So how about that Veelk, lol. That guy fascinates me.
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So how about that Veelk, lol. That guy fascinates me.
Poodlestrike
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Despite my feelings about Veelk, I'd prefer to avoid shittalking individual posters behind their back in the community thread
Haha. He took a pot shot at both Devin Faraci AND those crazy fanboys who attacked him on twitter for that divisive BvS reaction/Justice League delay speculation video.
Discotheque
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that sounds a lot more reasonable than the "all the jokes were in the trailer, they called for an emergency humor reshoot" lol
plus come on, after McWeeny's last rumor about how execs were worried about how BvS will be received I'm finding it hard to doubt this guy now.
Poodlestrike
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'Lil bit, yeah
Hahaha, Greg Miller put up a reaction vid to the new trailer and it's fucking awesome (especially the very end).
https://youtu.be/tGmfyyuZrJw
https://youtu.be/tGmfyyuZrJw
Despite my feelings about Veelk, I'd prefer to avoid shittalking individual posters behind their back in the community thread
Oh I'm not shit-talking, lol. I love reading his posts.
Major Gripex
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Just saw the trailer and loved it... Save us Ayer, you are our only hope. ;_;
Do you know what the greatest lie on the internet is? That rumors can be innocent.
johnnydrama
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WB are still good. They miscast. They mess up. They betray the fans. But they can rebuild. They can do better. They will. They have to.
Maybe his wb source is feeding him wrong shit to make him look bad, I dunno. He nailed pretty much everything regarding BvS, every big story beat he nailed.
Guy is a PoS, but he has sources, so I dunno how he jumped the gun on this scoop saying it was to add more jokes, maybe they are adding more jokes but that wasn't the only reason for these reshoots.
Major Gripex
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I laughed and clapped like a giant idiot.
Poodlestrike
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I feel like his big miss here was the "all the jokes in the movie have already been shown" bit. That feels like a bit of deliberate misinformation.
I keep hearing this but what did he specifically nail that either wasn't already the majority guess or wasn't already thrown out on reddit? I'd like to be able to credit the guy (despite how I feel about him) but I can't remember.
Kenzodielocke
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Gotta give that to BvS, it's super quoteable.
Terrio has given me enough material to be a mindless meme generator in DC threads for the next decade.
McWeeny does have a point about how many sites ran with it though. Superhero film reporting on these enthusiast sites is bad as video game blogs. One site (or forum) has a rumor, and then dozens of blogs pick it up, rewrite it to make it sound like a new story, and then you have ten to twenty differently worded articles confirming the same thing, in spite of it all being from the same source.
Nobody ever quotes his speech but that whole thing was hilarious to me.
Major Gripex
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Guys, what drink did Slipknot order?
Cool! I'm probably going to watch the SS trailer a couple more times, but then I'll start my tradition of going on a trailer reaction binge.
Cool! I'm probably going to watch the SS trailer a couple more times, but then I'll start my tradition of going on a trailer reaction binge.
He nailed everything from Doomsday and Zod, to the film making the destruction of Metropolis a big part of the narrative and even mentioned the big WW moment with her cutting off Doomsday's arm.
The Driver
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Yoooooo this SS trailer goes in damnnnnnn.
Maybe not on the level of the last trailer which is one of the GOAT trailers, but tons of awesome footage. I think this will be enough for me and I'll try my hardest to stay away from the final trailer which will probably drop at Comic Con.
I like that we basically know jack about the plot and I wanna keep it that way. Already feel like I'm seeing too much Joker, that burnt face bit was giving me some heavy Capullo vibes.
Maybe not on the level of the last trailer which is one of the GOAT trailers, but tons of awesome footage. I think this will be enough for me and I'll try my hardest to stay away from the final trailer which will probably drop at Comic Con.
I like that we basically know jack about the plot and I wanna keep it that way. Already feel like I'm seeing too much Joker, that burnt face bit was giving me some heavy Capullo vibes.
Poodlestrike
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A "death in the afternoon."
broncobuster
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High quality version of the Suicide Squad trailer.
http://pdl.warnerbros.com/wbmovies/suicidesquad/trailer2/SUICIDE_SQUAD_TRAILER_2_wGREEN.mov
Added clarity of the source may give hints to Joker's role. Spoilery speculation
http://pdl.warnerbros.com/wbmovies/suicidesquad/trailer2/SUICIDE_SQUAD_TRAILER_2_wGREEN.mov
Added clarity of the source may give hints to Joker's role. Spoilery speculation
The Nanite Injector is made by the same laboratory Joker is seen breaking into. Maybe trying to save Harley?
The only of those I would actually count as credit is WW slicing off Doomsday's arm. The rest was all talked about almost immediately following the release of MoS. The Doomsday talk started after home release because there were a couple of easter eggs about him coming in the MoS special features.
