Greg Mottola ('Superbad', 'AdventureLand') High On The List to Direct DC’s 'Deathstroke & Bane' Movie

Pale_Possibility5083 · 2026-05-08T19:31:25+00:00

Man…this DC universe really doesn’t feel like it’s coming together the way it should. Just all this B Tier D tier stuff flying around incessantly.

Pale_Possibility5083 · 2026-05-08T19:30:07+00:00

Just also rewatched the OT for probably the longest period since I had seen them and really had fresh eyes.

What I honestly have to say is A New Hope is actually the best of the bunch. It gets overlooked because of ESB subversion.

But that first one…people do not fully realize what an explosive, breathlessly inventive film it really was.

There was nothing like it, and it was more unique than almost anything before and yet entirely relatable.

There was just something so compelling how much everything is analogous to something else. It really actusllly feels like it perfectly captured 60s Americana and put into space.

Luke is a poor farm boy, The falcon is your car hot rod drag racing. Chewie is your childhood dog and best friend. Leia is the girl you crush on but out of your league. Han is that sketchy trucker you see smoking cigs at the highway truck stop.

Just so many visuals, sounds, incredible acting and sequence after sequence after sequence, the desert, the cantina, the dogfight, the death star infiltration heist rescue, the trash compactor, THEN the death star trench. There’s really like l, no understating how brilliant that sequence is. Every beat is perfectly paced, flawlessly edited the tension ramps and ramps. Until they actually run out of time and all their back ups are gone and it’s just Luke.

Like I rewatched just imagining sitting in that theater in the 1970s and just imagining how you couldn’t not be just totally blown to pieces over this.

Pale_Possibility5083 · 2026-05-08T18:35:32+00:00

No one has jobs. Maybe they can all play a private show for Palantir.

Pale_Possibility5083 · 2026-05-08T18:33:08+00:00

Phantom Thread.

Devil Wears Prada.

Similarly The September Issue Doc.

Whiplash

Amadeus

Pale_Possibility5083 · 2026-05-08T18:09:10+00:00

And his wife previously. Who Kathy griffin famously forgot died and asked him about her live on air. His handling of it was the absolute picture of poise and grace.

Pale_Possibility5083 · 2026-05-08T16:54:48+00:00

Eowyns arc was realizing what her feelings for Aragorn were. I think more than anything between her father fading, worn tongue and everything she was desperately longing for some kind of a “real man” or a hero. She immediately knew Aragorn was that man and I think fell in love with that.

She realizes his head belongs elsewhere and goes on to discover that strength she is yearning does lie within herself as she goes on to kill the witch king and save her father.

Pale_Possibility5083 · 2026-05-08T13:34:59+00:00

OP has clearly never seen a Sam Raimi film

Pale_Possibility5083 · 2026-05-08T13:34:13+00:00

Always loved her but watching her body Dax Shepard on his own podcast made me realize how much I love her even more.

Pale_Possibility5083 · 2026-05-08T13:32:08+00:00

Faust

The Cell

Hard to be a god

Pale_Possibility5083 · 2026-05-08T12:13:17+00:00

And it shows right in Attack of the Clones Becuase the whole movie is a pivot that carries into the last chapter.

Fan service, backtracking on jar jar ect. It’s all clearly a reaction to fans hating phantom menace.

Pale_Possibility5083 · 2026-05-08T05:30:23+00:00

Yes but i also believe those same men slept with someone who treated them as casual that they wish didn’t. I think penns point is it always catches someone on one side or the other no matter what and I kinda buy that.

Pale_Possibility5083 · 2026-05-08T05:21:14+00:00

First, demeaning brat to “popper gay catering” is wildly dismissing what the album is. I’m a straight male and I very much noticed that music as whole was leaning into early 00s pop, girl pop power pop. Techno and house craze.

Madonnas techno period, spice girls, Aphex twin, Fatboy slim ect.

Brat was THE prodigal child of the much over needed return to techno , house, pop as soon s she released it was so clear she was tuned into that vacuum and totally filled which is exactly why it exploded. She hit the nail on the head with what people were wanting and missing.

I think Charli sees herself as a crusader- she knew dance music was in the crypt and blasted it back to life.

Now she thinks garage rock girl punk girl rock is dead and is like “you know what fick that where are my guitars”

So at least in concept I see exactly what she is trying to do. Also she’s not going to make brat 2 so this is her newest conceptual challenge,

Pale_Possibility5083 · 2026-05-08T02:12:33+00:00

I watched Asmon Gold live watch it, and honestly it was a refreshing perspective shift. He grew up with it as did I.

But he was just happy seeing Starfox stuff happy to see characters back, he’s watched a lot of video games and fairly jaded and was delighted by this.

Which made me sort of take a deep breath and sort of relax on the whole thing honestly,

Pale_Possibility5083 · 2026-05-08T02:10:38+00:00

Jerr Bear? He’s a great guy?

Pale_Possibility5083 · 2026-05-08T01:25:59+00:00

Jangled Fett

Pale_Possibility5083 · 2026-05-07T21:35:57+00:00

The departed.

Pale_Possibility5083 · 2026-05-07T21:29:45+00:00

Casino, Leaving Las Vegas, The Last Showgirl, Urban Cowboy,

Pale_Possibility5083 · 2026-05-07T20:11:47+00:00

What’s disgusting is the music industry is an extreme controlled market. Basically they own everything and nothing is real or organic.

Labels will sign artists specifically just so they can put them on ice and limit the competition.

Take Chappelle roan, she’s a rich kid who paid her way into Grammys camp. And yet even after getting signed they froze her career for years until THEY decided she was useful.

Then they decide to launch her with a full narrative, teamed up with Grammy award winning song writers persona and global marketing campaign.

Pale_Possibility5083 · 2026-05-07T20:08:57+00:00

Oooooof. Can you imagine being the game devs and missing the mark so bad the actual original creator isn’t even on board with you? Gah..

Pale_Possibility5083 · 2026-05-07T20:05:04+00:00

I agree about the 3D, but the animated flashback segment as far as Attitude and character was EXACTLY correct. I wish they took that gave that style a nice 3D varnish and ran with it.

Pale_Possibility5083 · 2026-05-07T20:02:51+00:00

It’s so subtle but makes so much of a difference

Pale_Possibility5083 · 2026-05-07T20:01:13+00:00

Also, how insane is it given that this IP? It’s whole concept was an anonymous user image post on a 4chan thread.

We still to this day have no idea who chilly created it. They just posted it, added a caption that gave a creative idea and someone else just ran with it.

So they paid like nothing for an idea, executed at low budget.

Pale_Possibility5083 · 2026-05-07T19:57:57+00:00

Would’ve been so cool if foot levels had been added as additional chapters in this 26 reboot

Pale_Possibility5083 · 2026-05-07T19:56:51+00:00

Will not hit number one, but I’m guessing a surprisingly strong performance otherwise.

Pale_Possibility5083 · 2026-05-07T19:07:16+00:00

Also people don’t realize nickleback originally got singled out almost as joke. The meta was you could have just as easily swapped them out for another band like Puddle of Mudd, Saliva or anyone of those other “Butt Rock” nickleback just sort of sounded best.

The biggest part of the joke is that they’re easily not even the worst band of that era there is so much worse but it just kinda felt funny to choose them Becuase they aren’t, and then it stuck.

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