quote:Still one of the best trailers ever.
Not to pour salt on the wound, but remember the hope and promise? If only the franchise could have delivered on the potential hinted at in this trailer, one of the greatest teasers of all time...
quote:Still one of the best trailers ever.
Not to pour salt on the wound, but remember the hope and promise? If only the franchise could have delivered on the potential hinted at in this trailer, one of the greatest teasers of all time...
quote:quote:Possibly a topic for another thread, but while I enjoyed the Nolan Batfilms they still left a lot to be desired in their interpretation of Batman.
The unfortunate issue that this film has to wade through is reinventing Batman right after the three greatest comic book adaptations of all time.
We still haven't seen the Batfilm I've been waiting for with the World's Greatest Detective in action. Given Affleck's knack for crime dramas, I have hope.
quote:quote:Still one of the best trailers ever.
Not to pour salt on the wound, but remember the hope and promise? If only the franchise could have delivered on the potential hinted at in this trailer, one of the greatest teasers of all time...
quote:quote:quote:Possibly a topic for another thread, but while I enjoyed the Nolan Batfilms they still left a lot to be desired in their interpretation of Batman.
The unfortunate issue that this film has to wade through is reinventing Batman right after the three greatest comic book adaptations of all time.
We still haven't seen the Batfilm I've been waiting for with the World's Greatest Detective in action. Given Affleck's knack for crime dramas, I have hope.
As good as Nolan's Batman films were, the best interpretation of Batman is the original animated series.
quote:Truth.quote:quote:Possibly a topic for another thread, but while I enjoyed the Nolan Batfilms they still left a lot to be desired in their interpretation of Batman.
The unfortunate issue that this film has to wade through is reinventing Batman right after the three greatest comic book adaptations of all time.
We still haven't seen the Batfilm I've been waiting for with the World's Greatest Detective in action. Given Affleck's knack for crime dramas, I have hope.
As good as Nolan's Batman films were, the best interpretation of Batman is the original animated series.
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Killed the waynes again, for some reason.
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See you're taking your nerd knowledge into the film.
Every adaptation of Luthor I have seen is driven by real estate. His desire to kill/neutralize supes has occurred because supes gets in his way. I have never seen a "aliens are evil" luthor; given the trailers to BvS that sounds more like affleck's Batman.
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It kills me to read all the critics bash Luthor in the movie because they "didn't understand his motivation." Seriously? Do we need a back story movie on every character in every superhero movie? Read a comic book, you idiots. Lex Luthor is one of the oldest, most famous super hero villains of all time. If you need it spelled out to you in the movie why he wants to kill Superman, you have no business watching or critiquing this movie (that's my thought to the professional critics).
quote:Honestly, I'm surprised it took 6 pages.
And now we have the "this isn't Citizen Kane" post.
quote:A movie that needs to make A BILLION DOLLARS JUST TO BREAK EVEN needs to be watched by people who haven't read comic books. So if you want Zack Snyder to continue to get blank checks to make bloated, directionless, CGI messes, you're gonna want it to be seen by the people "who have no business" doing so.
If you need it spelled out to you in the movie why he wants to kill Superman, you have no business watching or critiquing this movie (that's my thought to the professional critics).
quote:quote:Honestly, I'm surprised it took 6 pages.
And now we have the "this isn't Citizen Kane" post.
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Yeah I mean Snyder ****ing this up isn't surprising rather it's all of the good early buzz in comparison to what we see now that is surprising. Hell even regular reviews from people who got to see it on other forums were pretty good. I don't get how things like this happen.
I mean I hate people blowing smoke up my ass so this annoys the hell out of me.
quote:quote:A movie that needs to make A BILLION DOLLARS JUST TO BREAK EVEN needs to be watched by people who haven't read comic books. So if you want Zack Snyder to continue to get blank checks to make bloated, directionless, CGI messes, you're gonna want it to be seen by the people "who have no business" doing so.
If you need it spelled out to you in the movie why he wants to kill Superman, you have no business watching or critiquing this movie (that's my thought to the professional critics).
quote:yep. many articles have indicated that the film needs $800M-$1B to break even.
The studio doesn't take home all of gross. They get like half.
quote:Movie theaters take a large chunk of that. I could be off on the numbers as it was a few years ago I read this, but the studios get like 80% of opening week and only like 20% after that. That's why opening weekend numbers are such a big deal to movie studios.quote:quote:A movie that needs to make A BILLION DOLLARS JUST TO BREAK EVEN needs to be watched by people who haven't read comic books. So if you want Zack Snyder to continue to get blank checks to make bloated, directionless, CGI messes, you're gonna want it to be seen by the people "who have no business" doing so.
If you need it spelled out to you in the movie why he wants to kill Superman, you have no business watching or critiquing this movie (that's my thought to the professional critics).
Not sure where you got that number, but everything I've seen has said that the film cost $250 mil to make and about that much to market. That would need to be about $550 mil to break even. Since the film is going to make $360-400 mil worldwide in its first weekend, I'd say it's safe to say the film will turn a profit.
quote:quote:yep. many articles have indicated that the film needs $800M-$1B to break even.
The studio doesn't take home all of gross. They get like half.
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I think Variety had a report out that indicated the number was $800mil. But obviously with Toys, Merchandising, TV/DVD deals and worldwide Box Office it's not gonna lose money. I don't think 20Ag's point is about whether this thing makes a penny, it's that if you're on a mission to win hearts and minds and setup a 10 movie universe you probably shouldn't produce a bloated mess that only makes narrative sense to a subset of comic book reading people.
As far as the Lex motivation stuff , besides his typical "F him, he's a dangerous Alien" thinking he always has in the comics I think it was meant to be explained (albeit messily) with the all powerful vs all good speech. What I got was (probably partially due to some child abuse) for Lex nothing is perfect in this world and he resents humanity glorifying Superman as an infallible God and wants to prove to the world that Superman is just as crappy and selfish a being as the rest of us. Thus, putting in play the Africa setup, the Capital bombing and the Martha kidnapping to make this happen. Shades of Joker and the two boats social experiment. I think. I was pretty checked out by the time Eisenberg was monologuing. .
quote:I had heard of it but didn't know much about Cinemascore. Apparently, a marketing team descends on five random cities on the Friday night a movie comes out and basically does an exit poll? Feels like that would kinda skew it to people that really wanted to see the movie on opening night and that were willing to take some extra time to fill out the card. Honestly curious.quote:
Yeah I mean Snyder ****ing this up isn't surprising rather it's all of the good early buzz in comparison to what we see now that is surprising. Hell even regular reviews from people who got to see it on other forums were pretty good. I don't get how things like this happen.
I mean I hate people blowing smoke up my ass so this annoys the hell out of me.
I'm more interested that this film has 30% on RT, but a B cinescore. Movie has played well with audiences.
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I'm just saying Cinemascore also has a B for Daredevil, Catwoman, Green Lantern and Sucker Punch.
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Sucker Punch
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And for the life of me, I could not tell you why. Is this what it feels like to be a casual movie goer? Where you just watch something for two+ hours, are completely unaffected by it, and have absolutely no interest in the next one until you find yourself sitting in the theater again? Because that's how I feel right now.