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It was all worth it for the long con!

Zack Snyder’s last two action films before Man of Steel were both serious under performers. Watchmen barely made a profit, with a $130 million production budget it managed to take in $185 million. Meanwhile, Sucker Punch with a production budget of $82 million, barely made $89 million which is gonna be a loss for the studio once you factor in whatever the promotional budget was.

He has a consistent track record of middling performance at the box office. Not the ideal candidate to hand your multi-billion dollar franchise to. Which Warner Brothers has finally learned as they’ve quietly moved him more toward a producer role while giving Ben Affleck more agency in his place.

They could have given the film to Uwe Boll and it would have made as much. That all has to do with the subject matter, the director was not at all the draw for that film. And as they learned after the massive second weekend drop off, you do actually have to make a good movie to have any kind of staying power.

suspiciouscoffee said:

Yeah, at least Donner had respect for some version of the character (that seemingly being Silver/Bronze Age). Snyder seems to hate all versions of Superman through the years to the point where he is hell bent on ruining Superman for everyone as we stand helpless to do anything about it.

These quotes sum up Snyder’s view of super heroes:

Zack Snyder said:

You could call it “high-brow” comics, but to me, that comic book was just pretty sexy! I had a buddy who tried getting me into “normal” comic books, but I was all like, “No one is having sex or killing each other. This isn’t really doing it for me.” I was a little broken, that way. So when Watchmen came along, I was, “This is more my scene.”

Everyone says that about [Christopher Nolan’s] Batman Begins. “Batman’s dark.” I’m like, okay, “No, Batman’s cool.” He gets to go to a Tibetan monastery and be trained by ninjas. Okay? I want to do that. But he doesn’t, like, get raped in prison. That could happen in my movie. If you want to talk about dark, that’s how that would go.

Why DC ever handed over the cinematic keys to him, I’ll never know.

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Shouldn’t be that complicated since they’re just babies throughout that trilogy right? My version of this is probably the more complicated one, where I replace Dash Rendar and Leebo in Shadows of the Empire with Kyle Katarn and Jan Ors.

Lord Haseo said:

I think they handled it pretty well despite the shitty premise. The “duel” would have been less than 10 seconds if it were in film or TV and it sewed the seeds of Vader finding out he had a son. Though he could have found that out some other way such as having looking at Luke through a security recording and seeing his old lightsaber and putting two and two together later on.

Meh, it was awful. Vader’s quest for the pilot who destroyed the Death Star in the original Marvel run was pretty epic. Through multiple issues he hunted down any leads he could find to discover the name of the pilot before he finally succeeded:

I wouldn’t get too hyped. They screen the films every Celebration. Last year’s had the premiere of AOTC and ROTS in 3D.

Earl said:

I missed a majority of E3, were there any embarrassing moments worth mentioning? At this point I barely watch E3 for the games anyway.

Here you go.

Well this is some exciting news. Back when the idea of Sony rebooting Spider-Man for the third time was a real possibility, many people suggested that Donald Glover should become the newest incarnation of the character, but instead of the classic version of Peter Parker, that Sony should adapt Miles Morales to the big screen. That has obviously not been the case, and after Tom Holland‘s performance in Captain America: Civil War, it is hard to argue that Sony and Marvel made the wrong choice. That said, Glover has previously expressed his desire to play the character and while that probably won’t ever happen for him, he is going to be involved with the universe.

The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Glover is in talks to join Spider-Man: Homecoming in an unknown role, with Deadline (also claiming the exclusive mysteriously enough) reporting that he is joining, seeming as the deal has already closed. No word has come out just yet about who he could be playing but getting someone as charismatic as Glover to be involved is always great. He joins Michael Keaton, Zendaya, Tony Revolori, Laura Harrier, Kenneth Choi, and Michael Barbieri as the supporting characters in the film, with Robert Downey Jr. and Marisa Tomei returning as Tony Stark and Aunt May respectively.

Lord Haseo said:

I wouldn’t mind Link being an actual character this time around. I know for the longest we were supposed to project ourselves onto Link but having him at least talking what freshen things up a bit.

Be careful what you wish for…

Seeing it projected in 70MM IMAX was absolutely stunning. I feel bad for everyone that missed out on that experience.

TV’s Frink said:
I would have pointed this out privately if I could have thought of a way to do it.

DIFFERENT THREAD

Star Wars
Original Marvel Star Wars (up until the ROTJ adaptation)
Star Wars newspaper strip
The Star Wars Holiday Special
Han Solo at Stars’ End
Han Solo’s Revenge
Han Solo and the Lost Legacy
Star Wars Radio Adaptation
Rebel Mission to Ord Mantell
The Empire Strikes Back
The Empire Strikes Back Radio Adaptation
Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu
Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon
Lando Calrissian and the Starcave of ThonBoka
Return of the Jedi
The Caravan of Courage
The Battle For Endor
Star Wars: Droids: The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO
Star Tours

Lord Haseo said:
Yes, that specifically is a joke but other than a remaster that hasn’t even came out yet (and can be changed) what bad remasters are there?

Off the top of my head…
Sleeping Dogs Definitive Edition
GTA: San Andreas
Silent Hill HD
Age of Empires II HD

Lord Haseo said:

I tend to stick to the originals no matter what type of music I listen to. So much can go wrong with remasters. but not with video games though. Video game remasters are always good.

This is a joke right?

SilverWook said:

They may simply want it to come out later so as to not spoil the movie.

That would defeat its purpose. It was supposed to lead right into the start of the film.

I never gave the hullabaloo about the reshoots any credence but it is odd Marvel cancelled their tie-in comic to the film suddenly, without warning. Everyone who preordered was given a full refund.

There are no hard dates that are agreed upon by everyone. It varies from institution to institution.

*RESUMES BANISHMENT

*BANNED FROM THREAD.

TV’s Frink said:

Tyrphanax said:

I like the raptor tease.

Is that the part where it shows a bit of leg?

Here’s a very interesting interview with Marquand for anyone interested.