DC Movies - To Infinity and Beyond

[TREK_GOD_1]

Sounds like he fits right in with the DCEU then!

No.

Yawn.

Yep.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

OK, maybe I shouldn't say going in that direction was "mistake", it is just not the direction I want to see these characters go in.
I don't think there is any way I could possibly, ever disagree more with what you just said about the MCU. The humor absolutely in no way deflated the situation, it was the best possible thing they could do in the situations they were in because it kept thing light and fun, didn't let them get to dark.

...and by being silly / quips firing off when the situation is demanding the opposite robs the scene of its purpose. Out of place.

but that is not what I want from characters like Superman. I go to movies like that to get away from that kind of stuff.

The "Superman" best suiting that was the horrible version created for the Super Friends.

 

[dahj]

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

Interesting history lesson that I didn't know. But I wasn't really criticizing corporations exactly, just an overall system that perpetuates poverty by necessity. But my main point was against the claim that immigrants take people's jobs in reaction to an earlier post and using the example as how people use others as scapegoats to blame for their economic problems. Another example is how the Japanese were interred during WWII principally because white people blamed them for taking their jobs. (A Canadian example--I am not sure how that played out in the U.S.)

I understand what you're saying, but as in my post, there were/are significant exceptions where some immigrants deliberately displaced black citizens in jobs, housing, etc., took advantage of programs hard-won by/for black Americans and once they attained political power, intensified their anti-black / pro-immigrant agenda. In this case, there's no scapegoating, but a generations-long problem justifying the complaints of the black citizens hurt by it all. In no surprise, their complaints / views are hardly ever covered/acknowledged by the news media, as it doesn't fit their one-sided immigration agenda.

 

[Ovation]

Relax, it's just a joke, much like Ryan Reynolds coming back most likely is.

I'm totally relaxed. The unfunny joke made me yawn, which led me to take a nap. Result? Relaxed and refreshed.

 

[JD]

According to Gunn, he brought Browder in because he loved Farscape. Looking at Guardians, that's not too surprising.

I can see that, there are a lot of similarities there.

...and by being silly / quips firing off when the situation is demanding the opposite robs the scene of its purpose. Out of place.

Not at all, even in the real world some people tell jokes turning some of the most serious moments.
Hell, even The Last of Us Part II, which is one of the darkest, and grimmest things I've ever experienced, still manages to work in a lot of humor and lighter moments. That's probably the only thing that keeps me from getting suicidal playing the fucking thing.

 

[fireproof78]

I can see that, there are a lot of similarities there.

Not at all, even in the real world some people tell jokes turning some of the most serious moments.
Hell, even The Last of Us Part II, which is one of the darkest, and grimmest things I've ever experienced, still manages to work in a lot of humor and lighter moments. That's probably the only thing that keeps me from getting suicidal playing the fucking thing.

Same here. But, I have one of the most sarcastic senses of humor and in the middle of tense situations that gets turned up to 11. Marvel films that I do enjoy hit me right where I live.

 

[Anwar]

No idea. Don't really care honestly. Ben Browder is one of my favorite actors for a variety of reasons so if being a "cult" actor means Gunn will bring him more work I'm all for it.

According to Gunn, he brought Browder in because he loved Farscape. Looking at Guardians, that's not too surprising.

Yes, Gunn's also friends with Nathan Fillion/Mal from Firefly. That's why he got a cameo in GOTG1.

...and by being silly / quips firing off

So like the comics?

 

[JD]

Yes, Gunn's also friends with Nathan Fillion/Mal from Firefly. That's why he got a cameo in GOTG1.

And had a starring role in Slither, and roles in Super and The Suicide Squad. I believe Nathan Fillion has had at least a cameo every movie James Gunn has directed so far. Fillion also had a cameo with him as Simon Williams/Wonder Man on a background movie poster on Earth, but it ended up getting cut.

 

[USS Firefly]

Yes, Gunn's also friends with Nathan Fillion/Mal from Firefly. That's why he got a cameo in GOTG1.

I would to see him walk as Mal in Guardians 3, even if It's just for a second

 

[JD]

Chiwetel Ejiofor is going to be back as Mordo in The Multiverse of Madness. Glad to hear it, he was great in the first one.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Chiwetel Ejiofor is going to be back as Mordo in The Multiverse of Madness. Glad to hear it, he was great in the first one.

I think you might be in the wrong thread.

 

[Christopher]

I think you might be in the wrong thread.

Maybe that's what makes it the Multiverse of Madness?

 

[JD]

I think you might be in the wrong thread.

Woops, I guess I saw the C and thought it was MCU.

 

[The Realist]

Woops, I guess I saw the C and thought it was MCU.

Of (M)C(U)ourse you did.

 

[Captaindemotion]

Maybe that's what makes it the Multiverse of Madness?

They should crossover MOM, Flashpoint & Into the Spider-verse 2 just to watch the internet burn.

 

[Christopher]

They should crossover MOM, Flashpoint & Into the Spider-verse 2 just to watch the internet burn.

And the Arrowverse, of course.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

I can see that, there are a lot of similarities there.

Not at all, even in the real world some people tell jokes turning some of the most serious moments.

Yes, I'm sure people were joking/quipping their way through the Tet Offensive, or immediately after Robert Kennedy was shot. The answer is no. I can cite other, endless examples of serious, real life situations where no one was joking/quipping through it, and there was no inappropriate, constant comic relief, such as fat Thor being a running joke in Endgame during serious discussions, etc.

That's the difference between a strong superhero film coming off with a serious believable feel, and others, where its constantly stepping out of its own narrative with overt crap the characters should not do during the most serious of situations.

 

[Anwar]

Yes, I'm sure people were joking/quipping their way through the Tet Offensive, or immediately after Robert Kennedy was shot. The answer is no. I can cite other, endless examples of serious, real life situations where no one was joking/quipping through it, and there was no inappropriate, constant comic relief, such as fat Thor being a running joke in Endgame during serious discussions, etc.

That's the difference between a strong superhero film coming off with a serious believable feel, and others, where its constantly stepping out of its own narrative with overt crap the characters should not do during the most serious of situations.

Nope, you're just ignoring Gallow's Humor. In real life, people about to be killed (or witness people being killed) in the Electric Chair would quip about it.

Hell, even Benjamin Franklin made jokes about how he and the Founding Fathers were going to be hanged if the Revolution failed.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

Nope. But please, tell us how Myrlie Evers quipped as she saw her bloody husband crawl to their door with a gaping bullet hole in his back. Or tell us how Roger Bushell was a-jokin' his butt off before the Gestapo executed him. You won't. Again, real history has endless examples that counter what is a poor defense of certain comic book movies injecting humor where it did not belong.