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WB's Justice League 2017 movie pre-discussion thread

I'm very happy that they at least give the Lanterns a shout-out. I'm looking forward to finding out why there weren't any in the area at that time.
I think that Steppenwolf is specifically referring to know GLs on Earth, not necessarily in the sector.
 
I think that Steppenwolf is specifically referring to know GLs on Earth, not necessarily in the sector.
Sure, but I still think there'll be a reason. Especially if the Green Lantern Corps rumor turns out to be true and it's about veteran Lantern Hal Jordan mentoring a new rookie Lantern from Earth.
 
I'm very happy that they at least give the Lanterns a shout-out. I'm looking forward to finding out why there weren't any in the area at that time.

His comment almost suggests the Lanterns are dead or prevented from operating in earth's sector. Either idea would be interesting.
 
I hear the idea that reshoots aren't a big deal...and I think SOMETIMES that is true...but also, just a few minutes of film, even WITHOUT big special affects can great affect how it is perceived. The last few minutes of The Last Samurai, where Tom Cruise is shown to have survived, basically ruins the film. Had he been the Last Samurai for a couple of minutes (before dying), it would have been a cool movie. But by that short scene, it becomes a perceived trope of Cruise being the super-hero of the movie, and loses my interest in it.
Algren(Cruise) wasn't the titular last Samurai. Katsumoto (Watanabe) was. Algren was the PoV character giving us a look into his world, character and and motivations.

More on topic: the trailer actually looks pretty good, but since the first two thirds of Superman and Wonder Woman are the only movies I like out of the current DC film universe I will remain skeptical for the time being.
 
Appereantly, reshoots have gone over the scheduled time AND over-budget.

http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/app...-reshoots-have-been-long-and-expensive-182-02

I'm not one of those guys that freaks out when a movie has re-shoots. They are totally normal. I do however think it's weird that, when Joss took over, it was said the reshoots were going to be simple and nothing would be really changed and they would adhere to Zack's original vision. Makes you kinda wonder how much they needed to redo.

Also, please tell me the bluray will indeed have shots of Superman with a porn-stache. I will buy the bluray simply for that.
 
Some of the lines made me laugh or at least smile (mainly from Flash and Alfred) but I really dislike the look of it. The action and night time scenes just look like a computer game. If this didn't have iconic superheroes, I'd be giving it a miss.

I'll almost certainly see it in the cinema but I'm feeling really burned out on the DCEU. Please prove me wrong this time.

I have the same vibe over some of the SFX, but perhaps it's all still a work in progres?
 
Superman released an official response to people demanding to see his mustache in the movie:
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Oh, I have no problem with such things in thought balloons. It's a good thing to show characters thinking through a situation rather than blindly acting on impulse, and we can think much faster than we can talk. Internal monologue can easily be taken as a verbalized interpretation of what might be nonverbal concepts, impressions, and plans racing through a character's mind. My problem is when lines that should be internal monologue are written in speech balloons, as if the characters were constantly talking to themselves out loud. Especially when they manage to fit in five paragraphs in the time it takes to throw one punch. So many comic-book dialogue problems would be solved if the speech balloons had simply been drawn as thought balloons instead. (Sometimes I just ignore the way the balloons are drawn and assume they're internalized thoughts -- but that often doesn't work because other characters in the scene are shown hearing and responding to the character's monologue.)

But the silly thing with both Silver Age dialogue and Claremontian dialogue (and he's hardly the only Bronze or Modern Age writer to have this problem -- Len Wein is another major practitioner) is when the characters explain all this stuff to other characters who already know it. It's the "As You Know, Bob" trope -- conveying exposition to the audience by having the characters convey it to each other even though they both already know it. True, sometimes people in real life do remind each other of things they already know, just to make sure they're on the same page, or because they forgot whether they'd already discussed it, or just to share a reminiscence. But the use of the trope in fiction rarely feels as natural as that.
 
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