Gunn only knows how to write man children and WB is trying to correct the mistakes of Snyder by doing their typical over correction and making this Superman a light-hearted comedy. Gunn was not the person for the director role, but he took it as WB wanted him to create their universe and would allow him to utilize his usual D-Tier characters if he took the helm.
he is manly as fuck. In the movie, Robin is talking to him and goes "if the riddler makes good on his threat" and batman cuts him off and says dead serious
It’s kind of beautiful how every Batman, no matter how PG or toyetic, ends up radiating mental illness. (Except Clooney, which might explain why no one remembers his Batman fondly.)
Clooney back then was really good casting, especially in the role he actually had in the story of that movie, being a seasoned stable Batman who's a frustrated dad dealing with his adopted son growing into a man while confronting the mortality of his own father in Alfred.
You're being way too generous to Warner Bros., as usual. Clooney was cast as Batman for the same reason Reynolds was cast as Deadpool: safe, inoffensive slurry.
Clooney would’ve had the Bruce Wayne stuff down, or would’ve excelled in a plot where Bruce and Bats are interchangeable (The Demon) but the dichotomy, day and night stuff wouldn’t work.
They let him do anything, thinking he’d work that Guardians magic and didn’t realize a very simple fact.
Clooney just wasn't right for Batman. He does the playboy persona well, which is why he's in Ocean's Eleven and a bunch of other stuff, but can't do Batman or his Batnipples justice.
Super bots? What’s next, Superman unlocking the Fortress of Solitude with a 50-foot-long gold key?
It doesn't mean he couldn't have done it in a better movie. It's a Batman and Robin movie, not high art. like @Humble Architect was saying, he'd be perfect for that 70s styled Demon or Silver St Cloud shit. Batman could easily be slick cynical and full of shit and be a father figure to a Robin. He was like that for a long time. That whole post 60s show until around Frank Miller Year One era Batman is basically like that to some extent. He was a crime fighting adventurer. Less crying on a roof and more Indiana Jones without a gun.
I can't tell if you're mocking the reddit trend of "if it was in comics it's good" or not tbqh
She’s the one who fucked Bruce and was like, “Oh you’re Batman? That’s crazy,” and then left him for being too sad. Iconic queen.
She left him because she thought she could handle being Batman's girlfriend but ended up seeing him fight the Joker on a construction site or roof or something with other onlookers down below and decided she couldn't handle being at home knowing the danger he's putting himself in every night and would spend too much time worrying about his safety and drive herself nuts after seeing it firsthand in person so she took off.
Exactly, I’d kill for certain superheroes to return to their Bond-styled “adventure comic” roots.
something I've always thought, is there's no reason they couldn't do varying stuff like that in a series. remember when the MCU was newish and they kept saying every new movie was 'x genre' even though, they never were? why dont they actually just do that.
This is very much a James Bond situation. And what do I mean by that? I mean that taking on the role of Superman is incredibly risky. People need to think twice before saying yes. The production itself is often a disaster, and even if they try their best to fix it, fans end up resenting them. Why? Because nobody respects someone who goes along to get along. Nobody likes a yes-man.
He got his start at Troma and made obnoxious, offensive humor his entire personality until people used it against him. Despite having troll's remorse, Gunn still pays homage to Lloyd Kaufman by sneaking him in his movies in a cameo role. Don't forget that when he wrote the Scooby Doo film, he wanted it to be a raunchy R-rated movie.
