This past month I’ve been working through the lineup for Fantasia Fest, covering it for my website. One of the things that’s occurred to me going through these films has been just how much of a dearth of non-horror genre films we’ve gotten this year because of the theatre closures. It’s been a wild ride, and they’re doing fairly well with the virtual format.
I’m not really going to be doing the DC thing but I am curious to see what comes out of it.
Have to disagree with the idea of getting so many Batmen in one film... well, in this film. First and foremost, it should be a Flash movie after all, and if they're basing it on Flashpoint, they are plenty of interesting riffs to play on the other members of the Justice League.
And if you really want to see Kevin Conroy play a version of Batman in live action, you already can. He was featured in the CW crossover, "Crisis On Infinite Earths"...
In what I believe was one of the biggest missteps of the entire enterprise. I know he personally liked playing a murderous Batman, but I did not enjoy seeing it. It should've been more Batman Beyond, less Frank Miller coke-nightmare.
I haven’t been the biggest fan of the DCEU choices. However, it still has a lot of potential. Aquaman was a blast. Wonder Woman was great. Henry Cavill is a walking Alex Ross painting and I want to see him as Superman again. Affleck is a good Batman. WB needs to embrace the weird and go all in for the multiverse.
In other news, I’m still in the midst of watching Columbo for the first time. Johnny Cash just got punched by his brother-in-law. This is a great show and the perfect comfort food.
I just finished reading Kim Newman’s Anno Dracula. Excellent book.
I’m also reading Harrow the Ninth. Don’t sleep on this. Tamsyn Muir is a great new talent.
I’m thinking of doing a deep dive into Brian De Palma’s work. I have never watched Carrie. (I saw a picture of Sissy Spacek covered in pigs blood when I was a child and it freaked me out.) De Palma intrigues me. When he is on, he is on.
I have Peacock but haven’t used it much. Columbo is on Amazon Prime. That’s great news about Rockford! I have been meaning to go back to that. I loved it back in the day.
Well, there's good content there. The crown jewel for me being BSG. And having never seen The Rockford Files before, getting to listen to a new answering machine message every night has been fun.
I’ve been able to go to the cinema recently, as I live somewhere without much community transmission, and I felt 0k about it. Mostly the cinemas have been pretty empty, maybe 1 or 2 other people, or the cinema to myself. I don’t need the atmosphere an audience brings, so I haven’t missed that communal experience, but I have missed the scale, even though I bought a projector late last year, it’s not the same thing, so it’s been great to go back.
So all if that is to say 2 things; I saw some trailers I hadn’t seen yet because I don’t watch trailers online, and frankly I’m pumped for The New Mutants. There’s a lot online negativity, but I don’t get it based on the trailer. I hope it’s as good as it looks. Also, the WW84 trailer has me pretty excited for that. I don’t particularly like the look of the armour in the trailer, but everything else about it has me saying, yes please! Then I saw the Tenent trailer. Underwhelmed. Did not sell it to me at all. Having said that, of course I’m still going to see it because Christopher Nolan, in fact, I have to go now, the session starts on about 10 mins.
I am big-time looking forward to DC Fandome in a way I never thought I would be. Maybe it's my irrational love of Aisha Tyler. Maybe it's the fact that unlike ComicCon they've got silly graphics of a "Stadium" and they're trying to be as fan-friendly as possible. To be honest, the DC Fandome sounds like something Disney and Marvel would've put together, so I guess it's just surprising that it's WB and DC instead. While I was never a "Release the Snyder Cut" guy mainly because there wasn't much of anything I liked about BvS which broke my Man of Steel-loving heart, I'm also happy to see Snyder get a shot to right the wrong done to him and his family. To be fired and then have WB make the excuse they made must have been horrific at a time when his and Deborah's wounds were so fresh. They seem like a great team, and I'm happy they get this chance. Will the Snyder Cut be better than the JL we got? I can't imagine it being any worse, so, even if it's a BvS-style mess, it'll still come out the victor.
Me and a few friends have had a good time since Batfleck was announced thinking about all the other possible cameos in Flashpoint. You have to figure that amazing scene with Grant Gustin from the Arrowverse's Crisis on Infinite Earths will be in the film. That Ezra-Barry realizing there is a multiverse is what sends him on his adventure in this film. Wouldn't it be cool if he breaks through a few dimensional barriers to find himself in the middle of Ryan Reynold's fight against a Space Poo Cloud in Green Lantern or into an episode of Adam West's Batman or, and hear me out, into an animated episode of Justice League Unlimited or Young Justice or Batman The Brave and the Bold? I'm with Drew. Make Flashpoint weird!!!
As for Orion Pictures, the one thing I'll probably associate the Orion Pictures studio and animated logo with for the rest of my life is hearing the fluttering oboes and flutes that open Howard Shore's amazing The Silence of the Lamb score for the first time.
I hope everyone is safe and healthy right now.
