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Aʀʀᴏᴡsᴍɪᴛʜ: Fʀᴇsʜᴍᴀɴ Yᴇᴀʀ

Oh wonderful this always happens when I post. Guess I gotta edit...

Aʀʀᴏᴡsᴍɪᴛʜ: Fʀᴇsʜᴍᴀɴ Yᴇᴀʀ

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_{Rocks in my shoes, stones in my pockets
Lost and confused, cold and forgotten
Yeah, that’s me
I try to look alive but I’m half asleep}

Interacted With: Hoodie Girl @Neurovoid and Peppy Girl @smarty0114

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There was always a certain creeping nervousness that came with new experiences and while Nicoletta was not new to school, she WAS new to high school and that carried expectations and with it nerves. Middle school was simple. Smaller. Less crowded. You didn't always see the same faces for four straight years. Homework was done in an hour. High school, though, this was the kind of shit they made movies about. The awkward teenage days of just trying to survive. And if there was one thing Nicoletta Soriano was, it was kind of awkward. But behind the nervousness was a small hinting of something...more. Something exciting. It was easy to be afraid. But excited? This was like a new journey, a new experience. A period of discovery and growth; high school was about more than just homework and prom and Friday night lights.

Nicoletta just hoped she wouldn't waste this chance.

Because that's what it was, really. A chance for her to develop into someone she could be happy to look at in the mirror. As the bushy brown haired girl looked in the mirror this morning, who she saw looking back was the current Nicoletta, the Nicoletta she didn't want to be at the end of the school year, much less the one she wanted to be at the end of senior year - as far away as that seemed at the moment. And while the first step in change might well be a new wardrobe, Nicoletta still fell back on the fashions she rocked all through the summer. Jeans. Vans. Black tee. To the right eyes she looked like some sort of skater kid, but honestly she was just going with what brought her comfort.

Years of being quiet through middle school had turned Nicoletta into a master of the blend in. No one seemed to notice her arrival at school, which was good, and no one seemed to notice her on the bleachers either which could go either way - bad or good. It was good because she didn't have to risk embarassing herself with those awkward introductory speeches they had at orientation, but it was bad because she kind of wanted to be noticed. She kind of wanted to be the person that could chat up people, make friends, make connections, be fucking honest with herself.

Instead Nicoletta found herself sitting next to a girl in a hooded sweatshirt, a potential kindred spirit in the 'lazy fashion' department, and not really listening to the words from the principal. It all seemed a bit much, the carnival - but if it meant a day delay in hitting the books then who was she to complain. As the speech wound down, Nicoletta sighed to herself. It was the first day, right? First day, first step in making a change...she had to start...all she had to do was a simple greeting. Easy. Who knew where it could lead.

"Isn't this all so exciting?" "I'm Lily by the way! Lily Westburg! You?" Suddenly a voice sounded, coming from a girl sitting on the other side of Hoodie Girl.

Nicoletta kicked herself mentally. Beaten to the punch by someone else. Someone peppy. Someone who wasn't crippling herself with doubt and reasons to not speak up.

"Uh...h-hey..." Nicoletta spoke, rather softly, knowing full well she wasn't being addressed at all. "You...you both...Freshmen too?" What a terrible question, of course they were, wasn't this the Freshman section? School hadn't even started and she was making a fool of herself. "Gonna be a...a...cool year, yeah? I'm...I'm uh....Nicoletta...Soriano..."

At least she got her name out. Even if they didn't respond...it was something.

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_{She said "Nothing man, it's stolen"
Punk rock girl you look so wild}

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There was an absence in the bleachers that went unnoticed only because those in attendance hadn't been smart enough to be on the lookout. If they had, one of them might've had the thought to ask a simple question. "Where's Cass?" Of course, Cass Rowley hadn't yet made her high school debut, but after slumming it in middle school and junior high with her brown hair and general positive vibes, there was a lingering question of who would recognize her now. Cass woke up that morning, fed her Dead Fishmen, and didn't bother hopping in the shower. She took one like three days ago, it's fine. Her attire was like something out of a parent's worst nightmare. A rather short skirt with ripped tights underneath, a half-top white shirt with the word "FUCK" plastered on it (how long before she was asked to change was the game she wanted to play) and boots that were made for walking and stomping, of which she would do both.

But the most unusual feature, to any who had any familiarity with Cass Rowley before summer break, was her hair was a bleached blonde and messy, sticking to her forehead in a rather egregious case of bedhead.

And just where was the new, improved, rude and lewd punker Cass while the Freshman and students got their little principal speech?

"This shit's FUCKIN RIGGED!"

Cass, popgun in hand, scowled at one of the game tents. The fact that there was a carnival was a bit odd, but Cass wasn't complaining. She almost considered ditching - it was the first day, who gave a shit? But hell, if high school first days involved shitty pop up carnivals then maybe the next four years wouldn't be a total shitshow.

