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i know comic book nerds fucking love it
but
the multiverse thing is fucking stupid. And seems like a convenient way for companies to make money without having to come up with ongoing stories.
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@mariner4life said in Movie review thread...:
i know comic book nerds fucking love it
but
the multiverse thing is fucking stupid. And seems like a convenient way for companies to make money without having to come up with ongoing stories.
not sure you've quite nailed it because lots of comics have continuity going decades, personally i think its because they keep these stories going for so long they write themselves into corners and so a way to keep going (and yes making money) without completely rebooting whole universes (which they have also done a few times) is to have multiple realities
still about money...but slightly less cynical as far as im concerned
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@kiwiwomble said in Movie review thread...:
@mariner4life said in Movie review thread...:
i know comic book nerds fucking love it
but
the multiverse thing is fucking stupid. And seems like a convenient way for companies to make money without having to come up with ongoing stories.
not sure you've quite nailed it because lots of comics have continuity going decades, personally i think its because they keep these stories going for so long they write themselves into corners and so a way to keep going (and yes making money) without completely rebooting whole universes (which they have also done a few times) is to have multiple realities
still about money...but slightly less cynical as far as im concerned
which i am cool with, because comic books come out weekly/monthly for years and years and years and years.
If you are releasing a Spiderman movie every 3 years, it shouldn't be that hard.
Now we are doing Batman as well? I've lost count of how many Batmen i am up to in my life, could be quite the movie to get them all in (I want to see 2022 Val Kilmer in a batsuit)
Superhero movies have peaked. There's still enormous amounts of money to be made, so we'll keep going. But we've peaked.
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@mariner4life ok, if we're talking just movies rather than comics then yeah, i get ya. the number of batmen and spidermen over the last couple of decades is a bit stupid
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I don't know why, but it annoys me that the new Batman is called 'The Batman'.
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@crazy-horse said in Movie review thread...:
I don't know why, but it annoys me that the new Batman is called 'The Batman'.
"One of The Batmen"
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@mariner4life said in Movie review thread...:
i know comic book nerds fucking love it
but
the multiverse thing is fucking stupid. And seems like a convenient way for companies to make money without having to come up with ongoing stories.
Elseworld stories have been part of fiction for 60 years.
For comics, it lets you lose from being constrained by "canon" and tell a different story. After a few decades can be a bit of a nightmare to keep track of everything Batman is supposed to have done.
I'm just pleased it wasn't another origin story.
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@crazy-horse said in Movie review thread...:
I don't know why, but it annoys me that the new Batman is called 'The Batman'.
Another comic book nod. I like it as he doesn' call himself "Batman", other characters refer to him as the bat man, because he's dressed like a freak.
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@crazy-horse said in Movie review thread...:
I don't know why, but it annoys me that the new Batman is called 'The Batman'.
A Batman doesn't have the same ring.
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@kirwan said in Movie review thread...:
@crazy-horse said in Movie review thread...:
I don't know why, but it annoys me that the new Batman is called 'The Batman'.
Another comic book nod. I like it as he doesn' call himself "Batman", other characters refer to him as the bat man, because he's dressed like a freak.
Yeah I am sure there is a reason for it, but as someone who has never seen a Batman movie let alone read a comic I am completely ignorant on the subject. I guess I am used to it just being Batman and anything else sounds weird to me.
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@kirwan said in Movie review thread...:
@mariner4life said in Movie review thread...:
i know comic book nerds fucking love it
but
the multiverse thing is fucking stupid. And seems like a convenient way for companies to make money without having to come up with ongoing stories.
Elseworld stories have been part of fiction for 60 years.
For comics, it lets you lose from being constrained by "canon" and tell a different story. After a few decades can be a bit of a nightmare to keep track of everything Batman is supposed to have done.
I'm just pleased it wasn't another origin story.
I firmly believe that was a huge part in the current spiderman films being successful, if people had had to see yet another careless teenager get bitten by a radio active spider and yet another uncle ben die within recent memory...i just dont think it would have kicked off
@Crazy-Horse you've never seen one of the 9-10 batman (or movies with batman in it) that have been made in the last 30 years?
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@kiwiwomble nope I don't tend to watch superhero things. The last I saw was Superman back in the 80s.
Same with Marvel. The Punisher and Jessica Jones on Netflix is all I have seen.
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@crazy-horse fair play, i can be a real nerd and i would say there are lots of super hero films that aren't great...but also several that are very good, did you enjoy the punisher and jessica jones? did you watch daredevil? i think thats supposed to be the best of those marvel tv shoes
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@kiwiwomble yeah I did enjoy them.
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I vaguely remember this one. Weekend viewing!
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@tim said in Movie review thread...:
I vaguely remember this one. Weekend viewing!
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