DC Universe

[Daniel]

Ezra arrested again. Tisk, tisk.

[gaastra]

Yup right before his court hearing from his last arrest also!

[gaastra]

911 call from couple he stole from and threatened to kill says he hit the woman with a chair. Now the third woman he has hurt! Our flash!

https://www.tmz.com/2022/05/07/ezra-mil ... hit-chair/

[Ben]

Hopefully he’ll get a slap from Batman.

[gaastra]

Blue beetle in outfit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieLeaksAndR ... beetle_on/

[gaastra]

https://comicbookmovie.com/batman/joker ... #gs.2lb2tz

[EricJ]

And so, another "art" director who was hired to do an "alternative" take on the franchise because he didn't really care about comic books, and had a breakout critical hit from press critics and grownups who don't watch too many of them in the first place, has been appointed new Chief Executive Messiah and Savior of Warner/DC, whether he wanted the job or not...

...Sorry, Chris Nolan, that's show biz.

[Daniel]

Joker is a fine movie, but it relies so heavily on Joaquin Phoenix's performance to carry a weak script and fairly bland direction. Todd Phillips is not the guy that should be an advisor.

[James]

To be fair, the article says he would be more of a creative advisor since he's not well versed on the DC universe. And it doesn't even sound like he was actually brought in, just that he was considered.

[gaastra]

[gaastra]

Here we go again.

https://www.tmz.com/2022/06/08/ezra-mil ... iron-eyes/

[Ben]

Oh, geez…this is one seriously self-spiralling mess. I bet WB are just loving this publicity…


As for the Black Adam trail…not what I was expecting. Now that looks like a barrel o' laughs, right?

[Daniel]

Career gone in a Flash... The parents aren’t any better, though.

Man, the color grading on that trailer...

[Randall]

I'm still not sure what to expect of Black Adam. Still seems like a weird concept for a film. I love the JSA, and Brosnan is a great choice for Kent Nelson, but I don't know what to make of it all.

[EricJ]

As for the Black Adam trail…not what I was expecting. Now that looks like a barrel o' laughs, right?

Even though I've almost mastered the art of telling Dwayne Johnson apart from Vin Diesel (Johnson is the one with a functioning sense of humor), this still looks more like the kind of project that would go to Diesel.
Ie., a real barrel o' laughs.

As for why this movie was made, it's a throwback to the days when Warner used to think they could roll out their DCEU piece by piece, Marvel-style, one feature piece of canon info at a time, and they couldn't do the Shazam movie or the sequel until the villain had his contractually obligated movie.
Nowadays, they throw anything at the wall that sticks, but a promise is a promise--Key word being "Contractual".