That doesn’t sound very realistic.
DC Cinematic Universe ( The James Gunn era)
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I actually agree with some of this. The fact that the events of superhero stories are in no sense realistic -- yes, people suffer traumatizing tragedies IRL; no, they don't become Batman in response -- doesn't mean they can't be resonant or relevant. If they didn't have meaning to people, if the characters and emotions and themes didn't speak on some level to people's lived experience, they would be neither popular nor valuable.
What I don't agree with is your familiar perspective that any sense of playfulness or whimsy in superhero stories is contemptible, and to be avoided at all costs, because these stories are very serious business. The amazing thing is, the best of them can be two things at once: funny and self-aware on the one hand, and thematically meaningful and emotionally affecting on the other.
I miss the yellow oval for a lot of reasons and one of them is the scene in TDKR where Batman thinks "I can't armor my head." Yeah, that's not realistic either but it at least conveys a better sense of "comic book logic" IMO.
People taking popular culture too seriously as Very Important is what's leeching the joy from it, not "woke politics" or any of the other straw men that various groups like to finger.
In the end, it's down to immature adults stealing from children.
On a far more more cheerful front:
In the end, it's down to immature adults stealing from children.
On a far more more cheerful front:
Is that official? It's just that this would mean it would be released the same day as Superman, and that strikes me as unlikely.
It will be released in summer 2025.
I might have misunderstood then.
Yeah, I don't understand why some people so obsessed with realism, realism tends to take all the fun out of things like superheroes. Now believability, is more important, you want to be able to believe what you're watching or reading, even if it's completely unrealistic. I watch and read things like superhero stories to get away from the real world, so I'd rather not be reminded of it too much during them.
My understanding is that it would be like August or so... enough time for Superman to be a success (or fade as a "failure"), and then jump right in with a new DC thing....which at that point will determine the fate of the DCOU.
And I imagine that by the end of Peacemaker season 2 we will get an announcement of the next thing after Supergirl.
And I imagine that by the end of Peacemaker season 2 we will get an announcement of the next thing after Supergirl.
Theatrical version of the teaser trailer with those couple of extra shots (and no more spitting blood out of his mouth at the beginning):
. Robocop and Starship Troopers, with similar violence, at least felt like a satire. This didn't. This just felt like James Gunn murder and sex fantasies that he could get away with someone else paying for
Now, i SAY i am for a spectrum of different types of things for a subgenre....so i appreciate for example , the serious to silly range (Captain America/Black Panther down to Guardians of the Galaxy), but ...... kind of a yuk for me. I want to have something I can share with my kids and grandkids...this sure ain't it, and not seeing a whole lot of that in the future
Nina , based on her origin, was a human... i know her DNA changed, but did she legally qualify as a nonhuman (like Weasel and GI Robot and thr Bride)? And was she created just for this show? Very sad ending....any luck that her DNA might revive her?
I also saw this thing called "Suicide Squad Isekai" -- looks like Japanese anime.... is that at all connected ot anything? It looks like the Gunn Suicide Squad, but maybe I am wrong? ANd what is Kite Man??? How is that conenectes?
I dunno...all this stuff is soooooo not for children. Now i feel like I am slipping into Trek_God's stereotype of people wanting the Superfriends.... but that stuff has a huge place that would be good for little kids to teens to get into.... not seeing that here.
It isn't just about Money...it would also have ot be PHYSICAL and really MENTAL discipline to do all the training, and at least being able to get the engineering done.
The physical disicpline would be the thing that also stops a George Soros from doing the physical and just doing the political and philanthropic (i.e. give money to organizaitons, who are doing the ACTUAL work).
with Batman, there's all kinds of stuff , in additon to what we just mentioned, as basically "fantasy" that we have to roll with .... like him building the batcave and bat equipment with virtually no one else knowing (especially the Board of Wayne Industries and the IRS not asking questions about where th emoney is going.... you can only write off so much to "partying").
C'mon guys....we are on TREK BBS.... we grew up with Star Trek being, really science FANTASY....but we loved most about it were the metaphorical stories we can apply to our "real" lives and inspiration to make things better.
One of my other "concerns" is how each character is "consistent" (heavy air quotes) with the general nature of that character OVER TIME, so that an aggregate feel that is that particular era's "ideal" version of the character...so exmples include the Wonder WOman TV show & movies, despite being 40 years apart... i think both "are" Wonder Woman, or the Maguire & Holland Spidermen.
Neither one is connected to the DCU. Kite Man is a spin off of the Harley Quinn cartoon
Yeah, that kinda confused me...who else did Clayface imitate and when?
Nina wasn't created for the show - she came from comics, but had a different origin there.
Movie gets a harsher rap than it deserves. I caught a large chunk of it recently when I ran across it on TV in progress, and really enjoyed it. It's hardly perfect, but I've seen worse Superman movies. (And how.) The common "deadbeat dad" complaint is lazy and stupid, since Clark didn't know Lois was pregnant when he left Earth. If you're gonna attack the movie, at least attack it for something it actually does. (The "stalker" thing has more validity, though I don't really have much problem with it in the film's context.)
Performances are generally solid, with Routh doing a fine job of doing what he was cast to do (channel Reeve), and Spacey being a fun, and occasionally strikingly vicious, version of Luthor. And yeah, those scenes above are great, as is the bit where Superman takes a point-blank bullet to his open eye. I don't know that his invulnerability has ever been portrayed onscreen as cleverly and effectively as that scene.
Performances are generally solid, with Routh doing a fine job of doing what he was cast to do (channel Reeve), and Spacey being a fun, and occasionally strikingly vicious, version of Luthor. And yeah, those scenes above are great, as is the bit where Superman takes a point-blank bullet to his open eye. I don't know that his invulnerability has ever been portrayed onscreen as cleverly and effectively as that scene.
Well, that and the fact he's ninety-four years old (and other reasons better suited to TNZ)
I thought the "deadbeat dad" criticism was that he was basically abandoning the kid AFTER he came back and realized it was his son...a superpowered son who was going to have some real issues as those powers manifested.
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