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So what your saying is...
Why so serious!!!
It's all fun and some of it political too.
LA LA LAND is a glimmer of hope. I'm still shocked it won EVERY possible Golden Globe, and I hope I will be shocked again at the Oscars. This film deserves it. I'll have to see it a second time, but I suspect, it is already my favourite film of this decade.
As for the Poisonberry or whatever... take it with humour, I think they had to nominate high profile pictures. And if there was ever one that fit that glove its BvS and SS.
And both are downright awful.
I loved these events when I was younger because I loved seeing the actors and actresses on stage and the tenseness of the winners being revealed, but as you get older it's hard to support it when the superficiality and artificial nature of it all ruins any good in the show. On top of that the Oscars haven't had a good host since Hugh Jackman got the reigns, and that was approaching ten years ago!
Can't hammer home the same point any better than that! They were a lot of fun when I was younger, but yes, growing up and realizing just how fake and political these awards shows are, they're nothing but a total waste of 3+ hours for me.
Hugh Jackman! I loved it and got it recorded and have re-watched it at least three times.
But there is one host that I love and have the hots for. I love every move and sound of him.
Luckily there are several different Award Shows he already has done.
Please watch it if you haven't seen it. He is awesome, simply awesome.
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Hugh's opening number where he showed off his musical talents remains my favorite Oscars moment, and how they haven't tried to get him back is a mystery I can't fathom. He's got the charisma, talent, wit and amazing variety to do anything that is asked of him on the stage. As a man of theater and leading actor on screen he can both play to an audience directly and be good in front of a camera. He's a double, triple, quadruple threat just waiting to be unleashed again.
The only reason to ever watch the Globes is when NBC are willing to let Rick Gervais host, as his absolute demolishment of artificial Hollywood is a delicious display to take in. I love shit-starters, and he's the king of it, with a microphone in hand.
His Tony shows are breathtaking like the one above. That's bringing down the house, all other can only learn from him.
And the Tonys are naturally more in his element where dance numbers and other things like that work for the theme, which is also his wheelhouse. As I said, with him and other Oscars hosts you can tell that they're being told to do stupid stuff they really don't want to do.
If you like something then just enjoy it. Stick to your truth. Don't waste energy trying to dislike BvS if it's a film you genuinely enjoy. Not everyone has the same tastes as us Bond fans know that better than most.
As for Marvel's issues, it's a bit different. First of all they didn't have many of the same luxuries the WB/DC has always had. Marvel had to first of all create and set up their own film studio; and then secondly utilise B level and lower-listed characters and turn them into franchises as they had licenced out their A-list characters to other studios. Compare that to the WB/DC who have always had full control of all their characters and a home at WB and did what with their vast library of characters? Make Superman and Batman movies.
Ironman and The Incredible Hulk came out the same year TDK did and Marvel Studios stuck to their planned strategy following up with Ironman 2, Thor, Captain America and culminated their phase 1 with The Avengers in 2012. What did WB put out post TDK in the same time frame? Green Lantern (which was rushed and cobbled together trying to capitalise on the success of Ironman) and TDKR. WB/DC get no pitty.
In any case, the clear issue here stems from WB/DC and when you compare what they've been doing since day one till date against Marvel Studios, it's quite clear that WB simply lacked/lack imaginatiom and ambition and that's a key point.
WB have had the rights to all their properties for all these years and it's only once Marvel Studios came along and set the standard that every other studio now wants to try and emulate to some degree that the penny drops for WB/DC. Why didn't they do anything with their other properties? For years it was superman and Batman, mainly the latter and even now instead of following up MoS with a direct solo superman film as originally planned, they bring in Batman AND Wonder Woman which turned out to be a critical and financial disappointment because of wholesale mismanagement. The novelty of seeing DC's trinity together for the first time ever on screen didn't even elicit the same excitement when Tony Stark showed up in The Incredible Hulk for 56 seconds. How sad is that? I don't foresee there to be a moment in the DCEU that will ever match when the historic moment the Avengers first came together or what's about to happen with the Infinity War films. There are reasons for this.
WB/DC have been course correcting since the get go. After the success of GoTg WB fast tracked suicide squad, again, a film based on batman-centric characters and now Harley Quinn is leading the Sirens movie with Ayer set to direct. More work seems to be done on that the previously announced Aquaman and Flash movies with the latter already having lost and without a director.
