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Post by schma on Jun 18, 2023 17:48:51 GMT -5
It's scary how petty supervillains are sometimes. You stopped me from robbing a bank so I am dedicating myself to killing you and everyone you love!
Then there's Reverse Flash. You ruined my coming out party, you got the credit when I did something good. Yeah if I wait a week or so I'll have another chance to be the hero, but instead I'll devote my life to becoming the antithesis of you. Oh and I'll kill your mom. That will teach you to get in the way of someone you didn't know existed!
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Post by schma on Jun 18, 2023 17:37:55 GMT -5
They tape the show too, so it's not like they can't edit promos or remove them entirely until the person is serviceable. If it's prepping for WWE where promos are king, they should be getting practice to at least be passable. NXT airs live just like Raw and Smackdown. Oh, I didn't realize, for some reason I thought Smackdown and NXT were taped.
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Post by schma on Jun 18, 2023 16:21:32 GMT -5
This wouldn't surprise me at all. For the longest damn time DC/WBD seemed to think the only Batman stories worth telling were "The Dark Knight Returns" and, on a good day, "Hush", and the only Superman story worth telling was "The Death of Superman". They probably have a whole list of stories that they consider the most iconic, most legendary story for each character that they should make a movie out of and that list is like fifty percent Geoff Johns stuff. Which is weird because they could just hire a writer to write them a story instead of relying on a comic story Yeah, really they have the animated films if they want to rehash a comic story. With the movies they should be aiming to give us something fresh.
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Post by schma on Jun 18, 2023 16:19:18 GMT -5
I think it also came from execs at WB just not having faith in their properties. For years they insisted that only Superman and Batman were draws at the box office and pointed to Green Lantern as proof. Marvel's success forced their hand but, they still had no faith and chased after that success in the most cynical way. I wouldn't be surprised if they started with Flashpoint because they genuinely thought that was the only Flash story that could give them a successful movie (despite a pretty damn successful tv series). It was the same thing though with Batman vs Superman. The whole reason them fighting in the Dark Knight Returns was such a big deal was because of the decades of friendship and respect we had seen in the comics. Before that, the idea of them going at each other that hard was almost unthinkable. And then WB said, let's start with that as they clearly missed the point and just knew that it sold a lot of comics.
WB signed off on it but Batman fighting Superman right away was Snyder's dumb idea. Also Snyder is likely the reason they did Flashpoint so early too. Since the Snyderverse was pretty blatantly DOA. But DC has been writing and going for the big moment without warning it since at least the green lantern, and Snyder sure as hell isn't the person you tap to set things up for the future as he can't even keep a theme or character motivation straight through an entire movie. That's fair, I wasn't exactly sure whose idea it was. Though WB hiring people to make movies of characters they didn't really know anything about seemed a bad idea as well. That may not have been the case for all of DCEU but at least some of them had major influences from people who knew sweet f all about the characters and had no interest in learning.
Part of why Marvel was so successful in the beginning (in my opinion) is that they were run by people who had been invested in the comic side of things for years. They cared about these properties and believed in them an also understood the characters for the most part. Meanwhile DC was a small subsidiary of a big movie making company that didn't see much value in the property and treated it as such.
I find it telling that the DC animated and DC television stuff is so often fantastic. It tends to have less attention from the top and I think that's part of it.
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Post by schma on Jun 18, 2023 14:53:00 GMT -5
Yeah, even the flash show knew you don't start with Flashpoint and waited a few seasons to open that box. To me, WB opting to start with Flashpoint pretty much sums up a lot of what was wrong with the dceu. Which was always sort of my thing when they announced the Flash movie Flashpoint was not earned, so why would you make this a jumping off point. This should been a reset the universe movie after 10 years but DCEU wanted all the success at once without working for it. You could had easily done a Flash movie and made someone like Captain Cold a big threat to him as a starter and then you could lean into Reverse Flash and all that in later movies I think it also came from execs at WB just not having faith in their properties. For years they insisted that only Superman and Batman were draws at the box office and pointed to Green Lantern as proof. Marvel's success forced their hand but, they still had no faith and chased after that success in the most cynical way. I wouldn't be surprised if they started with Flashpoint because they genuinely thought that was the only Flash story that could give them a successful movie (despite a pretty damn successful tv series).
It was the same thing though with Batman vs Superman. The whole reason them fighting in the Dark Knight Returns was such a big deal was because of the decades of friendship and respect we had seen in the comics. Before that, the idea of them going at each other that hard was almost unthinkable. And then WB said, let's start with that as they clearly missed the point and just knew that it sold a lot of comics.
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Post by schma on Jun 18, 2023 14:20:26 GMT -5
My hope for this is that it causes people to discover the original animated series. It got a lot more eyes on it when it went to Netflix, but if this gets more people watching it, then that's a good thing.
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Post by schma on Jun 18, 2023 14:06:36 GMT -5
I'm from Canada so...it'd be quicker to say the ones that got it right?
Also, my Argentinian friend loves to bring up X-men: First Class where Magneto hunts down some Nazis, they got the area completely wrong. What they depict as Villa Gisell is actually a place several hundred km away. They're not even similar environments.
