DC Movies - To Infinity and Beyond
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That would have required making the supporting cast full-on adults, and not trapped in a state of Donner suspended animation.
Singer wanted to live in 1978 (while audiences did not), instead of casting for characters who should be older, wiser and not looking for Superman to float down to earth and flash the "S" emblem like the cutout marketing image the character was in certain bygone eras (instead of fleshed-out, realistic character).
Apparently, Singer inhaling the fumes of 1978 prevented him from reading the room, where a clear nose/mind would've allowed him to discover the obvious: superhero content and most importantly, the fans changed out of creative desire, cultural necessity, and would not find his love letter to all things Salkind appealing to those who do not live in that halcyonic dream world--one that was not aging well less than a decade after its premiere.
Lois as the editor would have been an interesting change.
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Hmmm . . . I don't know. I thought the 2000 movie was okay, but it felt like an expensive "B" movie, instead of an "A" one. And I found the plot a bit questionable.
This is one reason why I have a problem with the whole nostalgia factor.
Well, yeah.
"Magneto had a machine that makes mutants...oh wait, it really turns them into goo. Oops!"
And then X2 repeats it with "Magneto has a machine of DOOOOM!" thing again.
It really comes down to how the nostalgia is used. Stranger Things took 80s nostalgia and did quite well with it (at first, anyways). It served the characters and the plot, rather than the characters and plot being secondary to the nostalgia.
Stranger Things isnt a 'nostalgia fest'; it's a period piece.
Not really.
X2's plot is driven by Colonel Stryker, with Magneto only appropriating the Colonel's plans for his own ends at the Eleventh Hour.
Except Stryker is the inciting person.
The 2006 movie was trying to be a period piece as well with its aesthetics and general feel. Didn't work.
Which still doesn't mean the climax isn't "Stopping Magneto's new Doom Machine".
It's similar only in broad strokes.
Yeah, they needed that contrived ending where Jean decided to use her TK to hold back the water instead of lift the far lighter Blackbird jet out of the way.
Or...Storm makes the Cerebro room super cold to stop Jason instead of just walking over and smacking him in the head to knock him out. Which cost them precious time.
Or the X-Men breaking into the White House to bully the President like a bunch of terrorists.
A new Flash TV spot has aired, featuring mostly previously-seen footage, but including this nice new shot of Supergirl (click to enlarge):
Looks good, except I miss the days when superhero costumes were actually made of fabric instead of looking like wetsuits.
Looks like a scene from a video game. Not an attack, just it has that look especially with the backdrop.
New movies has often bad CGI scènes, especially the Marvel movies. Ten years ago they made better CGI effects than now
If they gave the VFX artists the time and recognition it would look better. The studios these days are putting immense pressure on deadlines.
Sooo....not like the ending of the first movie at all.
Though, yeah, the ending with the President is way creepier in retrospect.