As for diversification, there's not much of it from WB/DC. The front running properties are again batman-centric and there's no investment into these characters with the possible exception being WW maybe. We'll see how her film turns out but overall the extent of WB's ambition is to create a rushed, hollow, half arsed universe with little to zero investment in the characters and expect to be doing Marvel Studios numbers and garnering their goodwill. What's even more sad is WB are actually using their A-list DC characters and the results are, well, what they are. Lacking and disappointing.
Look at Marvel's diversification in establishing individual franchises...with these properties comes various additional characters, different but interconnected tones, pallets, universes and realities that still manages to fit with great compatibility onto the same canvas.
Irrespective of the quality put out by Marvel or WB/DC, the underlying factors that put the former in better stead are: better planning, better stewardship, greater ambition and not looking for shortcuts. Marvel Studios' goodwill, brand loyalty and success has been truly earned; WB/DCEU not so much and the criticisms and harshness they face are just for reasons that are conspicuous enough. WB/DCEU have a lot of work to do.
DC went into the film business expecting the money Marvel took years to get to, so they half-assed everything in three movies, believing that their brand alone would save them.
From a pure film construction standpoint, the only film in the DCEU that isn't wholly shit is Man of Steel, which still suffers from a lack of consistent continuity or internal logic with the flashback scenes. This is carried over from Batman Begins, which also had poor continuity with its flashbacks, but those flashbacks were better constructed and once you got to the 40 minute mark, gone from the rest of the film. Batman V Superman's exposition was sacrificed for reasons that I don't even think Zack Snyder understands, but dammit, he'll tell you it's edgy. Then you add in a tacked on Wonder Woman, a tacked on Doomsday, and a flashback to a Batman origin we've seen so many times that fans likely still have nightmares about it (primarily about having seen it so many times), and the movie just fell apart by the time it got to the fight it was centered around.
Which ended less than five minutes later.
DC needs serious restructuring and a strong guiding hand at the helm of the entire DCEU, much like the MCU has with Kevin Feige. They have everything else, from a strong cast, talented creators and rich characters, but because DC is the filmmaking equivalent of a chicken with its head cut off, all of that is wasted. And that's what brings in things like Batman V Superman doing, what, $1 billion and still being so far under that DC classifies it a failure? Think about that. Their second movie, and around $1 billion is a failure to them. Marvel didn't make that until The Avengers, their sixth movie.
If DC doesn't get its shit together and bring in a guiding hand, they'll find their numbers getting lower and lower until they can't even scrape up enough money to do an Ace the Bat-hound movie.
You're absolutely spot on and especially so with DC's tv stuff. It's far superior to their cinematic "efforts".
Very deserving in the case of SS.
BvS, even though its flawed, I do like watching.
Just picked up the extended-cut Blu, so I am looking forward to plunking for that 3 hour sit.
Hopefully, there is bonus WW coverage.
However the film that I think should be sweeping the awards, was that awful, socially pretentious Tarzan film that was released last year, which also featured Robbie.
I see it got one nomination at least.
I'd nominate it twice in every Razzie category. >:)
http://www.dccomics.com/comics/batman-’66-meets-wonder-woman-’77-2017/batman-’66-meets-wonder-woman-’77-1
I think I may have to buy this digital comic...
Facing off against Ra's al Ghul
:-bd
Now all we need is them to do a Trinity team-up comic with Reeve's Superman.
That's a very good idea and would not be suprised if that happened, DC had success with Batman 66 relaunch and they know there is a audience for the Golden age TV/Movie period.
I'd LOVE to have seen Chris team with Keaton Bats.
And I wouldn't have minded Routh & Bale for that matter- they were just a year apart!
I remember the earliest talk of Batman V Superman (back when it was 'Man of Steel 2) and there was just a glimmer of possibility that Bale would actually come back for one more!
I loved him, but his Bats wouldn't have really fit with the current Cavill Superman. He'll always be 'realistic Batman' to me!
Please make this happen
http://deadline.com/2017/01/green-lantern-corps-warner-bros-david-goyer-justin-rhodes-dc-1201884133/
Edit:
"unclear"? lol
Of course, we didn't think they'd screw up Batman fighting Superman on the big screen either, so who knows anymore...