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One of the saddest casualties of Joanne’s derangement is that just about every story you hear about these movies is positive, and it’s kinda a miracle that 8 films starring children were made as cleanly and positively (and well) as they were, and she’s poisoned that whole thing.
Daniel Radcliffe was "terrified" of Alan Rickman and thought "he hates me" during the first three "Harry Potter" movies.
“I was so intimidated by Alan....Somewhere along the lines he saw that I really wanted to do this and work at it. He cut short a vacation in Canada to come
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Batman’s full blown noir journal with lines like “they think I’m hiding in the shadows, but I AM the shadows” is the sort of unabashed love for the goofiness of the genre and willingness to still treat it sincerely and without irony anyway that we haven’t really seen since Raimi.
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Few examples as striking of how avoidably bland and visually dead the Disney+ shows are than the contrast between the same location appearing in Fallen Order and Obi-Wan
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"The CGI will be better when it comes out, it's just a trailer" has maybe been written 50,000 times in the last decade and I can't remember a single instance of it being true
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I get the ‘tired of Joker’ perspective but also if you’re a great filmmaker who’s wanted to make a Batman movie your entire life and suddenly an opportunity to use his entire Rogues Gallery falls into your lap, I can’t imagine anyone saying “huh, I just won’t use The Joker”
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this little bit is the freakiest thing Zimmer’s done in years, goes insanely hard
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Okay it was cute for a while but I’m starting to think these people honestly believe they’ve made the first three hour movie in history
Beware:
#AvengersEndgame
won’t have an intermission and Kevin Feige says you won’t "find a good time to run out to the bathroom"
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Amongst 4 seasons of titanic acting this might be Brian Cox’s single best line read as Logan Roy
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Scorsese’s comments about Marvel movies have stayed in public memory and conversation longer than most actual Marvel movies
Bob Iger has said that he doesn’t think Martin Scorsese has ever watched a Marvel film because “anyone who has seen a Marvel film could not in all truth make that statement." (Source: )
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The way that fans of these movies have tried to reframe criticising bad and rushed CGI as an act of disrespecting VFX artists to shield the companies *who are responsible for overworking and underpaying them* from criticism is incredible
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I know Frank Herbert really loved John Schoenherr's Dune illustrations, and flicking through them again it’s striking how much of Part 2 is inspired by or even nearly verbatim recreates some of these images
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There are many of us. Proud of our lineage. Strong in our belief in our right to exist. You write these features to destroy us. Instead, I give you a glimpse of the devastation my race can unleash upon yours. To my nepo brothers and sisters out there, I say this: no more hiding.
Jamie Lee Curtis, the daughter of Oscar nominees Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, on the current "nepo babies" discourse: "There are many of us. Dedicated to our craft. Proud of our lineage. Strong in our belief in our right to exist.”
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The Batman is like a 3 hour long exercise in reclaiming Batman as a genuine hero from peoples’ worst impulses to write him as a sadistic power fantasy, with the final monologue literally spelling that out, and a select few people somehow still went “grimdark, where’s Adam West?”
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Nobody’s arguing that Daredevil didn’t have jokes, it’s that those jokes have a strange quality the MCU hasn’t managed in about 10 years: they’re funny
“The old Daredevil show never had him cracking jokes!”
Quite literally, one of the first scenes.
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Incredibly funny that the “best scene in the MCU” stars two actors cast by another director and creative team pre-dating the MCU, is set to a score written for that other franchise, and contains dialogue which is 50% basic pleasantries and 50% quotes from a better movie
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The “4 hour Serbian film through the eyes of a pigeon” has evolved into “the one good Disney+ show set in the Star Wars universe”
@The_GM_is_God
Andor fans when there isn’t 3 episodes of sitting in a field to build characters that serve next to no purpose in the plot in the Ahsoka tv show:
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This laugh is eerily and amazingly like Hamill’s but also totally its own thing, but 100% Joker either way and I genuinely get chills listening to it
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No better signature of quality than a sequel called “Part II.” Big fan
‘The Batman 2’ is titled ‘THE BATMAN - PART II’.
The film releases on October 3, 2025.
