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Conjecture, but in that BvS trailer it looks like during the opening in Africa a plane is sent in and Superman clashes with it, the fallout killing the villagers. It makes more sense that the woman testifying to the senate is so emotional now.
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I think it was a drone.
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Man, I'd love an Antoine Fuqua superhero movie. Would have been perfect for a Wolverine movie.
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Man, hell yes! DrVenkman posted:Conjecture, but in that BvS trailer it looks like during the opening in Africa a plane is sent in and Superman clashes with it, the fallout killing the villagers. It makes more sense that the woman testifying to the senate is so emotional now. Nah, she says the government swept in and killed her family after the militia was gone. Her point is more that Superman came and made the situation worse for everyone but made sure his white gf was safe.
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She actually didn't use any race terms but yeah.
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Guy A. Person posted:Man, hell yes! Superman doesn't care about black people.
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RBA Starblade posted:Superman doesn't care about black people. Requesting that gif of Kanye, Mike Meyers, and Chris Tucker with monocles tia
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Guy A. Person posted:Nah, she says the government swept in and killed her family after the militia was gone. Her point is more that Superman came and made the situation worse for everyone but made sure his white gf was safe. It's also a question you'd want to ask God, if you had the chance.
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Hodgepodge posted:It's also a question you'd want to ask God, if you had the chance. drat that's a good point
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Yesterday I watched Dredd for the first time and was surprised how relatively grounded in reality it was. I was expecting more of a Blade Runner-setting, but it has just enough sci-fi and dystopian elements inserted into a fairly close to reality setting to be quite unsettling. Really enjoyed it, it's got a strong 80s vibe and it's pretty much exactly what I was expecting The Raid to be.
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Am I the only one that thinks the bad guy in Suicide Squad might be some form of Starro the Conqueror?
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Die Laughing posted:Am I the only one that thinks the bad guy in Suicide Squad might be some form of Starro the Conqueror? Probably
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Die Laughing posted:Am I the only one that thinks the bad guy in Suicide Squad might be some form of Starro the Conqueror? I read a report saying that the pack of monsters they fight are known as "Eyes of The Adversary", so there is a hive mind or demonic aspect to them.
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It's The Tattooed Man played by Common
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oFpj4ypsLE Cop Casey Jones
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Now that Mystique is officially a hero, Bryan Singer says that he wants the next X-Men movie to be a Mystique solo film. With or without Jennifer Lawrence. http://www.avclub.com/article/bryan-singer-thinks-mystique-should-have-her-own-f-237699
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My Lovely Horse posted:Yesterday I watched Dredd for the first time and was surprised how relatively grounded in reality it was. I was expecting more of a Blade Runner-setting, but it has just enough sci-fi and dystopian elements inserted into a fairly close to reality setting to be quite unsettling. Really enjoyed it, it's got a strong 80s vibe and it's pretty much exactly what I was expecting The Raid to be. Dredd was pretty low budget and bombed in theaters. :/ The world of Mega City One in the comicbook is pretty much like Los Angeles in Blade Runner, or any other cyberpunk sci-fi city. That said though, Dredd is also the best comic book movie. Pete Travis (the director) and Karl Urban both want to do a sequel but it sounds like that will never happen.
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Netflix series possible. I think I read they were in talks. http://www.techtimes.com/articles/155552/20160503/karl-urban-confirms-dredd-tv-series-coming-netflix-amazon.htm
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The MSJ posted:I read a report saying that the pack of monsters they fight are known as "Eyes of The Adversary", so there is a hive mind or demonic aspect to them. Yeah, according to one article they're summoned by Enchantress who's the main villain.
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http://www.trendread.com/2016/06/iron-man-3-shane-black-defends-mandarin.htmlquote:“We may have done our job a bit too well in a way because we succeeded in actually having a surprise in the middle of a big summer movie where you normally know virtually everything about it before you go in” he explained. “And when I say we did our job too well it meant some of the fans felt fooled. They felt I think that they'd been led down one path and then sold a bill of goods. It's hard. Because I want to please the fans... but in this case I thought and we all thought that it was just a very interesting and very layered decision to take the Mandarin
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gently caress those fanboy dummies, they're idiots.
