Lounge of Justice - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Part 35

[markjoedelonge]

Watching "The Mummy 2017".

If those chains were meant to hold her down, why was there even a mechanism to bring her back up?

 

[moviefreak]

I mentioned a while ago but a lot of people didn't take it seriously my post on George Miller's quote about really dark Superman. I have long felt that Miller's take on DC hero will be much more darker than Snyder's. MOS ^ BvS are tame by comparison.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/am...-featured-wonder-woman-superman-fight-1034183

Jay Baruchel who was going to be Maxwell Lord:

Asked to describe what it would have felt like, Baruchel offered this: "Imagine Miller doing [Zack] Snyder ... it was very tableau ... they were paintings. And what the characters were doing had such teeth to it."

As an example, he described in detail a scene in which his character Maxwell Lord brainwashed Clark Kent.


"All of a sudden this guy's got Superman as a weapon," said the actor.
In the script, Lord would get a nosebleed whenever he took over someone's mind, but Baruchel pitched to Miller that taking over Superman's powerful Kryptonian brain would cause Lord to bleed out of every orifice in his head.


"I turn him into full red eye Superman, and then there's this big ass fight between him and Wonder Woman, where he breaks her f...ing wrists and *****," he continued. "The first time you see Wonder Woman, the opening scene on Themyscira, it was just her. It's her on top of a steed ... and she stood about half a kilometer away from a Minotaur. The Minotaur has a battle-ax in his hand and she just rushes him. All the Amazons are there cheering her on, and she just beheads him. Gets off her steed ... holds up the Minotaur thing and doesn't say a goddamned thing. It's like, 'That's the Wonder Woman I want to see!' It would have been special."

 

[nite-owl]

The trailer for You Were Never Really Here is out. I can't post it here because of language. But be warned there's bit of a spoiler in the trailer as well.

 

[Micromind]

I mentioned a while ago but a lot of people didn't take it seriously my post on George Miller's quote about really dark Superman. I have long felt that Miller's take on DC hero will be much more darker than Snyder's. MOS ^ BvS are tame by comparison.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/am...-featured-wonder-woman-superman-fight-1034183

Jay Baruchel who was going to be Maxwell Lord:

I really prefer Zack Snyder's Superman, at least Snyder put Superman in a world that feels more grounded and shows how it might react to a Super-powered being, which is what I always wanted to see.

And, how it would affect a man (with super-powers) who relates himself to a simple farmer from Kansas.

Edit: I also like Wonder Woman as portrayed in BvS and WW movie, so we missed a bullet, by not getting George Miller's take on those characters.This JL feels like an else-worlds tale, more suited to DC animated movie.

 

[markjoedelonge]

I mentioned a while ago but a lot of people didn't take it seriously my post on George Miller's quote about really dark Superman. I have long felt that Miller's take on DC hero will be much more darker than Snyder's. MOS ^ BvS are tame by comparison.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/am...-featured-wonder-woman-superman-fight-1034183

Jay Baruchel who was going to be Maxwell Lord:

Now if Snyder had said this, watch everyone spew how he doesn't understand the character or what not.

 

[Iceman]

Wow. Jared Leto is badass in that new Blade Runner 2049 short.

He can be an incredible, probably the best, Joker, with the RIGHT direction. He already has a look a like (minus the tattoos).

He's a great actor. I don't know about best but he can give us something as good as anyone with the right material. And there isn't an actor alive (or dead) who could have made something good out of SS Joker.

 

[Micromind]

George Miller's JL Cast -

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Spoiler

 

[Micromind]

More Cast photos, Megan Gale (WW)

Armie Hammer (Batman) and Santiago Cabrera (Aquaman)

 

[morningmimosa]

It's cool how they went in a very similar direction with Aquaman, visually.

 

[idiot09]

True.

In many ways I am happy that JL mortal didnt get made, because then we wouldnt have Snyder's JL. Its so much better inherently. Jason Momoa as Aquaman is an upgrade, so is Ezra as Flash. While we missed out on MM and GL, we got Ray Fisher as Cyborg, and I love Ray. Gal as WW is a godsend, and miller's WW seems more bloodthirsty, and Zack and Patty got the balance just right with WW. Affleck and Cavill are perfect Batman and Superman to me, so its just so much better.

 

[Black Narcissus]

You Were Never Really Here trailer

I can tell she changed some stuff from the script I read and actually made it...Darker. Lawd. My boy Joaquin coming for that oscar nom tho!

I told ya'll bastahs loooong ago, if DRIVE and TAXI DRIVER had a one night fling, it would result into this. That soundtrack. Joaquinnnnnngh.

Give Ramsey JLD or anything she goddamn wants. Please based Zack.

 

[morningmimosa]

Those were the good times, mayne.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

It's cool how they went in a very similar direction with Aquaman, visually.

Agreed.

 

[moviefreak]

Ayer missed the opportunity in utilising Jared Leto's range as he could play a variation of dirty, mean, ugly or pretty character. Leto's Joker will need a better, talented director who could bring that character to life.

 

[nite-owl]

You Were Never Really Here trailer

I can tell she changed some stuff from the script I read and actually made it...Darker. Lawd. My boy Joaquin coming for that oscar nom tho!

I told ya'll bastahs loooong ago, if DRIVE and TAXI DRIVER had a one night fling, it would result into this. That soundtrack. Joaquinnnnnngh.

Give Ramsey JLD or anything she goddamn wants. Please based Zack.

Give her Batgirl.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Enjoy this nonsensical battle of epic proportions

 

[moviefreak]

The 13 tribes of which I belong to in the Wonder Woman Box Office Speculation trend :

 

[Iceman]

Those were the good times, mayne.

