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  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    Yeah man! Which Arkham game is that?
    Arkham Origins- and no matter how patient you may be, that part of the game WILL make you swear like a sailor!!!

    Ha ha I am ashamed to admit I have only played the first Arkham game.

    @fire_and_ice, being the Batman fan you are, they are must plays. City and Knight are two of the greatest Batman simulators masquerading as video games that we will ever have.
    I am hit and miss with gaming I can go several months not playing anything, I'll get Knight on Xbox One I have almost bought it a few times.

    @fire_and_ice, I would suggest getting and playing City first. Without that, the best parts of Knight will largely be lost on you. I can't tell you much more beyond that, but I assure you City has the best story of the lot and is full of the most "bangs."
  • CraigMooreOHMSSCraigMooreOHMSS Dublin, Ireland
    Posts: 8,218
    doubleoego wrote: »

    On a related note, this puts things into a little perspective.

    Summer-2016-Biggest-Winners-Bloomberg.jpg

    Disney are absolutely killing it with those high profit numbers.

    Very surprising to see Suicide Squad so high on the list after everything!
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    What "everything" is that? A couple of doom-sayers on here?
  • doubleoegodoubleoego #LightWork
    Posts: 11,139
    doubleoego wrote: »

    On a related note, this puts things into a little perspective.

    Summer-2016-Biggest-Winners-Bloomberg.jpg

    Disney are absolutely killing it with those high profit numbers.

    Very surprising to see Suicide Squad so high on the list after everything!

    If a transformers movie came out this summer it would be high on the list too.



  • CraigMooreOHMSSCraigMooreOHMSS Dublin, Ireland
    Posts: 8,218
    What "everything" is that? A couple of doom-sayers on here?

    And everywhere else. Not only talking about the reception of the film, though. The rumours surrounding production cost put the profit margin as considerably lower.
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
    Posts: 23,883
    It's still doing quite well at the box office, and may pull in about $320m stateside, which is that not far off the BvS total. Not bad given that BvS had DC's biggest brands in it.
  • Seven_Point_Six_FiveSeven_Point_Six_Five Southern California
    edited September 2016 Posts: 1,257
    Billy Crudup cast as Henry Allen, father of Barry Allen, in The Flash movie.

    http://comicbook.com/2016/09/09/billy-crudup-cast-as-barry-allens-dad-in-the-flash-movie/

    Edit:

    To be more precise, comicbook.com's source ,Variety, only reported Crudup "is in talks" for the role.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
    Posts: 28,694
    As long as Crudup keeps his pants on in this one, it's a-okay with me. ;)
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    As long as Crudup keeps his pants on in this one, it's a-okay with me. ;)

    What s that? Does he like to flash?
  • Seven_Point_Six_FiveSeven_Point_Six_Five Southern California
    edited September 2016 Posts: 1,257
    As long as Crudup keeps his pants on in this one, it's a-okay with me. ;)

    What s that? Does he like to flash?

    Dr. Manhattan sure does

  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
    Posts: 28,694
    As long as Crudup keeps his pants on in this one, it's a-okay with me. ;)

    What s that? Does he like to flash?

    Dr. Manhattan sure does


    I can always count on you for the come-through, @Seven_Point_Six_Five. Cheers.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Watchmen is a work of art.
  • doubleoegodoubleoego #LightWork
    Posts: 11,139
    The graphic novel is; but the film itself is dogshit.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    doubleoego wrote: »
    The graphic novel is; but the film itself is dogshit.

    It s one of my favourites. Don t step on it.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Wait...one of the "fan complaints" of a movie called 'Batman v Superman' is that Batman tried to kill Superman?...

    I might as well pop in 'The Passion of the Christ' and then lose my cool over how religious the movie is.
  • doubleoegodoubleoego #LightWork
    Posts: 11,139
    doubleoego wrote: »
    The graphic novel is; but the film itself is dogshit.

    It s one of my favourites. Don t step on it.

    I actively avoid stepping on dogshit ;)
  • Agent007391Agent007391 Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start
    Posts: 7,854
    Creasy47 wrote: »
    Wait...one of the "fan complaints" of a movie called 'Batman v Superman' is that Batman tried to kill Superman?...

    "Versus" does not immediately imply that one wants to kill the other, otherwise every boxing match would immediately be declared manslaughter. The problem was Batman's motivations, Superman's automatic belief in Luthor's "you can't stay good in this world" BS, and the end of the fight itself being that Superman and Batman's mothers share a common name.

    Bruce Wayne watches two people fighting in a debris shower and devotes the next 18 months of Superman saving people toward plotting the Kryptonian's downfall. It doesn't matter to him which of the two people in the fight was fighting to save humanity from the other one. People bitched about Superman's neck snapping of Zod in Man of Steel, despite the fact that the neck snap was actually justified because Superman was saving people from a ruthless tyrant. In Batman V Superman, Batman just sets toward killing Superman for no reason whatsoever. In the comics, Batman merely keeps Kryptonite ready as a last ditch effort. He doesn't want to kill him, nor does he equate Superman's death with hunting down animals to skin them and sell the pelts. His motivations are nonsensical and pointless.

