Comic Book Films & TV

[Meacon Keaton]

19 hours ago, GhostMachine said:

Another big problem with Gotham's first season was Jade Pinkett-Smith. She was hamming it up way too much.

You hush. She can do anything she wants. 😍

[GhostMachine]

1 hour ago, Meacon said:

You hush. She can do anything she wants. 😍

You're just disagreeing with me because THE NEW YORK YANKEES DIDN'T MAKE IT TO THE WORLD SERIES! 

[Meacon Keaton]

I’m disagreeing because she’s a beautiful talented woman and you a fool.

[lanky316]

I've thoroughly enjoyed Gotham, yeah I get the flaws with it but it has a nice mix of grit and ridiculous camp at the same time. Feel it definitely had a slow start but once it settled into the "yeah sure, because Gotham" thing and I just decided to roll with it that I could enjoy it for what it was.

[GhostMachine]

37 minutes ago, Meacon said:

I’m disagreeing because she’s a beautiful talented woman and you a fool.

Yes, she's a beautiful talented woman, but she was awful as Fish Mooney.

 

[I Don't Mind]

I think she got more tolerable in later seasons but you still have to watch her performance through the lens of "trying to be Eartha Kitt Catwoman level hammy"

[Benjamin]

19 hours ago, Lint said:

So three episodes in and I kinda see what some people thought about Ruby Rose playing Kate Kane/Batwoman.  She tends to be very stiff and wooden, which would be great if it was intentional.  But there are times when she should be showing emotion and it just doesn't come across.  There was a scene last week where she was making sniffling sounds and having her voice tremble, like she was crying, but her face just showed nothing like that.  On the other hand, you can tell there was a length of time between the filming of the pilot and E2, because there actually was an improvement in Ruby Rose's acting in the 2nd

Otherwise, the show is pretty good.  The actress playing Alice could, if the movies weren't a thing, play a very good Harley Quinn.  Has that right mix of psychotic/sanity.  And Kates stepsister, Mary, is really well played and hides her own dual roles great.

I've only watched the first two episodes, but I agree with you that all 3 sisters are basically the only good actors in that whole show, but unfortunately it feels like Rose is the worst of the 3. That could be due to her character written as the most wooden, though.

The guy playing the father, though is awful AF. Also terrible is Kate's old flame, she is basically the CW's late 00's casting level of pretty but incredibly wooden. 

[GhostMachine]

The guy playing the father was actually the first choice to play Wolverine, not Hugh Jackman! (He got hurt while filming one of the Mission: Impossible movies, which is why Jackman got the role.)

And yes, the actress playing Kate's ex is pretty bad.

[tristy]

In my opinion - literally everyone on Batwoman is pretty bad except for Rachel Skarsten, who actually injects some fucking personality into the show and her character. Dougray Scott and Ruby Rose are TERRIBLE.

[Benjamin]

The dad is also every terrible CW casting choice of "this is a hot dad". The only time they got that right is Jesse L. Martin, who could play probably every role on the Flash and do it better, anyway. 

[MalaCloudy Black]

Hey, Vin Diesel is doing another comic book movie!
 

 

[Hellraiser]

Why did they have to give away the twist in the trailer?

[MalaCloudy Black]

Jeph Loeb is supposedly meant to announce his exit from Marvel before Thanksgiving.

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The reasoning for the potential move seems linked to the promotion of Loeb’s movie counterpart, Feige. Feige was recently promoted to Marvel Entertainment’s chief creative officer, giving him control not just over movies, but comics, TV, and more. Since then, at least one of Loeb’s shows, Ghost Rider at Hulu, was canceled just as many others, such as Agents of SHIELD and Legion, came to their ends.

 

[tristy]

Good riddance.

[Lint]

Ruby Rose Cutting Back on Stunts Following Batwoman Accident

[GoGo Yubari]

Saw Joker today. I don't think that movie worked for me on any level beyond "Joaquin Phoenix is very good at playing these types of characters," which isn't exactly new news. Maybe a little more pleasant of a surprise was how much I enjoyed De Niro playing Not Jerry Langford, but he's not in it that much.

Reminded me, in a way, of Killing Them Softly, another movie that wasn't poorly made and was well-acted but was just a hopelessly dour watch that I mostly just felt gross for having watched.

[Daniel Bryan]

I thought Joker was pretty poorly made. The dialogue was really cheesy and on-the-nose, and all the stuff that happened to him was way too over-the-top, and it didn't ramp up or build to a "breaking point", it just seemed to happen randomly until the film had been on long enough that, okay, it's time to become The Joker now. I feel like there's a version of this movie that could be really good - the movie that the trailer made it look like - but this wasn't it.

It doesn't work as a Joker origin story on any level either, because the whole "clowns" thing was crow-barred in so they could have an excuse for him to wear the costume, and moreover, by the time the film ends, there's no way I can imagine this guy being a criminal mastermind, running a gang, or surviving on his own for a month.

Joaquin Phoenix was doing a great job with what he was given, but the character made no sense - it vacillated between bitter cynicism and childish naivete so rapidly and with no explanation that it felt like two different drafts had been mixed up and stapled together. It's just a bad movie that will get overrated because it's a different take on a comic book property, but being different doesn't mean it's good.

Edited October 28, 2019 by Daniel Bryan

[GoGo Yubari]

In regards to "poorly made" I think it's more that visually I didn't think the movie was bad, whereas the script/plot is pretty much what drags the whole thing down. For all the Scorsese allusions (which is obviously what it's trying for) it feels more like a awful mix of the "remember this villain? Turns out they had hard times, have a little sympathy!" films that Disney is workshopping like twenty of and Death Wish-esque "boy, cities and everyone in them sure are terrible" vigilante porn.

There's like one scene that I think I came out of the movie genuinely liking a lot, and I realized why only just now.

Spoiler

It's Arthur meeting a young Bruce Wayne. That scene basically has next-to-no words in it, it's just an actor who specializes in physicality doing his thing for a while.

 

[Benjamin]

The part where Arthur Fleck

Spoiler

stared painting his tongue because, y'know, he cray-cray

I basically threw my hands up in the air and just wanted this shitefest to be over. 

[=BK=]

Titans Deathstroke costume is kinda ugly compared to Arrow's.

They put more money into it but the Arrow one just looks more real.