https://staging2.theplaylist.net/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-20150811/ Fri, 10 Feb 2017 20:18:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://staging2.theplaylist.net/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-20150811/#comment-149648 Mon, 23 May 2016 02:41:36 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-260966/#comment-149648 I think this movie will make people hate the avengers movies.

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-20150811/#comment-127063 Mon, 23 May 2016 02:41:36 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-260966/#comment-127063 So they screened the make-or-break WB superhero film on the WB lot and it got a Standing-O? What might have happened to the employee who DIDN\’T stand and cheer? Nothing good, I\’m sure. I want this movie to be good, very much so, but nothing I\’ve read or heard or seen about it gives me much confidence.

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-20150811/#comment-127064 Mon, 23 May 2016 02:41:36 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-260966/#comment-127064 And really a lot of this stuff is just people trying to be Nice & Polite. A lot of people who are not critics will just try to play nice in the public spotlight, rather than give a real opinion. Do you think if Stan Lee saw Fantastic Four and hated it that he would actually tell the public that he hated it? No way. Stan is a stand-up guy, and not out to trash anyone.

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-20150811/#comment-127065 Mon, 23 May 2016 02:41:36 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-260966/#comment-127065 That\’s EXCATLY what Man of Steel was. Well for those of us who aren\’t closed minded idiots and can appreciate artistic vision, which there are few of us apparently, but that\’s what happens when a majority of the populace eats up all that reality tv garbage instead of being creative and passionate themselves.

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-20150811/#comment-127066 Mon, 23 May 2016 02:41:36 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-260966/#comment-127066 Great piece! And thanks for the Villain Smash shout out!

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-20150811/#comment-127067 Mon, 23 May 2016 02:41:36 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-260966/#comment-127067 Yet Man of Steel was indeed "ass-kicking, action-packed"…showing Superman finaally doing things I\’ve always wanted to see. Just because some (mostly unfamiliar with Superman comics over the past few decades) were expecting Chris Reeve Part Tres is irrelevant. The movie was Supes first outing on the journey to what he will iltimately become. I recognized that and I look forward to BvS (the trailer for which was terrific).

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-20150811/#comment-127068 Mon, 23 May 2016 02:41:36 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-260966/#comment-127068 Am I the only person that actually like "Man of Steel". I didn\’t think it was a bad movie at all. Did I leave thinking "Wow, that movie was the movie of the year." . No, but I didn\’t leave thinking it sucked.

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-20150811/#comment-127069 Mon, 23 May 2016 02:41:36 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-260966/#comment-127069 Zach Snyder is going to ruin Batman/Superman. Ben Affleck was a horrid choice to play Batman. Affleck is a poor actor. He has one, (and only one) facial expression. Watch Argo again and you\’ll see. I don\’t understand how a \’deadpan\’ facial expression translates to \’good acting\’. Snyder ruined Superman in \’Man of Steel\’. It wasn\’t the last sequence that bothered me, it was how he changed the origin story. It was just stupid. The other problems were cast choices for the other characters as well, and the dull/uninteresting music score. If he continues on this path of poor casting choices and changing the origin stories, (which he already has), he\’s going to ruin everything. I call for a reboot. That\’s what everyone\’s doing these days. Might as well do it over and do it right.

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-20150811/#comment-127070 Mon, 23 May 2016 02:41:36 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-260966/#comment-127070 Speak for yourself, I completely enjoyed Man of Steel, thought it was a great launching pad for this DC Cinematic Universe.

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-20150811/#comment-127071 Mon, 23 May 2016 02:41:36 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-260966/#comment-127071 I think this movie will make people hate the avengers movies.

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-20150811/#comment-127072 Mon, 23 May 2016 02:41:36 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-260966/#comment-127072 Yeah. You actually have to watch the flick to make a determination. I tend to ignore reviews because they rarely reflect my own opinion.

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-20150811/#comment-127073 Mon, 23 May 2016 02:41:36 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-260966/#comment-127073 I was a regular listener to Howard Stern around the time the Private Parts movie was being made. He made a big deal over how it was "the highest testing movie in Paramount history", doing better than Raiders of the Lost Ark. Well, it ended up making just over $40 million at the box office, and has since been largely forgotten to time. So no, these sorts of things don\’t end up meaning a whole lot.

