Well, maybe...Snyder still seems to want to make more movies.
This is about the worst person to put in charge of any version of Superman. I'd prefer a Michael Bay Superman movie at this point.
Hopefully after Snyder's nowhere near it.
DC Movies - To Infinity and Beyond
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Well, maybe...Snyder still seems to want to make more movies.
This is about the worst person to put in charge of any version of Superman. I'd prefer a Michael Bay Superman movie at this point.
Hopefully after Snyder's nowhere near it.
Well it's about time Superman got his due...
Didn't know if you knew this but interesting fact. Bay and Synder went to the same art school
https://www.artcenter.edu/about/support/storyboard/zack-snyder.html
I found it brightened quite a bit more than "somewhat"...
One of the most easily debunked beliefs of those who constantly prove they do not know the published history of DC characters, despite claims of the opposite. Every DC character has had their darker plots, developments and arcs; they were never intended to be the saccharine-overdosed kidde-fare seen in the Super Friends, the Donner Superman or Schumacher Batman movies, nor the Reeves TV series, or the weightless, Spelling-esque young adult drama-flavored Berlanti interpretation such as Superman and Lois. They are all gross deviations, just as much as the Weisinger editorial run (of the Superman titles) which nearly destroyed the character and forced a drastic change from the Superman-as-jokey-daddy/uncle-surrogate.
That explains quite a lot.
Superman doing what mental health professionals, school staff and first responders are doing? well, I appreciate the message, and I understand it just fine but it's also way too close to what I do for a living too so not always a story I want.
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The greatest page from the greatest Superman story every written and something Snyder and his pathetic edgelord fans will never be capable of understanding.
One page. Not the character's original intent or written behavior. He's not a daddy/uncle surrogate, which Weisinger pushed for twelve long years--to the point of the character becoming utterly irrelevant to the then-growing DC universe (and reader desires)--until Superman was allowed to be modified right after that hack's retirement in 1970. That daddy/uncle surrogate nonsense always ignored his early years, rendering Superman about as compelling as white wallpaper.
The greatest page from the greatest Superman story every written and something Snyder and his pathetic edgelord fans will never be capable of understanding.
All Star Superman is a fantastic Superman story, but not for that page, which is over rated as I’ve lost track of all the “Don’t jump” bits from comics, books, shows and movies I’ve seen, and many play out the same way, right down to the hug. And Superman’s words here sound like they were written by someone who thinks depression is just someone having a bad day and all they need are a truncated version of the kind of schlocky sentiments found on motivational posters.
This page was standard superhero fare for me as I’d been reading comics for three decades by then and had read plenty of Superman by that point. I guess if a person was new to comics that page might seem brilliant, but Superman here acted no differently than other mainstream heroes I’d grown up with.
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Looks like fun!
Have to agree -- not just that page, but All-Star Superman and Grant Morrison in general. There are many, many better Superman scenes, stories, and writers.
(I'll turn in my Superman fan membership card, now.
)The sequel to what remains the second best DCEU movie (narrowly surpassed by Wonder Woman)? Yes, please!
I was lukewarm on the first Shazam. It was moderately entertaining, but it spent way too much time on Billy/Shazam acting out irresponsibly before learning to be a hero, and he came off as unsympathetic as a result. (I mean, he actually committed crimes, like ripping off an ATM. Even pre-Burglar Spider-Man never went that far.) And I found Zachary Levi more obnoxious than funny.
Also, the post-credits scene of the first movie promised us Mr. Mind, but there's no sign of him here. I hope they don't just abandon that thread.
Also, the post-credits scene of the first movie promised us Mr. Mind, but there's no sign of him here. I hope they don't just abandon that thread.
Pretty much my feelings on the first movie. I was really happy with the Mr. Mind reveal at the end because it kind of signaled that they could just go crazy with the property. So I wasn't thrilled to see he wasn't the baddie for the sequel. I wonder if they felt he was too similar to Starro in the Suicide Squad (alien with mind control powers) to use right now.
I dunno. It's like they say -- I laughed, I cried. It had been years since a movie had made me feel quite so exhilarated as I left the theater.
Most especially, that moment when I understood what was about to happen -- that all the orphaned kids in Billy's found family were going to take on the power of Shazam -- was thrillingly emotional.
Most especially, that moment when I understood what was about to happen -- that all the orphaned kids in Billy's found family were going to take on the power of Shazam -- was thrillingly emotional.
Agreed. Endless comics and TV procedural cop dramas and "Very Special Episodes" of sitcoms have played out the same scene endlessly over the decades, so its not unique or special for Superman at all.
Well observed. Depression is not wrapped up in the equivalent of a "Very Special Episode," which is how that page comes off.
Agreed.
I actually think this scene -- from J. Michael Straczynski's much-maligned "Grounded" arc, of all places -- handles the situation better and more affectingly:
A great Shazam trailer, not much to say except I am really excited for the movie.
To be fair, in the movie he's toned down a lot from the Geoff Johns New 52 version of the character that the movie is based on. In the original New 52 comic story he saves a woman but then immediately tries to get money from her, while in the film a woman freaks out after he saves her, throws money at him, but he tries to tell her not to and he definitely didn't save her for financial gain in the film. So, while I prefer the old Captain Marvel and his heart of gold personality, the film Shazam is still more of an inherently nice person then the New 52 comic version.
To be fair, in the movie he's toned down a lot from the Geoff Johns New 52 version of the character that the movie is based on. In the original New 52 comic story he saves a woman but then immediately tries to get money from her, while in the film a woman freaks out after he saves her, throws money at him, but he tries to tell her not to and he definitely didn't save her for financial gain in the film. So, while I prefer the old Captain Marvel and his heart of gold personality, the film Shazam is still more of an inherently nice person then the New 52 comic version.