DC Murderverse posted:

Isn't that movie "on hold" (i.e. getting cancelled the moment they have the opportunity)? I thought their idea just didn't come to fruition at all, so they delayed it beyond Infinity War so they could just go "well we tried" later.

Equeen posted:

I get that the movie crew wanted to give Batgirl more agency, but man there had to be a million other less sleazy ways to do it.

And this isn't the first time a romantic Batman/Batgirl relationship came up in a Bruce Timm animated movie!

Dexo posted:

International Trailer is up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi8UF0lbJI8

It's slightly different.

Dark_Tzitzimine posted:

I might be insane but some of the action also reminded me a lot of ASM.

And having read Miles series back when it started, is kind of weird how much they're cribbing from there. Like you could swap Peter for Miles and there wouldn't be a significant change.

Brother Entropy posted:

do they actually show it? that's the one spidey film i skipped out on

The MSJ posted:

Neo Rasa posted:

This show has some pretty big shoes to fill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBojt6fDVvw

Megaman's Jockstrap posted:

I can tell when someone is cribbing their opinions from some dumbshit YouTube thinkpiece because it's the exact same kind of language propagations that you get from Fox News watchers. One of the popular ones says the movie has "toxic masculinity" and literally overnight that becomes a go-to descriptor for every two bit Red Letter Media worshipping dipshit.

Dark_Tzitzimine posted:

https://twitter.com/geoffjohns/status/815450084024328192

Gyges posted:

Guy Ritchie's King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword is going to ruin the chances of an Arthurian Epic for at least another decade.

Dark_Tzitzimine posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wiCgtMm-go

Gyges posted:

I've never seen anyone hate ketchup so much.

Scyantific posted:

Honestly I would have zero issues with this. All of the stuff he's directed for DCTV has been pretty good.

LORD OF BOOTY posted:

I like Watchmen decently, and I don't really get why people's esteem of it has dropped so sharply. Is it as good as the comic? gently caress no. Is it also pretty much the best adaptation of the comic we could ever reasonably get? Yep.

Guy A. Person posted:

Oh also I wanted to call out this as being the best description of the two cuts I've seen and right in line with my feelings. The theater cut was a better overall movie I thought but the ultimate cut had some really cool stuff (journalist Clark subplot, Batman infiltrating Lexcorp, Communion) at the expense of a clunkier cut.

Dark_Tzitzimine posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e9DEfrLx6U

The MSJ posted:

New GOTG2 trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duGqrYw4usE

That's another Vin Diesel movie about "family".

Uncle Boogeyman posted:

The one in that picture is definitely Black Mask, but Mr. Bones is the one who showed up all the time in the old Suicide Squad comics, so I'm a little confused too.

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In an announcement that will shock many of you — TO YOUR CORE — 41-year-old actor David Yost, who played the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers‘ Billy Cranston (aka Blue Ranger), has come out.

But that’s not where the story ends. Yost says he quit the show because he was harassed over his sexuality. “Creators, producers, writers, directors” all threw the F-word around at him. Yost, whose character was written out in subsequent franchise incarnations, reveals in a lengthy interview that he “walked off set one day in the middle of lunch,” a move he had been thinking about for about a week. “Continuing to work in an environment like that is really difficult. I myself was struggling with who I was, or what I was, and to be made fun of on some level, or to be stereotyped, or put into a category … I was continually being told I’m not worthy of where I am because I’m quote-unquote a gay person and I’m not supposed to be an actor and can’t be a superhero.” His co-stars, Yost says, were beckoned into producers’ offices on multiple occasions to be quizzed about his sexuality.

And after leaving the show, everything was swell? No. He spent two years trying to “pray the gay away,” had a nervous break down, checked himself into a mental hospital for five weeks, and upon his release he moved to Mexico for a year. “It frustrated me that I hated myself on such a level that I couldn’t accept myself.”

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THR brings word that part of Power Rangers’ human element involves the Yellow Ranger, Trini (played by actress Becky G), coming to terms with her sexual orientation. In one scene, a character assumes Trini is having “boyfriend problems,” but quickly comes to realize that she’s having “girlfriend problems.” Director Dean Israelite explains what he thinks is one of the movie’s “pivotal” moments:

“For Trini, really she’s questioning a lot about who she is. She hasn’t fully figured it out yet. I think what’s great about that scene and what that scene propels for the rest of the movie is, ‘That’s OK.’ The movie is saying, ‘That’s OK,’ and all of the kids have to own who they are and find their tribe.”

