…might impact ticket sales:
Continue reading BLUE BEETLE production worried that calling Batman a fascist in the trailer…When the Blue Beetle trailer was released, there was a bit of backlash from some DC fans over the line of dialogue, “Batman’s a Fascist.”
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Director Ángel Manuel Soto and star Xolo Maridueña have responded to the backlash in an interview with MovieMaker.“
THE PENGUIN actually looks pretty good.
Then again, I liked THE CROWMAN quite a bit, so I would react well to this, wouldn’t I? It does look like it’d be fun, in a BATMAN: YEAR ONE sort of way. Although I wonder… will any superheroes show up in it? Guess we’ll find out!
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BLUE BEETLE could be good, but… I don’t know. There’s an aftertaste, there. Maybe it’s just that they couldn’t resist taking a shot at Batman. In a DC movie.
Happy birthday to me! I might even watch it tonight, too. Still deciding on that.
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THE DOOM THAT CAME TO GOTHAM comes out tomorrow – on my birthday, no less! I am looking forward to it; the original graphic novel was very spiffy. I think DC’s just better at making faithful adaptations of its material than Marvel is, but that may just be my own biases talking.
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My wife mentioned the “Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen: Who Killed Jimmy Olsen?” comic to me because she saw a couple of pages from it online, and it looked very, very weird. So I ordered it. I finished it this morning.
And indeed! It is very, very weird. Funny weird, and heavily leaning into the way Jimmy Olsen has the Weirdness Magnet disadvantage at remarkable levels. It’s also entertainingly cranky about the way that online media is screwing up newspapers’ very existence, although possibly it’s entertaining me in a different way than was originally intended. Either way, check it out.
Moe Lane
PS: The people who made this don’t make fun of the old-school Superman, although they do have some jokes at the modern Batman’s expense.
It’s the last three words here that are relevant:
“I saw the movie,” said [DC Co-Chairman/CEO Peter] Safran, “There are a lot of incredibly talented people in front of and behind the camera in that film, but that was not releasable. It happens sometimes.”
Bolding mine. “Not releasable” is bad* enough, because it’s a more polite way to say BATGIRL was so radioactive, we sent it over to the Department of Energy for disposal. “It happens sometimes” is even worse, because the subtext there is The discussion’s over on this, folks. Seriously, BATGIRL must be at BATMAN AND ROBIN levels…
Moe Lane
*Well, ‘bad’ for anyone who wanted to see this flick. I’m ready enough to believe that a studio executive might be able to recognize a stinker on sight.
(H/T: @bendreyfuss) My mouth got more and more open, the longer the video went.
There’s, two, three projects on there that I never would have believed they’d let James Gunn do. And yet. And yet.
Short version: Sonny Bunch was correct when he described this movie as, ‘What if Superman killed people, but it’s okay because they were all bad?’ It’s not what I’d call deep, but it was fun.
Continue reading My mini-review of Black Adam.Everybody’s feeling better and I could frankly use a couple hours off. BLACK ADAM promises to be – well, not mindless entertainment. But I’m not going in expecting any Deep Thoughts*.
Moe Lane
*Although one of the things that strikes me now about SHAZAM! was how there was a surprising amount of dark, down there in the subtext. The worldview is surprisingly stark, not to mention Manichean. It ain’t easy to be good, and there’s virtually no mercy shown to those who fall too under the sway of evil. …I guess it really is a kid’s movie, then. Children aren’t exactly what you’d call nuanced about this stuff.
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