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

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Jables Swan

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E the Shaggy said:
I've had time to sleep on it after seeing it last night and I just hate it more. This movie, if Man of Steel didn't do it already, will make you vehemently HATE Superman.

Movie spoilers:

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I can't believe people will take their kids to see this.
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Well we shouldn't be surprised with Snyder directing but that sounds terrible.
 
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Frozenprince

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ElBoxyBrown said:
I think WB is having a dilemma with how exactly they can cater Superman to everyone. I don't wanna watch a two hour hopeful, after school special, saving cat and dogs from trees Superman and other people don't wanna watch grim, super serious, non-stop action destructive Superman. At some point WB has to be smart in picking and choosing elements of Superman that can be attractive to both audiences and not have one overtake the other.
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I mean comics Superman has balanced those two lines for 30 years now with no issues.

It's not hard. It's just lazy writing.
 
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Sojgat

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E the Shaggy said:
I've had time to sleep on it after seeing it last night and I just hate it more. This movie, if Man of Steel didn't do it already, will make you vehemently HATE Superman.

Movie spoilers:

At the beginning of the movie, following the horrific retelling of the events of Man of Steel from Bruce Wayne's perspective which is like 20 9/11s from the ground view, we're taken to Lois Lane in the desert, as shes captured by dudes with guns. Her photographer, who you think might be Jimmy Olsen, has his camera taken and is then shot violently in the head, no lie.

Lois is taken underground, Superman swoops in to save the day. How? By flying at the dude holding Lois at lightspeed and slamming him through about ten brick walls. There's absolute NO WAY that dude isn't paste.

In a later scene, Superman is standing in front of the senate and a man who lost his legs during Man of Steel's finale is sitting in the courtroom, Lex has strapped him with a bomb to detonate to make Superman look bad. Clark hears the click of the detonator, looks at the guy, and just lets the bomb go off. You see the fire just consume hundreds of people as Superman just stands there looking sad.

I can't believe people will take their kids to see this.
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What? I don't know how anybody OK'ed this stuff.
 
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HowZatOZ

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Einchy said:
I didn't read any of the spoilers but this line

"I can't believe people will take their kids to see this."

Makes me want to see it even more since I give no fucks about Superman.
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If they are borrowing from DKR then no, kids shouldn't see this. Not that's if Snyder can actually use the source material well. Edit: apparently it's because it's seen as a not cool superhero movie, whatever that means.

Less than four hours, so keen. Anecdotal but none of my Facebook feed is alight with the review trend. Again like it's been said before, general public is going to make or break this movie like any other superhero one. He'll look at Deadpool, that was all general public awareness.
 
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Bluth54

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E the Shaggy said:
I've had time to sleep on it after seeing it last night and I just hate it more. This movie, if Man of Steel didn't do it already, will make you vehemently HATE Superman.

Movie spoilers:

At the beginning of the movie, following the horrific retelling of the events of Man of Steel from Bruce Wayne's perspective which is like 20 9/11s from the ground view, we're taken to Lois Lane in the desert, as shes captured by dudes with guns. Her photographer, who you think might be Jimmy Olsen, has his camera taken and is then shot violently in the head, no lie.

Lois is taken underground, Superman swoops in to save the day. How? By flying at the dude holding Lois at lightspeed and slamming him through about ten brick walls. There's absolute NO WAY that dude isn't paste.

In a later scene, Superman is standing in front of the senate and a man who lost his legs during Man of Steel's finale is sitting in the courtroom, Lex has strapped him with a bomb to detonate to make Superman look bad. Clark hears the click of the detonator, looks at the guy, and just lets the bomb go off. You see the fire just consume hundreds of people as Superman just stands there looking sad.

I can't believe people will take their kids to see this.
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Wow that's awful.
 
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Xater

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E the Shaggy said:
I've had time to sleep on it after seeing it last night and I just hate it more. This movie, if Man of Steel didn't do it already, will make you vehemently HATE Superman.

Movie spoilers:

At the beginning of the movie, following the horrific retelling of the events of Man of Steel from Bruce Wayne's perspective which is like 20 9/11s from the ground view, we're taken to Lois Lane in the desert, as shes captured by dudes with guns. Her photographer, who you think might be Jimmy Olsen, has his camera taken and is then shot violently in the head, no lie.

