Chinese audoences seemingly have a thing with underwater movies. I don’t know why, but I’m surw it makes perfect sense to people who actually knows Chinese culture. But many Hollywood movies taking place at least partially underwater have been huge hits there.

I have a hard time believing that Donald Trump, of all people, would choose a woman as his running mate, with the exception of Ivanka. The man is extremely mysoginistic, in addition to being every other flavor of asshole under the sun.

I would argue that “confortable with a lack of continuity” is the default state of the mainstream audience, and it’s only hardcore comics fans that get their panty in a twist over reboots and continuity.

My guess is that they will follow the example of M in Casino Royale: just keep the actress every loves in the role, who cares if it’s a reboot, only hardcore nerds who can’t accept any non-diegetic explanation will be upset.*

But the AI didn’t create sequenve on its own, unprompted, right? Unless they are lying (which is possible), there was a creative decision made to use AI, in order to get a very specific result. They even say a team tweaked the AI output to get exactly the result they wanted.

“the computer would go off and do something,” and the team behind the sequence would tweak and alter the response with new prompts.”

Except Barry Allen was created as a forensic chemist in 1956, while the dead mother/imprisoned father backstory wasn’t added until 2009. So clearly you don’t need the latter to have the former. And if you want both, as I said, there are ways of writing the accident in such a way that it could look like a…

Because the character comes from material that wasn’t this violent or rated R? The first couple decades of Kraven stories were certified by the Comics Code Authority, and are now rated Teen (13+). So clearly, you don’t gore and violence to make a good Kraven stories

Yeah, it is, but again...Michael Shannon. The dude has always been snobbish and self-serious. Him being classist is not out of character.

This is neither surprising from Shannon or hypocritical. The man has always a bit “snobbish” as an actor, and Man of Steel certainly projected the appearance of being more substantial. And he clearly made Flash to be nice and for a paycheck.

I’m not convinced not explaining who killed his mom or why was a good choice. I see the pros - it prevents the movie from being yet another revenge film, and it softens the fridging aspect of the plot point a little (but not entirely). But I’m not sure that makes up from the cons, which is that it makes the death feel…

I don’t think the agressivity is needed. He’s an actor, his job his to act, so he takes the roles that pay well. We all take on job we are not 100% enthused by because there is a nice paycheck at the end. 

But it’s left ambiguous wether she survived, or wether she was brought back by all the cats that surrounded her body. Just like it’s left ambiguous wether she really has nine lives or not. It’s not confirmed either way.

I mean, the live-action remake of that old Ralph Bakshi fantasy movie with the magic ring was pretty good.

I think only Catwoman puts some explicit magic angle on it, Batman Returns leaves it ambiguous IIRC.

Oh, it’s not the first time he’s running! He ran in 2016 too - Last Week Tonight actually included him in a segment on third-party candidates, years before the Tiger King show.

I mean, if housecats can resurrect women thrown off buildings, I guess a lion can do magic too?

My why wasn’t about why the character transforms into a Rhino. I understood that.

That’s exactly the vibe I got too. And that is what it was, had no rhino man, and was called The Hunter or something, I would be more curious. 

Except Batman v Superman, while making good money, was met with extremely negative reactions*. If they had simply gone ahead with Snyder’s planned JL 2-parters, they were heading for a wall. Course correction was needed. Course correcting right into another, different wall, however, was certainly a choice.