Amph Here's Some Money, Go See A Swap Thing: DCU/Elseworlds Discussion

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Crisis on Infinite Earths was apparently reversed from ever happening, so I think the entire multiverse is back except for Earth.... 2? which was explicitly destroyed.

 

One thing that's been bothering me, why was Green Lantern snubbed from the Razzies that year?

 

So what does that mean? If the Pre-Crisis DCU is back...what characters is DC going to run in their main books? The current may or may not be douchie Nu52 variants or classic variants that remained more or less the same up to pre-Flashpoint? Regardless, it sounds like a logistical nightmare.

 

Because these came out.

BUCKY LARSON:
BORN TO BE A STAR
Columbia Pictures / Happy Madison Productions

JACK & JILL

Columbia Pictures / Happy Madison Productions

NEW YEAR'S EVE

Warner Bros / New Line Cinema

TRANSFORMERS:
DARK OF THE MOON

Paramount Pictures / Hasbro

TWILIGHT SAGA:
BREAKING DAWN PART I

 

GL is worse than two of those films. I won't say which ones.

Edit: Haha it looks like I'm saying George Lucas is worse.

 

You'd be right.

 

Especially since he's apparently making yet more changes to SW.

 

They picked the wrong villain.

 

Yeah, this pretty much. It's kind of how I feel about Man of Steel.

The latest bit of news from the rumor mill is Chris Pine might be Steve Trevor.

After watching George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road, I want to see what he would have done with the Justice League.

George Miller talks cancelled Justice League:

 

They picked two villains who didn't really go together and tried to cram them into the same movie (plus using Parallax in the FIRST film, and making him seem REALLY lame, was a big mistake anyway imo). The movie seemed to be of two minds on everything. It was too scared to go full-on "cosmic," which is the best part of GL imo, so they set the movie mostly on Earth and focused on human character (zzzzzz). But on the other hand, it felt like it needed an "epic, world-threatening," villain and those just didn't work well together. Plus there was the inconsistent tone, miscasting Carol Ferris, gross underuse of the GLC, and dodgy effects/CGI. Etc. It was just a mess. In many ways, GOTG was the GL movie done well/right imo.

 

And Green Lantern didn't learn from Rise of the Silver Surfer as they had their own cosmic cloud of a poop monster.

 

Damn I wish GL had been good. I was kinda entertained but it was a disaster. All the Sinestro stuff was great, and i was looking forward to a good villain.

 

Bats' cape will probably be CGI onto the scene.

I'm thinking this is either a flashback scene or maybe the beginning of the film, where maybe Batman chases Joker and Harley. Joker may escape but Harley is caught and throw in Arkham where Waller picks her up for a mission. Or it could be the end of the film where Bats has already taken down the Suicide Squad (ala Assault on Arkham) and what remaining is the Joker and Harley.

The Jokermobile is a sweet ride.

 

So...does that mean Affleck's making a cameo in that flick?

 

The answer you seek is found in the spoiler:

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'Batman v Superman' Star Ben Affleck Spied on the 'Suicide Squad' Set

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I can see it being either at the beginning of the film (so that Joker/Harley are in prison in time for the main plot), or near the end of the film where everything just goes completely bonkers (ala the recent Assault on Arkham animated film). I sincerely doubt that Batman has a big role in this film.

 

The only thing GL got right was Mark Strong.

 

Mark Strong was perfectly cast as Thaal as he embodied the character mannerisms, tone and other likenesses.

I wish the Abin Sur scene was more reflective of how the rest of the movie would have unfolded. Although, Parallax was the wrong character to bring into this film for many reasons; one them making Hector Hammond a redundant character.



I wrote on another message board who Green Lantern could have been the next "Star Wars" type franchise with a Han Solo type character in Han Solo driving it.

 

i don't want him near the end. Him coming in to save the day would make the squad seem a little lame.

 

Well, originally it was Legion from "Emerald Dawn" who was the main villain. Geoff Johns is the one who convinced them to switch it to Parallax. But the role of Hector Hammond was to reflect what was done with "Secret Origin", which included Hammond and Atrocitus as the villains.

 

Actually most of Oa wasn't terrible. It was a little out there compared to previous renderings but it wasn't bad. And most of the lanterns resembled their comic counterpart. The voice actors were also fine (Geoffrey Rush as Tomar Re and the late Michael Clarke Duncan as Kilowog in particular) The problem is that not enough time was spent on Oa and in space and that the conflict had to be centered on Earth. I think the DC Animated Lantern managed to do better and that plot had Sinestro going evil halfway through, but it at least developed a mentor and pupil relationship that Sinestro and Hal never got in this film. And no way should Hector have been the villain. Part of the problem with a character like that is he's just revolting to look at. Atrocitus and the red lanterns like the animated tv series did would probably have been smarter.