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How is the set this visually unappealing even before CG gets added lmao, ugliest franchise ever I do believe
tom holland is actually sickeningly talented like wow this is incredible
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Space Jam 2 being set in the “multiverse” is the final nail in the coffin for the multiverse going from an abstract concept for eccentric writers to tell weird stories to a corporate excuse for homogenising as much beloved IP as they can and milking crossovers as much as possible
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I really don't feel the mayor's son recurring in The Batman is setting up Robin or anything. It's a thematic link to Bruce, nothing more. Massive "who's the broom boy at the end of The Last Jedi?!" vibes from all this speculation, we need a cure to Glup Shitto brain urgently
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John Favreau and Dave just schooled the fuck out of Rian Johnson on how you treat Luke Skywalker and it only took 10 minutes
#TheMandalorian
#ThisIsTheWay
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(Which makes the reboot decision even more baffling. Forger the OG films carrying the iconography, music, aesthetic, merchandising etc everyone likes about the franchise, they were unprecedently smooth studio productions. Does she seriously think a streaming run will be neater?)
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Getting mad at Scorsese for calling your favourite movies theme park rides and then complaining that it just doesn’t feel the same not lining up to enjoy some adrenalising spectacle without the cheering and squealing people in the seats around you
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“One’s a video game and one’s live action!”
Really, genius? We’re talking about the franchise which spearheaded virtual cinematography using very similar tech to today’s games. “Looking like a video game” is literally the aesthetic Lucas pioneered, to often incredible effect
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Imagine writing Green Lantern, killing Percy Jackson for a decade, going on to make a successful living for 10+ years writing several mediocre shows and running 2 of them, and then having the nerve to act like you can’t catch a break in an industry full of (good) jobless writers.
Arrowverse co-creator Marc Guggenheim admits to feeling rejected after being left out of James Gunn's DC Universe films and shows. "The Arrowverse hasn’t led to any other gigs, so it feels — at least on a career level — that I really wasted my time."
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Kirsten Dunst being asked about the new Spider-Man movies and responding “who cares, we made the best ones” is still the care-free brutally honest example every actor being interviewed should aspire towards
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Rememember when Alfonso Cuaron directed and Michael Seresin shot a blockbuster and this incredible shot was born
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Eagerly awaiting the first pre-teen with a Spider-Man avi to explain how Dune looks suspiciously similar to ripping off Star Wars. Genuinely can’t wait
#Dune
director Denis Villeneuve on the MCU
"There are too many Marvel movies that are nothing more than a cut and paste of others"
(via
@elmundoes
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Crazy that Fallen Order still has probably the most interesting and affecting Star Wars story this side of TLJ (and for all the shit Cal got pre-release he’s a more compelling and rounded character than any of the Disney+ ones)
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Everyone gave space to Scorsese’s thoughts on Marvel movies but it’s a little funny how few outlets were willing to run 1000 thinkpieces and ask every single person possible about his even more negative thoughts on aggregates like Rotten Tomatoes and the state of criticism today
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The funniest thing about these sorts of tweets is most people would just think “that’s a fun shot” and not have any issue with it but the moment you see “this is the best thing I have EVER seen” it instantly becomes annoying and dunkworthy
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Even the framing of Vader is like a million times more interesting in Fallen Order than in similar live action scenes. Why do they find this so difficult
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The Batman is fucking phenomenal. A full blown detective story that has nothing in common with most superhero films today, feeling like an actual movie the whole way through - but also a blast that manages to be both dark and reclaim Batman as a hero. Matt Reeves is a god.
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I love how things like The Mandalorian and Fantastic Beasts, differences in quality aside, pitched themselves as chances to explore completely new, unique and original stories in beloved worlds and we've ended up with deus ex Luke Skywalker and Dumbledore literally in the title
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To say this isn’t portrayed in Oppenheimer is only true in the most superficial sense, but it’s nuts how many of these people think of “Nolan should have spectacularly depicted the immolation and suffering of thousands of Japanese people for my enjoyment” as the moral high ground
Semi-regular reminder that “this film is not the film I wanted it to be” is a useless mode of critique.
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Lucasfilm thinks the people want whatever a “Mandoverse” movie is and not a 3 hour long ISB meeting movie. They’re mistaken
This scene from
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“Critics only hate Eternals and tanked it on Rotten Tomatoes because it has a gay couple and they’re homophobic!”
