DC Movies - To Infinity and Beyond
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Don't take that as a jibe though. I'm glad to see it's continuing apace.I did recognize that Gunn's tweet showing the script cover was superficially exciting but in reality a complete nothingburger.
The sad thing is that Snyder's idea of making Jimmy a secret CIA Operative pretending to be a Planet Employee would've been a really welcome new twist on his character. But he got wasted (literally).
At least a couple of recent animation productions have followed Supergirl's lead in making Jimmy black (the Battle of the Super Sons animated movie and the upcoming My Adventures with Superman series), so I wonder if that's going to become the permanent practice now, like it was with Nick Fury. Or at least something that's done more often than not, as with Martian Manhunter since the Justice League animated series.
I hope more original, so no black or white Jimmy
What's more original than a natural redhead in Hollywood these days, though?
Eh, matters not.
Indeed, but the Red Head League will be up in arms again if they lose another one.
Having him actually be Norwegian.
I rewatched Superman '78 tonight (in the three-hour "Extended Cut" that was released a while back), and I gotta say: Even after 45 years, James Gunn has his work cut out for him. Still the hands-down, no-contest greatest superhero film ever made, and it's hard to imagine a more perfect big-screen adaptation of the Man of Steel.
But sincere good luck to Gunn, with hopes that even if he can't surpass Donner's classic, he can at least accomplish a modern update worthy to stand alongside it.
But sincere good luck to Gunn, with hopes that even if he can't surpass Donner's classic, he can at least accomplish a modern update worthy to stand alongside it.
I... can't agree. I like the film but I don't think it's the greatest. Sure, the Krypton and Smallville sequences are excellent and set a certain tone... that gets chucked out the window when we hit the Metropolis/Superman setting. To me, it's like if Batman Begins switched in tone and style to Batman Forever at the one hour mark.
Eh, I've encountered folks who dislike the humor in the film, but personally, I like to laugh. And I think it's usually folly for comic book movies to take themselves too seriously.
The problem I have is that once Luthor shows up it the movie completely devolves and never recovers.
I was thinking tonight while rewatching the film what great design and conceptual work went into that sequence. It's quintessential '70s movie sci-fi, more THX-1138 or Logan's Run than the pulp magazine Krypton of the comics up to that point. And of course, it's informed impressions of the planet across all media ever since.
Don't see it even a little, sorry. Hackman's Luthor is a complete awesome fucking blast. Again, why are people such grumps about comedy in these movies?
The Krypton scenes and the Smallville scenes are two different tones already. The Krypton, Smallville, and Metropolis sections were intentionally designed to alter the tone of the film.
...For better or worse, YMMV, etc.
Don't see it even a little, sorry. Hackman's Luthor is a complete awesome fucking blast. Again, why are people such grumps about comedy in these movies?
We're not grumps. But comedy is subjective and the comedy here just doesn't work for me.