16936: Jan 30th 2024 at 1:55:02 PM

Decent flick, not the most epic DCEU finale or most sophisticated of motion picture experiences, but not half bad given the chaotic production.

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#16937: Jan 30th 2024 at 4:40:09 PM

Finished watching it last weekend since it was still showing in the Philippines last week but I'd echo the sentiment that it was overall decent and at least the better DCEU film since Suicide Squad 2. It just got done dirty by WD prioritizing Ezra Miller over this as well as Amber Heard's controversy. I do like the background elements such as other undersea people populating the world, undersea Jabba's palace, etc. Also liked how Necrus is a mix of Ocean Punk and Mordor not to mention how Necrusian guns look like carbine versions of Warhammer 40k Necron Gauss Rifles. My nitpicks though are how the Deserter Kingdom is suddenly revealed to have surviving descendants after the 1st film showed their Kingdom to be a deserted ruins. Not to mention them renting out their kingdom as a supermax prison so they switched business models from smithing to a prison-industrial complex. As well as not being sure on the environmental message due to it feeling tacked on and being less of an Aesop and more of a way to explain how to free Necrus from the ice. At least Junior lives. I do get the feeling that if there had been an Aquaman 3 then Lady Karshon would've become a villain there as she is shown to be the most xenophobic of the Atlantean nobility and she's been looking for an excuse to strip Aquaman of military authority as well as how pissed she was that the Undersea Kingdoms revealed themselves to the surface world.

Almost forgot to mention how fun it was to see the 2 brothers interact and Orm developing a taste for cockroaches doesn't strike me as icky or cringeworthy at all given how Americans react when us Pinoys eat balut. In fact, that plus Mera eating flowers and finding them tasty I'd just chalk it up to Atlantean cuisine being wildly different from surfacer cuisine.

Edited by KRider on Jan 30th 2024 at 4:46:14 AM

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#16938: Jan 30th 2024 at 6:30:46 PM

I’m gonna say one thing. You can laugh if you want but… I hope in the new Superman movie, he saves a cat from a tree. I think it would be really important to show how much he helps and how caring he is.

Just have a moment of corny sincerity. People will complain, but to heck with them.

Edited by BigBadShadow25 on Jan 30th 2024 at 9:34:14 AM

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#16939: Jan 30th 2024 at 6:38:52 PM

Why would anyone laugh at that (besides the usual assholes in the internet bec f#$% them)? If anything we need more of that from Superman in this day and age.

Edited by KRider on Jan 30th 2024 at 6:39:16 AM

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#16940: Jan 30th 2024 at 6:42:44 PM

Thank you. That means a lot.

In fact, I would go so far as to say my ideal Superman movie would open and perhaps close on him saving a cat.

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#16941: Jan 30th 2024 at 6:56:44 PM

NP. In any event, my ideal DC film would be a proper finale to Legends of Tomorrow w/ Sara successfully giving birth to her and Ava's child. As for the upcoming DC reboot, while it would still ultimately hinge on whether David Zaslav can be prevented from meddling or zaslaving projects at will, James Gunn has proven to be great at balancing humor w/ serious and timeless themes. Such as family in Guardians of the Galaxy that doesn't become as memetic as Fast and Furious, the sordid history of the US government meddling in South American governments and the blowback that history causes in Suicide Squad 2 and even making something as unironically heartwarming as Guardians Holiday Special (also helps that James Gunn also genuinely liked the Star Wars Holiday Special despite George Lucas himself hating it). I do look forward to Creature Commandos though despite lacking 2 members I liked during their run (Velcoro the Vampire and Griffith the Werewolf).

Edited by KRider on Jan 30th 2024 at 6:58:37 AM

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#16942: Jan 30th 2024 at 6:58:42 PM

[up] Oh hey! Zazlaving is becoming a verb around here! I knew I wasn’t the only one who used it!

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#16943: Jan 30th 2024 at 8:19:33 PM

I hope they include the scene where Superman talks a suicidal teenager out of committing suicide.

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#16944: Jan 31st 2024 at 6:12:20 AM

I agree on wanting scenes of Superman being heroic and even cheesy moments like rescuing a cat from a tree. But what I really want is for Superman to feel like a human despite not being one. Some people, probably in an attempt to move away from Injustice and the Snyderverse, go too far in the other direction and portray Superman as a Purity Sue who is the most moral person in the universe and has never even though about doing anything wrong or even mildly selfish.

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#16945: Jan 31st 2024 at 8:26:58 AM

> I hope they include the scene where Superman talks a suicidal teenager out of committing suicide.

too bleak,they're more likely to make it a comical scene without the teenager

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#16946: Jan 31st 2024 at 9:12:15 AM

Yeah, part of doing Superman well is capturing all aspects of him. Nothing is beneath him. BVS kinda messed this up particularly bad by making it seem like rescuing people was literally beneath him (ie the scene where he's rescuing flood survivors and he just hovers above them for a tick, long enough to make it come across almost as judging them).

Later Spider-Man movies do a good job showing Spider-Man as a street-level hero by having him actually help people. He's the Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, after all. It's even more potentially meaningful coming from Superman since, well, it should be below him.

I think my favorite on-screen Superman moment in the past ten years is from Superman & Lois when he makes his debut by saving a car... and then gives a kid his hat back and when the kid compliments his costume and he takes the time to say "thanks, my mom made it." It instantly humanizes him to the audience and those he's saving.

[down] Yeah, I'm not saying he actually does consider them beneath him it's just... kinda a failure of visual storytelling. Like, the way it's shot the scene should be saying something but it fails to clearly communicate what that is leading to it being easy to read negatively.

Edited by Larkmarn on Jan 31st 2024 at 4:31:15 AM

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#16947: Jan 31st 2024 at 1:26:45 PM

Granted even Sydner superman dosent said is beneath him but is clearly he dosent know what to do and the best way to describe it is "Clark trying to cosplay as superman". Which dosent body well since superman is pretty much the "it make look easy because it is easy for him"

But yeah, I feel some fans kinda went overboard on the idea that Superman is pretty much "he does nothing wrong and if he does he isnt superman" like, one of the best thing I like about justice league it wasnt afraid to said...yeah superman turing can be a issue, like that time he was trick into a fan with shazam and he eat a damn L right there, hell they said the heart of the team was Flash, no him. There was a sense he could turn into regime superman.

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#16948: Jan 31st 2024 at 1:33:38 PM

I’m suddenly reminded of how DC Super Hero Girls turned Clark into kind of a d-bag…

It’s a balancing act, really. And it’s easy to get it wrong.

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#16949: Jan 31st 2024 at 2:07:17 PM

He was only turned into a d-bag there to justify Kara feeling like he steals all the spotlight and credit from her. So its a case of character derailment to put you on the side of another character, which amusingly Kara isn't really that sympathetic on her own since she's kind of a rude arrogant asshole herself.

Its like how they turned Robin/Dick in that show into a hideous bullying little goblin child so you wish that Barbara was Batman's sidekick instead of him.

Edited by slimcoder on Jan 31st 2024 at 2:10:26 AM

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#16950: Jan 31st 2024 at 2:12:22 PM

When you have to put down the men to prop up the women, is it really feminism?

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