Batman V. Superman: Dawn Of Justice

~~Leo656~~ · 07-17-2015, 12:46 AM

I prefer it when his parents are alive.

I'm a sucker for all that sh*t where after he punches out Metallo, he goes home to pick up a new cape from Ma, who always has a bunch already made... him and Pa fix a fence and throw some new tires on the old truck, and then they go have a slice of Ma's apple pie while they talk about what a rat bastard that Lex Luthor fella is, and boy how he's gonna get it one'a these days.

They used to do that stuff all the time, and it was always so great seeing him just decompress and relax. "Hey, Dad... nothing's blowing up right now, why don't we sit on the porch and watch the sunset. Y'know I was on the moon this morning? True story!" That stuff is so great, and they don't do it as much when one or both of his parents are dead. He gets all "alone" and angsty and I don't like it.

I like that he at least hangs out with his Mom a lot in the new movies, apparently. It's nice.
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And calling the Reeve film trash is totally wrong (the first one, anyway... it's arguable about the rest). It's fine as its own thing and it's probably the best singular and self-contained Superman movie that ever will be made. I just don't like that aside from Him, everything else is light years away from the comic it's supposedly based on (which I'm easily forgiving of, by the way... they wanted to do the comics, and they tried to very early on in the scripting of it, it just would've cost a billion dollars back then, so they made the movie they made, and That's Fine). It's a really great movie and if you just ignore the sequels and the fact it's a total departure from the source - kinda like Keaton's Batman - then it's really good and (clothes aside) it's not that dated. It's not my personal favorite overall, but it works far better as its own complete film, way more than anything they've done since. There's no arguing that. I mean, I'll defend MoS all day long, but the fact is that a movie that's overly-reliant on its sequels to tell its story did NOT do ALL of its job.

07-17-2015, 12:46 AM	#11
~~Leo656~~ Banned Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: nWo Country Posts: 27,703	I prefer it when his parents are alive. I'm a sucker for all that sht where after he punches out Metallo, he goes home to pick up a new cape from Ma, who always has a bunch already made... him and Pa fix a fence and throw some new tires on the old truck, and then they go have a slice of Ma's apple pie while they talk about what a rat bastard that Lex Luthor fella is, and boy how he's gonna get it one'a these days. They used to do that stuff all the time, and it was always so great seeing him just decompress and relax. "Hey, Dad... nothing's blowing up right now, why don't we sit on the porch and watch the sunset. Y'know I was on the moon this morning? True story!" That stuff is so great, and they don't do it as much when one or both of his parents are dead. He gets all "alone" and angsty and I don't like it. I like that he at least hangs out with his Mom a lot in the new movies, apparently. It's nice. ------------- And calling the Reeve film trash is totally wrong (the first one, anyway... it's arguable about the rest). It's fine as its own thing and it's probably the best singular and self-contained Superman movie that ever will be made. I just don't like that aside from Him, everything else is light years away from the comic it's supposedly based on (which I'm easily forgiving of, by the way... they wanted* to do the comics, and they tried to very early on in the scripting of it, it just would've cost a billion dollars back then, so they made the movie they made, and That's Fine). It's a really great movie and if you just ignore the sequels and the fact it's a total departure from the source - kinda like Keaton's Batman - then it's really good and (clothes aside) it's not that dated. It's not my personal favorite overall, but it works far better as its own complete film, way more than anything they've done since. There's no arguing that. I mean, I'll defend MoS all day long, but the fact is that a movie that's overly-reliant on its sequels to tell its story did NOT do ALL of its job. Last edited by Leo656; 07-17-2015 at 12:54 AM.