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I really need to catch up on the Godzilla movies.

Scott wrote:

Yeah, this is because she's so over-powered, right? I mean, most of the Avengers mattering at all for most of the current MCU is only because Capt. Marvel is off "saving some other galaxy/universe" or whatever one-liner they always throw out to try to explain why she's not around saving OUR galaxy. Because, is she WAS around, then she'd probably be able to fix it without guys like Ironman or Hawkeye.

@John Yep, that's absolutely why. I wasn't suggesting it should have been different, I'm just looking forward to a movie where she can really use her full power

No one hates Star Wars more than Star Wars fans!

Kommie wrote:

Lol what is this even in reference to?

theJaw wrote:

Maybe it was the other topic where someone was complaining about Star Wars

Yah probably the SW thread where I shared a less-than stellar opinion on a SW movie. “Complaining” is a stretch tho, and I sure don’t hate SW. Love it unconditionally lol

theJaw wrote:

So, is that another big monke? I'm curious now. I'm not that well versed in the lore of the Monsterverse, but I liked GvsK.

John wrote:

Marvel and DC have always had to do that balancing act though. In the comics, you have a lot more than 1 hero in each universe with over the top powersets. The trick has always been to keep Batman, Green Arrow, and Black Canary relevant to a Justice League that has Superman, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern. If the writers are doing their job well, they find a way for everyone to contribute. Hawkeye isn't going to be the guy who fights Thanos hand to hand. But he might be the guy who takes a critical shot or plays keep away with the Infinity Gauntlet long enough for the big guns to do their part.

Yes, and I get that... But, from what I see as a guy who watches movies but has never read the comics, they AREN'T "balancing" her at all. They just have her NOT BE THERE. That's very different than "balancing" things.

She's so over-powered that she doesn't seem able to exist with the rest and have it make sense why they'd need ANYONE else. So they just keep giving us one-liners that she's busy saving some other universe or something.

Well yeah, that was sort of my point. When they do it WELL, it comes off as balanced, and everyone has a reason to be there.

I never said MCU was doing it well with regards to Captain Marvel.

But really, the Avengers still had Thor, Hulk, and Iron Man. Hawkeye and the Widow should have been extraneous, but they weren't. They just haven't figured out yet how to work someone like Danvers into the mix.

I agree that they've done a good job of balancing out the rest of them fighting together. Because, like you said, they somehow make Hawkeye and Widow matter in Avengers.

This movie looks great - like the closest they've come to putting a legit DC comic on screen maybe ever. I'm still extremely weary of Ezra Miller benefiting from the movie, but there are a ton of other people who worked on it and deserve that work to be seen.

I do sorta hate that they had Keaton say THAT line again, but whatev. Gotta have some callbacks I suppose. Otherwise, this looks wild.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4Mpf07DGyc

Also... Michael Keaton is 71-years-old. Whaaaat the fudge.

I'm glad that one person is in this even if it's just as a cameo.

You know who I'm talking about.

I really hope The Flash turns out to be as good as the trailers are making it look!

What's up with the little mini-trailer at the beginning of trailers now that tells us the trailer is about to start?

Yeah, that trailer looks great.

Twisted Metal show with Anthony Mackie …..
https://youtu.be/cYb_HFHJJHs

Ha, just came here to post about Twisted Metal. Not a great teaser... But naively optimistic they may pull it off.

When that show "Sweet Tooth" on Netflix came out, I thought it was a Twisted Metal show. I was like, "when the hell do they start driving cars and shooting each other?"

That Flash trailer looked pretty good. DC gets a bad rep sometimes for their movies. Hopefully this one will be great.

The Twisted Metal trailer was pretty bad, but I like that it doesn't take itself too, too seriously like the original games. If I never hear that awful song again though, it'll be too soon.

Pretty neat that pro wrestler Samoa Joe is playing the physical role of Sweet Tooth's driver (forget his name tbh), but it's a weird decision to have him voiced by Will Arnett haha. But we'll see how it works out.

Haha, how dumb but the url at the end totally paid off.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRwGErGy/

Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJaU2qLwXvs

Also

Not movie, but the announcement trailer for Mortal Kombat 1 just dropped and.. holy $hit!!
https://www.ign.com/videos/mortal-kombat-1-officia...

I am so friggin pumped for this movie, love the animation. Been back in a major TMNT mood lately. Think I might plow through the movies (except 2014) and crack open my DVD box set if the original 80s cartoon.

EDIT: nvm, I guess the trailer I saw yesterday leaked because the link isn’t working anymore and I can’t find it anywhere now. There WAS a new trailer and it was legit because there were new shots/info involved.

Welp here's a new Leo Dicaprio movie. Apparently got a standing O at the Cannes festival and looks pretty interesting. Looking forward to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG0si5bSd6I

Let's just hope that it isn't a 4 hours movie.

Here’s that trailer, it officially dropped today. I love the animation style. Only thing I’m not 100% sold on is this version of Splinter, but I’ll withhold my judgment until I see the movie. Pretty pumped.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IHvzw4Ibuho

Oh. Oh no. No no no no no.

@Foxhack Wahddaya mean?

Everything looks good except for Splinter.

theJaw wrote:

Edit: Oh yeah Splinter. Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. :(

TMNT really turned into 2 separate iterations. The OG Eastman / Laird graphic novels and then the Saturday morning cartoon version. In US the cartoon version is what launched the brand’s popularity - so it feels more canonical to most of us- even though the source is much darker and different.

I’ve read a good portion of the original comics (and the following runs), but it hasn’t been for years. I guess I just conflated the cartoons with the comics, could’ve sworn he eventually becomes a fly in any iteration but I guess not.

Wish I had the spare cash to pick up a few of the trade paperbacks and read through them again.

He was almost never a human (origin story stuff) in any of the popular stuff. Cartoons, movies, games etc.

Baxter = Fly in my book

Animation looks jerky to me, like fake claymation.

Same. I thought of claymation immediately. I guess this is what they are going for?

theJaw wrote:



Time to play six-degrees of separation!

So, the guy who produced the actual photographic plates seen towards the end of this trailer is the same guy I helped open an analog community darkroom here in New Hampshire.

Jason Lane, who goes by Pictoriographica, was flown out for a week to coat his own ambrotype dry plates. The plates then went to the photographer, and after the exposures were made, given back to Jason so he could develop them in a darkroom-tent set up in the movie studio. After each plate was developed, they would take a cell phone shot and sent it to Martin Scorsese to get his approval.

On the last day, they finished early and the photographer and Jason got to walk over to where DeNiro and DiCapprio were filming a scene and watch.

They didn't allow an assistant otherwise I would have gone (they had one on set already)

www.photoretro.biz is the place we created.