Movie Thread

The entire BvS Snyder era has been one big dud. Man of Steel was interesting until Clark became Superman. The only thing they got right in BvS was Batman wrecking everyone in the warehouse. If only Nolan could have had better fight scenes, Nolan's Batman was too technical and made the fight scenes look like an MMA sparring session and it never got to show Batman's prowess as a brawler.

 

He'll be top 10 once the movie ages better.

1. Nolan's Joker
2. Loki
3. Old Magneto
4. Doc Oc
5. Original General Zod

 

"Darkest Hour"
Oscars well deserved for makeup and Oldman's performance.
This is not, as I had expected, a biopic; it is a dramatization of WC's first 20+ days after taking the office of Prime Minister as Hitler was closing in and all his troops were trapped at Dunkirk. It shows a nice contrast between politics and leadership. Two thumbs up.

 

I'm not sure anyone's Batman can compare to Nolan's in the near future. Those movies where almost masterpieces in writing and cast selection for the roles.

 

It could be argued... The DCU is as flawed as it is DUE to Nolan's Batman trilogy.

Rises came out in 2012... that's when The Avengers came out. Already 4 years into building Marvel and DC couldn't really start until after Nolan was finished. DCU didn't even start until 2013 with Man of Steel. Technically, though, that was a stand alone. It wasn't until 2016 that the first film to truly lay the foundation for the DCU was released - BvS. By then, DC had to catch up with 8 years of "infrastructure" by Marvel.

If Nolan's trilogy hadn't happened... would the DCU had been better planned out and better paced?

 

IDK. If anything it should've been even better planned out, as they had all those extra years. I think this is just plain old top-down incompetence.

There was no need to rush things even though they were "behind" Marvel. Hell, Marvel had established the blueprint. It was right there for everyone to see. But DC was like "Nah, let's do the exact opposite."

 

Pretty much. Warner have been too focused on the end result they forgot about getting started.

 

Wind River: So Hawkeye and Scarlet Witch once again team up, but as their alter egos. At first this movie had Thunderheart written all over it, especially with the opening sequence, but it went a little bit different than I expected. Overall I liked the movie and it held my attention pretty much the whole time. Jeremy Renner does a really good job as characters outside of Hawkeye. Once again, a movie that happens in almost complete isolation makes for a great movie.