DC Comics Multimedia General - A crisis of infinite fuck ups

Humble Architect said:
I mean I’ll take back all the negativity if Superman ambiguously beats, shames and tears down the Authority’s entire belief system, big blue shaming some liberal extremists and proving the superiority of Truth, Justice and the American way? Fuck yeah, no way in hell it happens cause Gunn likes the Authority but fuck yeah.

The way I see things is the Authority will be, down the line responsible for the “New Breed” in KC, the edgelord anti-hero generation.
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I would sell my organs to see this scene played out with the Authority in the new Superman film. This scene, and the comic it was based on, is the perfect answer to the growing cynicsm and new-age snobbery towards classic characters like Superman.

Especially the resentment for boy scout characters like Supes engendered by try-hard edgy shit pumped out by cynical Europeans enamored with huffing their own farts and shitting on American ideals of heroism.
 
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Very doubtful DC or gays in general would let Superman decisively beat a pair of euro flavored jenkem tubing edgelord gays expying as gay Supes and gay Batman.
 
Mississippi Motorboater said:
I would sell my organs to see this scene played out with the Authority in the new Superman film. This scene, and the comic it was based on, is the perfect answer to the growing cynicsm and new-age snobbery towards classic characters like Superman.

Especially the resentment for boy scout characters like Supes engendered by try-hard edgy shit pumped out by cynical Europeans enamored with huffing their own farts and shitting on American ideals of heroism.
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I love this comic, and especially the animated adaptation; which is why I don't trust these fucks to handle it.
 
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Fatsuit Shinji said:
Very doubtful DC or gays in general would let Superman decisively beat a pair of euro flavored jenkem tubing edgelord gays expying as gay Supes and gay Batman.
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Those two aren’t in the movie, the poofs are likely being held for their own movie after they test audience reactions to the safer ones. Captain Atom is the one to call if you want the fags dead and their daughter for good measure.

Engineer, Jenny and Jack are in this, I mean Jack’s the best cause he uttered one of the best lines from that comic, it’s after Midnighter says he “doesn’t look like an anarchist.”

“So what I have some unusual political opinions, doesn’t mean I’m gonna desecrate my face with ethnic shrapnel.”
 
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TheAmbiguousLurker said:
I love this comic, and especially the animated adaptation; which is why I don't trust these fucks to handle it.
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I don't either. I don't expect a lot of the creative choices with the new film to succeed.

But I can hope that they'll deliver something with the more colorful and uplifting vibes of the comics, even if their depth doesn't carry over. More Smallville or Lois & Clark than something like a Jurgens or Loeb run of the comics.

Small bar to clear, I know, but after a decade of Snyder, I'm fucking desperate for Boy Scout Superman on the big screen in any capacity.
 
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el bandito loco said:
In all honesty when they announced Gunn was allowing Elseworlds shit I was really hoping we'd get Cavill back for a direct adaptation of Kingdom Come down the line as one of them (snyder or not) in it's own continuity because I know he'd do it but then with the logo reveal being the KC logo I was like welp that is NEVER going to happen now. KC just directly filmed I think would end up huge even for people with no real context, so I hoped one day they'd dust it off and do it but now it's obvious this retard is going to take a huge shit on it when we get there in 8 years if this movie even makes enough money to not just can his DCU from the jump.
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I thought gunn teased Cavill as KC superman. On twitter?


I'm cool with the crapton of new characters as long as they can have superman Interact with them in interesting ways and contrast his heroics with them. Superman having drama with guy and the authority does sound interesting and I think they can pull it off.

I dig mister terrific. He's a character that doesn't feel trite and is actually interesting. His big claim to fame is being logically smart and having enough drip to be friends with batman.
 
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XYZpdq Jr. said:
I think the big thing is you can't "set up" for Kingdom Come
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why not? the main antagonist is literally created for the comic along with his "league" plus enough people have cultural knowledge of the seven to not need much backstory about them. George Miller's justice league movie would have been set so far into their history that they had fucking superhero themed restaurants.

