jbmulder

this movie should have been man of steel 2, with LEX LUTHOR doing everything Batman did, with his buildings crashing at the beginning in metropolis, getting angrier and more fearful of superman, and him testing superman and eventually framing superman, but Lex building a kryptonite powersuit, and only releasing doomsday as a last resort after being unable to defeat supes. LEX could be the one having crazy dreams, and possibly being influenced by darkseid, who wants superman out of the way before coming to earth.

 

You could still use wonder woman the same way, still have superman question his faith, use lois more effectively as she investigates all the tests and framing of superman, still blow up the senate, etc.

 

But then you get an understanding of Lex, and don't have to force feed us Batman and extra plot to attempt to make everything tie.

Of all the ideas I've read for 'fixing' BvS or making a better movie, this is one of the better ones.

Regarding Affleck, the opinions are mixed at best:

“Many are praising Ben Affleck for his performance, but in all honesty he doesn’t impress. He is fine in the role, but not overly impressive or memorable.”

Examiner.com

"I still like Henry Cavill as the latter and Ben Affleck is good as Bruce Wayne, but he’s basically giving the same performance he gives in every movie cause Affleck doesn’t have much range."

weekendwarriorblog.tumblr.com

"…Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck, more stone-faced and disinterested than usual) watches in horror from the ground...”

indiewire.com

“More problematically, even on a comic-book movie level there is no credible sense of danger like there is in the “Batman’’ movies directed by Christopher Nolan (who takes a producing credit this time). The demolition of an iconic landmark carries no more weight here than in “Independence Day.’’ Part of this is due to Affleck, who tries hard to project weary gravitas like his immediate successor Christian Bale as an older Batman, but too often comes off like a self-loathing Oscar-winning writer-director cashing a big paycheck.”

nypost.com

And you'll find other quotes son both sides of the spectrum.

From what I've read, Affleck is playing the Punisher instead of Batman.

I was one of those people who wrote this movie off when they cast him. It reeked of the WB suits telling Snyder who they wanted ('we need a big name! Ben is a big name!') and him going along with it because Affleck 'looks the part'. Because it's hard to find a caucasian guy with dark hair in Hollywood, I guess.

But at this point, isn't it fair to ask, what was the point? Why cast someone who lots of people will instantly doubt, or will write off, whether he does a good job or not? To be fair, how can we even tell if he's good or not when the movie is this bad? Lots of negative points seem like a result of bad writing (by the way, how many times did we hear that Chris 'Oscar Winner' Terrio's rewrite would save this movie?).

What a train wreck. As comic book fans, we all deserved better than this.

Cast an all new group, get a new director, blow it up, and start over.

(Pretty please?)

I got this from artist artofaxis (.deviantart.com) on ebay. It looks even better in person.

@Meeley that Rogue is nice!

Another Supergirl art by Carlos Silva that I bought:

First, not sure how I missed this thread, but I wanted to show off a commission I just got done recently by Carlos Silva at Ed Benes Studio (some nsfw stuff there):

A ton of beautiful work here recently.

 

I have a question for the group - what do you do with a commission piece that feels like a let down?

 

I got a commission at SDCC which I was pretty excited about, and when I got it, really felt like a letdown. Didn't feel like the artists best work to me and was not even really in the style I had imagined. I've gotten work from the artist before and enjoyed it, but this time I was very disappointed.

 

What do you do with the art? How do you handle the let down?

With the commission I got above, I was really impressed with the way they asked for approval after the initial sketch phase and even after it was finished they asked if I was OK with everything. If you can find people who do the process like this, you might be able to avoid the letdown. I know I was pretty worried about that, but I was really happy with how this one turned out.