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dholliday said:
what kind of nods? bearing in mind the original trilogy was all about fighting against 'globalisation'.‎
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without going forever and boring the life out of you I'll just name a few little things. Dryden Vos's office was full of cool stuff from the EU.

The dancing goodness statue is a nod to the 80's Marvel comic run were it's a powerful artefact that Lando steals from Price Xizor. It changes hands quite a few times and was a big plot point in that run.

Xim's Death head is also there (Its the crystal skull thing and it's not a refarance to Indiana Jones like some people think) it's featured on the book "Han Solo and the lost legacy" that features Han and Chewie stealing said item.


There's Mandelorin Armor there and even a sith holocron that most causals wouldn't notice.

There's quite a lot of cool refarances over the course of the film nodding towards the old Han books and the Lando books from the 80's.
 
Gwladysstreetlad said:
I'm not sure either of them would work mate. I love the Animal Man comics but it strikes me as the type of thing that would work better on tv then the cinema. Doom Patrol? People will say the same thing they always have. "X-Men rip-off" (despite the fact that it's the other way around). The problem with both of them is that I really don't see the mass market appeal. They're the type of thing comic book fans love but casuals don't care about.
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Animal Man would be tops. He's a stunt man blessed with Animal powers. Box Office Gold... and Doom Patrol? There was a team up band of misfits which not many had ever heard about and they did alright...

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DC don't really get how this movie thing works...

There are loads of DC Properties which would make excellent films. Y the Last Man. Resurrection Man. Kid Eternity. Ex Machina. The Invisibles. Why haven't they made something out of Transmetropolitan? Huge groundbreaking series like Stormwatch / The Authority. Enigma. Chase. Time Masters. Planitary. Why aren't they developing The Sandman? Tales of the New Gods? Top 10 is just crying out to be made into a movie.

I know you can't answer those questions, but DC own epic back catalogues from the likes of Vertigo, Wildstorm and Americas Best Comics, and they won't get anywhere unless they start thinking outside the box.
 
McBain said:
Animal Man would be tops. He's a stunt man blessed with Animal powers. Box Office Gold... and Doom Patrol? There was a team up band of misfits which not many had ever heard about and they did alright...

Guardians-of-the-Galaxy-Vol.-3-on-hold-700x300.jpg


DC don't really get how this movie thing works...

There are loads of DC Properties which would make excellent films. Y the Last Man. Resurrection Man. Kid Eternity. Ex Machina. The Invisibles. Why haven't they made something out of Transmetropolitan? Huge groundbreaking series like Stormwatch / The Authority. Enigma. Chase. Time Masters. Planitary. Why aren't they developing The Sandman? Tales of the New Gods? Top 10 is just crying out to be made into a movie.

I know you can't answer those questions, but DC own epic back catalogues from the likes of Vertigo, Wildstorm and Americas Best Comics, and they won't get anywhere unless they start thinking outside the box.
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Marvel did Guardians of the Galaxy at the perfect time. Nothing they can do is wrong now. They can put out rubbish like Black Panther and have people rave about it. Everything DC does now will be criticised by the media regardless of if they deserve it (like they have for most of their stuff so far) or not. Animal Man would get hammered. If marvel did the exact same film it would get praise.

They only thing DC can do is to try and do their big chrecters the right way first and fromost before anything else.

Sandman would be a flop and DC would be accused of being pretentious for making it. It really isn't so much DC being the problem as it is Warmer Bros. They creatively holding the whole DCEU back.

Rember this line from Suicide Sqaud? Because its very apt here.
Warner Bros: "I'm not gonna kill ya, I'm just gonna hurt you really, REALLY bad!" FB_IMG_1537888452311.webp
 
Gwladysstreetlad said:
without going forever and boring the life out of you I'll just name a few little things. Dryden Vos's office was full of cool stuff from the EU.

The dancing goodness statue is a nod to the 80's Marvel comic run were it's a powerful artefact that Lando steals from Price Xizor. It changes hands quite a few times and was a big plot point in that run.

Xim's Death head is also there (Its the crystal skull thing and it's not a refarance to Indiana Jones like some people think) it's featured on the book "Han Solo and the lost legacy" that features Han and Chewie stealing said item.


There's Mandelorin Armor there and even a sith holocron that most causals wouldn't notice.

There's quite a lot of cool refarances over the course of the film nodding towards the old Han books and the Lando books from the 80's.
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i might've missed something here, i thought you meant the European Union lol
 

Wizard said:
The Predator. Not good at all. I genuinely think it could have been written by an AI. Really bad, paint by numbers action film with 2 dimensional stereotypes for characters.
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i think a lot of them actually are...they put film plots/characters/themes in algorithms which is meant to predict global marketability, hence why we often hear that China & India are an important market for Hollywood these days.

We film-learned Westerners who don't enjoy obvious simple stories with mass-appeal are left out somewhat as we've become the smaller market.
 


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