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Batman v. Superman RT Thread: like standing ovations in rain

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Y'all, that poster just messed up the phrasing. They took all of the comic-book movies with higher RT percentages and listed them.

Edit: At least, I hope that's what happened.
 

Dr.Guru of Peru

played the long game
So I just watched it. It's not bad, I actually kinda liked it. It does drag quite a bit though. I cant imagine sitting through the directors cut.
 

kinggroin

Banned
Again, was it an actual standing ovation, or was it just clapping as people got up to leave.

The screening I went to just ended and nobody really reacted. No clapping, just bewilderment. Yet, my brother (who went to another screening earlier in the day) said there was a "standing ovation" at the end of his screening.

I have to put on my conspiracy tinfoil hat and wonder if this is some narrative being pushed by fans in order to make the reception of the movie better than it really is.

People stood up in place, and clapped and hollered.




Btw did anyone else hear the Wilhelm scream when Batman blew up a car?
 

EGM1966

Member
I'm one of the only people in my circle of friends who liked Watchmen. Sad.
It's the only Snyder film I think is any good. He did mess up the ending and he didn't elicit the best performances as he should have from some of the cast but it's still good overall.

Mind you for much of it he was merely putting the comic on screen panel by panel so you'd expect it to be decent.

They totally miscast the actress for Laurie Jupiter though which hurt a number of key scenes.
 

Replicant

Member
On a tangent, this film confirms what I've always tried to deny to myself: I hate Superman's new outfit. It looks ridiculous during the trial part of the film. He looks like one of those roided up creatures you find on google images. Batman's new costume isn't that great either. Although I did love the acrobatic move he did when he escaped with his hook. That was a classic Batman move that I haven't seen replicated much since Nolan's takeover of the franchise.
 

tomtom94

Member
Snyders ending is so superior compared to that stupid Space Squid from the books

I liked the Lost in Adaptation take where he explained his thoughts on why the film's ending was better and then got Linkara to argue the opposite view. Personally I'm inclined to the film but then I'm a fan of the film anyway so...
 

Malvingt2

Member
Superhero films Batman v. Superman is better than:

- Spider-man 3
- Amazing Spider-man 1 & 2
- X-men Last Stand
- Wolverine Origins
- Deadpool
- Fantastic 4 (all 3 of them)
- Dark Knight Rises
- Batman Forever
- Batman and Robin
- Iron Man 2 & 3
- Ant-Man
- The Spirit
- The Green Lantern
- The Green Hornet
- Superman Returns
- Daredevil
- Elektra

Wow!

I disagree with a lot of them lol.. That is how confused I am with this movie..
 
It's the only Snyder film I think is any good. He did mess up the ending and he didn't elicit the best performances as he should have from some of the cast but it's still good overall.

Mind you for much of it he was merely putting the comic on screen panel by panel so you'd expect it to be decent.

They totally miscast the actress for Laurie Jupiter though which hurt a number of key scenes.

Am I the only one who thought Adrian was horribly miscast as well? I never see anyone mention it.
 
A few months ago my roommate came home from the bar with some buddies and convinced us all to get stoned and watch Batman and Robin, because he was convinced it would be hilarious.

If you ever want to see a movie with absolutely zero redeeming features, B&R is the gold standard.

It's doesn't even work as a comedy like The Room does.

This is just so wrong. I mean have you even tried

Hilarious film with the right people and blood alcohol %
 

Chariot

Member
Snyders ending is so superior compared to that stupid Space Squid from the books
It made more sense when you take into account that Watchmen was originally actually set in the DC Universe and that the "squid" was Starro. But yeah, you can't explain that very well in the movie, it was a good change, since it didn't actually mattered what exactly was done to the city.
 

fader

Member
I'd rather watch all of these movies three times in a row each than watch BvS again. Not only is it horrendously written, it's a slog to get through and painfully boring. Batman and Superman fighting was the only legitimately great part of the film and that lasted 5 minutes.

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GAMEPROFF

Banned
Because the book is very mature and sincere and then suddenly a giant space squid appers. I would have loved if they would have gone more in the violent details like in the book, but I think the energy burst of Dr. Manhatten was the better choice.

That said, my first exposure to Watchmen was due the movie and maybe the Extended Cut goes more in the details lf that scene, but Ive never seen it since this one isnt avaiable in my region.
 

Bronx-Man

Banned
I'm a huge mark for the Watchmen comic, and I just didn't enjoy the movie. I'm not even sure it works as a movie, but it sure as hell doesn't work as a Zack Snyder movie. It's a comic that criticizes violence, and he just decides to glorify the fuck out of it instead. Classic case of a casual fake geek guy that doesn't understand what he read.
 
Superhero films Batman v. Superman is better than:

- Spider-man 3
- Amazing Spider-man 1 & 2
- X-men Last Stand
- Wolverine Origins
- Deadpool
- Fantastic 4 (all 3 of them)
- Dark Knight Rises
- Batman Forever
- Batman and Robin
- Iron Man 2 & 3
- Ant-Man
- The Spirit
- The Green Lantern
- The Green Hornet
- Superman Returns
- Daredevil
- Elektra

Wow!

The only universe in which BvS is better then Ant-Man or Deadpool is the one in which Snyder didn't butcher Superman.

Aka not this one.
 

GAMEPROFF

Banned
It made more sense when you take into account that Watchmen was originally actually set in the DC Universe and that the "squid" was Starro. But yeah, you can't explain that very well in the movie, it was a good change, since it didn't actually mattered what exactly was done to the city.
OK, I see, guess the Squid makes sense then.

