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That's actually not really true. I mean it's more secular now for sure, but Ben-Hur is so epic. I think if it is made right only the most devote (although not even all of them) atheist would choose not to see it for that reason. and really over 50% of america still identifies as Christian. also I seem to remember a little movie called the Passion of the Christ making like almost $400m! not to mention the Chronicles of Narnia has very obviously christian themes and that didn't stop it from making nearly $300m.

really worried about this movie. I love Ben-Hur. but I am fine with a remake. but $70m? I don't think so.. what worries me more is that it keeps getting bumped back and we haven't even got a trailer yet!

So I finally came up with a score method. well I pretty much Just stole Numbers because I'm lazy but here it is: Top 10: Top 25: Top 50: Top 75: Top 100: Remember guys I actually need a few lists submitted in order to see this though.

I'm not sure about that. there is only about 5 other films I would have chose over Lion King to begin with (all Lord the Rings, TESB and ROTJ)

While it's not Empire Strikes Back, The Lion King is among my top 10 favorite films of all time and the second best (maybe first) animated film of all time. so I'm happy

I've been doing this a ton. for about the same time. was thinking of doing so kind of write up myself. look forward to see your reviews

They have excellent moderators, that enforce strong no personal attack polices, and encourages serious film enthusiasts to have meaningful discussions and civil debates with one another. which helps keep the trolls at bay.

ah 6 out of 10 not too bad.

Yes, especially with all the controversy about the oscars this year. that and multiple critics have called it the best disney animated film ever made, and it's just fantastic, the only reservation is Inside Out wasn't nominated last year, despite being arguably the best reviewed film of the year.

Wow, people are having civilized discussions about power, corruption morality, and the human will to do good over evil. and not belittling and insulting one another and starting flame wars. beautiful.

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They really did you a pretty good job of marketing it, considering I didn't even like MoS. and I am excited for it and have hopes it will actually be pretty good. it's not really surprising that a huge blockbuster opening less than two weeks from now, is outselling a blockbuster that is opening two months from now though.

I saw the latest trailer in front of 10 CLoverfield lane. it looked entertaining enough to me. I thought Divergent was okay and liked Insurgent quite a bit but, I probably will wait for dvd to see it though, too busy with school and starting work this weekend. plus BvS is a priority.

True, I am not a fan of Finding Nemo. one of the few apparently. and Finding Dory hasn't done anything to sell me to go see it, and aside from Toy Story pixar doesn't have the best track record when it comes to sequels. at this point I know it's early, but I'd say Zootopia is pretty much a shoe for BAP. kind of would like it to go up against Dory just so it can beat it though. man I really do not like Finding Nemo. really hope Dory is bad to be honest.

In 2013 Monster University was released and it didn't even get nominated. so technically WDAS has already beat Pixar once.

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I had almost the same reaction. expect I think the ending was so horrific it almost ruined my enjoyment of the first 45 minutes or so.

I think you must have misunderstood my post. because I agree with you pretty much 100% . I meant that they "tried" to show it more realistic. as what they thought would be by making the characters more serious, but ended up just making them dull and one dimensional, even Superman. and I totally agree, Lois Lane in that film was really dull almost devoid of character development and Pa Kent was portrayed as paranoid and ended up being a terrible role model for Clark and Clark's motivations for letting Jonathan die were well dumb to be honest. and I would argue that CA and Iron Man were more realistic because the characters were better development and felt like real people that we actually care about. also agree that I feel from what I've seen of just the trailers that Batman has been handled much better and his motivations a clearly realised and for the most part believable. well have to wait and see I guess.

Yeah I felt that Godzilla was trying to be dark, but it wasn't really. Part of that might have to do with the PG-13 rating. but rating a film R doesn't automatically mean it will make it better and I've seen some pretty dark PG13s. but there are limits to what you can do with it. I think blood is way to censored in PG13s. when people get hurt they bleed. I can understand why they don't show extreme gore. but the little drops of blood they are allowed in that rating is kind of pathetic. I don't have a problem with the way people reacted to supes in MoS. it was probably one of the better elements in the film and superman has always been associated with religion so that part makes perfect sense. But all the DC characters are different. and it's fine to try and show the realistic reaction. but people in reality are quite humorous beings we take very little seriously and we use humor to lighten the tension so that we can deal with it better. not everybody but most people are that way. and not all the DC comics are dark. one of my favorite DC comics ever is Superman for All Seasons, and while it's actually a pretty serious story. there is very little graphic content in it. but the story is so sweeping and such a steady character study of superman that it works brilliantly. and you could probably do it with a PG rating. also Wonder Woman's world is really colorful if you made it all gray and dull I feel like it would not have the right feel of wonder woman. however Wonder Woman also has some of the bloodiest and violent comics as well so I can see where an PG13 rating could be a bit restrictive. anyways this is just my opinion, I don't claim to know everything. and I actually agree with most of what you are saying.

I feel like WB has gone downhill in recent years, they still make some great smaller films, but for the most part their blockbusters have not been the greatest. Mad Max was fantastic. but George Miller a high level of creative control for that film so I don't really know how much you can acredit that to the studio. the problem is they keep copying catcat-ing themselves. Because TDK movies were so successful, they keep trying to put that dark tone on their big budget movies, without the best writers or work put into them. Godzilla is a good example of that. I didn't hate it. but it took itself so seriously and some stuff was so cheesy it was hard to take it seriously, also they just literally have made the movies dark and put less color into them. MoS was very grey, his suite was duller, Krypton was duller the visuals were less colored. like how does making everything grey make a movie darker in tone?

You make some excellent points rukaio. The problem isn't that they choose to be more serious. it's that they are tying to ground it way too much and just diluting the characters. Superman is a fantastical character with extreme fantasy/sci-fi elements to his character, he is also completely different than Batman character wise Superman is supposed to be a unmovable beacon of morality and Justice, and I feel they failed to portrayals that in MoS. and also his Clark Kent portrayal has always been humorous. also Captain America is just as unmovable and moral as superman, and marvel went with it. and it worked. not only that they gave us Winter Soldier. with cap the most moral and "unrelatable character" so called. and gave us the darkest story so far in the MCU and it still worked, because they let Captain America be Captain America. What WB fails to see (so far, maybe they fixed it with BvS for all I know) is that you can tell a darker story and still have moments of comic relief. Like, laugh out loud comic relief. All Star Superman for example, has a pretty dark story. but it has scenes that are absolutely hilarious. now you could abandon most of that, if you wanna go ultra dark but you would need extremely good writing to get away with that and MoS had way too many cheesy things going on and had poor dialogue, so it was hard (for me at least) to take it seriously. I feel like it did have some good concepts, but it felt really rushed almost like they started filming when it only had a first or second draft to work with. from what I've seen of BvS. it does look like they at least put a little more work into writing it. I agree with you about their plans to, they didn't have to take the "marvel" route setting up. it's just that MoS didn't work as well as they hoped.

Yeah I don't Like Synder or MoS either, but I am going to torture myself and see BvS with high hopes to probably be crushed again. but I love the original Superman and Superman II, and I even like Superman Returns way better than most people. and I love GOTG and Cap 2. so I get the best of both worlds, and comics both sides have amazing comics. although I think DC might have the edge there, where Marvel has a huge edge when it comes to quality movies, granted they have made a lot more though.