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revjohn said:
Being a huge Queen fan I thought how can this movie not be excellent.

Having sat through the movie I came up with some answers.

Effects--pretty atrocious.
Acting--very cheesy.
Plot--Swiss Cheese.

It had some redeeming qualities. Blessed as Vultan. Football fight, track 5 from the Official Soundtrack, is a good piece.

The whole notion of such a fight was particularly stinky cheese and I am convinced that it was the inspiration for the Indianapolis Colt's trick play which they ran against the New England Patriots last year. And to the surprise of none in attendence that play was also spectacularly failed to make any kind of sense at all.
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I rewatched it on Netflix last year and I think I actually enjoyed it more the second time through (first time was the original theatrical release). It's an entertainingly cheesy movie of the so bad it's fun variety (all IMHO). The best performances were Blessed and Von Sydow, who clearly saw it for what it was and just had fun chewing up the scenery. The women (Ornella Muti and Melody Anderson) were disappointing, eye candy for my teenaged self but the badness of their acting was only exceeded by that of Sam J. Jones as Flash. Timothy Dalton, as Baran, took it too seriously and it is thus my least favorite of his roles. And there's the football fight and Queen, which make the movie (oh, I like the 1930s style rocket ship, too).
 
Going tonight to see Zootopia - which one of my nephews told me is "Disney's best 21st-century movie."
 
What's a Zooto Pias, or your O' pion ... what Americans learned about energy expended on empiricism ... it does get out of balance ... God's word written across the land while the Muses recess as deviates ...
 
Okay, so the early buzz on Batman vs. Superman is starting to bring me around. There are people saying Affleck has nailed Batman (as in, they say he is the best cinematic Batman yet) and that Gal Gadot steals the show as Wonder Woman (which bodes well for her solo film, which is currently shooting). We'll see what happens when the actual release date hits in a couple days, but this is more promising than I expected.
 
Mendalla said:
Okay, so the early buzz on Batman vs. Superman is starting to bring me around. There are people saying Affleck has nailed Batman (as in, they say he is the best cinematic Batman yet) and that Gal Gadot steals the show as Wonder Woman (which bodes well for her solo film, which is currently shooting). We'll see what happens when the actual release date hits in a couple days, but this is more promising than I expected.
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I expect Gal Gadot to be amazing. However - Affleck the best cinematic Batman yet?? What about Adam West.
 
Pr. Jae said:
I expect Gal Gadot to be amazing. However - Affleck the best cinematic Batman yet?? What about Adam West.
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Adam West did a certain kind of Batman very well. He did the "Caped Crusader" Batman to the hilt - a man who has subsumed his anger at the bad guys and instead turned into a fighter for justice. That is not the Batman in this movie. All buzz suggests that this is heavily based on The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller, which pretty much defined the "Dark Knight" Batman for my generation. The "Dark Knight" isn't in it for justice; the "Dark Knight" is in it to kick ass because, damn it, criminals killed his parents so they are going to pay. Even the ones who had nothing to do with his parents' deaths because they are all scum and a threat to innocent people everywhere. So Ben Affleck likely does the Dark Knight well.
 
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Pr. Jae said:
What about Adam West.
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Well if you want to put a Julius Schwartz era Batman up against a post-Miller era Batman you have to know which audience you are playing to.

The same holds for the animated versions. Batman The Brave and the Bold is played for laughs and is of the same vein as Adam West and both reflect the direction of Comics in the 50's, 60's and 70's.

Batman The Animated Series bridged the gap occasionally but was more post-Miller in tone.

Adam West has enjoyed success recently doing pretty much what Bill Shatner has done. Run with the joke that each was stereotyped as.

Although I have to say the last live action stuff I saw Adam West do was very painful to watch. Playing himself on Big Bang Theory should have been much easier than they made it appear.
 
Personally, I found that Batman : The Animated series kind of hit the middle ground for me. Just dark enough to qualify as "Dark Knight" but not as oppressively dark as Miller (and, to be honest, Miller has gone so far into the deep dark hole that he's disappeared up his own arse). It is probably my favorite non-comic book Batman of the post Dark Knight Returns era. I might lean a bit lighter (but not comically so) and a bit more on the "detective" angle than post-Miller Dark Knight tends to were I making a Batman movie/TV series. Less over-the-top, gory fights, more suspense and storytelling.
 