Lois is taken underground, Superman swoops in to save the day. How? By flying at the dude holding Lois at lightspeed and slamming him through about ten brick walls. There's absolute NO WAY that dude isn't paste.

In a later scene, Superman is standing in front of the senate and a man who lost his legs during Man of Steel's finale is sitting in the courtroom, Lex has strapped him with a bomb to detonate to make Superman look bad. Clark hears the click of the detonator, looks at the guy, and just lets the bomb go off. You see the fire just consume hundreds of people as Superman just stands there looking sad.

I can't believe people will take their kids to see this.
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Is there no one from DC around at WB to make sure these characters are used properly? WTF?
 
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Gordon Shumway

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munchie64 said:
Will anyone pay me to watch and review the movie?
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ThoseDeafMutes said:
No
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Branduil

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E the Shaggy said:
I've had time to sleep on it after seeing it last night and I just hate it more. This movie, if Man of Steel didn't do it already, will make you vehemently HATE Superman.

Movie spoilers:

At the beginning of the movie, following the horrific retelling of the events of Man of Steel from Bruce Wayne's perspective which is like 20 9/11s from the ground view, we're taken to Lois Lane in the desert, as shes captured by dudes with guns. Her photographer, who you think might be Jimmy Olsen, has his camera taken and is then shot violently in the head, no lie.

Lois is taken underground, Superman swoops in to save the day. How? By flying at the dude holding Lois at lightspeed and slamming him through about ten brick walls. There's absolute NO WAY that dude isn't paste.

In a later scene, Superman is standing in front of the senate and a man who lost his legs during Man of Steel's finale is sitting in the courtroom, Lex has strapped him with a bomb to detonate to make Superman look bad. Clark hears the click of the detonator, looks at the guy, and just lets the bomb go off. You see the fire just consume hundreds of people as Superman just stands there looking sad.

I can't believe people will take their kids to see this.
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Um is the spoiler in that third paragraph real?
 
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Triggerhappytel

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neorej said:
Most reviews I've read actually go out of their way to mention how good Battlfeck is. He manages to strike a balance between being a good Bruce Wayne AND a good Batman, whereas previous movies only struck one of those and missed on the other.
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Keaton is still my favourite actor in the role. I always got the feeling that his Bruce Wayne was the most psychologically damaged.
 
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Fliesen

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moggio said:
I mean, Superman Returns is a flawed movie for various reasons, but at least Superman is recognisably Superman in it.

I think I'm going to have a double-bill with that and Superman III tonight.
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I really enjoyed that movie.

It was very 'old-school' superhero movie. Too old-school for much of the target audience, though.

Brandon Routh was a more convincing "boy scout" kind of Superman. Cavill's portrayal is far too ... arrogant? for my liking. Also, we've been given far too little 'clumsy Clark Kent' to balance the character out.
 
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PhantomZone

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kurahador said:
Will watch Sucker Punch Extended Cut for the first time later to prepare myself for this.
Wish me luck.
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It's his best movie, it's only down hill after that

Loving the negativity, people shouldn't be surprised after all Man of Steel was not very good. Even after Affleck brought on his screen writer friend to fix some obvious problems with the script - he couldn't fix all of them.
 
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HowZatOZ

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Triggerhappytel said:
Keaton is still my favourite actor in the role. I always got the feeling that his Bruce Wayne was the most psychologically damaged.
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Definitely. Especially his reaction to Joker when they have him at bullet point, even though he's protected it's still showing him psychologically damaged.
 
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213372bu

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Seriously though, imagine the Justice League in a world post-MoS/BvS.

Might as well give out free Tylenol with each ticket, damn.

thecouncil said:
I'm pressed to think of others but I remember there being a couple more.
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Thanks.

I remember somebody in the initial impressions thread saying he counted and there was literally only one joke in the movie and everyone just sat there.
 
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Tacorona72

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E the Shaggy said:
I've had time to sleep on it after seeing it last night and I just hate it more. This movie, if Man of Steel didn't do it already, will make you vehemently HATE Superman.

