Dark Knight Rises Spoiler Edition

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[quote]BradTGIF wrote:

[quote]roybot wrote:

[quote]DBCooper wrote:
I’ve got a question for you all. I was reading on some website that it’s pretty much a certainty that Warner Brothers is going to reboot the Batman franchise once again, in conjunction with the planned Justice League film. I assume the Batman film(s) that will come out in the next couple years will be tied into the JL thing.

I really, really, really hope that WB doesn’t reboot Batman by giving us another origin story to start off with. I think it’s safe to say that anyone who knows who Batman is knows exactly how he came to be.[/quote]

The success (or failure) of Man of Steel will dictate how quickly they re-do Batman. MoS is a stand-alone movie, so they’d have to let that franchise run before moving ahead with team-up movies. Assuming MoS is a success, I’d say it’d be at least four years before we see a new Batman movie.

If MoS tanks, they may have cold feet about doing a ‘Justice League initiative’ and a Batman who shares a world with Superman, Flash, GL, Wonder Woman, etc. would have to eschew the gritty realism of Nolan in favor of something more fantastical.[/quote]

The Justice League film, for my moviegoing dollar, should be set in a Nolan landscape.

His films are beautiful to look at, yet they’re earnest and set realisticly. And they’re PIMP. Hot cars, great clothes… I mean, I watched ‘Inception’ and thought “Damn I need to upgrade my wardrobe.”

Having the Justice league formed into one film would need Nolans’ influence or else it’ll come off too goofy.
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The problem is that most of the Justice League roster are inherently far-fetched. The Green Lantern movie was closer in tone to what Marvel are currently doing. Nolan or whoever will marshall Justice League and its intro movies would be hard pressed to keep that level of realism when super-powered individuals are involved.

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[quote]roybot wrote:

[quote]BradTGIF wrote:

[quote]roybot wrote:

[quote]DBCooper wrote:
I’ve got a question for you all. I was reading on some website that it’s pretty much a certainty that Warner Brothers is going to reboot the Batman franchise once again, in conjunction with the planned Justice League film. I assume the Batman film(s) that will come out in the next couple years will be tied into the JL thing.

I really, really, really hope that WB doesn’t reboot Batman by giving us another origin story to start off with. I think it’s safe to say that anyone who knows who Batman is knows exactly how he came to be.[/quote]

The success (or failure) of Man of Steel will dictate how quickly they re-do Batman. MoS is a stand-alone movie, so they’d have to let that franchise run before moving ahead with team-up movies. Assuming MoS is a success, I’d say it’d be at least four years before we see a new Batman movie.

If MoS tanks, they may have cold feet about doing a ‘Justice League initiative’ and a Batman who shares a world with Superman, Flash, GL, Wonder Woman, etc. would have to eschew the gritty realism of Nolan in favor of something more fantastical.[/quote]

The Justice League film, for my moviegoing dollar, should be set in a Nolan landscape.

His films are beautiful to look at, yet they’re earnest and set realisticly. And they’re PIMP. Hot cars, great clothes… I mean, I watched ‘Inception’ and thought “Damn I need to upgrade my wardrobe.”

Having the Justice league formed into one film would need Nolans’ influence or else it’ll come off too goofy.
[/quote]

The problem is that most of the Justice League roster are inherently far-fetched. The Green Lantern movie was closer in tone to what Marvel are currently doing. Nolan or whoever will marshall Justice League and its intro movies would be hard pressed to keep that level of realism when super-powered individuals are involved. [/quote]

Well, Nolan and his team had me believe that a rubber hose connected to a briefcase made everyone dream in the same world through all kinds of levels all the way down to purgatory.

It’s not impossible.

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I hope MoS bombs worse than Gigli. I would rather get crabs from a tranny hooker than watch a Superman movie.