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Shane Black still having to explain why he didn't directly adapt a yellow peril villain, three years later, is depressing.
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Timby posted:Shane Black still having to explain why he didn't directly adapt a yellow peril villain, three years later, is depressing. But... the canon???
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Timby posted:Shane Black still having to explain why he didn't directly adapt a yellow peril villain, three years later, is depressing. To be fair, it's probably less that you can't do a non-racist version of the concept (basically just make him a villain who... is Chinese) and more that Chinese audiences would wonder why the guy would call himself that. It's like calling yourself The Grecian when you live in Greece. I guess they also might not like a Chinese villian, but it's not like you can't work around that by having his agenda be hostile to China as well.
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If it were like a Jackie Chan movie, the villain would be the Mandarin and turn out to be a rich white guy, and Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker would track him down to a final confrontation at the docks. Basically what we got. I think it's less worrying about a yellow peril and more worrying about China has strict rules movies showing in their country can't strictly have a villain that's even Chinese, only good guys, with a few various loopholes.
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I sincerely doubt it was "this character can't be ethnically Chinese" and was more "this character in the comics is one step away from Fu Manchu. If we're going to change it that much, let's do something interesting". Like even in the film the guy's named "The Mandarin". Pretty sure if China was that sensitive they wouldn't have let that name be used.
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Hodgepodge posted:I guess they also might not like a Chinese villian, but it's not like you can't work around that by having his agenda be hostile to China as well. Iron Man and chinese military crush the Tibetan separatists
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Edit wrong thread!!
CelticPredator fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Jun 4, 2016 |
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The best (worst) is reading the Facebook comments under the trending stories thing for that. Literally everyone going "lovely DIRECTOR APOLOGIZING THREE YEARS LATER FOR HIS lovely PIECE OF poo poo MOVIE I HOPE HE loving DIES."
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It's so weird that people are so sensitive about the change considering literally no one gave a poo poo about Iron man before the first movie, let alone his rogues gallery.
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Detective No. 27 posted:It's so weird that people are so sensitive about the change considering literally no one gave a poo poo about Iron man before the first movie, let alone his rogues gallery. ESPECIALLY his rogues gallery. The best iteration of Iron Man's rogues gallery is from Iron Man Armored Adventures about Teenage Tony Stark What I'm trying to say is Iron Man has lovely villains
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Hodgepodge posted:To be fair, it's probably less that you can't do a non-racist version of the concept (basically just make him a villain who... is Chinese) and more that Chinese audiences would wonder why the guy would call himself that. It's like calling yourself The Grecian when you live in Greece. Mandarin isn't even a race or an ethnicity, it's just a dialect. So I guess it'd be like calling a black character The AAVE? The Ebonics? I think the version we got is probably the least racist version possible of a character called The Mandarin.
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The Mandarin is a Western term for bureaucrats of Imperial China.
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Yep: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandarin_%28bureaucrat%29 It generally came to mean "high ranking Chinese official who is also a learned scholar" among people who weren't really all that familiar with Chinese culture so back in the 60s when Marvel were looking for a name for a Fu Manchu ripoff dude who was also a mad scientist they just went with that.
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That's always the dumbest way to name characters. Like DC Comics had some Justice League annual where they introduced a Turkish superheroine. Her superhero name was The Janissary. BravestOfTheLamps fucked around with this message at 21:18 on Jun 4, 2016 |
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:That's always the dumbest way to name characters. That doesn't even make sense! Janissary were non-ottomans recruited from areas paying the jizya!
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I don't care what color he is but i wanted to see a dude with ten magical rings fight iron man.
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the ten rings were in the first movie
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So no one has seen TMNT2?
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oddium posted:the ten rings were in the first movie They played a fairly prominent role in Tony Stark's story ![]() http://marvelcinematicuniverse.wikia.com/wiki/Ten_Rings
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