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I like the George Clooney's batman, it's probably my favorite one along with the first Tim Burton's episode.

Definitely not a masterpiece but IMHO a batman movie should be exactly like that in the attitude. Quoting Heath Ledger's Joker: "Why is batman so serious?". If the last 5 movies involving batman had more comedy attitude I'd definitely appreciate them more, like the MCU movies which are basically cartoons and how superheroes movies should be.

 Blackie wrote:
I like the George Clooney's batman, it's probably my favorite one along with the first Tim Burton's episode.

Definitely not a masterpiece but IMHO a batman movie should be exactly like that in the attitude. Quoting Heath Ledger's Joker: "Why is batman so serious?". If the last 5 movies involving batman had more comedy attitude I'd definitely appreciate them more, like the MCU movies which are basically cartoons and how superheroes movies should be.

No, no! That movie killed comic book movies for a decade.

It was genre defining, sure, but that definition was "AVOID CONTACT WITH EYES".

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 Blackie wrote:
I like the George Clooney's batman, it's probably my favorite one along with the first Tim Burton's episode.

Definitely not a masterpiece but IMHO a batman movie should be exactly like that in the attitude. Quoting Heath Ledger's Joker: "Why is batman so serious?". If the last 5 movies involving batman had more comedy attitude I'd definitely appreciate them more, like the MCU movies which are basically cartoons and how superheroes movies should be.

No, no! That movie killed comic book movies for a decade.

It was genre defining, sure, but that definition was "AVOID CONTACT WITH EYES".

In my opinion that was a good thing!!! Marvel movies actually started being released just 3 years later with the first X-men. DC movies? That batman should have been the last one

I certainly prefer one comic book movie in 3-4 years than 45 of them (also including tv series) every f***ing year

Technically, the X-Men movies are not Marvel movies, as they were made and released by Fox, not Marvel. With Disney acquiring Fox, I look forward to seeing what Marvel can do with the X-Men.

To each their own. I prefer having plenty of choices for movies to go see, instead of waiting for endless rom-coms, LCD coms, and overdone dramas to pass by...

On subject, I rather liked The Shadow with Alec Baldwin.

 Vulcan wrote:
Technically, the X-Men movies are not Marvel movies, as they were made and released by Fox, not Marvel. With Disney acquiring Fox, I look forward to seeing what Marvel can do with the X-Men.

To each their own. I prefer having plenty of choices for movies to go see, instead of waiting for endless rom-coms, LCD coms, and overdone dramas to pass by...

Ugh, I didn't know about disney acquiring fox, very sad news as it would probably ruin my favorite superhero franchise.

I also prefer having planty of choices for movies to see, that's why I'm not a fan of the current state since there are basically only superhero movies among high budget films. Now that MI6 was released I fear I have to wait another 2-3 years to see a new solid action movie that isn't based on superheroes.

As was said, to each their own. But I like tuning in for the next MCU film like people used to tune in for their next episode of a tv show.

The MCU put that format on the big screen with each episode being a nice big self contained story AND a piece of the bigger narrative. I don't care for fox and sonys and WBs attempts to keep pace. But I do appreciate the one quality series we have.

Please carry on discussing the topic of the other three threads Techpriestsupport started on [allegedly] bad movies ITT. Thanks!

I kinda wish you had just merged them all together into one giant thread... Like a communal cesspit.

From four ongoing conversations to... nothing.

That was productive.

A wise bear once said, only you can prevent forest fires.

Similalry, if you want to discuss the topic then ... start posting on topic!

 Manchu wrote:
Yeah like why even care about movies? That’s for nerds!

Pacific Rim 2 is a piece of gak. I feel bad for John Boyega.

Pfft. At least he got to be in the entire movie. I can't believe how they just essentially tossed away Rinko Kikuchi.

Pacific Rim deserves some kind of award for utterly cratering an IP within the span of two movies. Even the Matrix needed three.

 Ouze wrote:

 Manchu wrote:
Yeah like why even care about movies? That’s for nerds!

Pacific Rim 2 is a piece of gak. I feel bad for John Boyega.

Pfft. At least he got to be in the entire movie. I can't believe how they just essentially tossed away Rinko Kikuchi.

Pacific Rim deserves some kind of award for utterly cratering an IP within the span of two movies. Even the Matrix needed three.

Matrix 2 was awful - Not seen PR2 yet - on the list

Probably should have changed the title to general movie discussions

Which was the movie that had Colonel Sanders spouting gibberish for 20 minutes straight? I can't recall if it was the second or the third. They were both pretty terrible.

 Vulcan wrote:
From four ongoing conversations to... nothing.

That was productive.

To be fair I'm not certain which discussion topic we are supposed to continue and which ones the Mods want us to drop.

 ChargerIIC wrote:

 Vulcan wrote:
From four ongoing conversations to... nothing.

That was productive.

To be fair I'm not certain which discussion topic we are supposed to continue and which ones the Mods want us to drop.

Exactly.

To actually be fair, I posted a note in every thread I locked saying to continue the discussion here, not to drop any topic. The point is, there were four threads about very similar things and there only needed to be one, Or, as it seems, there doesn’t even need to be one at this point.

They weren't really very similar things, though. Two of them were opposites, which just causes confusion if discussed in the same thread.


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Besides, I though Dakka liked having more traffic.

They absolutely were very similar things. I don't understand how 'continue the conversation here' is in any way ambiguous about what topic can/can't be talked about in this thread.

 creeping-deth87 wrote:
They absolutely were very similar things. I don't understand how 'continue the conversation here' is in any way ambiguous about what topic can/can't be talked about in this thread.

Because people are not having these conversations in real time refreshing every minute of every day to see what the next piece of the conversation is and respond. You might be at work for 8 hours since your last post, log in to read every comment since, and respond to any points made in that time that you find interesting. People came back to anywhere from 1-4 conversations they were having to find they had been merged and having no idea where any of those conversations were left off or what to respond to. They instead have to dig through pages of posts to look for the last thing they remember about the thread they were in before. I imagine, most, like me, decided to just not dig through the pages.

It stopped all those conversations dead in their tracks.

 creeping-deth87 wrote:
They absolutely were very similar things. I don't understand how 'continue the conversation here' is in any way ambiguous about what topic can/can't be talked about in this thread.

They had distinct topics. They were distinct enough to support a separate conversation each. By your reasoning, we should just have one big "talk about movies" thread. Do you believe that thread would generate anywhere near as much conversation?

And obviously "continue the conversation here" was inadequate: none of the conversations continued here.

Well, since no one actually wants to talk about movies ITT ...