This past month I’ve been working through the lineup for Fantasia Fest, covering it for my website. One of the things that’s occurred to me going through these films has been just how much of a dearth of non-horror genre films we’ve gotten this year because of the theatre closures. It’s been a wild ride, and they’re doing fairly well with the virtual format.
I’m not really going to be doing the DC thing but I am curious to see what comes out of it.
Have to disagree with the idea of getting so many Batmen in one film... well, in this film. First and foremost, it should be a Flash movie after all, and if they're basing it on Flashpoint, they are plenty of interesting riffs to play on the other members of the Justice League.
And if you really want to see Kevin Conroy play a version of Batman in live action, you already can. He was featured in the CW crossover, "Crisis On Infinite Earths"...
In what I believe was one of the biggest missteps of the entire enterprise. I know he personally liked playing a murderous Batman, but I did not enjoy seeing it. It should've been more Batman Beyond, less Frank Miller coke-nightmare.
I haven’t been the biggest fan of the DCEU choices. However, it still has a lot of potential. Aquaman was a blast. Wonder Woman was great. Henry Cavill is a walking Alex Ross painting and I want to see him as Superman again. Affleck is a good Batman. WB needs to embrace the weird and go all in for the multiverse.
In other news, I’m still in the midst of watching Columbo for the first time. Johnny Cash just got punched by his brother-in-law. This is a great show and the perfect comfort food.
I just finished reading Kim Newman’s Anno Dracula. Excellent book.
I’m also reading Harrow the Ninth. Don’t sleep on this. Tamsyn Muir is a great new talent.
I’m thinking of doing a deep dive into Brian De Palma’s work. I have never watched Carrie. (I saw a picture of Sissy Spacek covered in pigs blood when I was a child and it freaked me out.) De Palma intrigues me. When he is on, he is on.
You Peacocking? My late nights have been filled with Rockford and Columbo, discovering the awesomeness of these two shows.
I have Peacock but haven’t used it much. Columbo is on Amazon Prime. That’s great news about Rockford! I have been meaning to go back to that. I loved it back in the day.
Well, there's good content there. The crown jewel for me being BSG. And having never seen The Rockford Files before, getting to listen to a new answering machine message every night has been fun.
I’ve been able to go to the cinema recently, as I live somewhere without much community transmission, and I felt 0k about it. Mostly the cinemas have been pretty empty, maybe 1 or 2 other people, or the cinema to myself. I don’t need the atmosphere an audience brings, so I haven’t missed that communal experience, but I have missed the scale, even though I bought a projector late last year, it’s not the same thing, so it’s been great to go back.
So all if that is to say 2 things; I saw some trailers I hadn’t seen yet because I don’t watch trailers online, and frankly I’m pumped for The New Mutants. There’s a lot online negativity, but I don’t get it based on the trailer. I hope it’s as good as it looks. Also, the WW84 trailer has me pretty excited for that. I don’t particularly like the look of the armour in the trailer, but everything else about it has me saying, yes please! Then I saw the Tenent trailer. Underwhelmed. Did not sell it to me at all. Having said that, of course I’m still going to see it because Christopher Nolan, in fact, I have to go now, the session starts on about 10 mins.
I am big-time looking forward to DC Fandome in a way I never thought I would be. Maybe it's my irrational love of Aisha Tyler. Maybe it's the fact that unlike ComicCon they've got silly graphics of a "Stadium" and they're trying to be as fan-friendly as possible. To be honest, the DC Fandome sounds like something Disney and Marvel would've put together, so I guess it's just surprising that it's WB and DC instead. While I was never a "Release the Snyder Cut" guy mainly because there wasn't much of anything I liked about BvS which broke my Man of Steel-loving heart, I'm also happy to see Snyder get a shot to right the wrong done to him and his family. To be fired and then have WB make the excuse they made must have been horrific at a time when his and Deborah's wounds were so fresh. They seem like a great team, and I'm happy they get this chance. Will the Snyder Cut be better than the JL we got? I can't imagine it being any worse, so, even if it's a BvS-style mess, it'll still come out the victor.
Me and a few friends have had a good time since Batfleck was announced thinking about all the other possible cameos in Flashpoint. You have to figure that amazing scene with Grant Gustin from the Arrowverse's Crisis on Infinite Earths will be in the film. That Ezra-Barry realizing there is a multiverse is what sends him on his adventure in this film. Wouldn't it be cool if he breaks through a few dimensional barriers to find himself in the middle of Ryan Reynold's fight against a Space Poo Cloud in Green Lantern or into an episode of Adam West's Batman or, and hear me out, into an animated episode of Justice League Unlimited or Young Justice or Batman The Brave and the Bold? I'm with Drew. Make Flashpoint weird!!!
As for Orion Pictures, the one thing I'll probably associate the Orion Pictures studio and animated logo with for the rest of my life is hearing the fluttering oboes and flutes that open Howard Shore's amazing The Silence of the Lamb score for the first time.