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DC Cinematic Universe ( The James Gunn era)

I don't know what's so confusing.

Halloween, Halloween, and Halloween are different movies.
Halloween II and Halloween II are different movies.
Halloween III isn't a direct sequel to Halloween II, but Halloween 4 is.
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (aka Halloween 7) is a sequel to Halloween II.
Halloween is a sequel to Halloween.
Halloween is a remake of Halloween.

It couldn't be simpler!! ;)
I was trying to follow that but
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EW.com posted a new interview with James Gunn, it was originally taken during the big "cover story" but is being released separately.
https://ew.com/james-gunn-interview-superman-gods-and-monsters-future-dcu-titles-exclusive-11755992
The part I found most interesting is that his next project is something that's been planned since his original pitch to Zazlav, but hasn't been announced because he's afraid someone else will rip it off. This makes me think it might be fairly unique.
 
"It begins....."

Third times the charm? (Superman Return, Man of Steel)



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I think the one bad thing about modern promotion of these kinds of event films, is that I feel like I've seen much of the film before ever going to the theater.

I've been avoiding everything but the first two official trailers. I just want the movie to be called KRYPTO and Best Friend, Superman! I just love the dog!
 
There are many actors who, in the hands of a capable director (one who values performance as much as spectacle), can/did produce strong performances (I would count Shatner among them, Bruce Willis as another), but who, in the hands of less capable directors, revert to the shortcuts of their stereotypical reputations.

Yep. I remember a DVD commentary on TWOK where Nicholas Meyer discussed how he had Shatner do many takes for the "It's coming through now" line. Shatner kept trying to play it up and Meyer felt that Khan was too smart not to notice the tone on Kirk's line. Finally, Shatner was so pissed off/exhausted that he delivered the line flat--and that was the take Meyer used.
 
I don't know what's so confusing.

Halloween III isn't a direct sequel to Halloween II, but Halloween 4 is.

The original idea was for Halloween to be an anthology series where a movie would be released every year, but be a different story. Halloween 3 fizzled at the box office and rather than thinking it was because that movie was so bad, they believed it was because the movie didn't have Michael Meyers. So, Meyers became a supernatural style killer.
 
"It begins....."

Third times the charm? (Superman Return, Man of Steel)



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"Third time the charm?" Huh. For me, it was the second time the charm with "Man of Steel". Mind you, I didn['t have a problem with Brandon Routh as Superman (although I loved him as The Atom). I just had a problem with the 2006 movie.
 
It definitely looks like the third time in a row (well, fourth counting Chris Reeve, obviously) that they’ve cast the lead role to perfection. I just hope that David is the one to get the film to equal his casting,
 
And yet, it worked out so badly...

$670 million isn't a bad number. Unfortunately, between budgets, expectations and WB incompetence being too high, it could never hit the heights expected of it.

Honestly, I have some fears of the same thing happening here, even though the movie looks like it is going to be a spectacularly good time.
 
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"Your obsession with me is getting a little creepy." :lol:
 
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There's a pretty decent actor in Stallone. He just get swept away in the action movie hype of the 80's.

Stallone is a better actor than Schwarzenegger. But Schwarzenegger know how to channel his charisma and larger-than-life presence on the big screen, and was smart enough to know that working with the best directors gets the best results. Stallone, meanwhile, had a tendency to pick no-name directors he could control.
 
I was never impressed with Stallone's acting, largely because I found it hard to decipher what he was saying a lot of the time due to his poor diction. At least Schwarzenegger pronounced things clearly, to the point that exaggerated enunciation was a staple of his impersonators.

I always felt that Schwarzenegger was most effective as a comic actor. I don't recall Stallone having any success in that field.
 
At least Schwarzenegger pronounced things clearly, to the point that exaggerated enunciation was a staple of his impersonators.
I read or heard a couple of times that Arnold goes to a dialect coach to help keep his Austrian accent. He's lived in the United States for so long he's actually lost his native accent.
It happened with a friend of the family. She was born in Great Britain after the war and emigrated to California, in the early 70s, where she's lived for the last fifty years. Now, you would never know she was a British citizen, all trace of her accent is completely gone.
Same thing with my co-worker, he's Dutch by birth, raised in Wales, and lived in the Puget Sound the last thirty plus years. He's developed a flat mid-Atlantic accent.
 
Stallone is a better actor than Schwarzenegger. But Schwarzenegger know how to channel his charisma and larger-than-life presence on the big screen, and was smart enough to know that working with the best directors gets the best results. Stallone, meanwhile, had a tendency to pick no-name directors he could control.

Yet both had long successful careers.
 
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