I guess Clark and Jean-Luc can form a support group. Maybe Jim Kirk, too.
DC Cinematic Universe ( The James Gunn era)
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My problems with it had to do with it copying S:TM down to specific scenes and dialogue.
I'm sure the movies will be more along the lines of the typical big PG-13 summer movies like that other comic book company's movies and the Star Wars movies. Even the MCU had the Netflix series, and now Deadpool, and the X-Men had Logan, so it's pretty standard for these franchises to have a mix of adult stuff and more family friendly (although personally I hesitate to call anything PG-13 family friendly) stuff.
This is just the beginning of the DCU and there's going to be a big variety of projects coming out, so it's a bit early to be writing the whole thing off.
I'm not sure if I'd count Kirk in that group since he knew about David and either he chose to not be a regular part of his life or Carole wouldn't let him. I can't remember exactly what Wrath of Kahn established because I haven't watched it in a while, but Strange New Worlds and pretty much all of the books I've read have at least had Kirk aware that she was pregnant.
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That's fair, although those moments were clearly intended more as loving, nostalgic homage than "copying" per se. There's certainly a case to be made that the film depended too much on nostalgia, however, and suffered for it.
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This is not my specialty so take what I say with a grain of salt but as I understand it an isekai is an anime/manga where a character(s) from the ordinary world are transported/awaken to a fanstastic one and have to adapt and survive there. It is apparently a recently popular subgenre. Suicide Squad Isekai would be a non-canon such story and that more than likely is the property that was meant to have crossover appeal to and pull in the teen audience.
Yes. Isekai is Japanese for "different world" or "strange world" (i + sekai, pronounced "ee-seh-kye"). It's basically the equivalent of what's known in English as portal fantasy, like Narnia, Oz, Flash Gordon, even Farscape if you stretch it a bit.
That's a good explanation. Someone from the modern world gets hit by a truck and they wake up in an alternate world, living a different life.
That's the big problem with Returns. It's thin story is not supported by it's epic length. SR is 2 hours and 35 minutes long. The same run time as BvS. And next to nothing happens. Take out the nostalgia shot-for-shot, line-for-line elements out of the film and what are you left with?
I'm honestly still dumbfounded Bryan Singer thought this was a good idea. Granted, we are supersaturated (no pun intended) with a plurality of copycat movies nowadays. Best I can come up with is that the audience were supposed to be enamored with the idea of seeing a remake of a film they've already seen. But with better special effects.
Personally, SR would've been "okay" if it was 90-100 minutes long. Summer 2006 had X-Men 3 and Pirates of the Caribbean 2 (Dead Man's Chest) and Superman Returns. The slow burn of Returns just didn't appeal over the competition.
I recently tried to give Superman Returns and Star Trek Insurrection (two films that just don't do it for me, but I don't find offensive) a fresh prospective rewatch. My opinions of both sadly didn't change.
I think it's a stretch to say SR is a "remake." It parrots a few lines of dialogue from the Reeve films, but there are few real repeats in the narrative. Luthor's scheme is once again "land"-based, but one could say that's simply consistency in the priorities of this version of the character. The dynamic between Clark and Lois, which is really the center of the film (as with most good Superman stories), is completely changed, which gives even their shared flight scene an entirely different and more poignant tone than the similar scenes in the Reeve movies.
Andy Muschietti, director of The Flash movie thinks it failed because not enough people, especially women, care about the character. I find this a little hard to believe since the character just stared in a TV series that ran for 9 seasons, and has been a part of lots of other major DC adaptations, and has been a fairly consistent part of DC's comics since 1939. I think any problems lie with the movie and the people involved, not with the character.
https://www.ign.com/articles/the-fl...just-dont-care-about-the-flash-as-a-character
https://www.ign.com/articles/the-fl...just-dont-care-about-the-flash-as-a-character
Sure, but it still seems like strange thing to say about a character who's as popular as The Flash seems to be.
According to Wikipedia, the pilot was watched by 6.8 million people in the US, 3.11 million in Canada, 1.3 million people live with another 82,000 time shifted viewers in the UK, and 129,000 viewers in Australia. Almost every one of those was the top show when it aired, and it was the 5th most popular show in the world in 2016.
Here's the article Wikipedia cites for the 5th most popular show of 2016 title.
https://www.businessinsider.com/mos...v-leading-a-list-of-popular-dc-comics-shows-5
I missed it before, but it also said that according to "Torrent Freak" it was the 4th most torrented show of 2016, and Rolling Stone also named put it at 23 in a list of the best sci-fi shows of all time they put together that year.
https://www.businessinsider.com/mos...v-leading-a-list-of-popular-dc-comics-shows-5
I missed it before, but it also said that according to "Torrent Freak" it was the 4th most torrented show of 2016, and Rolling Stone also named put it at 23 in a list of the best sci-fi shows of all time they put together that year.
He didn't say that no females like the character. I'm sure he'd be glad to hear that you aren't one of the disinterested people he's talking about.
It may be more true that not enough people, especially women, care about a character played by Ezra Miller.
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