Movie spoilers:

At the beginning of the movie, following the horrific retelling of the events of Man of Steel from Bruce Wayne's perspective which is like 20 9/11s from the ground view, we're taken to Lois Lane in the desert, as shes captured by dudes with guns. Her photographer, who you think might be Jimmy Olsen, has his camera taken and is then shot violently in the head, no lie.

Lois is taken underground, Superman swoops in to save the day. How? By flying at the dude holding Lois at lightspeed and slamming him through about ten brick walls. There's absolute NO WAY that dude isn't paste.

In a later scene, Superman is standing in front of the senate and a man who lost his legs during Man of Steel's finale is sitting in the courtroom, Lex has strapped him with a bomb to detonate to make Superman look bad. Clark hears the click of the detonator, looks at the guy, and just lets the bomb go off. You see the fire just consume hundreds of people as Superman just stands there looking sad.

I can't believe people will take their kids to see this.
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What the f*ck?
 
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Orniletter

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Yikes @ Zack Snyder's filmography. I don't follow a lot of directors, but thats one miss after the next.

Can't say I'm surprised. The whole thing looked awful from the very beginning.
 
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Chariot

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E the Shaggy said:
I've had time to sleep on it after seeing it last night and I just hate it more. This movie, if Man of Steel didn't do it already, will make you vehemently HATE Superman.

Movie spoilers:

At the beginning of the movie, following the horrific retelling of the events of Man of Steel from Bruce Wayne's perspective which is like 20 9/11s from the ground view, we're taken to Lois Lane in the desert, as shes captured by dudes with guns. Her photographer, who you think might be Jimmy Olsen, has his camera taken and is then shot violently in the head, no lie.

Lois is taken underground, Superman swoops in to save the day. How? By flying at the dude holding Lois at lightspeed and slamming him through about ten brick walls. There's absolute NO WAY that dude isn't paste.

In a later scene, Superman is standing in front of the senate and a man who lost his legs during Man of Steel's finale is sitting in the courtroom, Lex has strapped him with a bomb to detonate to make Superman look bad. Clark hears the click of the detonator, looks at the guy, and just lets the bomb go off. You see the fire just consume hundreds of people as Superman just stands there looking sad.

I can't believe people will take their kids to see this.
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Oh dear.
 
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ElBoxyBrown

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E the Shaggy said:
I've had time to sleep on it after seeing it last night and I just hate it more. This movie, if Man of Steel didn't do it already, will make you vehemently HATE Superman.

Movie spoilers:

At the beginning of the movie, following the horrific retelling of the events of Man of Steel from Bruce Wayne's perspective which is like 20 9/11s from the ground view, we're taken to Lois Lane in the desert, as shes captured by dudes with guns. Her photographer, who you think might be Jimmy Olsen, has his camera taken and is then shot violently in the head, no lie.

Lois is taken underground, Superman swoops in to save the day. How? By flying at the dude holding Lois at lightspeed and slamming him through about ten brick walls. There's absolute NO WAY that dude isn't paste.

In a later scene, Superman is standing in front of the senate and a man who lost his legs during Man of Steel's finale is sitting in the courtroom, Lex has strapped him with a bomb to detonate to make Superman look bad. Clark hears the click of the detonator, looks at the guy, and just lets the bomb go off. You see the fire just consume hundreds of people as Superman just stands there looking sad.

I can't believe people will take their kids to see this.
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Well a good chunk of the movie is adapting TDKR and Doomsday which have arguably never been for children especially anything written by Frank Miller.
Frozenprince said:
I mean comics Superman has balanced those two lines for 30 years now with no issues.

It's not hard. It's just lazy writing.
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Hmmm, sometimes.

9 times out of 10 DC just can't be consistent with it due to different writers always wanting to bring something new.
 
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Freewheelin'

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Can't see the average rating on RT on my phone, what is it? Usually more of an indication.

I.e, 84% of people or whatever liked Deadpool enough to recommend it, but they scored it a 6.5/7. I mean, I would recommend 90% of superhero films as a decent watch, but would struggle with rating more than 5 over a 5/6 out of 10.

Rotten % is usually more accurate with lower rated films.
 
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Frozenprince

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Freewheelin' said:
Can't see the average rating on RT on my phone, what is it? Usually more of an indication.

