Antacular
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Bad/Unknown/Unpopular Movies You'll Always Defend
Antacular replied to RonL21's topic in MOVIES & TV
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Wow. The man was a goddamn icon. He's not Paris fucking Hilton or Lance Bass....
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Both of Burton's were satisfyingly dark enough to be very entertaining. BF was garbage, not many pegs above B&R.
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I find your subjective movie preferences wrong.
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Would you say it's a SLAP IN THE FACE?!?!? No, I'd say it's a life-altering paradigm that has zero merit, rather than an obviously desperate maneuver to catch up with #1.
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I don't know if I can live in a world where people think CA is better than TDK.
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Awesome. With Singer announcing it, one can hope he's behind the camera too.
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This. I've stated my issue with how Zod was dealt with in the first 10 minutes, and Jon Kent death scene was just all sorts of really dumb shit. No, both Fantastic Four films are on Green Lantern levels. I mildly enjoyed W:O for what it was. Deadpool was the worst part of it, that I concede. And I'll agree that I doubt any director besides Snyder (who I'm a big fan of) could have MoS any better. But, counterpoint, to act as if it's anywhere near TDK trilogy is equally baffling. For the record, I think DKR surpasses TDK simply because of the ending. Even after seeing TDK on opening day, I immediately believed the last 10-15 minutes of it were completely unnecessary. In fact, everything concerning Dent once the Joker freed him from the hospital could've been saved for the sequel. To conclude the movie, instead of having Batman being blamed for the final acts of Dent (And why not blame them on, I don't know... THE JOKER??), it should've been left off with Joker being captured as he was, but with Gordon and Batman realizing that while they've defeated the Joker, he's won by setting Two-Face loose on the city, and the citizens of Gotham realizing the Joker exists only because Batman exists, hence Two-Face is a direct result of Batman's actions. Dent is dealt with in the first 30 minutes of DKR, Batman goes into hiding for years, and Bane eventually emerges. In contrast, DKR ends with Batman at the mercy of the first antagonist to ever challenge him physically, with the villain's end coming about from the one way Batman would never succumb to (death, which is the rule the Joker kept trying to make him break) via a weapon he would never use (a gun, which is what he told Selina during their first combative encounter). The first part of TDK is superior to first part of DKR, but the endings are completely opposite levels of satisfying, and ultimately, (most of the time) people remember the end of the films more than what it took to get them there. Also, I liked Bane's voice.
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All 3 Batman films were at least "good"... The Dark Knight is tremendous. Man of Steel was fucking great. Green Lantern sucked. 4/5 isn't bad. TDK trilogy isn't part of this new DC Cinematic Universe. Otherwise I could just cite the shit that was Batman Forever and B&R. But yes, TDK trilogy is awesome, the standard that all comic book movies should be held against (And I'm probably in the minority that thinks DKR is slightly better than TDK). Maybe it's because I think Superman is just an all-and-all lame superhero, but I thought MoS was by no means "fucking great." It's probably as good as you can get for a Superman stand-alone movie. It doesn't even begin to touch any of Nolan's films with a 10 foot pole. Green Lantern was B&R bad.
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So every major villain wil be the result of Oscorp shenanigans? Not a bad idea assuming they stretch out the Harry transformation a few films down.
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A slap in the face is what disrespectful kids get when they don't realize a $25 iMax showing is quiet time. DC fans will just get a shitty film.
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Almost 1M for the prelims?? That's awesome.
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Agree 100% that you don't need an origin story every time you introduce a character. But to throw in a major a character as Batman into a Superman movie along side two other fairly major characters just reeks of "Trying to catch up with the Avengers"-itis. Of course, if this isn't MoS2, but just a D.C. movie in general, it's a moot point.
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So from MoS to MoS2 they're going to introduce Batman, Robin (Sorry, Nightwing), and now Wonder Woman? Without ANY other movie inbetween? Nope, won't be a clusterfuck at all. AT ALL. (And a slap in the face to fans for introducing a new Batman in a Superman movie instead of, you know, a Batman movie)
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Rewatched it, and even though I think the 6 and 7 episodes could've been condensed, it made the Governor's death (spoilerz~~!) that much more satisfying. Really good episode, even if the death WAS telegraphed.
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Pancake day would still do wonders more for the zeitgeist than Black Friday.
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Oh God, Brits think Black Friday is an actual holiday.
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Sad that Bader doesn't even make the posters anymore. Shogun needs a win in the worst way possible.
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Not going to the gym 5 days a week for my health. Full frontal, no hesitation.
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Hysterical that Penn actually thinks he has a chance against Edgar. Some people just don't know when to hold'em and when to fold'em.
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Bad/Unknown/Unpopular Movies You'll Always Defend
Antacular replied to RonL21's topic in MOVIES & TV
"You want sympathy? Look in the dictionary between shit and syphillis. That's where you'll find my sympathy" is a favorite go-to line. -
O fo'sho.
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The "How It Should've Ended" episode for Cap sums up many of my greviances. "You're not out of fuel...."
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Please enumerate its merits.
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Captain America was by far the worst Marvel movie to date not directed by the Crouching Tiger guy. It's not even so-bad-it's-good, it's a guy with only a shield fighting Nazis with frickin' lasers. If Normandy had played out with the same weaponry in the climax for CA we'd all be speaking German right now.
