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What’s Wrong With the DC Comics Movie Franchise?
The Atlantic ^ | August 3, 2016 | David Sims

Posted on 08/04/2016 6:10:55 AM PDT by C19fan

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To: Sam Gamgee

Glad to help.

I also forgot to include the following movies that are in continuity with Batman The Animated Series:

Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (Possibly the best Batman movie live or animated)
Batman & Mr. Freeze: Sub-Zero
Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman


61 posted on 08/04/2016 4:52:19 PM PDT by yuleeyahoo (Those are my principles, and if you do not like them...well I have others. - Groucho Marx)
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To: jsanders2001

>>Every one of these movies looks like the WH and it’s Communists handed Hollywood a set of guidelines and some script ideas to ensure the film is a propaganda piece that has to convey political messages in them to influence the public’s opinion.


http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/health-care/item/12867-taxpayers-to-fund-hollywood-obamacare-propaganda

Monday, 17 September 2012
Taxpayers to Fund Hollywood ObamaCare Propaganda

Taxpayers are funding a “public relations” marketing contract to promote ObamaCare worth almost $1 million so far that will include working with Hollywood to promote the controversial federal healthcare takeover in popular TV shows. Critics blasted the deal as an effort to use propaganda to drum up support for Obama’s deeply unpopular signature statute, which polls show a majority of Americans hope to repeal.

According to the New York Times, which first reported on the scheme, California officials overseeing the implementation of the ObamaCare-mandated “healthcare exchange” know that much of the battle will involve public opinion. So as other state governments work to nullify the federal power grab, authorities in the Golden State are pouring federal and state tax dollars into an expensive “marketing plan.”
...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/15/health/policy/california-tries-to-lead-way-on-health-law.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

California Tries to Guide the Way on Health Law
By ABBY GOODNOUGHSEPT. 14, 2012

And Hollywood, an industry whose major players have been supportive of President Obama and his agenda, will be tapped. Plans are being discussed to pitch a reality television show about “the trials and tribulations of families living without medical coverage,” according to the Ogilvy plan. The exchange will also seek to have prime-time television shows, like “Modern Family,” “Grey’s Anatomy” and Univision telenovelas, weave the health care law into their plots.

“I’d like to see 10 of the major TV shows, or telenovelas, have people talking about ‘that health insurance thing,’ ” said Peter V. Lee, the exchange’s executive director. “There are good story lines here.”...


62 posted on 08/04/2016 6:55:57 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama is more supportive of Iran's right to defend its territorial borders than he is of the USA's.)
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I don’t know why the studios think they have to include origin stories of every danged character.

James Bond’s heroes and villains didn’t have origin stories on the screen.

Tons of background characters populating the universe of Men in Black.

And when they “reboot” they think you want to hear about the origins of Spidey, Batman, and Joker all over again.


63 posted on 08/04/2016 6:55:57 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama is more supportive of Iran's right to defend its territorial borders than he is of the USA's.)
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To: yuleeyahoo
>>Actually, it’s the opposite. Marvel Studios films are pretty much suitable for all age groups. Warner’s DC movies are pretty bleak and pursue realism to the point where they are full of moral ambiguity, death, sex and destruction and not fit for children to view.

Disney-Marvel's movies maybe but not the tv shows.

http://www.houstonpress.com/film/jessica-jones-is-the-best-on-screen-drama-marvel-has-ever-made-7967241
Jessica Jones Is the Best On-Screen Drama Marvel Has Ever Made
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2015 AT 4 A.M.

Marvel’s Jessica Jones is smart, surprising and occasionally terrifying, a human tale of trauma and healing in a superhero vein. Its first episodes have more (unexploitative) sex scenes than battles, more shrugs and eye rolls than mighty kapows. But it's not the shock or novelty that gives it resonance. Jessica Jones is simply the richest, most engaging storytelling Marvel has managed outside of comic books, the first of its TV shows or films that plays like an introduction into a world of possibilities rather than the cross-media establishment of existing brand fundamentals...

Jessica Jones is based on the Alias comics by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos from the early 2000s, the first true adults-only series Marvel had ever set within the same universe as Spider-Man, the Avengers and the Fantastic Four. A decade later, Alias stands as more than just one of the best, most emotional and most beautifully drawn comics of its day: It now reads as one of the most important and enduring, one in which long, discursive, multi-issue stories unfolded according to the metabolism of its central character, a talkative crank whose past slowly revealed itself over 28 issues. The pace was more radical than the sex or the dirty talk, although at the time those were the news. In the first issue, Jessica tried anal sex in a series of panels that were about her pained face rather than the ins and outs of in-and-out. “I just want to feel something different,” she thinks, on the next page. Fandom freaked, a printer refused to print the issue and even Marvel snickered, describing her lover, Luke Cage, this way in a later guide to its hundreds of characters: “A come-from-behind hero...”

On Netflix, the scene just plays as a too-soon hook-up. (Unlike in 2001, the coupling's interracial aspect — Cage is black, Jessica white — seems entirely a non-issue.) Bendis let his Jessica sink lower, and he favors extended dialogue scenes more common to the stage or old Hollywood than to comics — the show isn't as daring in this regard, but its creators do seem to get that episodic TV, even with tight continuity, is about investing in characters. We're letting these people into our lives, so we damn well should get to know them. Ritter’s Jones and that occasional lover, Mike Colter’s Cage, are folks you might quickly come to care for and worry over, especially as they go up against mind control, which herein is established as the scariest of all superpowers...

64 posted on 08/04/2016 6:58:53 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Obama is more supportive of Iran's right to defend its territorial borders than he is of the USA's.)
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> “I’d like to see 10 of the major TV shows, or telenovelas, have people talking about ‘that health insurance thing,’ ” said Peter V. Lee, the exchange’s executive director. “There are good story lines here.”...

For a fictional piece but not a reality show because they'd have to lie in every episode

65 posted on 08/04/2016 8:03:10 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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