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Mechafunkzilla posted:Clark is very relatable in that movie. It's why some people get mad about it. I often feel isolated and alone and I'm also loving jacked so this checks out.
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Cease to Hope posted:I don't know what you mean by Clark working at a space base. There's no indication Clark works at the military base in the arctic: he's strolling around in -40 weather in nothing but a relatively light shirt that isn't even buttoned up. He isn't making the tiniest bit of effort to blend in, which is why Lois spots him immediately. Just a quick note on this: Clark is the one unloading Lois's bags when she gets out of the helicopter, I believe.
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Mar 5, 2019 21:18
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Cease to Hope posted:
Isn't this the fight in Superman 2? The fact that Snyder had Superman fight the exact same villains in the same situation (a crowded civilian area) as a previous film but the fight goes very differently is pretty interesting.
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Mar 27, 2019 16:30
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Mel Mudkiper posted:As I said before, what I liked about Man of Steel is that there was no binary, and that Clark Kent and Superman were a cohesive identical whole and not two separate embodiments of different identities and values. I was so disappointed they abandoned that idea in the end and subsequent films I like it in that it's consistent that when he's trying to be SUPERMAN he tends to fail but when he's Clark Kent in a superhero suit things tend to work out.
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Mar 27, 2019 20:27
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Jimbot posted:I could probably watch Justice League again but every time I think "maybe I'll check it out again so I can better pick it apart and develop my criticisms of it further" I also then think about the score and how utterly loving trash it was. That score actively makes watching that film painful. It's truly on a level of awful that I couldn't possibly imagine. This is very true, it's genuinely distracting in how lovely it is and I don't notice scores that much when I'm watching films. Elfman usually isn't that bad, right? I don't know what the gently caress happened there.
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Mar 27, 2019 23:19
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2006 was released at the height of the Iraq War and I feel like people should remember that and also maybe realize that America isn’t Sparta in the film.
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Mar 28, 2019 02:18
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Cease to Hope posted:It's worth looking at Frank Miller's justification for his comic about a thinly-veiled Batman expy killing Osama bin Laden, a story he was shopping around at DC as early as 2006. I don't think Snyder set out to make fascist propaganda but Miller definitely, definitely wanted to. Yeah Miller is crazy, which is why it’s so cool that Snyder took 300 and turned it into a glorification of Al-Qaeda and then took Dark Knight Returns and made Batman the bad guy.
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Mar 28, 2019 02:35
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What is the Slade image from?
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Sep 17, 2019 19:55
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Julius CSAR posted:I watched the 3 hour cut of BvS last night and it's still good. Then the smash cut to the hosed up Batmobile barely making it back to the cave. Kills me every time.
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Nov 19, 2019 01:45
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Me running to watch a Zack Snyder-directed Badminton movie:
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Dec 12, 2019 00:48
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Jose Oquendo posted:Is the success of The Joker partially responsible for WB green lighting the Snyder cut and apparently the directors cut of Suicide Squad? They promoted Walter Hamada (he did a bunch of horror movies at New Line) to oversee DC Films after Justice League did so terribly. Their films haven't all hit at the box office but I think they've all been pretty good and without a bunch of drama so maybe that's why.
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May 22, 2020 16:12
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I'm pretty sure the Theatrical Cut doesn't have Clark Kent dealing with deep moral quandaries by calling his mom so it's definitely inferior.
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May 28, 2020 23:39
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Grendels Dad posted:I actually watched it twice and might end up watching it a third time because it's got this quality of badness that makes you wonder, after a few months have passed, if what you watched really was that bad in the ways you remember. This is very true, I’ve somehow watched Justice League 4 times because its shittiness is so unbelievable I have to confirm that it’s real. It’s like that old joke by Lewis Black about candy corn.
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May 30, 2020 21:42
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I saw 300 with a former friend of mine who's now hardcore Trumpian and he seemed legitimately conflicted over how cool the action was and yet how gay it was so I think that made me like it more than I normally would have.
