DC Universe

[Ben]

Super-Batsh*t.

[EricJ]

I've discovered my biggest interest in the Batman vs. Superman fight was relegated to the two "battling" tie-in cereals:
http://blog.generalmills.com/2016/01/ba ... -comeback/
Batman's has chocolate-strawberry flavor (which you'd think someone would have come up with earlier), while Superman's is an appropriately inoffensive caramel-vanilla. And no marshmallows, which is refreshing.

As for the movie itself, it's the movie NOBODY wanted to be a hit, leaving us to battle the crazed hordes of overly devoted fans who insist on trumpeting the movie to the skies for their own personal issues.
It's the Frozen of superhero movies.

[Dan]

The Frozen of super hero movies? That's a laugh.

The better analogy would probably be Phantom Menace.

[Vernadyn]

Interesting for Vernadyn to point out the music because this is the first time I can say that I felt a score by Hans Zimmer was essentially an after-thought.

12 Years a Slave and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides immediately come to mind regarding Zimmer after-thought scores. But even Zimmer himself seems to realize that superheroes aren't inspiring his best music, which may be why he's "retiring" from superhero movies:

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35925151

What does this mean for the music of the DC cinematic universe? More music from the improbably monikered Junkie XL, of course! (In my opinion, he's basically a mini-Zimmer without the flashes of inspiration that Zimmer himself occasionally evinces.)

I liked the WW theme, though they went a little overboard playing it every time she was on screen.

My thoughts about that theme went quickly from "That's neat" when I first heard it to "Please stop" once it played for the fifth time--especially since it played the same way every time. If that theme is going to be used in the Wonder Woman movie, I hope that the composer alters or expands it significantly.

[EricJ]

The Frozen of super hero movies? That's a laugh.
The better analogy would probably be Phantom Menace.

No, fans hated Phantom Menace--
We're talking about the fanboy movies you can't kill with garlic and crosses.

[Dan]

And fans hate Batman vs. Superman as well.

You should've seen the silent rage everyone had at WonderCon every time the film got mentioned. Which made being around the DC booth uncomfortable at times as the trailer played on occasion.

[ShyViolet]

Can't wait to see How It Should Have Ended's take on all this!

Worth repeating and really funny in hindsight of everything:

[Dacey]

Seems WB isn't deaf to the negative reaction to BVS...

http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2016/03/31/ ... movieverse

[Ben]

And fans hate Batman vs. Superman as well.

It's actually a lot worse than Phantom Menace for several reasons. As I say:

Super-Batsh*t.

[Dacey]

And it's still nicer than anything Ben's ever said about Superman Returns.

Which someone out there took the time to write a llllloooooooonnnnnggggg defense of...

http://www.boxofficeprophets.com/column ... mnID=18305

[ShyViolet]

Apparently it's up in the air about whether Jesse Eisenberg returns as Lex:

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/justice_l ... Q.facebook

I have even higher hopes for Apocalypse now. (If that's possible lol.). Movie/comic fans obviously want something with real plot, character development and blood, sweat, tears. As Beast says: "The world needs the X-Men!"

BvS falling on its face will leave plenty of room for Apocalypse to do even better than DOFP!!!

[Dacey]

And also up in the air if Affleck will return after JL....

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/6 ... s#/slide/1

[EricJ]

Seems WB isn't deaf to the negative reaction to BVS...

http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2016/03/31/ ... movieverse

Yep: They're believing their own trailers, and if it's not "DC's Guardians of the Galaxy" yet, they're going to make it one.

Other unconfirmed sites are speculating that Zack Snyder may sit out the JL movie for "personal reasons" of it being too big a project for him to take on fresh after finishing this one, but we'll wait for bigger sites to confirm it.
(He says "Personal reasons", we say "BUS-teeeedd!")

[Dacey]

Considering it begins filming in like two weeks, that is extremely unlikely.

[Dan]

And it's still nicer than anything Ben's ever said about Superman Returns.

Which someone out there took the time to write a llllloooooooonnnnnggggg defense of...

http://www.boxofficeprophets.com/column ... mnID=18305

Tarantino was supposed to write an essay on why he felt Superman Returns was a fantastic movie. I'm still waiting on that.