Topic: The Movie Thread

@JohnnyShoulder Flashpoint is easily my favorite of the "Crisis" events. It's a really sick time travelling story with a lot of emotional weight that really hones in on Barry Allen's insecurities about his mother's death. I don't expect the film to be nearly as good but Keaton returning to the role and giving that proper resolution after he was booted off of Shumacher's films is nice to see

@TheFrenchiestFry Is that the whole crossover event with all the DC TV shows? The only one I watch is Titans and I don't think is connected to any of those.

@LN78 Yeah Tenet maybe, I wasn't keen on Interstellar and skipped Dunkirk (don't really like World War I and II movies). Like most of the Craig Bond's apart from Spectre. Not seen a film in the cinema since Infinity War and begrudge paying 20 quid (either at the cinema or home viewing) when i could rent it in a few months for a fraction of the cost. But I have no issue of dropping 15 quid on a 4K blu ray that i know I will like.

Holy f*ck, even unrelated topics end up circling back to Toby Kebbell. And people say Kevin Bacon’s everywhere!

@LN78 I went to the cinema to see Interstellar and it works well as a popcorn movie but falls apart on closer inspection. Plus it’s bloody long and the last half hour the sole thought on my mind was “I need to pee”. I’m really not a Nolan fan though, Begins is my favourite one of his Batman movies but I personally enjoy the trashy Forever to the Nolan ones even though it’s terrible. Plus I kinda like the neon-soaked Gotham, it’s like the Dick Tracy movie but not as bad, if not by much.

@LN78 Keaton’s a great Batman, the right amount of brooding and quietly menacing without sounding ridiculous like Bale’s horrible Bat-voice. It’ll be interesting to see where they go with Flashpoint, I wonder if we’ll see a Dark Knight Returns inspired Gotham with Keaton, or possibly even Batman Beyond, with Flash being mentored by an ageing Bruce Wayne. When I binged the DC movies earlier in the year, I actually enjoyed BvS a lot more once I decided to just take it at face value. There’s lots that just does not work, same as most DCEU movies but it’s not quite Justice League levels. This period will be the real test for DC, Marvel will be in an odd place for the next year or two and they should really be capitalising. If The Batman does well, Flashpoint could be the perfect way to incorporate it into the main DCEU.

@JohnnyShoulder Crisis on Infinite Earths from the Arrowverse is based on the original comic event but generally when there's a major catclysmic event in DC Comics that usually results in the resettting of the entire multiverse/a way for the comics to start fresh with continuity, those events are collectively referred to as Crisis events, in reference to the first one being Crisis on Infinite Earths

the other ones are Zero Crisis, Infinite Crisis, Final Crisis, Flashpoint, Convergence (the worst one) and the most recent one being Dark Nights: Metal/Death Metal

@LN78 Great drinking game!

Liked pretty much all of Nolan's films except for Interstellar. Just found it a bit boring and then when he was throwing books from the shelf I almost burst into laughter.

@nessisonett This is slowly becoming an unofficial Toby Kebbel fan page.

@nessisonett If those same reports about Keaton's casting are to be believed then it looks like they're doing a multiverse setup specific to DC's various movie continuities, with Keaton's Batman being the exact same one from the two Burton films, while completely ignoring Forever and Batman & Robin.

Also very unpopular opinion but I just could never get BvS to click with me but even if Justice League is a complete mess in terms of both being a standalone story, and being in the same continuity as Superjesus and Death by Crates Batman, I could tell that a good movie was trying to get out somewhere in there. A specific scene I actually really liked was when Batman was telling the Flash to save at least one person when he says he's used to running into and pushing bad guys over.

@nessisonett @LN78 @JohnnyShoulder Six Degrees of Toby Kebbell could be a winner. Like a sort of hard mode version of the Kevin Bacon one.

While we're on Christopher Nolan, I'm just going to drop in a quick mention for The Prestige. One of my favourite films.

@TheFrenchiestFry I wouldn’t blame anyone for not enjoying BvS, it took me a long time to get past the clear nonsense and appreciate what it does OK. Justice League was just plain messy, the jokes were completely at odds with the rest of the movie and were corny, Cyborg was woefully misused (hearing more about Whedon, don’t have to guess why) and the villain was just plain strange. Add a generic MacGuffin plot and it just about qualified as a movie. It is a movie. It has that going for it at least. There were moments that almost felt like it would be interesting though, I’m hoping the Snyder Cut sorts some of it because it’ll also be under less studio scrutiny.

@nessisonett Honestly even if the Snyder Cut ends up being better than the theatrically released product, I don't expect Steppenwolf to be any more developed. Even in the comics the only thing that was really that interesting about him came from his relation to Darkseid, who was a much more compelling villain to begin with. Cyborg got screwed hard based on all the origin stuff being cut from the final film and my problem wasn't really just that the jokes didn't land, but for what Snyder tried to set up with these characters, the jokes that Whedon writes just don't work with them the same way they did with the MCU cast. Like I'm happy Superman was acting more along the lines of what I expected from the character to begin with but that wasn't what Snyder intended. It was too obvious that Whedon was basically putting his fingerprints all over that cut of the film, and it even might be in part due to corporate tampering as a result of the financial and critical response to BvS

Day 1085 of begging Universal to make up with Marvel so we can finally get a really good Hulk film and tie up that loose end with Leader

@LN78 Shattered Glass was like the only time Hayden Christensen wasn't stuck acting off a script that wasn't complete garbage.

@LN78 Literally every film Christensen did post-Star Wars looked like a cheap direct-to-video action film

Jumper was woefully generic and unexciting and he was really bad in it

@LN78 I've been burnt by Zaavi too many times in the past, they continually sell stuff which is out of stock. So I only use Amazon and HMV for my 4k blu rays these days.

Flash G sounds good, I looked on Amazon last week and it wasn't available until later in the month.

Just going to drop this in here. This film came out in 2018.

@nessisonett Does she not know he turns into Darth Vader?

@LN78 Yeah used to buy stuff off them all the time, but the last few times it's always been out of stock after I've placed the order and then weeks before back in stock.

@LN78 That's what I went for the 2 for 30 quid deal, but both films were out of stock. So I went on the HMV site who had a similar deal and at least they are clear when stuff is out of stock so I know not to buy them in the first place.