I like Nolan ones, but glad he got out. He'd be wasting his time to go further with that mob.
I like Nolan ones, but glad he got out. He'd be wasting his time to go further with that mob.
Gunn has a very particular voice/style in the films he makes. If you watch his films inside and outside of the comic book genre, you'll see it: He's a smartass. It's not that that's a bad thing. I enjoy the Guardians of the Galaxy, Suicide Squad, and the Peacemaker series. I thought Slither was awesome. But they all have his sense of humor. It's like he can't write a serious film, and frankly some people might not be able to take his brand of humor. I don't think he's capable of a Winter Soldier type of film.Originally Posted by lost in melb.
If you take the comics/cartoon out of it and look at it through the lens of an adult, then the Joker is a seriously dark character. Doing a serious character study on him would just lead you to Joker the film, or worse.
The Batman film was good, and people looking to write Neo-Noir should take notes from it.
Those dark films made a lot of money, so naturally, Warner Brothers and DC Studios are gonna ride that train, but they don't want that level of darkness permeating throughout the DCEU. They want to be able to show their films to kids too (and again, I think Gunn's a bad fit for that), and you don't want to damage the kids in the process with that level of darkness. Joker is fucking dark, so let's get another Joker that's a lot lighter but still a pain in the ass for our heroes to contend with.
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The only real Joker was Cesar Romero
Is anyone going to sawcon?
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Where do I enroll?Is anyone going to sawcon?
Back from another trip to Toronto. That one was a huge waste of time, got a bad snowstorm so I had to cancel half the meetings I went for. My flight was cancelled and I barely made it home tonight. I'm pooped and kinda pissed off, and expected to come back again 3 more times in the next 7 weeks... this new role might be too much travel for me.
How many trips so far? I have to agree that travel is exhausting, even when it's a holiday.
Speaking of which, I'm back in South Australia since Tuesday this week. My formal holidays begin in 3 days. Can't wait to swim and ride and veg.
Not sure why the site was down earlier this morning or even for how long. I was up at 4 AM Mountain Time to take the dogs out and the site was offline then. I couldn't even reboot the server because I kept getting a "server unavailable" error. Had to open a ticket with the host and it took a few hours at least before I checked and saw it was back online again.
I was trying to get on around the same time.
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This year was 6 trips to Toronto, plus the 3-week trip to Rome (partly for work), and Montreal and Austin for fun. Certainly not complaining about the fun trips, but the constant trips to Toronto are draining for sure. It's a 5 hour flight, the flights are constantly delayed and there's an hour commute on either side so it's an 8-9 hour travel day each way. Then you're staying in 3.5 star hotels, and away from the dog and wife for the week eating crappy food and not having much to do in the evening when work is done which is lonely. If the expectation next year is 10-14 trips to Toronto I might have to start looking for a different job.
I had no idea it was that many flights, or how far away it was. That's a big country. For context, Melbourne to Sydney is about an hour.
Do the trips feel essential to you, in terms of benefit for the company?
I agree with all of that. Warner and DC are yet to consistently nail the normal mainstream hero movie like mcu (mostly) does. Mcu got the formula right early and therefore has the advantage that they can keep doing the same thing. Which perhaps forces DC to be more experimental. Some flop and some are ok.
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Haha ya and Toronto is only about 3/4 of the way across the country! They are fairly essential, we're just a small branch office here in Vancouver. Toronto is where all the directors/VP's/c-suite are and the execs of this company are over virtual meetings
My brother just flew to Australia with his fiance and her family for the holidays last night actually! 25 hour trip from here, partly because of delays/missing a connection, they had to go YVR to Sydney which is about 15 hours, Sydney to Brisbane (wrong direction I think, but they missed the only flight to Tasmania out of Sydney for the next 8 hours so it was still faster apparently), then to Hobart where his fiance's family lives. They're spending a week there, then some time on the Gold Coast. Very jealous, it's dumping snow here and looks like it's about 22 and sunny there.
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