Man of Steel - Will you believe a man can fly again?

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Lord Krangdar: Oct 24, 2007; These are the secrets of death we teach.

Its a promo shot, not a still from the film. So yeah, the background probably is a painting.

# ? Jul 4, 2014 00:07

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# ? Apr 23, 2024 11:26

jiffynuts: Jul 6, 2005; It's a-me-a-ha-me-ha

Mister J posted:

Everybody seems so drat sad in this movie. Wanna cheer Superman up.

(saw this elsewhere on Facebook)

# ? Jul 4, 2014 00:29

jiffynuts: Jul 6, 2005; It's a-me-a-ha-me-ha

Also, Batman just needs a hug. (awwww)

(From https://twitter.com/aliarikan/status/484743246439260160/photo/1)

# ? Jul 4, 2014 02:17

Tezcatlipoca: Sep 18, 2009

jiffynuts posted:

(saw this elsewhere on Facebook)

They all float in Gotham.

# ? Jul 4, 2014 02:48

Grendels Dad: Mar 5, 2011; Popular culture has passed you by.

jiffynuts posted:

Also, Batman just needs a hug. (awwww)

(From https://twitter.com/aliarikan/status/484743246439260160/photo/1)

Batman's clearly uncomfortable but also realizes he's helpless and has to endure Superman's clumsy groping.

# ? Jul 4, 2014 08:15

Baron Bifford: May 24, 2006; Can't post for 3 years!

Rocksicles posted:

This has got to be the worst thread on the whole forum.

And I had nothing to do with it!

# ? Jul 4, 2014 09:32

McSpanky: Jan 16, 2005

Grendels Dad posted:

Batman's clearly uncomfortable but also realizes he's helpless and has to endure Superman's clumsy groping.

Batman is resigned to being Superman's novelty giant teddy bear.

# ? Jul 4, 2014 17:01

Fulchrum: Apr 16, 2013; by R. Guyovich

So, I guess this is the DC movies thread?

Okay, so after they cast the Rock as Black Adam, DC have pretty much committed themselves to a Shazam movie as part of their cineamtic universe. So, regardless of if its a good movie or not, how can you even do that? The world they're making, for better or worse (all signs say worse, but whatever) is about a world with no real joy in heroism, just how its a high stakes fight you have to take up because the people who can do it are all that separates the world from destruction. How do you fit a 10 year old kid with magical powers into that?

# ? Sep 20, 2014 09:22

AFoolAndHisMoney: Aug 13, 2013

Fulchrum posted:

The world they're making, for better or worse (all signs say worse, but whatever) is about a world with no real joy in heroism

Nice meme bro.

# ? Sep 20, 2014 10:16

BravestOfTheLamps: Oct 12, 2012; by FactsAreUseless; Lipstick Apathy

Fulchrum posted:

So, I guess this is the DC movies thread?

Okay, so after they cast the Rock as Black Adam, DC have pretty much committed themselves to a Shazam movie as part of their cineamtic universe. So, regardless of if its a good movie or not, how can you even do that? The world they're making, for better or worse (all signs say worse, but whatever) is about a world with no real joy in heroism, just how its a high stakes fight you have to take up because the people who can do it are all that separates the world from destruction. How do you fit a 10 year old kid with magical powers into that?

"Ugh, the Iron Man movies are farces, this means we can't have a serious action movie in the MCU."

# ? Sep 20, 2014 11:39

Guy A. Person: May 23, 2003

Fulchrum posted:

The world they're making, for better or worse (all signs say worse, but whatever) is about a world with no real joy in heroism

Lol. This is sure to go over well in this thread.

# ? Sep 20, 2014 15:50

Tezcatlipoca: Sep 18, 2009

Fulchrum posted:

So, I guess this is the DC movies thread?

Okay, so after they cast the Rock as Black Adam, DC have pretty much committed themselves to a Shazam movie as part of their cineamtic universe. So, regardless of if its a good movie or not, how can you even do that? The world they're making, for better or worse (all signs say worse, but whatever) is about a world with no real joy in heroism, just how its a high stakes fight you have to take up because the people who can do it are all that separates the world from destruction. How do you fit a 10 year old kid with magical powers into that?

