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Slutitution posted:Feminism is kicking a zombie dog in the face, obviously. You forgot which director you were throwing pithy zingers at.
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Violator posted:I guess that was part of his supposed arc in Justice League that was cut, where he turned his rage inwards towards complete self destruction and suicide. There's a shot in the assault on Steppenwolf's reactor complex where the Batmobile's cannon ejects a shell that echoes the military funeral from BvS; this would have been an excellent thematic callback and moment of character insight in Snyder's version, but in Whedon's can only really be read as "gently caress yeah we're blowin' up aliens, get some  ".
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Feb 9, 2019 01:00
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CityMidnightJunky posted:Do you genuinely believe this? I get liking something someone else doesn't, but I really don't get acting so defensive about a bog standard superhero film that you have to write essays about why it's this deep, philosophical masterpiece and get arsey to anyone who disagrees. Why do you care so much? Fuckin lol at calling fans the defensive ones after the travesty of a "discussion" that just happened the last few pages and where all the negativity -- and rank stupidity -- came from.
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Mar 5, 2019 15:56
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Xealot posted:Even if you're only looking at the feature films, Batman kills a lot of people. The Burton films do it all the time, and just as sadistically as BvS. I don't get the idea that BvS Batman is a sadist or revels in dealing death. Aside from planning to kill Superman, who he specifically considers to not even be human and a threat to all humanity, he only kills people as collateral damage or in self-defense. Now Burton Batman, especially in Returns, there's a guy who serves up some unambiguously premeditated murder with a smile.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I hadn't even thought about that as a specific reference. MoS has been discussed for so long that I'm not surprised some things get forgotten, but it's come up before that the whole diner sequence was Snyder's homage to Action Comics #1.
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Apr 1, 2019 13:39
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Detective No. 27 posted:I don't remember who said it in a previous thread, but the fact that Kal-El was able to be a natural birth showed that the codex was false bullshit. Zod's response to Jor-El's statement that Kal's was a natural birth: "Heresy!" A very loaded term in this context.
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garycoleisgod posted:I just love the intercutting between Perry/Jenny and Superman standing up to the gravity beam thing and saving the day. The edit implying that Clark is drawing the strength to win FROM Perry/Jenny is This sequence always brings tears to my eyes. I literally don't understand how people can watch it and still call this film dour, joyless, grimdark -- it's the essence of joy. Superman's strength and will being summoned to save the world is directly linked with the strength of the human soul to persevere, to find courage and shared humanity in the face of certain annihilation. Superman gets his powers from the sun but, this scene tells us, he is powered by love. It's a shot of pure distilled hope right into my veins, every time.
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RBA Starblade posted:Army of the Deadlift 
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KVeezy3 posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka_m0ZONaJU I dunno, that was remarkably embarrassing dialog.
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Jul 19, 2019 10:59
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Bogus Adventure posted:Using the wrong music really bothered the hell out of me. Me too and it wasn't even mixed well, the nostalgia cuts were practically background noise compared to Junkie XL's work in the previous films.
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Aug 7, 2019 00:35
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McCloud posted:I know the topic of drones has come up a bit in this and the other capethread, and I came across this which I thought some of you might find interesting This video reminded me that the Parademons from the Knightmare sequence in BvS are literal drones; that is, they strongly resemble swarming insects like ants or termites. And like everything Darkseid, they are an aspect of corruption, oppression, giving in to our worst impulses, the triumph of fear over hope.
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The Something Awful Forums › The Finer Arts › Cinema Discusso › The Snyderdome: But you must consider the prison dildos.
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Grendels Dad posted:Pretty sure there were enough people back in Ye Old Britain very excited about all the yummy stuff suggested in A Modest Proposal. Or at least a bunch of people who thought that it did make economical sense to eat the children of the poor. No doubt, and there were also a lot of people appalled that Swift was advocating for child cannibalism. I'm sure Persius and Juvenal were similarly misinterpreted in their time. By Ubik_Lives' standards there has never been a successful satire.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:I've said it before and I'll say it again - the issue is not strictly Superman's emotions. Donner's Superman has him mope around his hometown too, feel frustration at his attraction to Lois, and has him get sad and angry when Lois dies. Yes he does spend a lot of time smiling and mugging but he's allowed to feel bad as well.  on all counts.
