Superhero film news, 6/25/16

• Deadpool appears in X-Men: Apocalypse trailer in Japan

Makes sense considering how big Deadpool was in the Box Office. People want more Deadpool.

• Deadpool 2 likely to film early 2017
• Kevin Conroy appeared confident with his interview with Jessica Smith for the Killing Joke. He wished he would never lose it.

More Batgirl.
He wanted to do a musical.

• 16.8 Million ID4 2 Friday

I don't know why everyone expected a franchise with only one movie to make $100 million on the first week. Luckily it only has a budget of $168 million.

• Spider-Man Homecoming crew wants to make Silver Sable movie.

I sorta don't get the point of that when Marvel works with Sony and basically does everything anyway. They don't have one movie yet, and there was no Silver Sable element in Civil War, so what was the point?

Teenage Mutant NInja Turtles 2 gripe second time I watch

Before everyone was like TMNT 2. Sure, it's not as bad as TMNT 3, but definitely not as good as TMNT 1.
That friggin babies scene with Shredder and the mutants really ruined it for me. It was obviously one or those producers appeal to kids. And although I didn't get that TMNT 1 was a dark film, I still never really laughed at that scene and absolutely hated it as an adult. Bad move by the crew.

The Pros and Cons of the Summers in X-Men Apocalypse (third viewing)

Pro:
They're introduced.
They don't ruin the story.
They don't take too much time up in the story for its main characters: Xavier, Magneto and Mystique.
Scott and Jean like each other. Simple. Let's not get into it.
Alex dies. Scott reacts.
Scott vs Storm leaders homage to comics.
Jean defeats Apocalypse, setting up the next film, adding some curiosity to her character.

Con:
The character usage is way worse than any Avengers film other than the first one and I'm including the overrated Civil War film.
Jean defeating Apocalypse makes no sense since she's barely introduced, barely in the franchise, barely has her powers.
Jean fighting Psylocke would've added a bit since they're both psychics.

The Batman Season 1 Episode 1 opening scene directing critcisim

It starts off with a shot of a building looking like that done by the Godzilla/Men In Black cartoon creators.

The original Paul Dini Batman was great, cuz everything was dark and you couldn't see stuff clearly.
The roll over to the shot of Batman's shadow, showing where is plainly, and even drawing your attention to it with the camera movement, a camera movement in a digital animated work mind you.

Then they pan through from statues, before shooting a batarang, with the camera going back to the batarang, without the batarang surprising or even giving a scare.

It sorta reminds me of going for 90s Spider-Man to Spectacular in terms of storytelling.
It may even be a 1920s pulp direction.

Random ass criminals jump in the air like superheroes.

Cartoony sound effects, but made darker than like 60s Batman.
This may also have a TMNT 00s feeling too.

The voice acting is really good though.
I like the shot of Batman fighting in the darkness with occassional light showing up. Good way to cheapen the budget too, without making it obvious. Made it look cooler even.

Again, I didn't see it as something that could've been played off as Star Wars, although this was inspired by pulps obviously.

The criminal makes a joke to splitting the take with Batman. Why should we care that this criminal is given a take? Despite being a main character in the Batman comics, there is no development for his character in this opening minute of this episode.

Kung fu sequence is cut short, instead giving us this water tower in a muddy green screen sky.


Also note, if you don't notice this stuff, it's fine. But if you hate this show, you'll love what I'm saying.

You see Batman's foot when he shows up.

Captain America: Civil War review

Iron Man does a presentation.

Thunderbolt Ross discusses with the Avengers.

Peggy Carter has passed on.

An African leader is assassinated.

People claim Bucky is behind this.

Capt saves Bucky. I wonder if it's developed. I wonder if Slovoka is described properly.

Scarlet Witch and Vision discuss their roles as villains.

Black Panther is done well.

But Spider-Man is bleh. He comes in way too late in the movie. Makes fun of

Ant Man has no purpose other than a cameo. They could've used his whole criminal background.
He's brought in too late too.
At least he sides with Capt.


Hawkeye brainwashed.

Black Witch vs Hawkeye

Scarlet Witch starts as an emo US teen.
Then Scarlet Witch dresses up anyway.
Scarlet Witch vs Vision? Tony Stark I guess.

I sorta prefer even really bad 2000s Marvel Bucky over the stuff they do with him post-First Avenger.
They turned him way too quick without ever giving any hints as to Capt believing that Bucky was anything other than a cool guy who stood up for him. I never really saw an acting moment where the two connected and instead sorta just saw Bucky as a supporting character.

Overall, still way better than Batman v Superman, although the cameos in that film were way exaagerated compared to the absolute failures in this film.

25 Reasons why Batman vs Superman worked

Everything Right With Batman v Superman
1 Batman is popular. Superman is popular. Batman and Superman are popular
2 It's an expensive movie. The Batman vs Superman fight looks like it was done with many $100,000/year computer people.
3 People generally don't care about philosophical stuff anyway, so when Batman talks about Superman having too much power then goes murdering people, they probably don't observe.
4 Prior to screwing that up, they did do a really good job at establishing those themes.
5 Comic book geeks have become the majority. They don't read about Thomas Pynchon books or do actual academic stuff. They watch this kind of garbage to seem cool and smart and then complain about why people don't agree with them, even if they can't really defend their points or understand theirs well. I'm probably included in some section of this checklist as well.
6 A lot of famous people are in this movie
7 The director of Watchmen directed this movie
8 The director of Watchmen directed this movie, which everyone was assuming was going to be based on the Dark Knight Returns
9 Expensive 4D tickets exist now
10 The economy is back
11 Inequality is back, mental illness isn't getting fixed, education has a lot of problems, where students go to school some hours less, etc..
12 The origin story was kept to a minimum. This is in direct contrast to Man of Steel which was a Christopher Nolan influenced superhero film that was inspired by his Farewell My Concubine-ish biographical take on Batman in 2005.
13 Not everyone thinks Batman shouldn't be allowed to shoot someone
14 Zack Snyder believes that he's doing The Dark Knight Returns Batman so everyone else should too.
15 Lois Lane was done well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI_moaVShMs
16 A DC Movie Universe doesn't have to be innovative, just a trend.
17 Pop culture is big
18 People like bad movies
19 Superman dying sets up Justice League well.
20 Jennifer Lopez and Electra weren't in this movie
21 DC Fanboys
22 As weird as the Wilhelm scream Hot Wheel Toys Batmobile stunts were, it wasn't like a Z-rated movie where a 40 year old man dubs a 4 year old girl. So there is that much good to say about the film.
23 It's enjoyable if you don't think too much about it
24 It's enjoyably bad
25 (Also a con,) you get to see Batman shoot a lot of people
*No one wants to see Batman and Superman fail

X-Men Apocalypse post MTV Movie Award trailer thoughts

Before with X-Men: Apocalypse, there was the themes of religion and origin. Now we dwelve into Xavier and fatherhood of his school of gifted children. Apocalypse is a man, I mean mutant who can take it all from him. Are his students his children or Apocalypse's? Apocalypse has followers. So does Xavier.Again, Magneto is lost from Xavier, and this time Magneto is the protege, destroying all humans. It's a cool use of time, which I think will be a big theme in the movie. The time travel stuff in Days of Future Past was cool, so why not? Good hood and false gods seem to be an interesting theme.
Did Apocalypse form the X-Men with his genes in the Genesis era of the bible? Or is he a false god telling lies for millions of years?

Mystique commands the X-Men in a scene. She seems to have grown as well. She fights Psylocke.

Havoc and Quicksilver are involved as well as William Stryker. Havoc and Cyclops are in the movie and are brothers in the comics.