What was the last movie you've seen?

[Luke]

Waitaminute.

So Nolan and Bale will have influence on Justice League? I am so confused.

Dark Knight was awesome, but I don't want a Nolan-esque grounded JL. I want over the top bad ass action, aliens, and crazy shit happening. For all I care the movie could end with Superman pushing the entire planet Earth a few centimeters to the left to prevent an apocalypse.

[AppleQueso]

Part of me kinda likes the idea because I kinda want to see if/how they'll pull it off.

[indecks]

I just hope they use better art. I haven't finished the Long Halloween, and while the art is 1000x better than Dark Knight Returns, I really don't like that they drew Catwoman as a damn mouse looking character. It looks ridiculous.



Watched the 2nd half of Dark Knight Returns last night. The ending was pretty good. Michael Emerson as Joker has to be one of the worst miscastings of all time, next to Buckaroo Banzai as Batman. And that art. Jesus. I guess it was a little different than part 1, I honestly can't remember, but that EVERYONE IS FAT look just irritates me. I hated it in the comic. It prevented me from reading it for a long time.

[Luke]

Part of me kinda likes the idea because I kinda want to see if/how they'll pull it off.

I don't hate the Bat-grumble, mostly because Batman isn't in much of Nolan's Bat-trilogy, but a movie full of Bat-grumbling would be awful.

And don't we need some Nicky Fury type character that has a reason to bring everyone together? If it is as simple as "Wayne does business in Metropolis, chaos ensues, meets Superman" I will be very underwhelmed.

I've said this since day one; they're scrambling to put this together. If I had the keys to the car, we wouldn't see JL until 2020. I'm still cautiously optimistic, but you don't rush great.

[prfsnl_gmr]

Confidentially Yours (1983) - This was, apparently, Francois Truffaut's final fim. It is a fun, French thriller based on an American crime novel. Despite its relatively young age, it is filmed in black and white, and it feels like a French version of a classic America film noir. At times, however, the movie takes on "dream-like" qualities that reminded me of David Lynch's "Blue Velvet" and "Mulholland Drive". I highly recommend it, and since Truffaut is now two for two with me, I am quickly becoming both a fan of his work and French New Wave cinema in general.

[AppleQueso]

Part of me kinda likes the idea because I kinda want to see if/how they'll pull it off.

I don't hate the Bat-grumble, mostly because Batman isn't in much of Nolan's Bat-trilogy, but a movie full of Bat-grumbling would be awful.

And don't we need some Nicky Fury type character that has a reason to bring everyone together? If it is as simple as "Wayne does business in Metropolis, chaos ensues, meets Superman" I will be very underwhelmed.

I've said this since day one; they're scrambling to put this together. If I had the keys to the car, we wouldn't see JL until 2020. I'm still cautiously optimistic, but you don't rush great.

I feel pretty much the same way. I'm looking forward to it, but I'm not expecting it to be very good... Marvel had their stuff planned from the get go, this just feels so slapped together.

[Luke]

I feel pretty much the same way. I'm looking forward to it, but I'm not expecting it to be very good... Marvel had their stuff planned from the get go, this just feels so slapped together.

In all fairness, Disney and Marvel basically sat down and said "This is a thirty year plan that will be our main bread and butter" and DC responded to execs with "Did you SEE how much money THEY made?!?!".

And at the same time, Marvel has put out some terrible, terrible films, but they were films meant for incremental revenue. This isn't a shoot from the hip situation; DC needs to think everything over. And over. And over again until they have THE perfect formula.

I truly hope for the best, but they're facing a double edged sword: In theory, the longer they spend on production, the better the movie will be...and the longer they wait, the more the fan's interest will wain.

[Retrodude]

I want over the top bad ass action, aliens, and crazy shit happening.

Let me get this straight: you want all of that in a Justice League movie. Green Lantern had all of that but you think it's terrible. Not trying to start an argument, but seriously, what gives?

[fastbilly1]

Death Race 3: Inferno - It is a sequel to the prequel of Death Race - which is a "quasi sequel/remake" of Death Race 2000. As you can imagine, it was crap. Unlike Death Race 2 where the fight scenes and the races made up for the crappy acting, Death Race 3 had nothing going for it at all. Bad showing by Danny Trejo and Ving Rhames. The only redeeming fact of the movie was that it had the same actors as Death Race 2, but thats only goes so far.

Death Race 2000 - My wife had never seen it, and it had been since the early 90s since I watched it, so we enjoyed it Saturday night. It is a great way to end the week, with plenty of vehicular manslaughter and pissed off Slyvestor Stallone. Its hooky, its silly, its over the top, it has more nudity than I remember, but it is still a fun "turn off your brain and enjoy."

[Luke]

I want over the top bad ass action, aliens, and crazy shit happening.

Let me get this straight: you want all of that in a Justice League movie. Green Lantern had all of that but you think it's terrible. Not trying to start an argument, but seriously, what gives?

Quite alright.

Green Lantern had really awful action (it made a human flying as exciting as cleaning base boards), ridiculous aliens that no one cared about, and dumb shit happening all the time (the green bacon suit, the mask, the villain, the plot, the score, the dialogue, the super goofy CGI, the lack of giving a crap about the MAIN character, the ending, the "reveals", and mostly the sheer stupidity of the writing).

It's a very, very dumb movie that makes no sense to anyone with a functioning brain.

And not that a movie has to make sense, it's that the movie should at least tell us why nothing makes sense. There is suspension of belief, and there is simply kidding yourself. GL is terrible.