I always imagined a Kingdom Come style movie where they do bring back Dean Cain and a lot of the early superhero people and you turn Magog into a quippy Deadpool/MCU style hero. its obviously an elseworlds story so really make it a spectacle. The way i see it, the movie would be a lot like that South Park Covid Special, where a lot of the viewers are invested just to see what their favorite characters are now up to/how they turned out.
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SLUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRP
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i still find it weird that Billy just grows up to look exactly like himself as a super hero, sort of silly.
el bandito loco said:
his real personality he's like a happy goofy fuck.
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thats almost every actor, Joe Pesci was a poor man's Jerry Lewis in the stand up field until his acting career took off. the equivalent of if eric andre became known as the baddest motherfucker on the planet. If you watch old interviews of Brie Larson pre-The Room, she's basically the real life MPDG. The problem is how you act in front of an audience as yourself has barely a single thing to do with how you'll be able to act on screen or how audiences will accept you. If you only saw De Niro or Harrison Ford's interviews you would be shocked that they're playing these charismatic badasses

You can't make it as an actor without having an actor's personality.
Basic Blond Boy said:
I feel like people greatly overestimate Reynolds’ popularity.
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his kids movie is one of the highest grossing films of the year and is an original IP. If anything his popularity is higher than the internet wants to admit, because he's accepted by normies now. it reminds me of how comedy fans acted about Louis CK or Shane Gillis when they were finally accepted by the mainstream. For fucks sake is there any real reason Deadpool and Wolverine are together in this film beside Ryan wanting to work with Hugh? outside of their origin they aren't really teamed up together.

the previous 2 movies were near the highest grossing r rating films of all time, and every box office estimate shows this film will most likely gross more than both combined, which is crazy because r-rated films really haven't been the highest grossing films of the year since the early 2000s. And sort of shows how we're currently in a modern "new hollywood" era. Comic book movies died with covid and its mostly r rated stuff that gets people in the seats.
 
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Get the rope Macaulay! said:
his kids movie is one of the highest grossing films of the year and is an original IP. If anything his popularity is higher than the internet wants to admit, because he's accepted by normies now.
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That is not a high bar. His film made $138 on an $110 million budget, and that budget is without taking in marketing costs. The movie underperformed and it being the most popular speaks more to Hollywood as a whole than If’s relevance to normies. Really looking at it, it’s competition was literal dead weight, so it stacking above is not surprising. It is either IF, dead meme cat franchise (Garfield) or feminist take on a male dominated series that was already a niche (Furiosa).

I will admit to being wrong about Free Guy though.

Get the rope Macaulay! said:
the previous 2 movies were near the highest grossing r rating films of all time, and every box office estimate shows this film will most likely gross more than both combined, which is crazy because r-rated films really haven't been the highest grossing films of the year since the early 2000s. And sort of shows how we're currently in a modern "new hollywood" era. Comic book movies died with covid and its mostly r rated stuff that gets people in the seats.
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I highly doubt it, but I guess it waits to be seen. My guess is that DP3 will be like Guardians 3 and scrape by, but do worse than the previous entry while costing more. We are no longer in peak cape-shit era like DP1-2 and rather than moving away, 3 is jumping head first into Marvel’s cluster of a universe.
 
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Mississippi Motorboater said:
I don't either. I don't expect a lot of the creative choices with the new film to succeed.

But I can hope that they'll deliver something with the more colorful and uplifting vibes of the comics, even if their depth doesn't carry over. More Smallville or Lois & Clark than something like a Jurgens or Loeb run of the comics.

Small bar to clear, I know, but after a decade of Snyder, I'm fucking desperate for Boy Scout Superman on the big screen in any capacity.
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I'm going to wait until the new DC universe puts out at least one film before I pass judgment on James Gunn's leadership.
 
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Mississippi Motorboater said:
I don't either. I don't expect a lot of the creative choices with the new film to succeed.

But I can hope that they'll deliver something with the more colorful and uplifting vibes of the comics, even if their depth doesn't carry over. More Smallville or Lois & Clark than something like a Jurgens or Loeb run of the comics.

Small bar to clear, I know, but after a decade of Snyder, I'm fucking desperate for Boy Scout Superman on the big screen in any capacity.
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Hell, if they just did Superman Kryptonite, I'd be happy. Shows Superman learning the extent of his powers and his weaknesses, plus the scene of him throwing up magma after being inside a volcano was a cool moment of fear for him.
 
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Humble Architect said:
That sounds all terrible, it’s literally Black Adam 2, seriously it’s the same plot
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I thought Black Adam could've been really good, if it wasn't so shitty. If they did a movie where Superman beats up Dwayne Johnson like the trucker in Superman 2, but for two and a half hours (four in the director's cut), I'd watch it 50 times.
 
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