One of my favorite films.
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One of my favorite films.
Great artist. He also worked on one of my favourite films...
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To be fair, as comic guy, I never liked super hero groups. Justice League and Avengers, with the exception of a couple runs, have been boring. It's exhausting having END OF THE WORLD problems to solve every week, and yet unless there is one, there's no reason to hang out together.
The exception is the X Men, who come together because of persecution, and see the school as a safe haven. That can create interesting stories. Not, "We're rig and powerful so let's hang out together and punch space in the face until it bleeds."
What about the Teen Titans?
I'm really tired of the comedic pauses and fading to black in trailers these days.
Meh, the book was better.
Superman by Tim Burton starring Nic Cage.... haha, now that I would pay money to see.
Heh, Charlie Brooker.
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Batman fans are actually *happy* his parents were murdered; otherwise Batman wouldn't exist. How fucking selfish can you get?
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Kick-Ass, that was a good one. Iron Man, fair enough. But now we don't need any more superhero films. Especially not pretentious ones. There's a new Dark Knight film out this year. Calling Batman "the Dark Knight" is like calling Papa Smurf "the Blue Patriarch": you're not fooling anyone. It's a children's story about a billionaire who dresses up as a bat to punch criminals on the nose. No normal adult can possibly relate to that, which makes his story inherently boring, unless you're a child, in which case you can enjoy the bits where he rides his super-bike around with his cape flapping behind him like a tit. The scenes where some improbable clown-like supervillain delivers a quasi-philosophical speech are even worse, incidentally.
Tip: if you want to make your bad guy interesting and menacing and exotic, don't waste hours gluing prosthetic dice to his eyelids and giving him a name like "the Quizzlestick". Just show him masturbating into an oven glove while watching earthquake footage on CNN. Then you've got my attention. And automatically made a film worth watching.
Bale's Batman voice is awful. How anyone can take it seriously is beyond me.
It must be a pain in the ass for Batman to do that voice... he's gonna get a sore throat eventually. "Gordon, we must stop The Joker before *COUGH* *COUGH* sorry, can I get a glass of water?"
Aside from Heath Ledger's performance and some excellent action scenes, there isn't much I like about The Dark Knight. The screenplay is a contrived mess, the dialogue is putrid (no one talks like a real person in this movie,) the acting ranges from amateurish to atrocious and the overbearing score by Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard is used to drown the viewer in its self-importance. It's a sterile, hokey, and utterly pretenious film that really grinds my gears. Still better than Batman Begins, though.
What if The Empire Strikes Back was a horrible sequel?
Or do Source Code's older brother, Groundhog Day.
I'm surprised David Cronenberg wasn't brought up.
Burton sort of tried to evolve, do something different, with Mars Attacks. It was awesome. But nobody liked it. Then he made Sleepy Hollow. It was rubbish, but it was a gothic film and it starred Johnny Depp, so everyone loved it. And Burton has repeated himself ever since...
Tarantino tried as well with Jackie Brown, which was his first, real, proper film with a straightforward narrative, and believable characters. But it flopped. No one wanted him to grow up.
Oh, and Tim Burton a medicore director? Shame on you Brian.
Before rescuing a bunch of jews, Liam Neeson was busy banging Frances McDormand and inventing a new synthetic skin. But then Benny from L.A. Law crashed his party and ruined his life, turning him into... DARKMAN!
The perfect supehero movie.
The Lizard looks awful though.
This looks like a real wildcard. I'm not holding my breath for anything mindblowing, but it certainly shows some potential.
From the son of the director of Cobra!
A Superman movie needs Darkseid as the villain...
Burton has no interest in Batman?
Mask of the Phantasm is the best (animated) Batman film.
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