Mendalla said:
Personally, I found that Batman : The Animated series kind of hit the middle ground for me. Just dark enough to qualify as "Dark Knight" but not as oppressively dark as Miller
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Agreed. Some of the Best Batman stories ever told came out of BAS so much so that we are seeing those stories seed the plotlines of Gotham ever so slightly.

By the way I think Robin Lord Taylor does for the Penguin what Heath Ledger did for the Joker.

I don't think movies or TV are going to come close to capturing the "detective" element that we see in BAS or the recent runs on Batman or Detective Comics. I mean it is one thing in a 20 minute animated to have 1 scene of batman sitting, motionless, on a rainy roof-top or even have a splash page of Bruce, sans cowl, with chin in fist down in the batcave illuminated by the glare of the batcomputer. They don't fit in an "action" movie.

Came close with the Lucius directing Batman through the warehouse in The Dark Knight.

Watched Batman Bad Blood last night (I wish DC Animated would get Nightwing's costume right) it didn't quite click on all cylinders but it was enjoyable.
 
Mendalla said:
Lots of hype going on about Batman vs. Superman right now. But looking at the images coming out of the production, I think I'd rather see this movie:

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I love the look of the new Wonder Woman played by Gal Godot. Alas, it's another two years (June 2017) until the Wonder Woman solo movie comes out. Why? We've had about 6 live action Superman movies and 7 (8 if you count the film of the 1966 TV series) live action Batman movies in my lifetime but only one campy, though somewhat entertaining, Wonder Woman TV show (I'm not counting any of the DC animated TV shows). As much as I'm a Bat-fan, it would be nice to see some new superhero faces on the big screen.

Any movies that aren't currently getting made (or are a ways off) that you'd like to see instead of what we are getting.
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The reviews I've seen for new Batman vs. Superman movie have been pretty bad. That's disappointing. I was looking forward to seeing it.

Speaking of upcoming Batman movies, though, you can't do much better than this...

 
True enough. The Lego series are sometimes better than the "real" movies.

As for B vs. S, I believe that Netflix still has the two part animated adaptation of The Dark Knight Returns on streaming. I'll just watch that instead if I need a Bat-fix this weekend, I think. :cool:
 
Mendalla said:
As for B vs. S, I believe that Netflix still has the two part animated adaptation of The Dark Knight Returns on streaming. I'll just watch that instead if I need a Bat-fix this weekend, I think. :cool:
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Have you seen Batman Year One yet? Very good adaptation of the comic.
 
revjohn said:

Have you seen Batman Year One yet? Very good adaptation of the comic.
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I have indeed (thought I mentioned it in the Netflix thread). Amazing adaptation of the graphic novel, which is one of my all-time favorite Batman origin stories to start with. Remarkably restrained for a Miller comic and the film kept that intact.
 
Luce NDs said:
II think the old Bats and the Supers are overrated as should be mini M'eye'zd ...
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the conflict in the movie is actually a standard trope in the comic books
that keeps on being used
typically it either between characters who don't know each other at all (in a superheroine world, where all the heroines wear their underwear on the outside, the villains & the heroines look the same) or between characters of differing morals & ethics
one of my favourite ones was Spiderman vs. Wolverine -- Spiderman totally outclasses Wolverine (faster, stronger, impossible to hit, annoying constant verbal patter) and was actually winning, but he ended up losing the fight because he couldn't breach that one line he needed to to actually stop Wolverine from achieving his goal

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to Batman grognards,

what do you think of the Grant Morrison run on Batman?


revjohn said:

Have you seen Batman Year One yet? Very good adaptation of the comic.
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oh, i remember that -- that was when they were using really cheap paper -- i liked how blurry the lines were in the panels -- i don't know if that was intentional or a matter of the damned cheap paper (or maybe those were just my copies -- i collected them when they came out)
 
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