I feel like DC is making all these all these off the wall casting choices in an effort to manufacture more Heath Ledger Joker performances, but Heath was the exception not the rule.
The Batman decision was fucked up, but I can honestly see some sort of reason there. Everything else has been stupider and stupider. There were THOUSANDS of better actors for Lex than this. Why the fuck are they making him a tween dot com genius?
Wimpy ass bullshit…ol’ “always got shoved into lockers in 9th grade” looking dude… get the fuck out of here with that… this may be the final nail in the coffin right there.
At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if they announced that Selena Gomez will be playing the role of Amanda Waller, Shaquille O’Neal as Mr. Myxyztplkt…and Cheryl Underwood is Booster Gold.
On the other hand, this is funny to watch the movie going down in flames before it’s even out… we’re seeing the movie equivalent of the Hindenberg crash in progress. This in itself has become quite entertaining.
This is becoming a stock conversation that happens before practically every nerd movie that’s come out in the last 10 years. And the result’s going to be the same. You’re all going to see it. The movie’s going to be okay in some ways and stupid in others. Everything that seemed super-important in the run-up to the movie is going to fade into nothing once the studio has your 12 bucks and you’ve had your two hours of special effects and grown men trying to be serious while wearing 80 pounds of latex. You could replace random posts in this thread with GIFs of dogs walking on their front legs and it would still make sense because of how many times this conversation has already happened.
My cheapness and laziness tends to win out most of the time, but I also don’t go to the theaters if something appears already to be lame, imo… the track record so far, in terms of super-hero stuff:
Batman & Robin <-- I’ve only seen segments of this once it was finally on television.
Elektra <-- never saw it…not even close to wanting to see it, because I never gave a shit about this character in the first place, and Garner isn’t quite hot enough to make me want to endure an entire movie just to see her.
Spiderman 3 <-- never saw it; I noticed how terrible it looked early on. Similar to B&R, I only saw segments of it once it was on television for free* (*or at least, the price I pay to a cable service provider)
The Amazing Spiderman <—didn’t bother seeing this one either. It seemed like everything has been straight downhill since Spiderman 2.
Catwoman <–never saw it, until it hit television.
Daredevil <–never spent even a penny on this shit. I watched it on video for free at a friend’s house…and even then, I fell asleep on that shit.
Ghost Rider <-- I didn’t bother seeing this one either.
Green Lantern <–never saw it until FX started showing it recently…it was surprisingly not quite as bad as I previously thought… I figured this was straight trash but it turned out to be at least watchable…didn’t put me to sleep like Daredevil, so that’s at least…something.
Fantastic Four <–didn’t care enough to see both of these at the theater… I waited until it was on teleivsion(FX again).
At least for me, if a movie looks unappealing from the beginning, it’s easy to avoid spending money on it. Heh, I still remember seeing the preview pictures and articles about Batman & Robin in Wizard magazine back in the day…and some other Batman fans I knew at the time were all like "WHAT the fuck are they doing?!" each time we saw more info about it. You know that was going to be a stinker early on.
Speaking of maintaining a relatively cheap lifestyle with simple shit like avoiding horrible movies…yes, I laugh and look down on the people who give in to temptation and actually buy terribly overpriced food and drinks at the theater. C’mon, folks…either eat before or smuggle some food from elsewhere into the theater. Most of the choices there suck anyway.
the amazing spiderman is the only decent film out of all of those movies, and when i mean decent, i mean you can actually watch it and enjoy it for not being mind numbingly dumb
the other movies are on that list of movies that you wish didn’t exist and tried locking in the attic only for them to escape and torture your soul