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[quote]Steel Nation wrote:
I hope MoS bombs worse than Gigli. I would rather get crabs from a tranny hooker than watch a Superman movie.[/quote]

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[quote]BradTGIF wrote:

[quote]roybot wrote:

[quote]BradTGIF wrote:

[quote]roybot wrote:

[quote]DBCooper wrote:
I’ve got a question for you all. I was reading on some website that it’s pretty much a certainty that Warner Brothers is going to reboot the Batman franchise once again, in conjunction with the planned Justice League film. I assume the Batman film(s) that will come out in the next couple years will be tied into the JL thing.

I really, really, really hope that WB doesn’t reboot Batman by giving us another origin story to start off with. I think it’s safe to say that anyone who knows who Batman is knows exactly how he came to be.[/quote]

The success (or failure) of Man of Steel will dictate how quickly they re-do Batman. MoS is a stand-alone movie, so they’d have to let that franchise run before moving ahead with team-up movies. Assuming MoS is a success, I’d say it’d be at least four years before we see a new Batman movie.

If MoS tanks, they may have cold feet about doing a ‘Justice League initiative’ and a Batman who shares a world with Superman, Flash, GL, Wonder Woman, etc. would have to eschew the gritty realism of Nolan in favor of something more fantastical.[/quote]

The Justice League film, for my moviegoing dollar, should be set in a Nolan landscape.

His films are beautiful to look at, yet they’re earnest and set realisticly. And they’re PIMP. Hot cars, great clothes… I mean, I watched ‘Inception’ and thought “Damn I need to upgrade my wardrobe.”

Having the Justice league formed into one film would need Nolans’ influence or else it’ll come off too goofy.
[/quote]

The problem is that most of the Justice League roster are inherently far-fetched. The Green Lantern movie was closer in tone to what Marvel are currently doing. Nolan or whoever will marshall Justice League and its intro movies would be hard pressed to keep that level of realism when super-powered individuals are involved. [/quote]

Well, Nolan and his team had me believe that a rubber hose connected to a briefcase made everyone dream in the same world through all kinds of levels all the way down to purgatory.

It’s not impossible.
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No, but Inception with its crew of dream jackers is a far more heightened reality/ unreality than the Batman movies, where villains were included or excluded based on how believable they were.

Inception followed a different set of rules and the less believable aspects were explained away by staging them in the subconscious. We can all fly in dreams.

There isn’t a lot of creative wiggle room when you have to deal with a corps of power ring wielding aliens who fight physical battles using constucts of light in the real world. Batman as a JL member can’t set the boundaries of realism then; WB would have to take a leaf out of Marvel’s comic book and gradually introduce the viewer to a realistic world which gradually opens into something more extraordinary.

It’s always going to be the more out-there characters that’ll dictate how grounded the story will be. Nolan was able to excise meta-humans completely to service the realism, and not coincidentally, any hints at the superhuman abilities were placed in the psyche: Ra’s immortality was a trick of the mind and Scarecrow’s gas conjured waking nightmares

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[quote]Steel Nation wrote:
I hope MoS bombs worse than Gigli. I would rather get crabs from a tranny hooker than watch a Superman movie.[/quote]

If it bombs, I doubt WB will attempt a JL franchise. They’ll probably forget it and forge ahead with a Batman reboot.

Marvel really doesn’t get the credit they deserve for getting as far as a team-up movie.

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[quote]roybot wrote:

[quote]Steel Nation wrote:
I hope MoS bombs worse than Gigli. I would rather get crabs from a tranny hooker than watch a Superman movie.[/quote]

If it bombs, I doubt WB will attempt a JL franchise. They’ll probably forget it and forge ahead with a Batman reboot.

Marvel really doesn’t get the credit they deserve for getting as far as a team-up movie. [/quote]

In Whedon we trust!

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That’d be kinda cool if it turns out Superman rescued Batman at the end of The Dark Knight Rises with his near light speed.

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[quote]jskrabac wrote:
That’d be kinda cool if it turns out Superman rescued Batman at the end of The Dark Knight Rises with his near light speed. [/quote]
x2

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[quote]BradTGIF wrote:

[quote]roybot wrote:

[quote]Steel Nation wrote:
I hope MoS bombs worse than Gigli. I would rather get crabs from a tranny hooker than watch a Superman movie.[/quote]

If it bombs, I doubt WB will attempt a JL franchise. They’ll probably forget it and forge ahead with a Batman reboot.