Check out Kingdom Come.

# ? Sep 20, 2014 16:11

DeimosRising: Oct 17, 2005; �Hola SEA!

Or even more horrifically, Miracleman (now back in print with a hideous new coloring job!). They're not going to go that route because DC films aren't actually joyless but it can be done.

# ? Sep 20, 2014 16:18

computer parts: Nov 18, 2010; PLEASE CLAP

There's a lot of ways you can do lighter stuff in the current DC universe. Superman's just not the guy to do it because he's a living bomb. He's Godzilla in a smaller frame.

# ? Sep 20, 2014 16:27

Grendels Dad: Mar 5, 2011; Popular culture has passed you by.

Fulchrum posted:

How do you fit a 10 year old kid with magical powers into that?

Make the movie about the horrors of onsetting puberty. So basically Raimi's Spider-Man, but less subtle.

Grendels Dad fucked around with this message at 16:41 on Sep 20, 2014

# ? Sep 20, 2014 16:37

Luminous Obscurity: Jan 10, 2007; "The instrument you know as a piano was once called a pianoforte, because it can play both loud and quiet notes."

Or a coming of age story about what it means to save people.

# ? Sep 20, 2014 16:49

Lobok: Jul 13, 2006; Say Watt?

I want them to make a lighter movie because I want to hear the whole theater piling out after it's done all screaming "but HOW can that fit in with BATMAN?! It doesn't make any SENSE!!!"

# ? Sep 20, 2014 18:07

Equeen: Oct 29, 2011; Pole dance~

Lobok posted:

I want them to make a lighter movie because I want to hear the whole theater piling out after it's done all screaming "but HOW can that fit in with BATMAN?! It doesn't make any SENSE!!!"

They'll do that right after crying "JOYLESS GRIMDARKNESS!!!" because young Billy Batson said a curse word.

# ? Sep 20, 2014 18:17

Ferrinus: Jun 19, 2003; i'm finding this quite easy, i guess in part because i'm a fast type but also because i have a coherent mental model of the world

Billy Batson and the Bullshit Stepdad

# ? Sep 20, 2014 18:43

Grendels Dad: Mar 5, 2011; Popular culture has passed you by.

Lobok posted:

I want them to make a lighter movie because I want to hear the whole theater piling out after it's done all screaming "but HOW can that fit in with BATMAN?! It doesn't make any SENSE!!!"

Duh, his name is Billy Bat-son.

# ? Sep 20, 2014 20:28

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# ? Apr 23, 2024 11:26

Halloween Jack: Sep 12, 2003; I WILL CUT OFF BOTH OF MY ARMS BEFORE I VOTE FOR ANYONE THAT IS MORE POPULAR THAN BERNIE!!!!!

Lobok posted:

I don't know if Bruce Wayne has an American analogue anymore. Back when he was created you could say something like Rockefeller or Vanderbilt or Astor but are there any old money household name billionaire playboys anymore? There are a lot of old money playboys but none as rich/influential/famous as Wayne would be, and a lot of hotshot billionaires but they tend to be nerds and/or recently self-made, and the other richest people in the world besides those aren't American, like Carlos Slim or numerous Asian and Indian industrial magnates. The closest thing I can think of to Wayne was JFK Jr.

About half of the richest 40 people in America inherited holdings, so yes, there are. "Self-made men" are actually less of a force now than they were decades ago. The difference is in the society of the ultra-rich; John Mars doesn't want to be in the newspapers.

Grendels Dad posted:

Duh, his name is Billy Bat-son.

This actually just reminds me of Superman: Metropolis and Batman: Nosferatu, the Elseworlds books where Bruce Wayne is Bruss Wayne-son, becomes Nosferatu, clashes with The Superman, fights Lutor and his creation the Laughing Man, finally becomes director of Arkham Asylum and imprisons them in The Cabinet of Dr. Wayne-son.

Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 17:33 on Jan 16, 2015

# ? Jan 16, 2015 17:29

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