    Ultimately, Batman V Superman in the title was there to get people to watch it. DC didn't have enough faith in their cinematic universe to just call the movie Dawn of Justice, or even World's Finest. The fact that it takes 2 hours for the movie to even arrive at the Batman V Superman fight and then it's over in 5 minutes to make way for a Doomsday fight that lasts longer and did not need to be there is also a problem.

    I now leave room for somebody to defend the "Martha" scene. Do it. Seriously.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
    Posts: 28,694
    Beautiful, @Agent007391, just beautiful. It's great having you and @doubleoego around here so that I have help making all these arguments for why this film doesn't work on so many levels. I'd be tired if it was just my fight. We're the true superhero trinity here!
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    What are your powers?
  • Agent007391Agent007391 Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start
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    Now I just need to snag a job as a critic so that I could get paid for this.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
    edited September 2016 Posts: 28,694
    What are your powers?

    Keen insight, analytical prowess, eloquence in speech...maybe more? Me and @doubleoego can even solve a Rubik's cube with just our feet, blindfolded and hanging upside down...if that counts.

    Our kryptonite and greatest weakness? Zack Snyder.
  • I have just rewatched Man of Steel Superman gets such a bad wrap, the world engine was going to rip the planet apart and kill every human on earth. [-( BvS has major issues though I just accept it for what it is, there are so many great graphic novels and animated movies I don't lose sleep over Bvs though I expect vast improvements with upcoming movies. I have faith in Geoff John's.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    What are your powers?

    Keen insight, analytical prowess, eloquence in speech...maybe more? Me and @doubleoego can even solve a Rubik's cube with just our feet, blindfolded and hanging upside down...if that counts.

    Our kryptonite and greatest weakness? Zack Snyder.

    If you are blindfolded, no wonder you think you solved it. You really didn t.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
    Posts: 28,694
    I have just rewatched Man of Steel Superman gets such a bad wrap, the world engine was going to rip the planet apart and kill every human on earth. [-( BvS has major issues though I just accept it for what it is, there are so many great graphic novels and animated movies I don't lose sleep over Bvs though I expect vast improvements with upcoming movies. I have faith in Geoff John's.

    I'm with you, @fire_and_ice. I love Man of Steel aside from how Pa Kent was featured, and think it features a really interesting take on Superman that is emotive and powerful. The scenes showing Clark getting overwhelmed by his powers and Ma helping him to overcome their intensity and reign them in ("Pretend my voice is an island...swim to it") or him speaking with Jor as a grown man learning of his intended destiny are truly powerful moments, and Zod makes for a great villain to face him. Their contrast is tragically beautiful, as Zod is doing what he's doing because he's programmed to do only that, while Superman was a natural birth intended to rise beyond what society's expectations of him were to be to do something more. And of course there's all the great parallels between Krypton's depleting resources and earth's, a fantastic use of Jor and Kryptonian lore, Clark's development from ignorance to an understanding of what he must do and more to really make the film feel relevant while also being a superhero film.

    It's a shame BvS undermined or backtracked completely on so much of what this film does to depict Superman as a (super)man of tomorrow.

    As for the Metropolis destruction, while I do think it gets out of hand, I agree completely about how overblown it has been. Nobody makes a stink when the Avengers wreck New York or Sokovia while trying to save the day in the Marvel movies, but when Superman does it, it's game over. And at the very least MoS added real depth to Superman's struggle to stop Zod, and that scream he gives after killing Zod is beautifully played by Cavill. In that moment it's easy to sympathize with Superman, who has been forced to sacrifice the future of his people for the well-being of those on earth, his true kind in his heart and mind.

    People don't give MoS enough credit, because it came out, got derided and I'm sure a lot of people never bothered actually checking it out for themselves and just followed the crowd on it. And that's a shame, as it has so much to offer.
    What are your powers?

    Keen insight, analytical prowess, eloquence in speech...maybe more? Me and @doubleoego can even solve a Rubik's cube with just our feet, blindfolded and hanging upside down...if that counts.

    Our kryptonite and greatest weakness? Zack Snyder.

    If you are blindfolded, no wonder you think you solved it. You really didn t.

    Shhh, you! Don't take this away from me. :-$
  • MurdockMurdock The minus world
    Posts: 16,351
    At least we see the Avengers actively going out of their way to rescue civilians in the heat of the madness going on around them. in Man of Steel, we don't see anyone being remotely saved as building after building falls.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
    edited September 2016 Posts: 28,694
    Murdock wrote: »
    At least we see the Avengers actively going out of their way to rescue civilians in the heat of the madness going on around them. in Man of Steel, we don't see anyone being remotely saved as building after building falls.

