I think Die Hard With A Vengeance is one of my favorite movies. Does a good job of nailing the look and feel of New York City in the summer during June or September, when everything's too hot but school is in session.
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I thought it was because instead of the former DCFU, they are making it the DC OU (Omni Universe), where they said all media, from Movies to TV but even games, would be tied together?
So it makes actually a lot more sense for them to do that. We had the opposite problem, as James Gunn has pointed out, where it felt like to him WB was giving out a license to everyone who wanted one... and that diluted the audience... as opposed to the MCU in its hey day, where in addition to specific fans, you had a growing base that could reasonably follow all the material that was out.
An example of dilution was the Arrowverse, where at one time, they had 5 different series going on. Ain't now way for me to follow ALL those, even when i was single and without kids.... that was just way too much to follow at one time.
We can have different versions of the same thing.... but spread it out over time. Most normal people can't follow all of it
It comes across as weird reasoning because DC should really be more united in their plans at this point, and they've had plenty of time to do so. It ends up feeling like they're not coordinated for the long-term.
I think it flopped because at that time , Superman was probably not seen as edgy or a modern enough hero. It's always a issue with Superman.The more you try and move him away from the Normal Rockwell version we got with the Reeve's movies the less interest people seem to have.
I think these days a Superman like would be welcomed in our more cynical look and exhaustion from the modern world. Which seems to be what James Gunn is going for. But with more humor.
I think these days a Superman like would be welcomed in our more cynical look and exhaustion from the modern world. Which seems to be what James Gunn is going for. But with more humor.
The CW Superman was from previous regimes... and in fact the show doesn't even (technically) have the Same Superman and Lois that was introduced in the Arrowverse... which even on that level seemed uncoordinated. That is supposed to change under Gunm and Safran's new DCOU
In the case of Superman Returns, I remember some of the criticism coming from the fact that Singer had basically penned a 2½ hour love letter to the 1978 film. Yeah, it had modern visual effects, but it's still the same John Williams theme, the opening credits still zoom at you like it's kind of 3D, the Fortress of Solitude still has the same look as it did in '78, and oh look, they slipped in some unused Brando footage. Contrast this with Nolan's Batman Begins that came out the year before, where it gladly broke with the Burton/Schumacher films and charted its own course.
And see, I feel that's what the issue was with Snyder's take on the character. I don't think he's the kind of character that should have to be edgy or brooding. Leave that to Batman. I've always felt the two represented two completely different styles that should ideally be opposite themselves in terms of personality. Which is why the whole thing with Batman vs Superman never worked for me. What they really need to do is bring back some of that optimism the character represented, something they tried to do with Supergirl early on in the recent series. Superman was created during the depression era, something to keep in mind.
I've read some of the early Superman comics, and he seemed witty and sardonic. It be cool if they did a Superman like that today.
So was Batman. Batman was inspired by The Shadow and Dick Tracy. Superman was inspired by Doc Savage and Buck Rogers.
WB used to have this attitude but I thought that they had grown out of it. Even the general audience nowadays can easily understand different versions of characters, its just ridiculous to think like this nowadays.
Also, its funny that multiple Supermen is a problem, but two different Batman film franchises (three if you count the Joker movies) are either active or in development.
Say goodbye to Amazon FreeVee app. Its content is being folded into the Amazon Prime app.
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Exclusive: Amazon to Sunset Freevee, Streamlining Its Ad and Product Efforts (archive.ph)
Never heard of it. 
It’s been a mainstay on their Firestik WiFi streaming devices.
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I highly doubt that you're not alone in that assessment. I suspect that's why it was discontinued, because nobody ever heard of it or used it. 
I have an Amazon Firestik - saw FreeVee on there, but never ran it once - used Cue Streaming instead.
I have an Amazon Firestik - saw FreeVee on there, but never ran it once - used Cue Streaming instead.
I was watching the original Magnum P I on Freevee until they removed it a month or so ago. Unfortunately they still have the newer Magnum on there.
Ah, that I've heard of. I hadn't realized they changed the name. Oh, well.
Too similar to IMDB maybe?
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