I.e, 84% of people or whatever liked Deadpool enough to recommend it, but they scored it a 6.5/7. I mean, I would recommend 90% of superhero films as a decent watch, but would struggle with rating more than 5 over a 5/6 out of 10.

Rotten % is usually more accurate with lower rated films.
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It's like 5.3
 
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PsychBat!

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E the Shaggy said:
I've had time to sleep on it after seeing it last night and I just hate it more. This movie, if Man of Steel didn't do it already, will make you vehemently HATE Superman.

Movie spoilers:

At the beginning of the movie, following the horrific retelling of the events of Man of Steel from Bruce Wayne's perspective which is like 20 9/11s from the ground view, we're taken to Lois Lane in the desert, as shes captured by dudes with guns. Her photographer, who you think might be Jimmy Olsen, has his camera taken and is then shot violently in the head, no lie.

Lois is taken underground, Superman swoops in to save the day. How? By flying at the dude holding Lois at lightspeed and slamming him through about ten brick walls. There's absolute NO WAY that dude isn't paste.

In a later scene, Superman is standing in front of the senate and a man who lost his legs during Man of Steel's finale is sitting in the courtroom, Lex has strapped him with a bomb to detonate to make Superman look bad. Clark hears the click of the detonator, looks at the guy, and just lets the bomb go off. You see the fire just consume hundreds of people as Superman just stands there looking sad.

I can't believe people will take their kids to see this.
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Yikes at that last paragraph.
 
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TAJ

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
ElBoxyBrown said:
Well a good chunk of the movie is adapting TDKR and Doomsday which have arguably never been for children especially anything written by Frank Miller.
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Did you read the spoiler-tagged stuff? Not being for kids is the least of the problems with what was mentioned in that post. The tagged stuff shows just how little respect they have for the source material.
 
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thecouncil

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Guys, he doesn't "let it happen". Lol.

I'm surprised everyone is reading that block of spoilers. Two days ago it would've been the end of your world. A low critic score doesn't mean spoilers are suddenly ok, does it? There's a thread for it. It's on the front page.
 
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Discotheque

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thecouncil said:
Guys, he doesn't "let it happen". Lol.

I'm surprised everyone is reading that block of spoilers. Two days ago it would've been the end of your world. A low critic score doesn't mean spoilers are suddenly ok, does it? There's a thread for it. It's on the front page.
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Thats good to hear. Because that spoiler was unbelievably stupid.

I dunno how the guy can misinterpret it that badly then. Damn I gotta see this just to get out of the dark already
 
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Aselith

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thecouncil said:
Guys, he doesn't "let it happen". Lol.

I'm surprised everyone is reading that block of spoilers. Two days ago it would've been the end of your world. A low critic score doesn't mean spoilers are suddenly ok, does it? There's a thread for it. It's on the front page.
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The people reading it are the ones that don't care about spoilers. But yes moved my comment there.
 
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Hot Coldman

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E the Shaggy said:
I've had time to sleep on it after seeing it last night and I just hate it more. This movie, if Man of Steel didn't do it already, will make you vehemently HATE Superman.

Movie spoilers:

At the beginning of the movie, following the horrific retelling of the events of Man of Steel from Bruce Wayne's perspective which is like 20 9/11s from the ground view, we're taken to Lois Lane in the desert, as shes captured by dudes with guns. Her photographer, who you think might be Jimmy Olsen, has his camera taken and is then shot violently in the head, no lie.

Lois is taken underground, Superman swoops in to save the day. How? By flying at the dude holding Lois at lightspeed and slamming him through about ten brick walls. There's absolute NO WAY that dude isn't paste.

In a later scene, Superman is standing in front of the senate and a man who lost his legs during Man of Steel's finale is sitting in the courtroom, Lex has strapped him with a bomb to detonate to make Superman look bad. Clark hears the click of the detonator, looks at the guy, and just lets the bomb go off. You see the fire just consume hundreds of people as Superman just stands there looking sad.

I can't believe people will take their kids to see this.
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I'm howling.
 
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Auto-Reply

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I think I'd still go and see it... a little afraid now that I might end up actually liking it, wouldn't know how to handle that after all of this lol
 
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