Do you think potentially a lot of them just don’t think it’s very good
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Maybe the worst category? Janusz Kamiński' stuff in The Fabelmans is incredible and probably the best of the year, Claudio Mirandawas sticking cameras on jets, Fraser did maybe the best work in the genre ever with The Batman, van Hoytema's stuff in Nope is some of his best work.
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Part of the problem is the biggest franchises training your brain to think of villains exclusively as plot devices which get wheeled out for one movie and put away rather than characters too. Joker is as important and enduring a part of Batman’s cast as Gordon, Alfred or Selina
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I think it's pretty exciting- and absolutely praiseworthy- that a blockbuster franchise will happily put out an inspiring magical family movie thriving on childlike wonder and a demented adult character study in the same year, both the genuine vision of the people who made them.
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@whitewolf_raj
It’ll probably get enough eyeballs on it to be a ‘success’ but I can’t imagine a reception any better than live action Avatar. I think she and a few stupid execs are drastically overestimating how much people are attached to the lore/books rather than those specific adaptations
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@isaacbeeby8
You do realise it's fictional, right? That they're not at the mercy of today's shooting forecast? Or the irony of being infinitely more worked up about this than anything in the original tweet, right?
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These people have really invented a version of Christopher “famously easy to work with and loves and sees every movie he can” Nolan and periodically get mad at him for things he doesn’t do lmao
I just know Christopher Nolan is pissed off seeing this. He’s seething.
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Especially after seeing it a second time I can’t get past this. The most openly and meaningfully hopeful superhero movie in forever with real optimism against a dark world and a literal speech about how important that is, and some of them went “do we really NEED this movie now?”
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Still find it somewhere between stupidly funny, unsurprising and furiously rage-inducing that Disney decided its most well made, tender, director-driven and layered blockbuster of the decade had to be "course corrected" because it looked like an actual movie and had a soul
A reminder that every single frame in
@rianjohnson
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You could argue Patty Jenkins’ earnestness in Wonder Woman and Nolan’s willingness to take everything seriously, but that list is tiny. And it’s no coincidence they age the best. Costumed freaks just existing in ordinary places, calling themselves vengeance? That’s the good stuff
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#RogueOne
cinematography appreciation because not only does it look amazing as a story it visually looks incredible.
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Superhero movie fans discovering things like depth of field or shallow focus through The Batman and not knowing what to make of them after being subjected to the worst photography imaginable in 95% of their favourite movies for nearly a decade is my new favourite thing
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The great irony of this is that (whether through just not caring or actually supporting creative freedom for the most part) WB is the only major studio that would still actually allow this to happen lol
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The way that massive franchises and companies have successfully transformed attempts at representation (that usually come years too late and at a bare minimum) into a marketing point and a moral shield against any and all meaningful criticism is gross even by Hollywood standards
Enjoying the comments on
@ThatJakePC
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The man who made this film is making a Batman movie.
The genius who made this incredible film
two of the best, smartest and most staggering emotional blockbusters of this century
is making a Batman movie.
MATT REEVES IS MAKING A BATMAN MOVIE.
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@pramericano
Slews of trans people and everybody who gives a shit about their dignity and right to exist aren't a "Twitter bubble." I'm not in the "everyone must now hate Harry Potter" camp but JKR has directly tainted an enormous group of peoples' ability to enjoy/engage with this world.
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The thing about The Batman is it's not the single greatest blockbuster ever made and probably not the greatest superhero movie ever made but for three hours when you're totally absorbed in it, it absolutely feels like it is
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There are like 6 separate verified accounts in the replies here saying some version of “in the multiverse anything is possible!” and I’ve never been more convinced it’s a cult
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I love Hayden Christensen but unless he's on screen without a mask for the entirety of the last two episodes of Kenobi all of these puff pieces about "crafting his performance" and "getting to bring something different to the character" might be the biggest scam in TV history
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Love it when characters quote themselves, especially with classic lines or memes! A great new organic trend for the fans, because I can smile and lean over to my friends and tell them I, too, know the immensely popular movie being quoted
“You wanna get nuts? Let’s get nuts!” We just saw a new trailer for
#TheFlash
that ends with Michael Keaton’s Batman delivering that classic Batman line. Bunch of new footage, including several Batman suits, Batmobile shots & a quick look at Michael Shannon’s Zod, too!