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Jun 5, 2020 16:03
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Violator posted:I see this A LOT with people saying Pa Kent told Clark to kill school children in Man of Steel. IIRC Maggie May made it one of her key points in her “Bad Daddies” video, where she finds MoS is toxic because of Clark’s two Randian father figures. The same thing happens when MARTHA tells Clark that he can either be the hero the people need him to be or not because he doesn't owe anyone anything. The key point that Clark doesn't need to do it but does it anyway because he's a good person is kind of lost among some people. (It also happens in Man of Steel when Clark tells his mom that he found his people and she reacts by being scared and a little sad while trying to seem happy for him. It's a major thing in those movies that the Kents are good but flawed people just trying to do the best they can raising their son. It's one of the things I like most about them.)
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Jun 9, 2020 20:29
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Superman learning to hone his powers by focusing on his mother's voice versus Zod learning by focusing on his clenched fist will forever be my favorite little bit of characterization in a movie.
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Jun 9, 2020 21:26
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Zack Snyder is hilarious. We all love Man of Steel in here, but what are things you feel don't quite work? I don't think the fight between Jor-El and Zod is great. I wish Zod had won and Jor-El had just tried to his best to hold on until Lara could send off the shuttle. Having Zod beaten by Jor-El kind of diminishes his menace during the rest of the movie. I feel like it was a Russell Crowe "I can't lose a fight" thing but I'm not sure.
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Jun 12, 2020 16:02
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Almost Blue posted:I totally get why, because you want your lead actor there for something like that, but for the scene where Jonathan dies they really should've had the younger Clark actor instead of Henry Cavill. The only thing that makes me reconsider this is Aquaman, where the kid that reacts to finding out Arthur's mother was executed is a laughably bad.
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Jun 12, 2020 17:09
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teagone posted:Clark asking the question is fine imo. But Batman's response is bad there, yeah. Why would he think she's with him? It's stretch to believe Bruce's line of thinking is that maybe she's also Kryptonian, and I get it was meant to be a moment of levity but it doesn't work all that well. Maybe Bruce saying "I don't think she's with anyone." would've been better, I dunno, but that exchange could've use a few more rewrites for sure. There's not really an explanation other than horny that Batman sees Superman and immediately decide that he needs killin' but he sees Wonder Woman and immediately tries to help her.
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Jun 12, 2020 17:51
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Eh, BvS Batman is played up more than most as being a tragic momma's boy. To him, men are threats, women are vulnerable. Been noted by SMG, I think, as a contrast to the Nolan movies that mostly focus on Thomas Wayne. That makes sense, thank you. I guess it's kind of funny that both Clark & Bruce are momma's boys.
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Jun 12, 2020 20:17
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That guy is correct, Zack Snyder has never made a tv show.
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Jul 2, 2020 03:18
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ruddiger posted:"I'm equal opportunity, I want everyone to be naked." A bunch of people got mad because some of the Amazons were wearing bikinis in Justice League but Zeus was some ultra-jacked bearded dude in a tiny skirt and nobody said anything.
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Jul 2, 2020 20:49
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There’s a horse at Superman’s funeral, I think.
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Jul 2, 2020 22:43
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Blood Boils posted:Then he turns to the audience and says "I've become like Joe Chill, the man who shot my parents, this is a bad thing to be" They just needed to go the Chris Nolan route and have a random fat cop go, “Now that is NOT good!” before slipping on a banana peel.
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Jul 3, 2020 17:39
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The fact that Metropolis has a way better football and Gotham plays dirty is a great little detail.
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Jul 15, 2020 21:51
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Aquaman’s dad seems cool.
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Jul 25, 2020 04:05
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McConaughey in Reign of Fire didn’t make sense to me until I realized that’s how British people see all Americans.
