Greywind Posted September 8, 2017 Report Share Posted September 8, 2017 Yes, but an Alfred trumps all those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DasBroot Posted September 8, 2017 Report Share Posted September 8, 2017 I've always thought that Alfred and Bullock are the best two things about the show. zslane 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranxerox Posted September 16, 2017 Report Share Posted September 16, 2017 Dates of interest for DCEU fans. Gotham season premier September 21 Supergirl October 9 Flash October 10 Legends of Tomorrow, also October 10 Arrow October 12 Justice League November 17 And as a bonus date, the CW, non-DCEU, comic book based show Riverdale comes back October 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 16, 2017 Report Share Posted September 16, 2017 None of those TV shows is in the DCEU. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted September 16, 2017 Report Share Posted September 16, 2017 But they probably are dates of interest for DCEU fans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zslane Posted September 16, 2017 Report Share Posted September 16, 2017 As a Supergirl fan, the only date of interest to me is Oct 9. The others, meh. Cassandra and bigdamnhero 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywind Posted September 16, 2017 Report Share Posted September 16, 2017 They're all DCEU. Each one takes place on a different earth than the comics. Universe doesn't get any more expanded than that. Ranxerox 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranxerox Posted September 17, 2017 Report Share Posted September 17, 2017 As a Supergirl fan, the only date of interest to me is Oct 9. The others, meh. For me it's Legends of Tomorrow and Riverdale. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 17, 2017 Report Share Posted September 17, 2017 For me it is Legends. Cassandra 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted September 17, 2017 Report Share Posted September 17, 2017 The kids like Legends and Flash. I have to say the latter is incredibly confusing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassandra Posted September 17, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2017 The kids like Legends and Flash. I have to say the latter is incredibly confusing. It's the time travel that give Flash problems. That's what undercut so much of Star Trek Enterprise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted September 17, 2017 Report Share Posted September 17, 2017 And yet Warner Bros. has announced that the upcoming Flash movie will be based on Flashpoint. I don't know whether this will be an opportunity for the studio to adjust things from previous movies that didn't work as well as planned... or end up just muddying the waters even worse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted September 17, 2017 Report Share Posted September 17, 2017 I'm going to guess the latter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted September 18, 2017 Report Share Posted September 18, 2017 I think you really have to just turn off your continuity filter to watch something like Flash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st barbara Posted September 18, 2017 Report Share Posted September 18, 2017 At the risk of upsetting the Diana Rigg/Emma Peel fans here I have to say that I always preferred Honor Blackman's Cathy Gale when it came to ":Avengers "girls. (I like Emma and Purdey too, but Cathy was THE original kick ass, leather clad avenger) Cassandra 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st barbara Posted September 18, 2017 Report Share Posted September 18, 2017 Oh and getting back to the D C universe I thionk that "Wonder Woman" has restored some of my faith in the ability of Warner Brothers to make super hero films that appeal to a wide audience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher R Taylor Posted September 18, 2017 Report Share Posted September 18, 2017 There were hints in Suicide Squad that they were kinda getting it, but the lame plot and aimless, meandering writing didn't help. I guess it made enough to get a sequel, oddly enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigdamnhero Posted September 18, 2017 Report Share Posted September 18, 2017 I guess it made enough to get a sequel, oddly enough. They all do; that's part of the problem. Their movies get critically panned (except WW) and us fanboys bitch about them online, and they don't make quite as much money as they'd hoped...but they still pull in an average of $775M. So while it may seem obvious to us that they need to change their focus, it may not be as obvious to the people who sign the checks. Christopher R Taylor 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassandra Posted September 18, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2017 At the risk of upsetting the Diana Rigg/Emma Peel fans here I have to say that I always preferred Honor Blackman's Cathy Gale when it came to ":Avengers "girls. (I like Emma and Purdey too, but Cathy was THE original kick ass, leather clad avenger) Yes, she certainly did rock those leather outfits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zslane Posted September 18, 2017 Report Share Posted September 18, 2017 Suicide Squad was uninteresting largely due to its utter lack of character development. Every character came out of the experience exactly the same as they went in. And the movie did nothing to make you care about them. The lack of agency didn't help matters either ("Do what we say or your head explodes."). I mean, basically, that screenplay was a textbook example of how not to write one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher R Taylor Posted September 18, 2017 Report Share Posted September 18, 2017 Suicide Squad has a host of problems, none of which the screenwriters seemed able or interested in addressing. How do you make people root for the bad guys? How do you introduce 10 new characters almost nobody but hard core comic geeks even know? (and some I didn't know and I loved the Suicide Squad comic). How do you believably make the bad guys fight the enemy? How do you control these people with all these powers? This was like... the 3rd film in the series, but shown as the first. They should have started small with few characters, introduce the concept and characters with a smaller story, and focused on who they are and why this exists, how they make it work, etc. Instead they went with the big story as if this was all established long ago like a long-running popular TV series that they then were doing a film about. Just have Harley, Deadshot, Enchantress, and maybe Captain Boomerang for comedy relief. Don't cast Will Smith as Deadshot, he was all wrong for the character. Don't have one of the team be the villain; there's no emotional power or sense of betrayal the way it was done. There was no sense of anything, none of it connected at any level. Tell a small story like stopping an assassination or something. Have the bulk of the film be "here's the characters, here's their relationships, and here's how the Suicide Squad works." You could even have a longer section on how they were caught. Then when you do the next movie, add in more bad guys, and Enchantress can go crazy because people know who she is and care about the character and her relationship with Flagg. Such a horrible mess. All it really had going for it was hawt Harley in her naughty daddy shirt and pigtails. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st barbara Posted September 19, 2017 Report Share Posted September 19, 2017 Holly Holm (Current whateverweight Women's UFC Champion, beat Rousey like a red-headed step child) when she's cut: Holy Holm when she's not fighting or promoting: Oh my god! Suddenly, she's not buff enough to be a boxing and MMA champion! What's that all about? Just body fat percentage. She still has enough muscle to KO another pro fighter. Here's a collage of Gadot: Holm is 5'8" to Gadot's 5'10", so Gadot's showing a similar level of muscle mass. Given that WW is a fighter and not a body builder and that her powers aren't dependent on muscle mass, I'd say Gadot's doing OK. It's simply not easy for women to put on mass. Gadot looks athletic enough to be a female fighter, and that's about all we can expect, unless we want some stunt casting of a strength athlete who has abnormal muscle mass but can't act. So they got another shorty to play "Wonder Woman" ? 5ft 10" is six inches shorter than Wonder Woman is supposed to be (according to "the D C Comics Encyclopedia"). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted September 19, 2017 Report Share Posted September 19, 2017 Unless Gwendoline Christie gets a boob job, I don't think you'll find any competent actor who can approximate Diana's size. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted September 19, 2017 Report Share Posted September 19, 2017 Wonder Woman's official height has been anywhere from 5'8" to 5'11" to 6' even, to . . . whatever the heck the writers/artists/editors feel like. Comics aren't exactly a bastion of consistency. Christopher R Taylor 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted September 19, 2017 Report Share Posted September 19, 2017 Wonder Woman's official height has been anywhere from 5'8" to 5'11" to 6' even, to . . . whatever the heck the writers/artists/editors feel like. Comics aren't exactly a bastion of consistency. I didn't get that memo... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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