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

I liked her in In the Heights but... she wasn't the strongest in it. So I'll be curious to see how she carries a movie of her own.

 

They already botched Cass with Birds of Prey....

Stephanie Brown would also be nice to see. But DC is fixated on Babs. Even though she is 100% better as Oracle.

 

The Flash movie is going to solidify the DC Multiverse same way that Loki solidified the MCU multiverse so doesn’t really matter which canon/universe/whatever this Batgirl is. Although I get the feeling DC isn’t going to make it as explicitly a multiverse as Marvel is. It’ll just be different stuff. But anyway Batgirl flick, finally, huzzah!

I saw in the Heights, she sang a few decent songs, I believe she had a dancing on the walls bit that may be apt for playing someone swinging atop Gotham rooftops so good enough for me.

 

This is our first clue that the Batgirl movie is actually going to be a musical.

 

With the lyrics, "Everything's up to date in Gotham City."

 

I think Grant Morrison said once that Gotham has a thriving night life / entertainment district (probably why Bruce Wayne can keep up the billionaire playboy ruse so easily) or any way that it's not exactly a constantly crime ridden cesspool. They throw some big banging, neon soaked parties in the Schumacher Batman movies that everyone seems to attend. (and are inevitably attacked by Two-Face or Mr. Freeze)

 

I’ll allow it. But only if we get “A superstitious cowardly lot”

 

It doesn't matter if Cass was in Birds of Prey, because Warner Bros. has made it very clear that they don't care about continuity at this point. So if Warner Bros. really wanted to make a film about a Batgirl of color, they would make a Cassandra Cain film. Otherwise, this Batgirl film just feels like pandering in my opinion. I want films with actual heroes of color, not just raceswapped versions of popular white heroes.

 

Flash set pics. Interesting.

Spoiler

 

Robofleck

 

Spoiler

that 'cycle' is so big and heavy looking i'm not sure what i'd call it

 

I'd call it 'Compensation.'

 

A tank?

 

Seeing posts about Birds of Prey, and to be honest, I rather enjoyed it. It felt to me like Deadpool if Deadpool was actually fun and had any sense of style (Deadpool was just bland and forgettable, in my opinion).

As far as the DCEU movies go, Aquaman is cream of the crop for me - it's just the right kind of absurd that taps into the schlocky pulp sci-fi adventure stuff that I love. Shazam and Birds of Prey slot in somewhere underneath that, probably tied in second place, and I didn't like Man of Steel, Wonder Woman, or Suicide Squad (and I haven't seen the movies that I didn't list).

The Suicide Squad is looking like it could very well overtake Aquaman as my favorite though - there's nobody making comic book movies right now that really gets it the way James Gunn does. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is far and away my favorite of the MCU so I can't wait to see what he does here. Pretty hyped for my boy Starro.

 

STARROOOOOO!

 

That Stephanie run of Batgirl is probably my favourite run of the character ever so I would love it if they ever did Stephanie Batgirl in live action.

 

+2 giant starfish

 

wait - Affleck is playing Batman in the Flash movie?

I thought he was done with Batman.

 

It's supposedly his last time. Most suspect he's going to disappear as a result of Flashpoint. Unclear then if they just move on to Pattinson in the DCEU or if they set it up so Keaton Batman trains the next heir to the cowl (likely Batgirl)