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i mean, one of his movies literally shoves a giant christopher wren quote in your face at the end, as if to say 'DO YOU GET THE THEME', but apparently that's still too subtle
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Feb 18, 2021 00:29
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It's the same sort of rationale as "batman v superman has the two biggest superheroes ever in it, so it should make seven bajillion dollars", but applied to the Pokemon franchise. By that logic, I can't wait for the Hello Kitty movie to break box office records.
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I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.
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Feb 27, 2021 23:21
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I find the glowing cube of mystery being called a 'tesseract' when it's clearly just a cube to be very silly, personally.
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Mar 2, 2021 00:26
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It's very good that characters in movies don't sound like how people actually talk, because most people are at least partially completely incomprehensible when they talk unless they try very, very hard
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Mar 18, 2021 12:12
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Zucc Snyder is here to suck away 4 hours of your life
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Mar 19, 2021 00:47
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Asteroid Alert posted:(not even a mention of the Flash's origin?) I'm not really sure what you're looking for here. The very first scene we get with him is his origin. It's a complete mini-narrative that sets up who he is, how his powers work, and what he's like. We didn't need an explanation of how he came in contact with the Speed Force for the first time or whatever.
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Mar 19, 2021 02:27
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:does Diana's lasso compel honesty or literal truth-telling "from my point of view, the jedi are evil!"
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Mar 19, 2021 02:43
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Part of why Man of Steel is such a good movie is that its 'sequel bait' consists entirely of 'there are two logos on the screen very briefly that aren't important or draw attention to themselves'
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Mar 19, 2021 05:36
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Phenotype posted:Maybe a plot hole, maybe just something I missed: why didn't Darkseid remember that the anti-life equation was on Earth? They had that flashback showing him squaring off with ancient Atlanteans and Amazons hundreds of years ago, and he pounds the ground and the symbol shows up, right? Why did Steppenwolf have to rediscover it? Didn't anyone make a note of the coordinates or whatever? Apokolips exists in some weird parallel dimension (I imagine the Warp in Warhammer is based on a similar principle, if that comparison helps) that Darkseid teleports out of. The concept of 'coordinates' and 'physical locations' is a bit wonky when that's your preferred mode of transport. Darkseid knows which planet the Anti-Life Equation is on, he just has no idea where that is relative to Apokolips until Steppenwolf stumbles over the planet again in the middle of conquering 150,000 worlds for him. Also, I might be missing something, but I'm pretty sure the big symbol that shows up in the historical flashback is incomplete, and Darkseid is going 'hey this looks relevant to my interests'. But it doesn't do the full Omega symbol until the marthacubes show Steppenwolf and he does a similar ground-pound move in the vision they're showing him.
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Mar 19, 2021 06:38
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In fairness, the similarities to Aquaman and Thor absolutely predate either of their movie appearances. It's a little bit like how Batman and Black Panther both owe obvious homage to The Phantom.
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Mar 19, 2021 07:57
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GlassEye-Boy posted:Thought the story was good, certainly made more sense than the Whedon version. But is it me or was this just a deeply unpleasant looking film. Brown on brown on gray, just ugly and dark. a lot of the film takes place in an ugly and dark apocalyptic wasteland, so that's fair. i wouldn't say it's deeply unpleasant looking though
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Mar 19, 2021 08:29
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BiggerBoat posted:Haven't seen this yet but regarding the "4 hours is too long for theaters" thing, is the movie structured in a way that would lend itself to a 2 part release Like "IT"? It's split into a bunch of 'episodes' but it doesn't really neatly divide in half IMO
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Mar 19, 2021 12:12
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Also I just realised that one of the reasons the movie has so much slow-mo in it is to emphasize exactly how insanely loving fast the Flash has to be to do what he does. Wonder Woman can block bullets on full-auto with her bracers and she's still frozen in place relative to him, when he's going regular-very-fast to fight Superman, not even breaking-the-universe fast
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Terror Sweat posted:Desaad just constantly roasting steppenwolf and being a huge dick to him was very funny it's very funny that he's the Evil Vizier from every fantasy series except the king is also evil so they get along just fine
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Reporting in from the Part 5 intermission point: yeah, basically
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Mar 20, 2021 00:28
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I like that twitter cropping the WC's version of that shot significantly improves its framing
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Mar 20, 2021 00:40
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let the "every character in a movie needs their own origin movie" meme die. kill it if you have to.
