BvS Is anyone else not excited about Superman and Batman? I feel nothing but dread. - Part 2

[Joeyjojo72]

Opinions. Everybody's got one.

 

[Naked Shia]

MOS is far from being average. It's flawed, but it also look incredible. I have yet to see another superhero movie that look as gorgeous (save for watchmen). That alone makes it more than an average movie. It also showed the GA that superman was no pushover.

 

[DA_Champion]

For me, the opening sequence of MoS contains more merit than the entirety of a GL or an Iron Man 2.

Faint praise lol.

 

[The Endless]

Man of Steel is leaps and bounds above GL.

I put GL right down there with Elektra and Catwoman. I'd prefer to watch Batman and Robin, at least Arnold's one liners make me laugh and it's visually imaginative.

Iron Man 2 has got Sam Rockwell as a wannabe Tony Stark who uses too much fake tan. For him alone, it's above the likes of GL by quite a margin.

 

[AnneFan]

MOS is far from being average. It's flawed, but it also look incredible. I have yet to see another superhero movie that look as gorgeous (save for watchmen). That alone makes it more than an average movie. It also showed the GA that superman was no pushover.

Yeah, MoS was a big step in the right direction. It gets across the line for me. I respected its ambition.

 

[Gray Ghost]

While I will say that MoS is a better movie , I dislike it much more than GL. MoS had a lot of potential and they just squandered it all. GL was basically dead from the first minute. Nothing in that movie worked (except for Mark Strong maybe) and at no point did I have the feeling that it could have been a good movie. With MoS I can't help but think that with a few re-writes and a stronger director this could have been a much better movie.
GL was bad, yeah. But it was unsalvagable anyway. MoS could have been really good but ended up being a waste. And I find that to be much more disappointing.

 

[Joeyjojo72]

Makes sense. I do agree that the hopes/expectations for MoS vs GL were much much higher. As were the stakes. I suppose the GL fanboys might feel differently, but that's a tiny demo compared to Supes fans.

 

[The Endless]

Whilst i do agree in a way... Man of Steel simply had more redeeming qualities than Green Lantern, in my eyes.

Whilst i think Kal/Clark's character arc was kinda muddled and incomplete, it still made me feel for the guy in certain moments.

Hal Jordan? Has there ever been a more unlikeable and pathetic leading character in a superhero movie before?

 

[DA_Champion]

Watching GL was an experience. I didnt know that such a comprehensively bad movie could be made. Every single scene was dumb and lazy ... and that kind of makes it interesting lol.

 

[Travesty]

IM2>MOS>>>>>>>>>>>GL

 

[The Endless]

I like IM2 and MoS about the same

 

[AnneFan]

IM2 has personality, and as Jules in Pulp Fiction said, that goes a long way.

 

[STARMAN]

I was very disappointed in IM2 and IM3. Trying to keep expectations in check for BvS.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

I will contend to the day I die that GL is not a bad film that sexually assaulted anyone's childhood. It's just mediocre, paint by numbers CBM film making that had nothing in particular to help it stand out and thus comes across as a lifeless excercise. It's a modern day CBM "greatest hits" collection. It's not the horror show in execution, story, casting or SFX that the usual fanboy overstatments make it out to be. It's just an inert experience in many ways that undersells what the Hal Jordan GL mythos could have and should have been in live action. It would have actually tried harder than it does to actually be "bad" I think.

 

[MrsKent26]

How some can call MOS the greatest thing ever and dismiss GL as some turd is amazing, considering MOS is only a bit better than GL. Overall both terrible films that should have been better.

It is amazing. Those pesky humans and their differing outlooks on movies. I don't see a good many folks calling mos "the best thing ever."

For me, the opening sequence of MoS contains more merit than the entirety of a GL or an Iron Man 2.

Lol, indeed. I have my quibbles with mos, but it is not even close to the vile realms belonging to GL, Catwoman and a few other derelicts.

 

[dnno1]

All of those shows air earlier in the night with reapeats of the same episodes at 3am.

Yeah, I don't know who you could spin the airing of new episodes at 3am for a kids show as a positive.

Hey, I am NOT spinning anything here. Did you guys ever think that they moved the show to that time slot because Batman is not really a kids show? At the 3 A.M. time slot, Beware the Batman is number one in ratings with about 700,000 viewers. The demographic watching the show consists young adult males. Those are the folks who like the character most.

 

[hafizbat]

Hey, I am NOT spinning anything here. Did you guys ever think that they moved the show to that time slot because Batman is not really a kids show? At the 3 A.M. time slot, Beware the Batman is number one in ratings with about 700,000 viewers. The demographic watching the show consists young adult males. Those are the folks who like the character most.

Dude...just let it go.

 

[Boy Scout]

Cue someone posting the appropriate gif(s).

 

[Joeyjojo72]

Seriously

 

[Gray Ghost]

Bart: "Dad, who's watching TV at 3:17am?"
Homer: "Alcoholics. The unemployable. Angry loners."

There's the real target group for Batman TV shows.

 

[The Batman]

The most popular superhero in the world isn't marketable to kids, with his batmobiles and gadgets and kid sidekicks and billion dollar films.

Yeah...sure.

 

[ThreadPool]

The most popular superhero in the world isn't marketable to kids, with his batmobiles and gadgets and kid sidekicks and billion dollar films.

Yeah...sure.

Seems like Beware the Batman had the same Cartoon Network not giving a **** about it problem Young Justice had.

Why do they hate serious action cartoons so much?

 

[The Batman]

^ They probably don't sell as many toys.

 

[Lencho01]

Hey, I am NOT spinning anything here. Did you guys ever think that they moved the show to that time slot because Batman is not really a kids show? At the 3 A.M. time slot, Beware the Batman is number one in ratings with about 700,000 viewers. The demographic watching the show consists young adult males. Those are the folks who like the character most.

You really don't think kids were the target audience for that show?

Even if adults were the target, new episodes wouldn't be airing that late. As pointed out, that time is pretty much left for showing the same shows' episodes shown earlier in the block.

 

[serendipity]

Seems like Beware the Batman had the same Cartoon Network not giving a **** about it problem Young Justice had.

Why do they hate serious action cartoons so much?

*sigh* I remember when shows like Samurai Jack and Justice League were on. The late great afternoon block of anime on Toonami: DBZ, Gundam, Kenshin, YYH. And the more comedic shows like Dexter's Lab. The era of Tartakovsky. It's all gone.

Damn you!