Marvel really doesn’t get the credit they deserve for getting as far as a team-up movie. [/quote]

In Whedon we trust![/quote]

Whedon = geek god.

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Just saw the movie for a second time…wasn’t impressed. I see a lot of issues with this film.

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[quote]roybot wrote:

[quote]BradTGIF wrote:

[quote]roybot wrote:

[quote]Steel Nation wrote:
I hope MoS bombs worse than Gigli. I would rather get crabs from a tranny hooker than watch a Superman movie.[/quote]

If it bombs, I doubt WB will attempt a JL franchise. They’ll probably forget it and forge ahead with a Batman reboot.

Marvel really doesn’t get the credit they deserve for getting as far as a team-up movie. [/quote]

In Whedon we trust![/quote]

Whedon = geek god.[/quote]

F…

F…

Firefly…

breaks down sobbing

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[quote]Phoenix44e wrote:
Just saw the movie for a second time…wasn’t impressed. I see a lot of issues with this film.[/quote]

And yet IMAX will disappear them…

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I’ve seen it twice. First time in IMAX, second time on a normal screen.

Question is, should I see it a third…in IMAX?!

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[quote]jskrabac wrote:
That’d be kinda cool if it turns out Superman rescued Batman at the end of The Dark Knight Rises with his near light speed. [/quote]

No, it wouldn’t be cool at all, because Superman sucks.

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[quote]Steel Nation wrote:

[quote]jskrabac wrote:
That’d be kinda cool if it turns out Superman rescued Batman at the end of The Dark Knight Rises with his near light speed. [/quote]

No, it wouldn’t be cool at all, because Superman sucks.[/quote]

ORLY?

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[quote]super saiyan wrote:

[quote]Steel Nation wrote:

[quote]jskrabac wrote:
That’d be kinda cool if it turns out Superman rescued Batman at the end of The Dark Knight Rises with his near light speed. [/quote]

No, it wouldn’t be cool at all, because Superman sucks.[/quote]

ORLY?[/quote]

Really, and that gif illustrates exactly why he sucks. It’s not because he’s a pussy, it’s because he’s so powerful that he’s boring. It’s like beating Doom with god mode enabled. It removes the essence of what makes it entertaining: that the hero could fail.

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[quote]Steel Nation wrote:

[quote]super saiyan wrote:

[quote]Steel Nation wrote:

[quote]jskrabac wrote:
That’d be kinda cool if it turns out Superman rescued Batman at the end of The Dark Knight Rises with his near light speed. [/quote]

No, it wouldn’t be cool at all, because Superman sucks.[/quote]

ORLY?[/quote]

Really, and that gif illustrates exactly why he sucks. It’s not because he’s a pussy, it’s because he’s so powerful that he’s boring. It’s like beating Doom with god mode enabled. It removes the essence of what makes it entertaining: that the hero could fail.[/quote]

the upcoming movie Man of Steel is actually based of newer interpretations of Superman which leave him with much fewer powers and overall more vulnerable. I might actually be able to get behind that.

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[quote]Steel Nation wrote:

[quote]super saiyan wrote:

[quote]Steel Nation wrote:

[quote]jskrabac wrote:
That’d be kinda cool if it turns out Superman rescued Batman at the end of The Dark Knight Rises with his near light speed. [/quote]

No, it wouldn’t be cool at all, because Superman sucks.[/quote]

ORLY?[/quote]

Really, and that gif illustrates exactly why he sucks. It’s not because he’s a pussy, it’s because he’s so powerful that he’s boring. It’s like beating Doom with god mode enabled. It removes the essence of what makes it entertaining: that the hero could fail.[/quote]

He’s not invincible. Is the Hulk boring to you?

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No I saw it both times in imax…i dunno just wasn’t that good of a movie. Bring on the next Batman