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The DC Comics TV & Movie Thread - A Thread for Talking about Detective Comics Comics Television Shows and Movies

James Gunn has a pretty good hit rate, even if he tends to lean a bit too far into violence for the sake of violence for my tastes. Should be good.
 
Harley Quinn is back with Season 5 today.

It's crazy how good this show is, and continues to be.

And it's such a simple formula too.

Like, turns out "Daria and Jane but as gay DC Supervillains" is fuckin hot fire.
 

I'm lowkey surprised this is getting a second season. First season was incredible, so I'm looking forward to this one. Also, nice to see Guy and who I assume is Jessica Cruz Hawkgirl make a cameo.
 
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I really like it, it's kinda like The Batman where it tries to be more focused on the main hero as a person.
 
I'm more than likely going to see Superman and Fantastic Four in theaters. These films look good and exciting and that is coming from someone who is pretty tired of the entire super hero genre of films.

However, I cannot overstate how much I hate the new Superman logo. It looks like a diamond with a stripe through it.
 
This is the first time I've been really interested in a Superman movie.

I really liked The Batman too, but mainly for what Pattinson was doing. Someone needs to get Tom Hardy and Robert Pattinson in a movie together and have them try to out-weird each other.

Hell, cast Hardy as Bane again.
 
As a known Marvel shill and someone who was pretty unimpressed with DC's previous slate of offerings (except Suicide Squad, The (2021) and Batman, The (2022)), I think Superman looks fantastic and will be there on opening night. My one concern from the trailers I've seen is that perhaps there's too much going on in the movie, with multiple non-Superman heroes being introduced alongside him, but I have a lot of faith in James Gunn as both a writer and director. I'm excited.
 
I'm not a comic book fan - Batman is the only comic book character that piques my interest - but my son suckered me into taking him and his friends to Superman on Thursday night. I'm hoping to have a good time with it.
 
Superman is a fun movie and my favorite big-screen version of the character. In fact, it might be my favorite version of any of the characters - all of them shine, Lois, Jimmy, Lex Luthor, etc. Superb casting. The Ultra Man de-masking and reveal didn't quite work for me but that's a very minor quibble. The Supergirl scene made up for it. I want more of that character. And I need a Mr.Terrific movie, like, yesterday.

It does make me curious about what they are going to do with the next Batman movie. I know Reeves turned in a script recently but if Superman is intended to be the starting point for a new DC movie universe, I'm curious how the Pattinson Batman finds a place. Even within the context of "comic book movie", "The Batman" and "Superman" are wildly different.

I saw the movie at one of AMC's Dolby Cinema screens. Highly recommended, even if you pay a bit more for a ticket.
 
4-So said:
if Superman is intended to be the starting point for a new DC movie universe, I'm curious how the Pattinson Batman finds a place.
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The Batman 2 is going to happen and be its own thing, separate from this new continuity. There will be a separate Batman movie, "Brave and the Bold" that will be in continuity with this new DCU, and will be about Batman and Robin (Damian Wayne -- Batman's biological son w/ Talia al Ghul)
 
Just got out of Superman a few hrs ago.

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I loved this Superman movie. One of the prerequisites I have about Superman movies made now is they have to be in a conversation with the original '78 film, otherwise it's kinda just like "what are we even doing here?" James Gunn definitely understood the assignment.

I summed up my feelings like this:
Lex Luthor: *does the most cartoonishly evil comic book shit*
Superman: *puts a stop to that nonsense*
Me: *uncontrollable sobbing*
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I was surprised at how much this one embraced the goofiness of the Superman universe, and Comic Book Stuff in general, but it also continued the legacy of Donner's movie in a very relevant way for the year 2025.
 
it was pretty super

YangusKhan said:
I was surprised at how much this one embraced the goofiness of the Superman universe, and Comic Book Stuff in general, but it also continued the legacy of Donner's movie in a very relevant way for the year 2025.
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This is, imo, Gunn's key strength as a superhero filmmaker, for Marvel and DC both. He doesn't shy away at all from the comic-book goofiness and weirdness. He leans right in, unashamed of all the silliness, and makes you care about it all, even the stupid stuff. He has a clear and deep love for second-stringers and giving them their time to shine.