And after the 2nd trailer for BvS hit I don't recall not one post claiming Faraci "called it".
Here's the thing about scoops and rumors: You can know something and know nothing simultaneously. Having accurate information about an asset is not the same as having accurate information about context around it. And that's fine if you're being transparent about it (ie: "I heard Doomsday is in BvS, but I have no idea what role he plays"). The problem is that for a lot of these blogsites, they want to get more clicks and they want to seem know they're more in the loop than they really are. So they take different pieces of information they have access to from sources, and then try to puff it up by creating a narrative around it to make it seem like they're part of the inside baseball.
Kenzodielocke
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I am confused about the timline, but this must be pre Superman, while Superman and post Superman.
Pretty sure it's all post-Superman excluding flashbacks with Joker/Harley/Batman.
Poodlestrike
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And I'm not even sold on that.
Harley and Joker probably, but I still think there's a decent chance Batman chase scene might be post BvS.
Snyder will get the best out of him. I'm confident in that.
Dat SS trailer tho, I'm happy that I don't know the plot going into the movie. The trailers have been good about not showing too much.
Could be. Trailers haven't really given anything substantial away. Just a few character moments but outside of Waller assembles a team of criminals to do something we don't really know shit about the movie, lol.
Poodlestrike
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Forreal. I keep vacillating between "Enchantress is responsible for the shit going down in Midway City" and "Enchantress has nothing to do with the shit going down in Midway City at first but later does."
The guy in the suit at the start says
"who would have stopped him"
past tense...It's post BvS, and flashback to pre Man of Steel for Batman taking on Joker and Harley and her creation.
Poodlestrike
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Or, it's a hypothetical, which can be referred to in the past tense even if he's still around. Like, in the past, but not after he dies. Could go either way.
Suicide Squad takes place at the same time as BvS, but in a new timeline. The movie opens with the scene where Bruce is arguing with Alfred, and when Alfred says "He is NOT our enemy." Bruce stops, calms down, and goes "You know what, you're right. I should look into real villains instead." and opens the Joker file. Then he goes "But first, I need to take care of a friend." And goes bail his old employee out of jail and gets him a new job.
Without Batman being played as a fool, Lex delays his plans indefinitely, choosing to focus on expanding LexCorp's political power instead, while continuing to study Kryptonite and metahumans. Meanwhile without things escalating out of hand, Amanda Waller is free to basically do Batman's job in trying to convince the government that Superman could be a threat, and builds the Suicide Squad.
This is WB's super secret stealth reboot plan, and it will be explained in Justice League that it is all possible because Flashpoint happened, but we won't find out the details until the Flash movie.
Without Batman being played as a fool, Lex delays his plans indefinitely, choosing to focus on expanding LexCorp's political power instead, while continuing to study Kryptonite and metahumans. Meanwhile without things escalating out of hand, Amanda Waller is free to basically do Batman's job in trying to convince the government that Superman could be a threat, and builds the Suicide Squad.
This is WB's super secret stealth reboot plan, and it will be explained in Justice League that it is all possible because Flashpoint happened, but we won't find out the details until the Flash movie.
BadAss2961
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Batman in 2 movies within 5 months. Not just any Batman either, this Batman.
I love it.
I love it.
Discotheque
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yeah it could go either way with that line.
i'm assuming the majority of it is post BvS though with all those bat/joker/harley scenes pre man of steel or pre BvS
i'm assuming the majority of it is post BvS though with all those bat/joker/harley scenes pre man of steel or pre BvS
johnnydrama
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But what about "The bat is dead, bury it"? Sadman still hates Batman.
BadAss2961
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Pretty sure it's after BvS. After seeing the movie I thought about how Suicide Squad might follow up on that, then I remembered Waller's line from the first trailer.
"Maybe Superman was some kind of beacon for them to creep back from the shadows."
Another bit than can now be taken as past tense.
Justice League opens with Clark and Lois having pillow talk, and he says "Remember that one time I got so mad at Bruce for no reason? I'm so glad you talked me out of escalating things. Who knows how badly things might have gone otherwise?"
Really enjoyed the new trailer. That and the Fantastic Beast were a great way to end the night I feel. I never believed the "humor" rumor when it came to reshoots. The film clearly has it. No way it couldn't have do to the characters in it. However I still believe it's going to be followed by some pretty dark stuff. As a result I'm not sure what audiences are going to think. I think a fair bit of whiplash will take place for critics and audience.
Kenzodielocke
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Margot is great. Hope it isn't her first and last appearance as Harley.
Hope there is also only one last trailer coming and it better be near release, so I can avoid it more easily.
Hope there is also only one last trailer coming and it better be near release, so I can avoid it more easily.
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