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Batman v. Superman RT Thread: like standing ovations in rain
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They embraced the ridiculousness of the character. Superman is too serious for that.
When Ant-man came out I went to read up on some Ant-man. I read about Hank I was like WTF....
Liamario
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Batman v Superman |OT| Thanks But No Thanos
Damn. I feel your pain.
Still have not seen the movie, but now I'm going to go in and watch it to just tear it apart. It will be hard for me not to.
I thought he was awful in the Avengers Initiative and Avengers Academy titles.
If you're talking about his run with the Avengers from the 60s to 80s then yeah he was good.
Good to know, thanks for the info.
BronsonLee
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Batman v Superman |OT| Divisive We Fall
I'm down.There's only one man that can save the DC Multiverse.
holy shit
KOMANI
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To be fair, it was Dennis O'Neil and the surrealism style of Neal Adams.Disagree. Denny absolutely changed comic book readers perception of the character, I couldn't argue that.
I can't reiterate this enough: TDKR broke through into the mainstream where people's only connection to the character was from the 60s series. It was, as a TPB, bought by people who had never picked up a comic book in their life. It's importance at the time can't be understated and, as I said, arguably led to Burton's Batman, which was a huge game changer.
Anyway, we're going around in circles.
I was figured people always knew how Dark the Dark Knight was after '89. That's why Nolan's movies were widely accepted... Also, why people wanted Bale in the role after American Psycho.
Mr. Poolman
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You are really really wrong there.
It'd be kind of hilarious if Marvel pulled a Vince McMahon and bought the competition out just to bury it instead of leveraging it.
Would be bad for business though. All these movies need to be good for the sake of each other.
I love this.
bananafactory
Banned
Yes
Pai Pai Master
Banned
holy shit
Baron von Loathsome
Member
Hank's current reputation is the unfortunate result of an artist embellishing what should have been a fairly tame panel.
winner, ship it
Glass Shark
Banned
slayed
Utter nonsense. IM3 had very different issues compared to IM2. Same goes for all off their sequels. There are some systemic problems they have yet to fix but I never argued otherwise.
Ah yes who could forget The Incredible Hulk. Top tier stuff.
So thats why it wasnt avaiable earlier lol
BRILLIANT
I love that movie. MCU top 5 easily.
Good thing they rebooted the character for The Avengers.
TheDinoman
Member
I thought it was an okay film. I'd rather watch that then something like Man of Steel.
This is what perfection looks like.
BassForever
Member
Damn thats good
Throwing super powers on screen with too little regard for what makes these characters tick. He's a regular Bryan Singer.
Dash_Riprock
Member
Shit, that one sentence is more damning than an entire review.
Sgt. Kabukiman
Banned
The weird thing is, as a DC fan who is tired of hearing about Superman being boring, I hope I'm the exception and everybody actually ends up enjoying the movie but I just don't see that happening. Hopefully you will prove me wrong and you will have a good time.
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Yeah, the RT consensus sounds about right.
Gordon Shumway
Banned
I know a lot of Marvel leaning people are on the "buy Batman" fantasy train, but that seems like a horrible idea to me. Marvel already has the NYC/Hell's Kitchen street level crew. Bringing in the Batverse would either overshadow or absorb that. Where's the incentive to push Iron Fist if you have 15 Bat books to publish?
At least Singer makes the characters work.
We don't have characters that are even CLOSE to Magneto, Xavier, or Wolverine in MOS or BvsS.
So did I, especially after the previous Hulk movie, but I rewatched it on a plane a few weeks ago and after 8 years of pretty solid Marvel movies it didn't really hold up unfortunately.
Hulk was crap but they followed it up with the god tier Iron Man, and the very good Cap 1 and Thor.
Man of Steel was garbage and they seemingly followed it up with another steaming pile of horse shit.
NOT A GOOD START HERE
Ice cold
Yeah god no, i would only accept if they kept them serprate with the occasional crossover.
Maybe give some of DC's more deserving heroes a home(Huntress, The Ray, Damage, Metamorpho_
Pai Pai Master
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It sounds like what most negative reviews say about middling superhero movies. Style over substance, which is basically how you could describe any Zack Snyder movie.
This movie could have been transcendent.
See, the story is good, I knew it, Terrio da gawd. Snyder can go fuck himself.
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