Also almost always has something to say about parenthood and family and other relationships. Strong theme across his movies, everything I've seen. It's why, for me, his movies always hit even when they get juvenile and gross, because he puts real heart into them even when it's about an alien monster or a third-rate villain realizing maybe he doesn't want to be a piece of shit anymore.
 
I liked this a lot but didn't quite love it for reasons I can't put my finger on. Maybe it's the weight of expectations -- I love the Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy so much, and felt this wasn't quite on their level. But there's still a ton to enjoy here. Here's a random collection of thoughts:

Everyone is perfectly cast; Superman, Luthor and Mr. Terrific in particular were a joy every time they were on screen. I wasn't sure about Nicholas Hoult as Luthor going into this, but hooooooly shit. The scene where he's watching on the monitor as Superman's lungs fill with nanites, and he has this wordless, evolving grin of glee and fascination is just chilling.

The action was a lot of fun, particularly Superman soaring and diving all over the place during the kaiju fight, and Mr. Terrific's showcase scene.

I think there might have been a little too much going on? Ultraman in particular feels underutilized, and maybe could have been either cut or saved for a movie that has more time to examine what sort of being this really is.

I like how Lex apparently shows the Kryptonian message to a bunch of computer and linguistics experts, and they're all like "oh yeah this clip of an alien language nobody on Earth has ever heard before, retrieved from a magic crystal computer is totally legit."

Who did Beck Bennett sleep with to get into this movie? He's got five lines and they're all him screaming something crazy that has nothing to do with the rest of what's going on. When they're leaving The Daily Planet towards the end Perry's like WAIT WE NEED THAT GUY TOO but then he doesn't do anything. Did he win a contest?

In general I like the slightly heightened reality of this universe, where everybody's a little weird and that's just how it is. Contrast with the MCU, which for the most part is just our world plus superheroes, or with the Snyderverse, which for the most part was just our world minus joy. It feels like very fertile soil for more comic book stories. This didn't need to be DC's The Avengers or Infinity War, it just needed to be their Iron Man, and I think it got the job done.
 
Vaeran said:
I think there might have been a little too much going on? Ultraman in particular feels underutilized, and maybe could have been either cut or saved for a movie that has more time to examine what sort of being this really is.
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I felt like this, at least, was really clear: he's a botched Superman clone without much, uh, interiority. Not much more to see with this version and now he's in a black hole, sooooo

Also I assumed Lex was lying about the linguistic experts; the Engineer seemed to know what it was saying as she downloaded it.

And yeah I like how Gunn's approach (both here and with Suicide Squad earlier) has been "It's a weird comic book world, we're not going to explain it all, just deal"
 
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I felt like this, at least, was really clear: he's a botched Superman clone without much, uh, interiority.
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Well, I know what he is, and that Lex says he's really stupid. But Lex thinks everyone is stupid. Is that really all there is to him? How does Clark feel about being confronted with his own clone, especially when he's already feeling insecure about his purpose on Earth? Ultraman never gets a single line and all Clark does is punch him. It just felt like a waste of a potentially interesting concept.
 
Vaeran said:
Who did Beck Bennett sleep with to get into this movie? He's got five lines and they're all him screaming something crazy that has nothing to do with the rest of what's going on. When they're leaving The Daily Planet towards the end Perry's like WAIT WE NEED THAT GUY TOO but then he doesn't do anything. Did he win a contest?
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Its interesting because his character is an established DC character, Steve Lombard, the sports reporter (earlier continuity had him as a TV reporter) who bullies Clark Kent... or tries to. And you kind of don't need another hilarious douchebag when you have Guy Gardner.

Vaeran said:
I think there might have been a little too much going on? Ultraman in particular feels underutilized, and maybe could have been either cut or saved for a movie that has more time to examine what sort of being this really is.
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I feel like the plan is to bring back the "stupid" and "imperfect" clone as Bizarro
 
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