I got to say, looks damn good!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WWzgGyAH6Y
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I got to say, looks damn good!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WWzgGyAH6Y
Batman vs Superman?
Do they play cribbage or something?
Chess?
Chutes and Ladders?
Drunken Jenga?
What's the pretense?
They're supposed to be on the same side, so what possible conflict could they have?
Watch the trailer :pQuote:
Originally Posted by j2k4
Batman better have some sort of kryptonite belt tool, otherwise it's a useless fight.
he basically becomes Ironman. it's his only hope.Quote:
Originally Posted by futurevr4man
Superman is an alien with intense superhuman strength amongst other powers. Batman is a human millionaire with gadgets....
You can't beat speed.
-V. Lombardi
They appear to show Kryptonite in the trailer. I'm sure for batman to stand a chance he will need some.Quote:
Originally Posted by futurevr4man
Couldn't they just have a debate and save the expense of making a movie? :huh:
Oh, okay, I'll watch the fucking trailer...:rolleyes:
this movie could be great. hopefully Ben Affuck doesn't screw it all up.
Oh, boy.
Look like they wearin' bubble-wrap, now.
I guess in order to make a movie out of a comic book, liberties can be taken, and they sure have been.
Gotta invoke good and evil to get an audience these days, have to wait to see if there's any religious aspect.
Hollywood isn't above that type of cynicism in pursuit of large cash.
I do it for free...
How well can they tell such a 'sweeping' epic in two or even three hours?
Does it end with one of those to-be-continued hooks?
I'll prolly watch it anyway, but I've still only watched the Heath Ledger Batman movie.
Oh, i take that back; I have an aversion to Ben Affleck that I just can't work around, so I shouldn't comment further. :p
Most of you all in this thread are either trolling, or have never read a comic book.
Here is a preview of what you've missed from not reading an awesome Frank Miller comic from the '80's.
http://www.comicartcommunity.com/wp-...-vs-Batman.jpg
I groaned when I heard Ben was going to be Batman but now seeing the trailer I'm thinking it just might work. I don't really care for the guy and I thought it was a big mistake casting him. We will see, he might pull it off better than anyone else has. I'm pretty excided to see this movie now.
pretty sure I own that book.
John, I had more comic books than I had hairs on my head. :)
My point is only that movies depicting comic book characters are such a departure from the comics themselves they have to be regarded as another thing altogether.
Yes, they're both about Batman/Superman, but comics are not a proper match for movies.
I read lots of books, and a movie based on a good book has to go a ways before it stacks up to the book - I understand this, as I'm sure you do, but when it comes to comics, it's less a case of a movie blowing the comic into the weeds then a difficulty of perception given the format.
While I enjoyed the hell out of my comic book days, the movies they give rise to are a different animal altogether, I find.
That prolly makes zero sense, but there it is...:huh:
All that aside from Ben Affleck, of course.
Also, the best comic/cartoon of all time is Pogo - troo story. :)
the audiences for comics and movies are so vastly different it's silly. there's no way a true to the story mainstream comic like Batman or Superman could be made into a movie without pissing off some(or a lot) of purists. it's just not in the card.
but regardless as a major fan I'm always excited and thoroughly enjoy ever minute of every movie because I spent years dreaming of a movie being made. I'd read magazines like "Wizard" and their articles on what actors should play what characters. finally I'm getting it and I'm not going to cry to much(FU Ben Affuck) about it.
I think you nailed it for me, Bobby - I'm a purist. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Echo419
Honestly, the last two movies I went to see - that I wanted to see - were Jurassic Park and The Passion.
I was a dinosaur nut as a kid, and my faith demanded I see The Passion.
Neither was preceded by a book, so there's that, but going back further, every time I went to see a movie inspired by a book, I was severly disappointed; the only movie I ever saw that compared (even remotely) to the book was The Hunt For Red October.
My disenchantment with movies is pretty comprehensive.
I did take a female and her son to see "The Santa Clause" back in the day cuz in an effort to get laid, but. :p
Did it work? LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by j2k4
Jurassic Park, Passion.....and The Santa Clause.....damn you really don't like to go to the movies much huh?
Those movies are pretty old now lol
I'm thinking "but" means no.Quote:
Originally Posted by stealthee
Hence marvel cinematic universe takes place place on earth-199999 vs earth-616. We live on earth-1218 for those who didn't know.Quote:
Originally Posted by j2k4
For DC, we are earth 33. So I just apply the same principal and enjoy the movies whatever "earth" they take place.