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-20150811/#comment-127074 Mon, 23 May 2016 02:41:36 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-260966/#comment-127074 See I am in the minority in the fact that I really liked Man of Steel its a shame it doesn\’t get more credit.

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-20150811/#comment-127075 Mon, 23 May 2016 02:41:36 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-260966/#comment-127075 Excellent stuff, really glad someone is outing this nonsense hyperbole.

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-20150811/#comment-127076 Mon, 23 May 2016 02:41:36 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-260966/#comment-127076 I could not care less if a bunch of studio executives gave their own movie a standing ovation.

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-20150811/#comment-127077 Mon, 23 May 2016 02:41:36 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-260966/#comment-127077 The fact that many websites just released the PR friendly "standing ovation" anecdote without much comment (if any) just goes to show how lazy movie news writing can get.

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-20150811/#comment-127078 Mon, 23 May 2016 02:41:36 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-260966/#comment-127078 Another example of this that jumps to mind is Peter Sciretta (/Film) who tweeted this a year before the film came out: "Ran into someone who saw Neill Blomkamp\’s Elysium and was over the moon about it, claiming its better than Blade Runner."

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-20150811/#comment-149647 Mon, 23 May 2016 02:41:35 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-260966/#comment-149647 Actually, based on this manufactured rumor, I would say the film has serious problems. It’s fishy. Man of Steel was actually offensive, and not remotely for children. It was a morally repugnant film, wasted the actors and was completely tone deaf. I expect a megaturd with this jet black, pretentious bilge.

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-20150811/#comment-127056 Mon, 23 May 2016 02:41:35 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-260966/#comment-127056 This is nothing more than a WB PR stunt. They did this with all the Nolan Batman movies and with Man of Steel. And we all know those movies weren\’t exactly the cure to cancer.

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-20150811/#comment-127062 Mon, 23 May 2016 02:41:35 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-260966/#comment-127062 There is no cachet to being able to claim to have seen a movie of average quality prior to release. It\’s only cool and Twitterworthy if it\’s the "best thing ever" or the "worst thing ever". So people tend to exaggerate.

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-20150811/#comment-127061 Mon, 23 May 2016 02:41:35 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-260966/#comment-127061 I loved MoS and I would have been one of the people raving about it had I seen an advanced screening. And lots of other people loved it too – really, the majority of haters come from the tiny fan boy clique that basically hates everything. Having said that, everyone has their own taste in movies, so you could find someone to rave about pretty much any movie, just like you could find someone to put up a negative review for just about any movie – which really says something about the whole movie review \’industry\’ – it\’s pretty useless. I\’ll never see a movie or not see a movie based on reviews or popular opinion, because of that fact. Just because you don\’t like a movie doesn\’t mean I won\’t like it.

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-20150811/#comment-127060 Mon, 23 May 2016 02:41:35 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-260966/#comment-127060 Man of steel grossed over 600 million and was given great reviews by the viewers. The only ones that dumped on it where the Batman fanboys and old movie critics that are stuck with the old campy Reeves Superman movie. Batman begins barely cracked 400 million world wide.

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-20150811/#comment-127059 Mon, 23 May 2016 02:41:35 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-260966/#comment-127059 Point taken. But was this article really necessary, Kevin? Maybe you should go out and slap some ice cream cones out of kids\’ hands.

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-20150811/#comment-127058 Mon, 23 May 2016 02:41:35 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-260966/#comment-127058 I do not believe this Captain Guyliner is the bomb and Captain Guyliner wears lots of guyliner like Chris Evans and Robert Downey Jr. no way this is true I love marvel and captain guyliner.

]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-20150811/#comment-127057 Mon, 23 May 2016 02:41:35 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2015/more/uncategorized/batman-v-superman-and-why-early-screening-reports-need-to-be-taken-with-a-grain-of-kryptonite-260966/#comment-127057 This wasn\’t a test screening audience. It was the film\’s crew and studio execs. So not exactly a random or impartial audience. Also, I place no value in the judgment of studio suits when it comes to what is a good movie.

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