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    DC MOVIE THREAD

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    35 minutes ago, Technico Support said:

    I read that article and it just felt so desperate to me, like the producers locked the writers in a  room and made them watch Guardians of the Galaxy and Deadpool on a loop for a week.  "GODDAMMIT MAKE IT FUNNY." 

    When we see Batman cruising the city in the Batmobile listening to the 70s pop compilation that Martha Wayne left for him, we'll know.

    I cannot blame them for not understanding what people want.

    They complain when there isn't comedy, they complain when there is.

    People were saying it's too dark and I've seen posts today saying dark isn't the problem.

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    DC TV Thread

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    I zoned out of the previous two episodes of Arrow and the finale did nothing to bring me back. 

    "What, you thought I was leaving too?" - Felicity "Roman Reigns" Smoak

    I'm guessing only two of us watched the Gotham finale...

    Glad Strange didn't die there because B.D. Wong has been fantastic. You could hear Jerome laugh when the monsters were released. And the Bruce clone?! Tommy Elliot? Thomas Wayne, Jr.?

    DC MOVIE THREAD

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    Hollywood Reporter saying WB exec Jon Berg and Geoff Johns are now in charge of DC Films.

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    Sources say that it was Squad that escalated Johns’ involvement in DC movies and that he is involved in the movie’s post-production.

     

     

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    DC TV Thread

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    4 hours ago, Vader does my taxes! said:

    I assume all the super villians in the crowd are no-name jobbers instead of characters we'd recognize from Barry's Rogues Gallery because there's only two episodes left.  They may have a huge numbers advantage, but they're going to have to job hard in record time to Barry and company.

    BTW, speaking of DC TV, I got caught up on Gotham.  Why?  I don't know either.  It wasn't really worth the effort.  I kinda like that they brought Azrael into the show, but kinda hate who they put under the mask.

    I did really enjoy

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    Penguin and Butch calmly strolling in and blowing Galavan/Azrael to bits with a rocket launcher.  Though it kinda made Gordon look like a dolt since his response to being unable to kill Galavan with bullets was to shoot him some more.

    I'll probably give season 3 a chance to be better, but it'll have to come out of the gate swinging for the fences next fall.  I kinda think Gotham has gotten worse as this season has gone on, not better.  I'm probably out.

    I like Gotham, it's crazy and never boring. Hugo Strange has been a good addition. 

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    DC MOVIE THREAD

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    Some more notes from our good friend, Devin Faraci.

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    If you're going to assemble the greatest superheros on your earth you're gonna need a threat to fight. So what - or who - is the threat that the Justice League will face in Justice League? Is it Darkseid, who was heavily hinted at in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice? Is it an evil Superman, as also heavily hinted at in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice? Or is it... a minor character who only showed up in BvS' deleted scenes?

    Yup, it's Steppenwolf. When the deleted scene of Lex Luthor meeting a monster in his Kryptonian warm bath first popped up online the internet thought that monster was Steppenwolf. I couldn't believe it - the monster barely looked like Steppenwolf, and in fact his whole aesthetic was nothing like that of the New Gods, the corner of the DC Comics universe from which Steppenwolf arises. But I was wrong! Boy was I wrong. 

    In Justice League Steppenwolf has a contentious history with Darkseid, which could be why he's invading the Earth. But stopping him - and, I'm assuming, his Parademon hordes - requires more power than the members of the Justice League can muster, and so they must turn to a dead friend for help...

    Darkseid is a presence in the movie, and fully appears at the end of the film, but don't expect him to do much. The other DC solo movies between Justice League and Justice League 2 take place in realish time - ie, The Flash takes place after Justice League - so whatever evil plan Darkseid has will wait until Justice League 2 to be revealed.

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    A shared cinematic universe is, to use a cliche, like a big ass boat. It's hard to turn a big ass boat - you really have to swing that sucker around, and it can take some time. The DC Movieverse is, in this case, the big ass boat, and I keep hearing whispers that it's getting reoriented in the wake of Batman v Superman being what it is (ie, bad). 

    I don't know how that's going to shake out when it comes to Justice League - the captain who was already mis-steering that boat is still steering that one! - but I think we will see that shift happening in some of the DC solo movies that are coming up. While The Flash lost director Seth Grahame-Smith WB is sticking with his script (for now, there will be rewrites as there always are rewrites), and that script is lighter and poppier, focusing on the friendship of The Flash and Cyborg, who hit it off in Justice League. Wonder Woman, I hear, is a very hopeful movie, flying in the face of the cynicism of Batman v Superman. And Warner Bros is developing another movie that definitely doesn't fit into the tone of the DC Movieverse as established: Booster Gold. 

    Zack Stentz, who has credits on movies like Thor, the new Power Rangers and Agent Cody Banks, is working on the script right now. I had heard that Greg Berlanti, the guy who runs the (tonally correct) DC TVverse is producing, and a recent appearance by Stentz on the "Fatman on Batman" podcast bears this out. Thanks to Cleats and Capes for listening to the podcast and picking out a couple of facts that back up everything I've heard: Stentz is writing Booster Gold with Berlanti producing and possibly interested in directing. 

    Booster is very, very different from what we've seen in the DC Movieverse so far, and the fact that this movie is even in development gives me hope and backs up the whispers I have heard that Warner Bros - and especially Ben Affleck - are very hip to what went wrong with BvS, and that the opportunity exists to fix the larger universe. 

    I don't know what the status of Booster Gold is right now (it seems to be on hold), and I think it's a solo movie - ie, not the Blue and Gold buddy movie many have wanted - but the fact that it's managed to be in development at all during the Reign of Snyder is really impressive. I think there's an opening at WB where Booster Gold could suddenly see its fortunes changing, and getting closer to being a real movie.

    Zack Stentz also wrote this week's episode of The Flash.

    DC MOVIE THREAD

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    Well, here's more Devin Faraci for you. Ben Affleck has been named executive producer of Justice League and here's what Faraci had to say.

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    My sources have told me that Affleck was incredibly unhappy about the reception of BvS. He felt humiliated after spending so much of the press tour saying how much better this film would be than Daredevil. On top of that his agent was furious when Kevin Tsujihara jumped the gun and announced him as the director of The Batman - there were still negotiations happening.

    This move seems to help placate Affleck while also edging Zack Snyder out of a controlling central position in the DC Movieverse.

     

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    Marvel Phase III Movie Discussion Thread

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    I'm not sure where to rank Civil War, I liked it but I certainly didn't love it. The big fight was super disappointing, it's like an overly long SNL skit that exists so every character can get their one liner in and considering the number of characters in that scene, it goes on for like 10-15 minutes. At no point does it feel like anyone is in danger, it's just a kid talking to himself while smashing action figures together. And then...

    War Machine gets hurt. Did he die?! No, and he's probably going to be walking faster than you can say Felicity Smoak.

    How did Tony figure out Peter Parker was Spider-Man? 

    I like Winter Solider and Black Panther, looking forward to his solo movie.

     

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