#CinemaCon
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Surely there’s a law that forbids referring to a man who was in films like Blade Runner 2049, Prisoners and The Dark Knight as “Ant-Man and the Wasp Actor”
EXCLUSIVE: Legendary’s 'Dune’ film adds ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp’ actor David Dastmalchian
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All these surprised "wow Ready Player One is actually good!" reactions from film Twitter who have just been introduced to relative newcomer and unproven filmmaker Steven Spielberg
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I would have happily put money on the first look of this being a classic pose, trunks-on-display, no CGI back-to-basics sort of promise, so I’m now questioning whether my entire understanding of the premise of this movie is wrong and it really is just another 2024 superhero movie
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Matthew Jensen returning to shoot Wonder Woman 1984 is awesome news too. His work on the first is hugely underappreciated, it's a brilliantly shot and amazing looking film.
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Snyder in the same Q&A: “headlines will twist and manipulate what I say anyway”
Headlines the day after:
Zack Snyder wants you to 'wake the fuck up' and accept that Batman kills people
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“Stop hating on the MCU movies, they’re just harmless popcorn fun, you’re taking them way too seriously! Anyway, I think (new MCU movie) should win Best Picture and the Palme d'Or and Kevin Feige should be Time’s Person of the Year and win the Nobel Prize for literature.”
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When a Batman movie of all things is too unsatisfying for these people to even contemplate watching for a few hours because there's no prospect he'll quip at other spandex people in the future, you genuinely have to wonder whether Hollywood/fan culture ever recovers from this
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"You can’t tolerate any kind of behavior like that. And it will affect the film. We cannot let one person’s action affect the good work of all these other people. It’s that simple."
Ridley Scott is a bloody legend.
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@Capstain259
I don't really think that's true (and putting everything she's ever written through the lens of her shittiness now just clouds why people have genuine issues with her). Radcliffe was probably scared of Rickman because he was already a titanic actor and a pretty intimidating guy!
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Maverick is literally the only one here allowed to have a real character and arc beyond just being a walking “now clap!” moment.
I say this out of love, but do you realise how dire the competition has to be for *Maverick from Top Gun* to be the most complex character in any list
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I think it's genuinely incredible that Reeves found a way to not have to show the Waynes die again and keep things fresh whilst also ensuring the core grief of Bruce's entire character permeates every single scene with him in a way it hasn't really with any other cinematic Batman
robert pattinson depicts bruce's quiet heartbreak in this scene so well, it’s one of my favourite moments in the movie
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Danny Elfman was right, there is only one Batman theme. And this is it, holy shit
My brilliant friend
@m_giacchino
wrote this theme before I ever shot a frame of
@TheBatman
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#DylanClark
before we went onto the stage to do
#RobertPattinson
's screen test. We both had chills. Listen now:
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I know “Timothee Chalamet is a great actor” isn’t exactly a hot take but I genuinely still don’t think a lot of people fully appreciate just how good he is and how rare a fusion of old school towering movie star presence and that talent really is, particularly in Hollywood today
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John Turturro is genuinely fantastic in The Batman. Every scene he’s in is gold
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@mguggenheim
...are you seriously suggesting WW's classic pose is a rip of this? As if Arrow hadn't already proven you don't know comics...
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I haven’t been able to find a pair of stills that show this without sounding insane talking about identical sand dunes but this shows a little bit how where Arrakis is usually sterile and harsh for everyone else, Chani’s desert is noticeably warmer
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The belief of The Dark Knight is that the Joker could easily be right but his view of humanity is disproven by people being decent to each other even in a crisis because most of them are actually good.
It doesn’t share his worldview and just quoting him as fact misses the point
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A lot of people hitting back “well that’s what I’d say!” which is fascinating and all but I said “if you were a great filmmaker”
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Not to just do an annoying random cinematography appreciation post, but HARRY POTTER CINEMATOGRAPHY APPRECIATION POST. Some of the most beautifully shot blockbusters ever and being shot on film made all the difference.
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YouTuber who titles every second video “Why it Sucks” apparently believes nobody else can use hyperbole
Don’t wanna be mean but I’m starting to think this is a lot of peoples first good show
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Have not seen a single convincing argument against any of the changes, book purists remain the most annoying people on the planet
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This isn’t just what they’re missing, it’s what the vast majority of them actively reject and work to undermine the moment they get anywhere close to genuine emotion
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