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sean10mm posted:Brightburn is a nasty little horror movie with some real But is he an evil little boy?
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gore. It's not just "bad kid" Superman, it's loving serial killer tween Superman. And it's played completely straight.
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sean10mm posted:Brightburn is a nasty little horror movie with some real That sounds like something I would really enjoy. I just IMDB'd it and saw it stars Elizabeth Banks, so I'm sold.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFDDm88hxfY Also, ouch. “Hellboy” Closes Theatrical Run With Just $22M
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Bogus Adventure posted:That sounds like something I would really enjoy. I just IMDB'd it and saw it stars Elizabeth Banks, so I'm sold. It's a straight horror movie that plays up on "what if Goku didn't hit his head and become nice when he came to earth?"
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thrawn527 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFDDm88hxfY I’m still pissed about this. They hyped it up so much as more like the comics (which are gothic and weird and cool) and instead delivered “Del Toro Hellboy but worse”
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Frankly the comics are also Del Toro Hellboy but worse, imo
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:Frankly the comics are also Del Toro Hellboy but worse, imo Not a lie
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Blast Fantasto posted:I’m still pissed about this. They hyped it up so much as more like the comics (which are gothic and weird and cool) and instead delivered “Del Toro Hellboy but worse” I understand why they went in a new direction but it was such a fuckin' dumb idea. The audience they'd created with the first two films didn't give a poo poo about making the films conform closer to the comics, they wanted new adventures of Ron Perlman & friends.
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:Frankly the comics are also Del Toro Hellboy but worse, imo I like the Del Toro Hellboys, but the initial run of comics is great
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:Frankly the comics are also Del Toro Hellboy but worse, imo Very astute
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sean10mm posted:Brightburn is a nasty little horror movie with some real What's the backstory/larger universe like? I'm not going to get a chance to see it in cinemas so spoil it all for me, please?
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:Frankly the comics are also Del Toro Hellboy but worse, imo How do you figure? They’re barely similar
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PriorMarcus posted:What's the backstory/larger universe like? I'm not going to get a chance to see it in cinemas so spoil it all for me, please? There isn't really one.
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sean10mm posted:Brightburn is a nasty little horror movie with some real Is it good?
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Darko posted:There isn't really one. Good.
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Davros1 posted:Good. Slight spoilers for motivation of the kid. Same basic story as Superman initially. Two loving people on a farm find a baby that fell from the sky. He starts hitting puberty and... ...he is automatically drawn to his spaceship, which was hidden under the barn and he didn't know of. A message for him to "take the world" seems to be broadcast to him in conjunction with his puberty/the ship. So the twist is he's actually a Saiyan with no full moon tail and not a Kryptonian. And he acts like a kid with no conscience would, with Superman's powers.
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So, basically a Mark Waid comic from 12 years ago. WGIS
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It's different than something like Irredeemable because it's almost entirely about a kid in his day to day life and his relationship with family and the people around him.
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Irreedemable had all that, it was just flashbacks....right?
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Darko posted:It's a straight horror movie that plays up on "what if Goku didn't hit his head and become nice when he came to earth?" Awesome
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Darko posted:It's a straight horror movie that plays up on "what if Goku didn't hit his head and become nice when he came to earth?" So, does the movie end ten minutes after his turn to the dark side, and those ten minutes are just constant streams of red fountains splashing at the camera? Because I fail to make Evil Horror Movie Superman work in my head, unless there is a teenage Batman to reign him in.
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Grendels Dad posted:So, does the movie end ten minutes after his turn to the dark side, and those ten minutes are just constant streams of red fountains splashing at the camera? According to reports Nothing stops him, and the film ends with him beginning the mass slaughter of the people of earth
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Irreedemable had all that, it was just flashbacks....right? Kind of, but this is legitimately a horror movie and from what I remember, the Plutonian didn't get all kill-y until after he was already a superhero.
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Davros1 posted:According to reports Nothing stops him, and the film ends with him beginning the mass slaughter of the people of earth This is correct. Okay, ending spoilers, read at your own risk if anyone really must know: He has a Kryptonite, which is the metal his ship is made of. Unfortunately, his mom fails at killing him with it at the end, and she's the only one with knowledge of this weakness. After she fails, he flies her up 8000 feet or whatever and then drops her. Then he basically just goes around the planet in the credits loving people and things up with nothing possibly stopping him.