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Jul 28, 2020 03:09
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Burkion posted:I love they never acknowledge that. I always thought there was something here with Clark being coded as a farmer while Bruce characterizes himself as a hunter. Clark tends to one relationship (even brings food to Lois) while Bruce pretty goes through a string of anonymous conquests.
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Jul 30, 2020 16:28
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That shot of him floating while the woman reaches out to him is probably the coolest shot in comic book movie history. It could just be that for 90 minutes and I’d probably watch it.
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Aug 4, 2020 14:07
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I’m pretty sure there’s a stunt test scene of Snyder’s vision for that part and it’s a thousand times better than what ended up in the movie.
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Aug 8, 2020 02:29
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CelticPredator posted:BvS ultimate to me is just all around more my speed and personal love with Zack as a filmmaker. I’m probably reading too much into it but I feel like you can see Nolan’s influence on Snyder in Man of Steel while BvS is very obviously all Zack Snyder.
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Aug 15, 2020 13:41
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Very important: will the Snydercut still have Icky Thump play while Aquaman downs a bottle of Jack in front of a giant wave?
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Aug 19, 2020 01:08
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:B n j’y by NIHb hoi Joi united in uk Can someone translate this Zack Snyder Vero post, please?
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Aug 24, 2020 18:40
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Space Fish posted:Based on the sequence of events in the movie, I took it as Lex finding the means to bastardize a Kryptonian corpse for his own ends and stumbling across knowledge of Darkseid in the process. Zuck shared his address on a cosmic forum and doomed us all as a result. His ideal of knowledge equaling power came true and was inverted at the same time, with more knowledgeable beings revealing themselves as way more powerful than him, and Lex gifted with the knowledge of how helpless he is to do anything about it. Lex also seems to connect with Steppenwolf/Darkseid like a son to a father (since his actual father was an all-powerful figure of death and pain to him), which kind of lines up with Clark meeting Jor-El on the ship in the first movie.
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Aug 26, 2020 18:39
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I think (but could be wrong) that Snyder also storyboards everything in advance like Nolan does (I think Snyder may draw his own?). Plus they both have wives/partners who produce with them.
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Sep 11, 2020 03:03
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I thought it was Deathstroke breaking Lex Luthor out of Arkham. Might make sense if The Joker escapes in the chaos.
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Oct 21, 2020 23:37
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Blood Boils posted:They need to add smiling scenes! He only smiled 3-4 times each in mos and bvs 
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Oct 26, 2020 16:42
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2house2fly posted:I've seen clips of Josstice League and I keep getting the urge to watch the actual movie like prodding at a loose tooth. Like did they really have Henry Cavill's Superman say "yeah, I like truth... and I like justice" as like a one-liner? Surely not! Or Flash zooming around the batcave and being like "wow... it's a bat cave!!" The Zack Snyder movies have such a strong identity that those clips feel like Simpsons porn gifs or something You should 100% watch it, especially if you love Man of Steel and BvS. I've watched it 3 times and have been fascinated each time. It's a ludicrous film.
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Oct 30, 2020 22:59
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Grendels Dad posted:Yes and no. He is tied to the arc John Wick of Dogs mentions, but he is also basically a mid-level boss and gets a weird amount of focus for that. Like, he has a kick-rear end montage you'd expect for more major characters. He basically gets his own little superhero origin story except it’s for a villain*, which is cool. Also, having a villain who is entirely, “gently caress that guy, I’m going to kill him!” is pretty fun. *His dad wistfully passing along the sacred family knife to his son right after he’s used it to gut a submarine captain is hilarious.
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Darko posted:The whole Superman fight starts with Superman trying to communicate with Batman; this is idiotic. I try to be super careful in my criticisms of things to not be errant about what is actually on screen, and this is all some of these people do, and they still can't do it. It's amazing. I had a friend state that Superman taunts Batman the whole fight and then discovered he was talking about Superman’s, “If I wanted it, you’d be dead already.” I told him that’s a statement of fact, not a taunt. He’s never actually trying to kill Batman.
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