I didnt knew about this^^ Is there maybe a website that goes in all of these details? I always have the feeling that I only get the half of all thing Moore wanted me to tell with this book.
 

GAMEPROFF

Banned
I like this more than Watchmen. All I like about Watchmen is Dr Manhattan's origin and the credit sequence.
Two of my all time fave scenes.
The scene on Mars is breathtaking.

I'm a huge mark for the Watchmen comic, and I just didn't enjoy the movie. I'm not even sure it works as a movie, but it sure as hell doesn't work as a Zack Snyder movie. It's a comic that criticizes violence, and he just decides to glorify the fuck out of it instead. Classic case of a casual fake geek guy that doesn't understand what he read.
But even the book is violent as hell. I would have to flip through it, but it definitly shows very hard violence, too.
 

Darrenf

Member
Really didn't like the movie. Hated the ending & the fact that Batman killed. Really liked Wonder Women & Alfred. Afleck was really good. Fucking hated Luthor.
 

Dahbomb

Member
I'm one of the only people in my circle of friends who liked Watchmen. Sad.
Watchmen isn't a popcorn, wide appeal blockbuster movie. Not everyone is supposed to like it or get what it's trying to go for. It's extremely dreary, depressive and pokes fun at the superhero archetype. It succeeds in what it tries to go out to do. Very solid adaptation overall and yeah I agree that the ending Zack chose was better than the original within the universe of the movie.

Watchmen would've been received even worse in today's age with all the superhero movies flourishing IMO. People would exact the same criticism on to Watchmen as they did on BvS which would be undeserved.

However, a movie featuring Batman and Superman isn't really meant to be the same thing as Watchmen and that's why people have a problem with it. Watchmen is essentially a social commentary on super heroes like Batman and Superman... BvS doesn't work as a social commentary even if it tried to be.
 
A few months ago my roommate came home from the bar with some buddies and convinced us all to get stoned and watch Batman and Robin, because he was convinced it would be hilarious.

If you ever want to see a movie with absolutely zero redeeming features, B&R is the gold standard.

It's doesn't even work as a comedy like The Room does.

I don't even know what you're on about here, Schwarzeneggar was pretty hilarious in that movie.
 

Bronx-Man

Banned
Two of my all time fave scenes.
The scene on Mars is breathtaking.


But even the book is violent as hell. I would have to flip through it, but it definitly shows very hard violence, too.
It is, but the point is to shock the audience. It's meant to show how horrific superhero fights would be in real life. The movie just slow-mo's the fuck out of everything to go "Dude, look how cool all this shit is".
 
It made more sense when you take into account that Watchmen was originally actually set in the DC Universe and that the "squid" was Starro. But yeah, you can't explain that very well in the movie, it was a good change, since it didn't actually mattered what exactly was done to the city.

I'd argue that it matters more than anything else in the story. You have to respect that Watchmen was written and released during one of the scariest periods of the cold war. The plan to unite the world around a tragedy works for that time period with a space squid because that's a crisis you can't really blame on the Soviet Union.

If Manhattan had gotten nuked in 1986 it would have been the end of everything. Even if the source of the explosion couldn't be identified or seemed external to the world powers. Would not have mattered, all of the bombs on Earth would have been in the air in minutes. Boom. The end.
 
It is, but the point is to shock the audience. It's meant to show how horrific superhero fights would be in real life. The movie just slow-mo's the fuck out of everything to go "Dude, look how cool all this shit is".

While he missed the point in watchmen he totally accomplished that in BvS with that man of Steel sequence
 

moggio

Banned
Snyder's adaptation of Watchman completely misses the point of the novel. No surprise really, the man has all the subtlety and intellect of someone who claps in the cinema.
 

Replicant

Member
Superhero films Batman v. Superman is better than:

- Spider-man 3
- Amazing Spider-man 1 & 2
- X-men Last Stand
- Wolverine Origins
- Deadpool
- Fantastic 4 (all 3 of them)
- Dark Knight Rises
- Batman Forever
- Batman and Robin
- Iron Man 2 & 3
- Ant-Man
- The Spirit
- The Green Lantern
- The Green Hornet
- Superman Returns
- Daredevil
- Elektra

Wow!

Err yeah, NOPE. Those two are better and more coherent than BvS. The rest, I'll give you.
 
So the next movie just starts with the fully formed Justice League in the watchtower, mid-conversation with The Flash, as he's describing to them every previous Warner Brothers DC adaptation as if it's an alternate universe he's peeked at while using the Speed Force, and they all have a laugh or five at the weird rubber Batman with his own credit card, and the Green Lantern who saves people via giant Hot Wheels track, and the grumpy Superman whose dad tried to tell him he shouldn't have saved a bus full of kids, and then Plastic Man's head pokes in from three rooms over to tell them he's spotted something on the radar, and they all go in and we just have a two hour family-friendly action comedy superhero film that tugs at your heartstrings in the final 20 minutes.

Right?

That's how we move forward, right?
 
So the next movie just starts with the fully formed Justice League in the watchtower, mid-conversation with The Flash, as he's describing to them every previous Warner Brothers DC adaptation as if it's an alternate universe he's peeked at while using the Speed Force, and they all have a laugh or five at the weird rubber Batman with his own credit card, and the Green Lantern who saves people via giant Hot Wheels track, and the grumpy Superman whose dad tried to tell him he shouldn't have saved a bus full of kids, and then Plastic Man's head pokes in from three rooms over to tell them he's spotted something on the radar, and they all go in and we just have a two hour family-friendly action comedy superhero film that tugs at your heartstrings in the final 20 minutes.

Right?

That's how we move forward, right?

I can dig
 
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