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Darko posted:This is correct. Okay, ending spoilers, read at your own risk if anyone really must know: Sounds like the sequel will be even more fun. 
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Darko posted:This is correct. Okay, ending spoilers, read at your own risk if anyone really must know: Yeah, and know that plane scene in the trailers? That’s right at the end after he kills his mom. Seems like one of those movies that spoils all the good parts in the trailers.
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Darko posted:Slight spoilers for motivation of the kid. Instead of saying the twist is that he's a Saiyan it sounds like he is still Kryptonian but just the son of someone like Zod rather than Jor-El.
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Lobok posted:Instead of saying the twist is that he's a Saiyan it sounds like he is still Kryptonian but just the son of someone like Zod rather than Jor-El. Eh, the Saiyan thing works because sending their infants to conquer weak planets was explicitly their thing. DC's done the Zod's son thing a couple times. The last version was harder edged than normal Superman incarnations, but not outright evil.
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Grendels Dad posted:Sounds like the sequel will be even more fun. Let's hope for a good guy Lex movie.
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Lobok posted:Instead of saying the twist is that he's a Saiyan it sounds like he is still Kryptonian but just the son of someone like Zod rather than Jor-El. They actually made this for an animated Elsewhere and Zod's son goes to Earth and ends up becoming Superman but the most "what's efficient and not moral" kind. the episode is him fighting a kid who has uncontrollable and deadly powers and he breaks his neck after consoling him and telling him it was gonna be ok Not cruel but definitely Beyond Human Morality.
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Detective No. 27 posted:Eh, the Saiyan thing works because sending their infants to conquer weak planets was explicitly their thing. DC's done the Zod's son thing a couple times. The last version was harder edged than normal Superman incarnations, but not outright evil. Fair enough. Just thought it'd be easier to reference something within Superman than outside of it but you're right Zod was a conqueror and not necessarily killing for the sake of it.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:They actually made this for an animated Elsewhere and Zod's son goes to Earth and ends up becoming Superman but the most "what's efficient and not moral" kind. the episode is him fighting a kid who has uncontrollable and deadly powers and he breaks his neck after consoling him and telling him it was gonna be ok Not cruel but definitely Beyond Human Morality. What was this?
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Delzuma posted:What was this? I think it's Gods and Monsters? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4324302/ It rounds out the Big Three with Man-Bat and a New God as Wonder Woman.
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DC Gods and Monsters https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Son_of_Zod_(Gods_and_Monsters)
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Delzuma posted:What was this? Justice League: Gods and Monsters. Superman is Zod's son, and is raised by a Mexican-American family. Wonder Woman is from New Genesis. Batman is a straight up vampire. It wasn't bad.
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JL: Gods and Monsters was great and I highly recommend it.
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Detective No. 27 posted:Justice League: Gods and Monsters. Superman is Zod's son, and is raised by a Mexican-American family. Wonder Woman is from New Genesis. Batman is a straight up vampire. It wasn't bad. I thought she was a Female Fury, from Apokolips. EDIT: I was wrong, she's from New Genesis, but married to a guy from Apokolips.
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Cool! I’ll have to check that out.
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Detective No. 27 posted:Eh, the Saiyan thing works because sending their infants to conquer weak planets was explicitly their thing. DC's done the Zod's son thing a couple times. The last version was harder edged than normal Superman incarnations, but not outright evil. Yeah, Saiyans work as a better parallel strictly because they are sent to planets to wipe them out so they can be colonized. Brandon in this movie has an implanted or ship based command that pretty much says the same. He still has some empathy and doesn't initially plan to kill EVERYONE and is fine with keeping the appearances of a family up, but once his parents see his danger and try to take him out, welp.
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Re: Brightburn - Has it already been mentioned that the credits also have a really blatant implication that it's like an... evil DC universe mirror? There's a cute bit at the end that has "oh and that half fish half man terrorizing the sea - and a supernatural demon woman who chokes people with ropes..." comment from a conspiracy theorist- they show a couple others too, an alien and someone who looks like Rainn Wilson's superhero from Super?
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