I didn't know you were a comic nerdQuote:
Originally Posted by bridge
Hunt for the Red October was AWESOME!Quote:
Originally Posted by j2k4
Oh, it worked fine - it just didn't work out. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by stealthee
Yes, Paul - such is my disenchantment with movies.Quote:
Originally Posted by green-lantern
Gladiator and Saving Private Ryan are about the only shows I found to be worth seeing, and I managed to wait until I could watch them at home.
The rest has largely been dreck.
All that said, I have about about 300 DVDs, can't keep Missus J from buying them - cartoons for the grandkids, etc.
I DO own a bunch of concert DVDs, but that's the extent of it. :)
Just an FYI, This is no longer true. Only one marvel world. (well only one after Secret wars)Quote:
Originally Posted by bridge
I appreciate all that, I think, but it reads like Greek.Quote:
Originally Posted by bridge
I'm German-Irish.
This is not news Paul. I'm your typical comic book/scifi/manga reading, ff/kh/biohazard gaming, biomedical engineering, car nerd. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by green-lantern
I really don't go to the movies much ether. I usually wait for it to come out on DVD.Quote:
Originally Posted by j2k4
:bigthumb:Quote:
Originally Posted by bridge
Well I knew about the car part
This! Thank you, I was about to post that up, after looking online to make sure I got the numbers right, to help answer this:Quote:
Originally Posted by bridge
You can't really be a purist with comic book movies, as they are a different universe from the comic books, just as there are multiple different comic book universes. It is how you can have:Quote:
Originally Posted by j2k4
Batman
The worlds Greatest Detective
The Brave and the Bold
Legends of the Dark Knight
Superman/Batman
etc. etc. They are completely different stories all based on the same mythos, just like the movies. I too get upset when they change something from the source story when the source story had a better option (there is a semi recent omission from Game of Thrones that still irks me)
Can't argue with you at all on there. I think I have only seen one movie series that beat the book, and one TV series that beat the book.Quote:
Originally Posted by j2k4
The Hunger Games, the movies are better than the books, there is more depth in the movies, as Dexter the show "was" better than the books. The first 5-6 seasons of the show was a lot better than the books, the show didn't go all supernatural the way the books did.
Very true, but F secret wars and F the new 52 for that matter. haha :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan92RTTT
Actually, if I'm being honest, I am not a fan of Civil War, I'm excited to see it happen in the movies as I think they have laid some good ground work for it, but in the comics, it just muddied up so much.
-John
Quiet you :p. let me live in my bubble.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan92RTTT
Dances with Wolves is as good as the book.
ROFLQuote:
Originally Posted by R/T93
You really like it
I hate that they are bringing Civil War to the movie universe and taking over Cap3 with it. I hope its just a few concepts and not not the mess that the comic series was. It was the start of my loss of interest in Marvel comics.
I like most of the new 52 :p
Meant you to infer with regard to the comics themselves, John.Quote:
Originally Posted by J-Groove
The movies "based on comics" don't evoke the comics to me as they do for others. :wink:
Ah - it's like this:
A comic-book movie should be to the comic as the new Challenger is to the old - very evocative.
Instead, we have the new Roadrunner, which doesn't evoke anything at all, not with all those doors. :D
I liked the theatrical cut of Batman V Superman. While I liked it, it was not a movie without issues. I saw a lot of plot holes that I mentally filled based on my knowledge of the characters from comics. Thursday I watched the ultimate edition that was released last week and its a significantly better film. Its still not up to the fun level of a Marvel film but it flows much better and most of the issues that I had with it have been resolved. If you liked the theatrical version at all I recommend watching ultimate version.
I didn't see the theatrical cut. Several of my friends mentioned the plot holes in it, so I didn't make time to see it in theaters. The ultimate version was good, still a bit awkward at times, but not bad.
Pretty disappointed with Jesse Eisenberg though. Lex Luther is supposed to be an evil genius, not a lunatic. I thought Kevin Spacey was much better, and of course, Gene Hackman from the originals.
Agreed, Eisenberg's character made me cringe. Poorly cast in my opinion.
I watched the movie again on the plane from MI to WA yesterday and still enjoyed it but nitpicked it further after seeing it the 2nd time.
I'll be getting the Blu ray this weekend to check it out.