Actress Thuy Trang played Trini in the ’90s TV series, and the character was depicted as straight, so this is new ground for the franchise, let alone for the genre as a whole. Discussion about diversity and inclusion has been ramping up in a big way in Hollywood over the past couple of years, so it’s promising to see studios including gay characters in big $100 million-plus budget blockbusters. Even Disney is joining the party; as you’ve undoubtedly heard, LeFou is gay in the new Beauty and the Beast (a reveal that could have been handled more elegantly, but at least it was well-intentioned).

Hopefully, this is just the latest step on the path toward gay characters being included in major movies often enough that it’ll become commonplace and we’ll no longer even need to write articles like this one.

Right now, though, this news sounds like it could run the risk of being a double-edged sword. I haven’t seen the new film yet, but from those quotes and the trailers we’ve seen, it seems as if this incarnation of Power Rangers is leaning into the idea of these characters being outcasts, which contrasts with the overly cheerful, carefree Rangers we saw in the TV series and 1995’s Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie. If this film treats Trini as an outcast solely because of her sexuality, that could add to the already-tired trope that being gay automatically means there’s something wrong with her. This means it’s the film’s job to dispel this myth. Hey, no one said social righteousness was easy.

It seems like the film has the stamp of approval from a key player in the franchise’s history. David Yost, the actor who starred as Billy, the original Blue Ranger, in the TV show and movie, is openly gay and actually ended up leaving the show because of harassment he received due to his sexual orientation. But he’s seen the new film and appreciates the way it handles Trini’s character:

“They really stepped up to the plate. I think so many people in the LGBTQI community are going to be excited to see that representation.”

LesterGroans posted:

Yeah, I'll take Superman: The Movie over any other Superman film, but that line and specifically Costner's delivery is maybe my favourite moment from any of the movies.

Uncle Boogeyman posted:

Watchmen is a DC film so he already did

CelticPredator posted:

Many DC fans have sent death threats to critics for not liking the films.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Spider-Man1-3 are still their three biggest films and Amazing Spider-Man is their 5th biggest so it's pretty obvious why they'd be super desperate to do everything possible to get that cash cow back on its feet and then back under their control, they don't really have a lot else going for them.

Edit: remember how Amazing Spider-Man 2 was such a massive disappointment that it completely derailed all their plans for sequels and spinoffs for years until they made that deal with Marvel? It's still their biggest film of the last 5 years. THey genuinely don't have anything better.


Their list of biggest box office hits is just bizarre. 1984 Ghostbusters and Tootsie are still in their top 20 list and that's without adjusting for inflation. .

Men In Black, Hancock and Hitch are also still in their top 20 so they must be really disappointed that Will Smith is moving towards making superhero movies with other studios. I guess at least they've signed him up for a few Bad Boys sequels.

Sony's other tried-and-true money maker was Adam Sandler but it looks like Netflix lured him away.


Edit: their remakes of Ghosbusters and Total Recall made less money than the original films and Robocop only made $5m more than the original, and that's without adjusting for inflation.

CelticPredator posted:

What about Blubberella.

Zzulu posted:

These are way too positive

Vintersorg posted:

I can't help but laugh every time I see, "...tell that to Zods snapped neck!"

I hope whenever wrote that still gets poo poo.

BravestOfTheLamps posted:

Time to roll out the big guns.

SleepCousinDeath posted:

being drunk and watching Pineapple Express at 60 FPS is not fun

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

I've never forgiven Tom Cruise for his nearly 30-year refusal to allow his likeness to be used in video games that ended up requiring the Minority Report video game for Nintendo 64 to change the main character to a blonde.

cvnvcnv posted:

John Cazale wins.

Megaman's Jockstrap posted:

Snyder giving a dessert fork 5 tines - in order to shovel more sugar into the audience's mouth - shows us everything wrong with the DC Cinematic Murderverse

GonSmithe posted:

I watched this on the tail end of an acid trip and that is the absolute best way I can think of watching that movie. It definitely owns.

He also did the Blackwater and Battle of the Wall episodes of Game of Thrones.