When was that pic from? He looks good there.

 

[KalvinEllis]

More Cast photos, Megan Gale (WW)

I think I was going to like Megan Gale as WW a lot.

 

[Micromind]

So why ‘The Shape of Water’ is getting praise for being a 'fairy tale' while a similar movie ( ‘Lady in the Water’) got bashed for being 'fairy tale' ?

‘The Shape of Water’


This is del Toro’s second straight film to smuggle a swooning, lovestruck heart beneath pulpier genre clothing (“It’s really a Gothic romance” became something of a fan meme in response to 2015’s horror-styled “Crimson Peak”), though this time, there’s nothing arch about its romanticism: It’s as pure-hearted and simple a girl-meets-Amazonian-water-creature-who-might-just-be-a-god story as any ever made.

The film announces its fairytale intentions from the outset, via the florid, characteristically comforting Richard Jenkins voiceover that bookends proceedings:



References are made to “the last days of a fair prince’s reign,” “the princess without voice” and “the monster who tried to end it all,” as the shabby contents of an ocean-flooded Baltimore apartment float in the blue like sea anemones. It’s a dreamy image on which to kick off a story that never seems entirely of this world, even as we’re introduced to the mundane everyday routine of Elisa (Hawkins), voiceless and orphaned from infancy, who scrapes together a living as a cleaner in a top-secret government laboratory, where assorted shady experiments are conducted in a fevered spirit of anti-Russian paranoia. The year, of course, is 1962.

http://variety.com/2017/film/reviews/the-shape-of-water-review-1202543729/

‘Lady in the Water’


Vindication is rarely as swift or complete as that likely awaiting the Disney execs who passed on M. Night Shyamalan’s latest effort “Lady in the Water.” After Disney balked, the director carted the project to Burbank neighbor Warner Bros., then lambasted his former studio for a lack of vision in a tie-in, tell-some book. Disney’s misgivings were well founded, as Shyamalan has followed “The Village” with another disappointment — a ponderous, self-indulgent bedtime tale. Awkwardly positioned, this gloomy gothic fantasy falls well short of horror, leaving grim theatrical prospects beyond whatever curiosity the filmmaker’s reputation and the mini-controversy can scare up.




Although Shyamalan indicates in the storybook-style animated opening sequence that the story is derived from ancient myth, his perplexing creation stimulates a nagging sense that he’s simply making it up as he goes along. (This is apparently the case, as the production notes say the idea “began as an impromptu bedtime story for his two young daughters.”)

http://variety.com/2006/film/reviews/lady-in-the-water-1200514775/

 

[morningmimosa]

When was that pic from? He looks good there.

That was pre-BvS, so around 2015-2016 I guess.
That's when he was in his best shape after The Town.

 

[Willi Berg]

The 13 tribes of which I belong to in the Wonder Woman Box Office Speculation trend :

Go on and gloat why don't ya!

I voted 600-800 million and was actually glad I believed in it but then I don't mind at all that it went beyond all that.

 

[Iceman]

That was pre-BvS, so around 2015-2016 I guess.
That's when he was in his best shape after The Town.

Oh right. Not long ago. He could surely get back into that shape if it was so recent.

 

[Willi Berg]

I mentioned a while ago but a lot of people didn't take it seriously my post on George Miller's quote about really dark Superman. I have long felt that Miller's take on DC hero will be much more darker than Snyder's. MOS ^ BvS are tame by comparison.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/am...-featured-wonder-woman-superman-fight-1034183

Jay Baruchel who was going to be Maxwell Lord:

With so many characters and not much build up, George Miller would've gone for maximum impact with these characters right off the bat. After what he did in Fury Road I wouldn't be surprised if JL:Mortal was quite violent. With WW quite savage, and Superman this relentlessly rampaging monster during his mind-control. Maxwell Lord getting a nosebleed sounded like a nice touch. I read the comics the story was based on (The OMAC Project, Superman: Sacrifice, Tower of Babel etc.) Superman and WW really do get into a bloody brawl and that certainly could've been played up onscreen. A lot of severe things happened to the League, as they were all taken down (by their weaknesses.) I mean, Martian Manhunter and Aquaman would've been tortured.

It could've been a cool movie, but I don't think there would've been as much character development and depth as what we got in MOS and BVS and WW etc. Simply because of time constraints and the lack of the DC shared universe at the time.

 

[Micromind]

With so many characters and not much build up, George Miller would've gone for maximum impact with these characters right off the bat. After what he did in Fury Road I wouldn't be surprised if JL:Mortal was quite violent. With WW quite savage, and Superman this relentlessly rampaging monster during his mind-control. Maxwell Lord getting a nosebleed sounded like a nice touch. I read the comics the story was based on (The OMAC Project, Superman: Sacrifice, Tower of Babel etc.) A lot of severe things happened to the League, as they were all taken down (by their weaknesses.) I mean, Martian Manhunter and Aquaman would've been tortured.

It could've been a cool movie, but I don't think there would've been as much character development and depth as what we got in MOS and BVS and WW etc. Simply because of time constraints and the lack of the DC shared universe at the time.

I don't think it was the right time for such a movie, now had everyone agreed to a 'shared DC universe back then' things could have been different.

Then after TDK and SR maybe WB could have followed it up by JL:Mortal, with Christian Bale as Batman and Brandon Routh as Superman, JL: Mortal also had Talia and LoS ? If WB had managed to get them both, it would have been some nice way to start a DC Universe back then.

But, after TDK's massive success, Nolan vetoed that project.