And for that matter, is Dr.Fate still a thing? He's been around since the damn Golden Age but he feels more neglected than Slapstick some times.
[Movies] The DC Cinematic Universe - The David Zazlav Dumpster Fire.
GasBandit
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He got a lot of screentime toward the end of JLU, but I dunno about since then.
I think the problem with Fate is you have to literally establish at least two characters for him. Fate himself, and the vessel. Young Justice did a pretty good job of it, and I remember reading a recent-ish run of one of those Elseworld or whatever lines that had a pretty cool version of him.
I assumed he meant "super" friends.
REALLY hoping this is the "Punch people in the face" Etta Candy, not the really sad about her weight Etta Candy that they did in the 80s I think.
No one is happy when Zatanna shows up because it usually means...
- Things are about to get weird
- It's unlikely they will be able to do fuck all to help
- They don't know if they are getting straight-laced, ready to throw down, stage magician Zatanna or been up since 5am yesterday, having magic drug fueled sex with John Constantine and now has a hangover Zatanna.
Okay, this is definitely not the Zatanna I remember. Well, then.No one is happy when Zatanna shows up because it usually means...
- Things are about to get weird
- It's unlikely they will be able to do fuck all to help
- They don't know if they are getting straight-laced, ready to throw down, stage magician Zatanna or been up since 5am yesterday, having magic drug fueled sex with John Constantine and now has a hangover Zatanna.
The thing with Zatanna is that she's been used in both classic DC comics (where she was a powerful magician but really loved her Stage Magician motif) AND Vertigo comics in the 90's and 2000's (where she would show up in Hellblazer and do stuff like the aforementioned druggy sex magic). Her new 52 incarnation is sort of a mix between the two, leaning more towards the Vertigo side. Which is a shame because her solo series was great, but it was one of many things sacrificed for the new 52 line and Justice League Dark isn't nearly as interesting.
Ironically, Justice League Dark already has most of my dream team for another Seven Soldiers of Victory reboot: John Constantine, Zatanna, Jason Blood and The Demon, and Swamp Thing. Toss in Klarion the Witchboy, Dr. Fate, and maybe the werewolf version of Vigilante and you have the makings of a fun ensemble movie.
How is that even possible?
Well.... at least people knew who Superman and Batman were. The suicide squad are made of mostly unknowns (to the general public). If you are going to do that you need to do a great job portraying those characters (see Guardians of the Galaxy for info on how to do this right). These guys can't even get Superman and Batman right.... how do you think they are going to handle more nuanced folk like the squad?
Is this from the same sources saying that Ghostbusters was terrible and unwatchable?
It's not the same people making the two movies. Different directors, different writers. I think the only common actor is Ben Affleck.
You either need your eyes checked, or you've already gone blind.
They = WB
Green Lantern was also done by different writers and directors.... but it was still WB.
That's really not relevant though to the movie itself. Despite what the law says, corporations are not people; they don't make decisions, they have people in them that do. The only relation Green Lantern has to the DCEU is that he's not in it because his movie did so poorly.
As it is, before BvS, there was no overhead for this continuity of DC movies. No one at WB thought that was important at the time. Suicide Squad was pretty much finished besides the reshoots at that point, so it's not even certain it has the same producer. You don't make a movie by twisting a knob on the distributor of choice machine and out pops a movie. It's people making it, step by step, and on a fine detail like character nuance, it's going to come down to the labor level of the actors, writers, director, and (sometimes) the editors. Unless a command comes down from the executive producers, like the reshoots, it's not going to touch details like that.
It's why we blame Snyder for BvS. WB let him have his way, and he did, so the responsibility is on him. For Justice League, there's now an overhead to the project, and Ben Affleck is not only a leading actor but an executive producer taking a hands-on approach to the project. But in each step, it's still people. WB is a brand. You can also find it on lots of things.
The reason we go over all this production nonsense is because the causes for a movie to be good or bad isn't as simple as an amorphous "they."
Tracking stuff/buzz is putting Suicide Squad at a $140 million opening, which would break Guardians' August record and also confirm Suicide Squad as a better film
That's some juicy bait, let's see who bites.
Meh, it's no fun arguing with a troll that obvious.
http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2016/08/suicide-squad-review
After 24 reviews it's at 38% on RT.
Sorry, was about to edit it in.That is a picture of some text.
A link would be nice. Or heck, just mentioning the source.
It's cool. I just needed context.
My store gave away some advance screening tickets this weekend. The showing is tonight, and while I have no interest in the movie I suspect it's going to nail the audience it's aiming for.
"Suicide Squad is even worse than Fantastic Four."
Yowza.
Yowza.
Okay so they = the idiots who think they can achieve what a rival studio has without doing any of the legwork. You are crazy if you think the higher ups at WB studios have no effect on the movies the studio makes. They, the studio executives make decisions that trickle down and directly affect the directors and writers of their movies all the time. Who made the decision to go back and focus the re-shoots on lightening the tone of Suicide Squad? Who originally gave Snyder carte blanche to make BvS and are now backpedaling from that decision? I blame Snyder for making a poor Superman movie but I put the blame on the studio heads for where the DC movieverse is right now and I think the quality of the movies shows that.
It'll never happen in a million years, but it'd be hilarious if Nine Lives beat Suicide Squad for the #1 spot this weekend.