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Post by schma on Jun 18, 2023 14:00:30 GMT -5
on a sidenote {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}I get not having the Rogues in the movie for fear of them seeming "too small" to be a movie-level threat, but having the one villain who's shtick is literally "The Flash, but evil" not be in it is kinda weak. {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}The Flash show managed to make plenty of the B-Tier villains seem like pretty major threats. Or you have him take on a team of, say, Captain Cold and Weather Wizard or Mirror Master. Ultimately, what sets the Rogues apart from other DC heroes' rogues galleries is that they have a code of honor (like no killing unless absolutely necessary) and there's some mutual respect between them and Barry. Stuff like the Christmas Truce is a good example of this understanding between the two sides as the Rogues are really just super-powered petty criminals, not psychotic mass murderers. Also means it's easier for a number of them to go straight like Captain Cold and Heat Wave have in the past.
While it seems like it's a much better movie, it does sound like The Flash is making some similar mistakes to Green Lantern. Especially in making the first movie having "unearned" stakes (Flashpoint and Parallax). Yeah, even the flash show knew you don't start with Flashpoint and waited a few seasons to open that box. To me, WB opting to start with Flashpoint pretty much sums up a lot of what was wrong with the dceu.
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Post by schma on Jun 18, 2023 13:48:31 GMT -5
AND SHE'LL BREAK HER FACE AND MAKE HER FAMOUS. Wild idea, maybe if someone in NXT is green with doing promos, you have them to a bunch of promos in NXT so they get used to it? Honestly, everytime I watch NXT, it seems they are trying to make the best show possible, which is fine, but then you sit back and realize its still a developmental system Like, I don't remember one instance of Stark cutting a promo like that in NXT. They tape the show too, so it's not like they can't edit promos or remove them entirely until the person is serviceable. If it's prepping for WWE where promos are king, they should be getting practice to at least be passable.
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Post by schma on Jun 18, 2023 4:38:20 GMT -5
They'll pull a clash at the castle and bring in yet another cousin so that Roman wins again.
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Post by schma on Jun 17, 2023 7:18:36 GMT -5
Not gonna lie, I fully expected Jey to bitch out and fall in line again like he has constantly for the past 3 years. I do wish I could have seen this segment without knowing what was coming. That said, it was still really well done. Feels like a breath of fresh air to see Roman get his comeuppance. Of course, I'm still half expecting to see Roman find a way to hold the titles until the heat death of the universe.
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Post by schma on Jun 14, 2023 8:43:36 GMT -5
Every day I become more and more happy that this place exists. ProBoards isn't perfect but at least its not /waves hands at every other social media and community site/ Breaking News: "Saudis Purchase Wrestling Message Board For $30 Billion" Joke? With that kinda money we could make our own boards with blackjack and high end hookers!
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Post by schma on Jun 14, 2023 8:30:30 GMT -5
It could be worse. He could raid Rey Mysterio's closet.
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Post by schma on Jun 11, 2023 19:17:36 GMT -5
Adam Pearce looked like such a goof there (I know, he generally looks incompetent). You have to wait in line. I don't wait in line. Okay.
I really hope they didn't just put the belt on Asuka for a transitional reign, though it's looking that way.
If the division were deeper this would be a great way to elevate a journeyman who has been there a while, has support and sees Charlotte just walking into opportunities and feuds with her. It'd be a good way for Charlotte to have a non-title feud, if they put the journeyman over. Sadly, the divisions are basically world conquerers and jobbers for the most part with little to no in between.
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Post by schma on Jun 11, 2023 19:11:26 GMT -5
I give the WWE one year, before they can't resist and have a champion vs. champion match with whoever is the WHC at the time. Would go one further and bet we get another unification before the end of 2024. Everyone knows Survivor Series is the "one time a year where superstars from each brand go head to head".
That's where whoever is WHC will take a fall to Roman because reasons.
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Post by schma on Jun 11, 2023 10:22:29 GMT -5
What bugs me is the oversimplification of menus, reducing words to pictures (looking at you Microsoft with your office and hotmail). Far as I know, most people are still literate and a poorly drawn picture is not great at telling me what the function of the button is. (sorry, I didn't really phrase this in a way to fit with the rest)
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Post by schma on Jun 11, 2023 1:10:37 GMT -5
I generally try not to drink too much pop these days, and I'm not a big cola fan anymore, but if I had to choose, I would take Pepsi over Coke.
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Post by schma on Jun 10, 2023 12:31:32 GMT -5
A friend of mine introduced me to them as well as several other women led metal bands and they've been great.
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Post by schma on Jun 9, 2023 9:25:17 GMT -5
A couple of days ago, the head of sanitation sent an email with a picture of a couple of workers sitting on equipment. It was a fair callout, they know they shouldn't be doing that, it isn't sanitary (we work in a factory that makes food). However, in the subject line they added "are the supervisors even doing their checks?" To me, this is ignorant and uncalled for. Also, our boss and our bosses boss were included in the email. You might be wondering at this point, why is this in the happy thread.
I responded with "of course we are doing our checks. However, we have this pesky human limitation where we can only be in one place at a time. Efforts to be everywhere at once continue to fail because of science. We may need to look into cloning technologies.
Today I got a 'you really shouldn't have sent that, but it was funny' conversation from my boss. The other supervisors loved it and had a good laugh. Sometimes a bit of sass can brighten people's days.
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Post by schma on Jun 9, 2023 2:21:07 GMT -5
Nelson's poster was right! Nuke the whales!
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