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Nov 9, 2019 08:27
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:His learning to fly is one of the only true "I am having fun and being It's also the only time the movie allows itself to become a straightforward power fantasy, which I think makes its own kind of statement -- extraordinary power is fun, as long as nothing is burdening your conscience.
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Nov 10, 2019 03:29
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At this point I want a Snyder Cut documentary more than the actual Snyder Cut so WB's shittiness can be exposed to a wider audience, including how they leveraged Snyder's daughter's suicide to make this whole shitshow go down in the first place.
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Nov 15, 2019 02:16
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Chairman Capone posted:I know one aspect was that Jyn Erso was going to be a part of the Rebellion from the start, and she was being released from Rebel prison on condition of basically doing a Dirty Dozen suicide mission. That's why the initial teaser involved the Rebel general reading the list of charges against her, and in the movie she apparently wears a uniform with the Rebel sergeant's rank (as she was a sergeant in the Rebellion before being arrested for insubordination). That part sounds pretty good but this Julius CSAR posted:I want to see Rogue One as a pure war movie. I remember one of the original themes they talked about was "the rebels are just as dirty about this poo poo as the empire" but it only ever kinda came through half way just sounds like more pseudo-deconstructionist moral equivalency propablanda.
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Julius CSAR posted:I mean, usually I'd agree with you, because I typically hate it too, but it's a fairly unique take within the Star Wars universe, or at least the parts of Star Wars most people interact with. Otherwise, yeah I usually hate the "both sides are bad" stuff, but it was fun to see the rebels as people willing to get their hands dirty. Also, as dirty as you make the Rebels, whatever amount of bad stuff you attach to them I don't think you can ever raise them to the level of evil achieved by the villains being eternal telekinetic space Nazis, so there's that too. That's fair, I guess it really just depends on the tone. Like, "the Empire's brutality batters us down and we struggle to stay ourselves while doing what it takes to survive" is a different thing from "hey did you know the heroes do bad things too, maybe there are no heroes  ". I'm so over the latter but the former is one of the archetypal war themes and would've made a great throughline.
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K. Waste posted:I do wish we had a scene of Atlanteans speaking “English” and then switching to the perspective of a character who doesn’t understand the language and so we hear them making dolphin noises And a likewise scene of one of the Atlantean royals, who can technically breathe above water but has never actually been on the surface before, speaking "English" but they're actually making horrific guttural squeals and croaks like the red people from Us.
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Nov 28, 2019 17:52
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Schwarzwald posted:He'd react to climate change deniers like Buzz Aldrin reacts to moon landing deniers. Yeah like, we're talking about a guy whose chief heroic aspect was felling entire forests at a single swing of his ax. Paul Bunyan is a celebrity endorser and spokesman for the Bolsonaro government's Amazon clearcutting programs.
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teagone posted:But I mean, his fans don't deserve it because they're chuds and incels! And it's probably just an assembly cut! I know how film production works! I'M AN EXPERT!!! [edit] BELIEVE IN INDUSTRY SCOOPS! INSIDER SOURCES! CBR posted an absurd bloviating editorial (labeled "movie news" instead of "opinion", of course) saying pretty much exactly this a few days ago. Fandom is wack.
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The REAL Goobusters posted:Release the assembly cut Hell release every film's assembly cut, I love seeing how the sausage is made
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Halloween Jack posted:He actually tells the story through visuals instead of Whedonesque expository dialogue. People who don't know how to process this call them "sterile", "emotionless" and the like. It's like a rorschach test for the ability to engage with a work instead of simply absorbing stimuli for two hours. RBA Starblade posted:His films turn heads 
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Nobody cares about Zack Snyder taking on the Badminton!
