@Silver said:
@Arkandel said:
Huh. http://www.vulture.com/2015/07/yes-ben-affleck-will-direct-a-new-batman-movie.html?mid=imdb
If Batman v Superman tanks at the box office I bet this changes.
Yes, because Affleck's directorial efforts (Gone Baby Gone, The Town, Argo) have been widely-panned and not-at-all critical, commercial successes.
Frankly, they should have let him direct this film. Because Zack Snyder is awful.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
@Ganymede said:
@Silver said:
@Arkandel said:
Huh. http://www.vulture.com/2015/07/yes-ben-affleck-will-direct-a-new-batman-movie.html?mid=imdb
If Batman v Superman tanks at the box office I bet this changes.
Yes, because Affleck's directorial efforts (Gone Baby Gone, The Town, Argo) have been widely-panned and not-at-all critical, commercial successes.
Frankly, they should have let him direct this film. Because Zack Snyder is awful.
I cannot recall where but I read that Affleck is basically interning to learn how to direct an action blockbuster.
I... I keep throwing money at the screen... nothing happens. 
That trailer does not give you clear knowledge of the color tint the director will be using, and these are THINGS WE NEED TO KNOW.
pick up color palette, hand to Zack Snyder I think you dropped this
@Roz said:
pick up color palette, hand to Zack Snyder I think you dropped this
It's probably hard to juggle both that and his giant armfuls of money. A guy only has so many hands.
New Superman v Batman trailer and Wonder Woman makes an appearance.
@Glitch
I still don't find that narrative to be... appealing.
Of course, I am frothing over the X-Men: Apocalypse leak (OMG 80's STORM LOOKS SO AWESOME) and I am now sold on the Suicide Squad movie (Leto seems to be channeling Jack Nicholson, though I wish their Harley was channeling Arlene Sorkin a bit more).
Don't really like what they'r e doing with Gotham/Metropolis in terms of them being immediately adjacent to one another now. I realize they're both modeled after New York(ish) but ennnnh. I always preferred to think of them more like New York (Metropolis) / Boston (Gotham). 
I don't have a problem with the palette or tone, though. Batman and Superman have both taken that tone before (hell, Batman has lived in it for decades at a time), as have some of the retreads of their direct conflicts, so it works for me.
Keep in mind that I'm a heathen who not only loved pretty much everything about Man of Steel, but thought the end with Zod was basically epic and spot on. It wasn't the first time Superman had killed someone, not even the first time he'd killed Zod, so people griping about that always seemed way off base to me.
@HelloRaptor said:
Don't really like what they'r e doing with Gotham/Metropolis in terms of them being immediately adjacent to one another now. I realize they're both modeled after New York(ish) but ennnnh. I always preferred to think of them more like New York (Metropolis) / Boston (Gotham).
I don't have a problem with the palette or tone, though. Batman and Superman have both taken that tone before (hell, Batman has lived in it for decades at a time), as have some of the retreads of their direct conflicts, so it works for me.
Keep in mind that I'm a heathen who not only loved pretty much everything about Man of Steel, but thought the end with Zod was basically epic and spot on. It wasn't the first time Superman had killed someone, not even the first time he'd killed Zod, so people griping about that always seemed way off base to me.
Yeah.
Though Metropolis and Gotham, whenever they have been given actual locations in the DC Universe, have been twin cities on opposite sides of the Delaware.
From some quotes from the early days, in tone, Gotham is supposed to be "New York/Chicago by night" while Metropolis is the same, but by day.
"Excuse the hell out of you. He's a bag of dicks. I'm a carefully curated box of cocks." -- to @GirlCalledBlu upon being misrepresented.
@Coin said:
Though Metropolis and Gotham, whenever they have been given actual locations in the DC Universe, have been twin cities on opposite sides of the Delaware.
@Coin
Then why on earth is Bruce Wayne depicted on multiple occasions as having to take a private jet to Metropolis? Because that's a thing that has happened a lot, and that doesn't really seem like 'requires a plane trip' levels of distance, unless I'm vastly underestimating the Delaware.
Especially considering that there have been multiple matters of large scale devastation to both cities on more than one occasion, even in crossover Batman/Superman comic events, that people in the other city were only aware of from seeing it on television.
Ugh. I don't think you're wrong, I'm sure it's been shown that way in the past if you say it has, but goddamnit that makes no sense in the comics even.
@HelloRaptor
I'm not saying those instances aren't true, either. I definitely remember it. But more often than not, when actually discussed, they're near by.
I know in the DCAU they're further away, as per World's Finest.
In the comics, at least pre-New 52 they were in Jersey (Gotham) and Delaware (Metropolis).
Well no wonder Gotham is a rotting cesspool of a city... its in Jersey! flees
@Miss-Demeanor said:
Well no wonder Gotham is a rotting cesspool of a city... its in Jersey! flees
It's funny but one time I drove through Trenton and actually thought: I am in Gotham City. That's what this is.
I remember flying into Newark, looking out over the water at New York and saying 'Neat!' Then looking down at Newark and saying 'Aw.' Also, Bruce Wayne is a fucking billionaire and can charter a private plane for a 30-minute flight to Metropolis if he feels like it.
@HelloRaptor said:
Keep in mind that I'm a heathen who not only loved pretty much everything about Man of Steel, but thought the end with Zod was basically epic and spot on. It wasn't the first time Superman had killed someone, not even the first time he'd killed Zod, so people griping about that always seemed way off base to me.
I liked Zod a lot, but I really hated much about that movie. I blame that on Snyder, rather than Goyer.
I hate the art about seeking the Kryptonian DNA Archives. Having million if not billions or trillions of sequences in it, it would have to be stored in a holographic form, by which I mean that any small art of it can recreate the whole. Otherwise storing it in the blood is asking fr it to leak out, or be eliminated as the cells renew.
Blood. From Kal-el. Like the kind left on their spaceship floor early on,. Like the sample that could have been taken peacefully then.
I have a waggish sense of humor.
@Misadventure said:
I hate the art about seeking the Kryptonian DNA Archives. Having million if not billions or trillions of sequences in it, it would have to be stored in a holographic form, by which I mean that any small art of it can recreate the whole. Otherwise storing it in the blood is asking fr it to leak out, or be eliminated as the cells renew.
Blood. From Kal-el. Like the kind left on their spaceship floor early on,. Like the sample that could have been taken peacefully then.
You clearly don't have a firm grasp on how DNA-data encryption works. Not that you can be blamed, since it's make-believe.
@Silver said:
@Arkandel said:
Huh. http://www.vulture.com/2015/07/yes-ben-affleck-will-direct-a-new-batman-movie.html?mid=imdb
If Batman v Superman tanks at the box office I bet this changes.
Yes, because Affleck's directorial efforts (Gone Baby Gone, The Town, Argo) have been widely-panned and not-at-all critical, commercial successes.
Frankly, they should have let him direct this film. Because Zack Snyder is awful.
