DC Films

Peacemaker coming to UK 22nd March

They've been advertising it on Sky/NowTV for a while now so something on there.

Oh is it Sky is it

I'm not surprised that was deleted, it's such an on-the-nose Thomas Harris homage. You'd have all the Se7en homages on top of that and it just becomes one big serial-killer wankfest.

I loved the movie, but a big gripe of mine was how fuckin' stupid this Batman was. For all the talk of "for once, they show Batman be a detective," he's pretty brainless when it comes to guessing any of the obvious clues Riddler left for him. Especially when the riddles are pointing directly towards him or his family. That deleted scene exemplifies that, where even the Joker figures out it's all about him, and he just ignores it.

As for the look of the Joker there, it's realistically more what someone would look like if they fell in a vat of acid, but I hate it nonetheless.

I came out of seeing it on Monday and the first thing I said was

I suspect the joker scenes were cut for several reasons. One, I can’t understand what he’s saying. Two, I think they decided they didn’t want to be locked in to a specific look (and, possibly, actor) for it, so only used the shot at the end where you don’t see anywhere near as much of him as here.

Finally saw T'Batman last night (or at least 95% of it - the screen turned off just before the end for some reason - long story).

I went in with mixed feelings as I really liked the look of it, but was bored by the prospect of another serious Batman. And I emerged very much the same. I really liked Pattinson as Batman; I loved the look of the film, the cast, the performances. I loved the focus on procedural, and the down-to-earth nature of Bruce as Batman, with his suit that made sense and the way he was building and refining his gadgets and stuff. I liked the allusions to a larger Gotham full of criminals and weirdos.

BUT. It was far too long. It felt like a miniseries that had been edited into one movie; so many characters, so many subplots. And it was so relentlessly humourless. I was glad to see the Penguin because at least Colin Farrell looked like he was having fun. And there was really nothing there that I hadn't seen before: Nolan had done the "realistic" take on Batman; the architecture of Gotham and arguably even elements of the suit seemed very inspired by the Arkham games; elements of the story seemed similar to not only the Telltale game series but also the Nolan films. Yes, okay, cherry-pick from other adaptations - there was a lot of Long Halloween and maybe a bit of Hush in there too - but it needs its own flavour. For me, despite how well done everything was, I just didn't think it had anything new to say as a Batman film. And really it's not a very good detective film; the central mystery is ropey and I was always one step ahead of Batman and Gordon, which shouldn't be the case.

So anyway, whilst I did like it a lot, it's still a bit of a shrug.

One more question... How much coke have you done in the past ten minutes?...

Ezra Miller in jeopardy at WB again due to a recent arrest. Apparently there was an emergency meeting at WB where they may be freezing all his future projects and recasting Flash for any further movies.

Dude is obviously a mess.

They sound like they might have some anger issues to sort out.

("they" in reference to Miller, who uses they/them)

In short, outside of Batman, the DC stuff has been either forgettable guff or underperformed. Think only Wonder Woman 1 can be called a true success.

I don't know specifically, but they don't sound well.

"They", Decks...

They're just a cunt.