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Mar 20, 2021 11:21
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2house2fly posted:What's most obvious is probably when he learns that the mother boxes can trigger a Resurrection (hence their name I guess, they can literally create life) and becomes desperate to make it happen please refer to them by their proper name, marthacubes
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Mar 21, 2021 04:47
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LesterGroans posted:Yeah, he used to post here a lot yeah the best post ever made about man of steel is his
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Mar 23, 2021 00:30
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Jimbot posted:What did he say about Man of Steel? Hbomberguy posted:You are misinterpreting what I wrote. The military does a fine job - but their job is wrong. They arrest Superman as though he's some kind of criminal simply for existing, and they try to keep tabs on him when he clearly doesn't want anything to do with them - even though the film portrays the individuals in it as good people.
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Mar 23, 2021 00:41
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Reminder that "the future has taken root in the present" is a statement coming from the Kryptonian AI, which is from a twisted nightmare future planet very different from the one we see in the epilogue
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Mar 23, 2021 04:26
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Caridean posted:Once you find a dictionary sure, but I'm not really interested in your opinion until you have a baseline understanding of the english language  prescriptivist swine
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Mar 23, 2021 22:36
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the climax of JL is the flash using so much slow motion that the film goes backwards
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Mar 25, 2021 00:41
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he also attempts to fly zod into space, only for zod to smash into a convenient wayne industries satellite that he can use to regain leverage and send himself back down to earth
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Mar 27, 2021 22:45
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Darkseid and Steppenwolf hitting the ground is good visual storytelling 
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POWELL CURES KIDS posted:I think they even recycle the exact same shot both times, right? they show a shot of steppenwolf grasping at the ground in exactly the same way as darkseid, but i believe he uses the opposite hand (though steppenwolf's weird alien hands might just be confusing me)
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to give a slightly jokier answer: the motherboxes turn every planet they go full power on into copies of apokolips, so darkseid and all the other apokolips people are very bad at direction-finding because they live in the multiversal equivalent of one of those suburbs where every house is the same, except the houses are copies of apokolips
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Rewatching the film, as per McCloud's instructions, my new favorite thing is how - since he's technically a black criminal in Gotham - Silas is perpetually concerned that he may be assaulted by Batman at any moment. i would have liked it if gordon or another member of the police, when discussing the reports of weird attacks (with the sketch of parademon-batman), said "it's gotham, this isn't even the craziest thing that's happened this year", as a much less on-the-nose version of alfred saying "exploding penguins :it is a batman forever reference:"
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Let's be real here, if Wagner was alive today he'd be a Hollywood director, and not only due to his antisemitism
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Apr 8, 2021 03:40
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garycoleisgod posted:I wish there was as much talk about young Clark reading The Republic as there is about stupid objectivist poo poo. Isn't the 'joke' there that Krypton is basically The Republic, with the caste system and philosopher-kings?
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Apr 8, 2021 09:47
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A Buttery Pastry posted:When faced with a monstrous construct of control, he merely says "Not for me" instead of "Not for anyone". Whether the takeaway is supposed to be that this is the ideal Superman is another question entirely, but the movies seem pretty sympathetic to Superman's eventual ethics. Are...are you referring to the world engine? The monstrous construct of control that he destroys because it will destroy the whole world, for everyone? Or the scout ship with the birth matrix, which will do basically the same thing, just slower? I don't understand how you can come to this conclusion
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Batman v Superman: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice: Ultimate Edition is like the Martha scene, where your dumb brain thinks it’s bad because it’s structurally flawless. batman v superman: league of justice
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Roman posted:The v instead of vs. still bugs me It's a legal case, not a boxing match.
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i won't stand for this donkey kong: tropical freeze slander
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May 4, 2021 02:16
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Grendels Dad posted:I have Avengers Endgame on in the background because that's the kind of movie it is, and when I turned to the screen for a moment there was a transition from Captain Marvel looking down on a starving Tony all benevolent to a close-up of a disposable razor. Movie fight is ON. what are the odds that this was some extremely over-wrought attempt to get the same people who got mad at both gilette and captain marvel to get mad at endgame in order to drive engagement? i only bring this up because the climax has a sequence that exists entirely to do exactly that and even the idiot moron chuds went 'that's bait' and didn't get mad at it so now i'm wondering how much of that is in the rest of the movie
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I mean, the whole opening of that response is him talking about all the 'rights' he likes, i think he's just making a joke about how being 'rightwing' means not caring about peoples' rights
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