Batman V: Superman Dawn of Justice

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Jorge]

LV you wanted to say "solipsistic" in that post, didn't you.


(but also team LV on this one)

[LoathedVermin72]

Bought tickets for Saturday morning. I wish I didn't have to wait 'til then.

Go this afternoon!

I wish. I have to wait for my wife. Fucking married life.

[LoathedVermin72]

LV you wanted to say "solipsistic" in that post, didn't you.


(but also team LV on this one)

It didn't occur to me, no. Though it would certainly apply.

[Iholdthepain]

A brooding Batman -- which we've just recently seen on-screen -- portrayed by an actor whose own celebrity has eclipsed his ability to sell a role.

Of all the things in this movie worth criticizing, this is one I'll step up and defend. Affleck is the most compelling portrayal of Batman we've seen on screen. Leagues above Bale, whom I really liked.

I don't doubt that he has the chops to pull it off. But I can't ever divorce his characters from his being Ben Affleck in real life. The only recent role I thought he knocked out of the park was in Gone Girl, because that character basically was Ben Affleck.

Once again, trag, this is your personal issue, and has nothing to do with the movie.

Objectively, I'm sure the FX look great and this movie will please a lot of people. Subjectively, I think it looks like shit.

Follow up: I actually think it has a lot to do with the movie. Casting a role doesn't just happen in a vacuum; there are all sorts of considerations, and an actors humongous celebrity should certainly be considered when trying to make a viewer empathize with a character.

You're assuming that because you have trouble empathizing with a celebrity, others must as well. Which is just silly.

Team Trag.

How do you feel about his role as O'bannion?

[epilogue]

Bought tickets for Saturday morning. I wish I didn't have to wait 'til then.

Go this afternoon!

I wish. I have to wait for my wife. Fucking married life.

Ah. I totally understand.

[Strat]

what is married?

[E.H. Ruddock]

what is married?

[Strat]

I did that pose as a single guy a couple weeks. not as pretty though.

Fuck married life. Bro4life

[epilogue]

Getting married was the single best decision I ever made. But it wouldn't have happened with anyone else. Until I met Mrs. D,T, I never wanted to or thought I would get married.

[LoathedVermin72]

I love my wife but I would leave her in a heartbeat for Zack Snyder

[epilogue]

Have you tried therapy?

[Strat]

I'd probably marry Baby Goose

[Monkey_Driven]

I love my wife but I would leave her in a heartbeat for Zack Snyder

What about if you were married to Zack Snyder and had a chance with Gareth Edwards?

[LoathedVermin72]

I love my wife but I would leave her in a heartbeat for Zack Snyder

What about if you were married to Zack Snyder and had a chance with Gareth Edwards?

this is the kind of dilemma that keeps me up at night

[Monkey_Driven]

I love my wife but I would leave her in a heartbeat for Zack Snyder

What about if you were married to Zack Snyder and had a chance with Gareth Edwards?

this is the kind of dilemma that keeps me up at night

It would be quite the dilemma.

[BurtReynolds]

I'm too old for this shit

[Strat]

This is going to be great

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[bada]

I don't know...all these bad reviews are bumming me out. I was really hoping this would end up being good.