Forget about Batgirl, the fact they are bailing on an animated Scooby Doo movie points to this being a slash and burn write off. Clearly they aren’t worried about the Scooby franchise. Discovery’s plans for HBO Max are odd when you see how they are rolling out Discovery+

Exactly. The same thing happens every time a media company gets bought up or a new head honcho takes charges. The successes have to be their successes.

sources referred to the movie as “irredeemable” after test screenings.

I think you mean “compositing”, not “composition”, and there are many casual fans who can’t tell - or at the very least, the degree to which they were completely green screened. There are tons of other shots through out the Marvel films and episodes that feature more subtle background replacements or compositing (like…

Careful yo! That’s the President of Houston you’re talking to!

I saw it at a double feature with David Harbour’s Hellboy

Who knew those episodes would become infinitely more creepy 30 years later.

I mean, it’s not a huge secret.

Yeah, it’s kind of nonsense hype, but I don’t mind him as Black Adam since I have no strong feelings for that character either way. I’d rather they just made a low-key Justice Society period piece.

quiet or the slideshow will wish you to the corn field!

Yeah I had to read that twice. A Batman show without Batman on a network that is currently sitting at the end of my driveway for pickup. Yay.

I’m excited to see Dr Fate and Hawkman, but that’s about it.

People complain about the effects they notice (Black Panther finale, the smoke stack shot in Black Widow, etc). There are hundreds of thousands of shots that audiences aren’t even aware were filmed on a green screen in Atlanta (Civil War airport battle, No Way Home overpass fight). But if the people don’t see the seams…

I’m in a similar field (motion graphics/animation). The networks can be a grind, but pharma was the worst because there’s so much money and such a scramble to get their ads out once approved. Bad producers, or desperate producers, become slaves to their clients and take advantage of their artists.

Pretty much all of them. So many of these Marvel movies are done on the fly, on a green screen in Atlanta, it’s a small miracle they are coherent on their own, let alone, in relation to each other.

This. Look at the credits for a Marvel movie, a number of effects houses in southeast Asia are contracted and they are probably a lot cheaper than ILM.

Rhythm & Hues went bankrupt right after winning an Oscar. Many of these effects artists are magicians, creating effects people aren’t even aware of within impossible footage they are given. Meanwhile audiences can only complain about imperfections. It’s a tough industry.

For sure. A few breadcrumbs are fun, but interrupting the current movie multiple times for future movie clips was getting way ahead of himself. Meanwhile, some of the stuff that’s in the extended cut is integral to the plot.

I liked Cavill in the role too, I just wish he had a chance to be more than a sad punching bag. There’s a lot of good stuff in Snyder’s 3 DC movies, but so much of the narrative seems reverse-engineered rather than character motivations. Like, maybe Batman doesn’t make all of his decisions based on fever dreams.

I like the Snyder cut too, I’m glad it saw the light of day and removed some of the stink off of Whedon’s JL movie. But I would not want to watch this JL series continue based on where it was obviously going. It spent enough time wandering the desert as it is. Snyder is an exceptional visualist, but he’s proven across…