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Do you serve? You will.
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RBA Starblade posted:But would he have had a mullet? They would have had to CG one on, thanks Paramount
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Brother Entropy posted:it's weird because i really liked his series of videos on the 50 shades books/movies and they show he's capable of looking past popular critical consensus of 'thing bad, just like, so super bad' and analyze things on their own merits/flaws People to this day swear that Superman ignored civilians in peril during the Smallville fight and literally made out with Lois on a pile of charred corpses in Metropolis. It's like confirmation bias as a DSM-level condition.
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:Sure, but I think that what Disney's doing is the inevitable result of how we fund, make, and distribute films. If you changed the conditions that led to the existence of the MCU, I don't think any of us would even recognize the cinematic landscape when it was over. Personally I think that would be fantastic, but I also don't think Disney would be the only losers in that exchange. Please define the "winners" of the current paradigm.
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Dec 20, 2019 19:53
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Violator posted:So what would be the most symbolic announcement date? Christmas for the birth of Superman Jesus? Easter in April for the HBO Max launch in May 2020? It feels like an inevitability at this point. Valentine's Day, clearly.
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Dec 24, 2019 06:46
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FilthyImp posted:The grail is Darkseids bloodline. He seeded Krypton to produce a worthy heir. Add in the Anti-Life Equation and you have the unholy trinity that enables the Knightmare to come to pass.  -Superman: The Dark Side #2
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Dec 24, 2019 20:33
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Violator posted:I think that’s the first screenshot in color he’s posted. That shot looks like it was also in the first trailer, which I believe predated the Whedoning and had several shots that were omitted from the theatrical butchering. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cxixDgHUYw
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Robot Style posted:Yeah, that shot isn't actually the one he's talking about - that one is just him charging up energy beforehand by doing laps around the city. Holy poo poo.
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Martman posted:I hope Army of the Dead turns out to be an incredibly blatant gently caress you to Warner Bros., with the heist being a job to steal the Snyder Cut from a bunch of zombie assholes. And then at the end of the movie, the heist crew completely breaks the fourth wall and walks up to the camera, holding up the Snyder Cut film cans as Snyder himself steps out from behind to clap them on the shoulders, and says "Your move, Warner."
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Violator posted:Ah nice. I hope someone finds a way to record it. Yeah, that'd be great. Figures fitness lord Zack is an early riser.
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RBA Starblade posted:a bunch of pudgy old dudes with the same oiled up half-naked bods and speed ramping while they're at a convention. This during the signing of the Declaration of Independence, with flexing and high fiving as each representative takes his turn, and when the last signature is put down John Hancock holds it up and booms "THIS, IS, AMERICA!!!"
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The MSJ posted:Every reply or comment on social media posts about HBO Max is flooded with Snyder Cut supporters. 
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teagone posted:She and a few of her followers are already just telling me to go watch it again instead of explaining themselves, lmao. I'm not gonna bother. I haven't seen it in a while but I can tell you that her statement of a "positive message about Christianity" from DoTD04 got a big ol' WTF from me. I don't remember that movie having anything particularly positive to say about any religion in general, and I'd love to hear her square her assertion with the ending where everyone very probably dies after reaching the promised land which turns out to be another hopelessly zombie-infested hellscape
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Snowman_McK posted:They also think that Ed Harris' morally ambiguous part in the Rock is entirely the product of Ed Harris and that Bay had no idea it was happening. I always wanted to be a director because it seems like such an easy job. I mean, you just sit in the chair behind the cameras and shout "ACTION" into the megaphone and the people make the movie happen, right? Nothing to it, any idiot can do it.
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Jimbot posted:How long did it take his BvS commentary to show up on youtube? I'm unable to watch his stream right now. A day or two IIRC.
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He gazed up at the enormous face. Two years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the jock-bro smile. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the bulging pecs! Two Axe-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Zack Snyder.
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