    I'm with you there too, @Murdock. That was missing from BvS too, and that whole ending fight was made all the worse by the cheesy and unrelenting pieces of dialogue from at least four different characters in the movie that kept reminding the audience, "THERE'S NO CIVILIANS HERE. NOBODY IS DYING RIGHT NOW. THAT BUILDING THAT JUST FELL? NOBODY WAS IN IT!"

    I'm not convinced.
  • edited September 2016 Posts: 4,813
    I'm happy to hear you at least liked MOS @0BradyM0Bondfanatic7. Have you had time to check out the Extended Cut of BvS yet?
    I recenty sat down and watched it again, and my wife joined me- she has not seen it since we went to the theatre together,(while I've seen it about 5 times now!) and at the time she found it simply 'OK'.
    After it was over she exclaimed 'that was way better than I remember!!'

    I love MOS and BvS very much!
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
    edited September 2016 Posts: 28,694
    @Master_Dahark, I did a review of the Ultimate Cut in the middle of this page on the BvS thread a while back:

    http://www.mi6community.com/index.php?p=/discussion/7303/batman-v-superman-dawn-of-justice-2016/p121

    I've cooled on this movie since, not because I appreciate it now, but simply because I'm not going to let it bug me anymore. I just want to see Justice League next year and enjoy myself seeing my favorite heroes being heroes, and hopefully I'll look back on BvS and view what they did with Batman and Superman in it less harshly and instead see it as a necessary step that needed to be taken to develop these characters into the true JLA we know and love.

    As I posted in the past few days in response to some of Geoff Johns' comments about his work in the DCEU, I'm hopeful of where he's steering the films and the universe of the DC movies as we know it.

    Aside from all this, I think Wonder Woman will be amazing and impress everyone. I can't wait for that film.
  • edited September 2016 Posts: 6,432
    I have just rewatched Man of Steel Superman gets such a bad wrap, the world engine was going to rip the planet apart and kill every human on earth. [-( BvS has major issues though I just accept it for what it is, there are so many great graphic novels and animated movies I don't lose sleep over Bvs though I expect vast improvements with upcoming movies. I have faith in Geoff John's.

    I'm with you, @fire_and_ice. I love Man of Steel aside from how Pa Kent was featured, and think it features a really interesting take on Superman that is emotive and powerful. The scenes showing Clark getting overwhelmed by his powers and Ma helping him to overcome their intensity and reign them in ("Pretend my voice is an island...swim to it") or him speaking with Jor as a grown man learning of his intended destiny are truly powerful moments, and Zod makes for a great villain to face him. Their contrast is tragically beautiful, as Zod is doing what he's doing because he's programmed to do only that, while Superman was a natural birth intended to rise beyond what society's expectations of him were to be to do something more. And of course there's all the great parallels between Krypton's depleting resources and earth's, a fantastic use of Jor and Kryptonian lore, Clark's development from ignorance to an understanding of what he must do and more to really make the film feel relevant while also being a superhero film.

    It's a shame BvS undermined or backtracked completely on so much of what this film does to depict Superman as a (super)man of tomorrow.

    As for the Metropolis destruction, while I do think it gets out of hand, I agree completely about how overblown it has been. Nobody makes a stink when the Avengers wreck New York or Sokovia while trying to save the day in the Marvel movies, but when Superman does it, it's game over. And at the very least MoS added real depth to Superman's struggle to stop Zod, and that scream he gives after killing Zod is beautifully played by Cavill. In that moment it's easy to sympathize with Superman, who has been forced to sacrifice the future of his people for the well-being of those on earth, his true kind in his heart and mind.

    People don't give MoS enough credit, because it came out, got derided and I'm sure a lot of people never bothered actually checking it out for themselves and just followed the crowd on it. And that's a shame, as it has so much to offer.
    What are your powers?

    Keen insight, analytical prowess, eloquence in speech...maybe more? Me and @doubleoego can even solve a Rubik's cube with just our feet, blindfolded and hanging upside down...if that counts.

    Our kryptonite and greatest weakness? Zack Snyder.

    If you are blindfolded, no wonder you think you solved it. You really didn t.

    Shhh, you! Don't take this away from me. :-$

    Extremely well put you illustrated some great themes, I often view the film as a meditation of sorts there is a great deal of depth to this film and Zack deserves credit for that. I think BvS had way too much studio interference which lowered the quality of the film. DC needs to establish it's own movie identify though it's too reactive rather than being active (Hopefully Geoff John's will remedy that), it's only three films in so admittedly DCU are finding it's feet (Incredible Hulk and Iron Man 2 major miss fires).

    For anyone interested in watching great DC animated films check these out...14264845_1110155939078038_512182086319732881_n.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoibCJ9&oh=4900004e5cfe21eff01012628eddc5e7&oe=58807321

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