The gametent was, at present, unmanned but Cass just wanted to try her hand anyway. It was a popgun. All she had to do was shoot the bottles, but the little cork just plunked off to the ground. And that was infuriating. "Fuck this." Cass, after missing yet another shot, just stepped inside the tent, to where the staff would facilitate the game. She grabbed one of the bottles, making sure it wasn't glued to the counter - it wasn't - but her annoyance took over and she tossed the bottle to the ground, smashing it into shards. "Looks like I won a prize."

Snickering to herself, Cass yanked one of the prizes off the hanging display - a stuffed animal probably meant to be won for someone else. But just one prize seemed a bit...weak, so Cass also saw fit to take a balloon in the shape of the school mascot. She didn't have any Bengal pride or anything, but in for a penny in for a pound.

At the earliest possible chance she was going to offload the prize on someone, but until then, Cass was already enjoying herself at the little carnival while students were only starting to trickle in.

Welcome to high school.

Aʀʀᴏᴡsᴍɪᴛʜ: Fʀᴇsʜᴍᴀɴ Yᴇᴀʀ

@Neurovoid I got u fam

Or @smarty0114 does I guess

The Topic to Bitch About and Rave About Movies and Film

I feel like SING will be unfairly compared to Zootopia since both are about animals because that's the kind surface level shit that people can't get past. If SING is less obvious with its messages and themes than Zootopia and its well meaning but deeply flawed themes then that'll be a positive.

The Topic to Bitch About and Rave About Movies and Film

<Snipped quote by Dynamo Frokane>

idk, i liked christian bale's batman a lot, but to each their own

@Wade Wilson

Bale never really fit the part of Bruce or Batman to me. His Batman was just shouty which I guess is fine if you think 'raspy loud voice' makes for good intimidation and fear. I just thought he needed a lozenge. And his Bruce Wayne wasn't all that convincing and he just looked bored, but not in the way Bruce Wayne is bored if that makes sense. Like you've got the guy whose most famous role up to that point was as a rich, white, yuppie in American Psycho and Patrick Bateman was a better Bruce Wayne than Bruce Wayne in the Nolam movies.

Discounting the animated series because that's obviously the Batman a lot of people are familiar with, I honestly thought that Clooney was the best Bruce Wayne (a terrible Batman, but everything in that movie was terrible) since he was basically just playing George Clooney. Ben Affleck's Batman is loved largely because of that one fight scene that everyone agrees is a highlight and because they're desperate for anything to latch onto as a positive. I actually thought he was better in Suicide Squad because his one scene with Will Smith was more Batman than his entire screen time in Batman v Superman.

Movie Batmans have had a hard time.

I haven't gone to a movie theater in four years. The last movie I went to go see was "The Raven". But there is one movie that has caught my eye and I must see - and it's about singing animals.

@Cynder

I think you mean SING and honestly what got me the most interested (in that I was like, huh that's interesting) was Matthew McConaughey voicing the koala and doing his best to not have his iconic drawl. It was kind of adorable.

Aʀʀᴏᴡsᴍɪᴛʜ: Fʀᴇsʜᴍᴀɴ Yᴇᴀʀ

oh this started mayhem finna pop off

Eden Gardens - Love Where You Live

@reiko Cool as cucumbers, fam.

Official RPG Crush Thread

oh god what have i done now other people are making frozen references hElP mE

@Wade Wilson

Sounds like you need to

I can't

Aʀʀᴏᴡsᴍɪᴛʜ: Fʀᴇsʜᴍᴀɴ Yᴇᴀʀ

Cass finna show these would be confident mean queens how to do

The Topic to Bitch About and Rave About Movies and Film

The thing with the DCEU is that they're so determined to get in on the Marvel pie that they're trying to cut the line without understanding how Marvel got to where it is now. Man of Steel was trying to do two main things. It was trying to capitalize on the success of the kind of not great in hindsight Nolan Batman movies - even going so far as to plastering Nolan's name in advertisements - and it was trying to re-introduce the character of Superman to a new audience by divorcing him from the Donner/Reeves series.

This was the wrong thing to do since Superman as a character doesn't benefit at all from the grittier realistic aspect that can work with a Batman type. Superman is the antithesis to Batman and you need look no further than their costumes. One's black and intimidating and the other's colorful and inspiring. Man of Steel should've been to DC what the first Iron Man was to Marvel. When Iron Man came out, he wasn't exactly a top known character to the average person and Iron Man was coming in after a series of rather ho-hum superhero movies. It worked as a stand alone film and only hinted at a bigger picture at the very end. Iron Man could've been its own franchise. Marvel didn't have a plan. They clearly had PLANS. Plural. In case their Avengers gamble missed. Marvel had the luxury of a plan and time - time to introduce the main heroes while periodically adding more world building and inter-connectivity. Iron Man introduced Fury. The Incredible Hulk introduced Iron Man and thus the idea of synergy. Iron Man 2 brought Black Widow, and the main five leading up to Avengers there was the underlying constant of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Man of Steel feels largely irrelevant to its own universe to the point where Batman v Superman doesn't come off as a natural sequel and evolution of the character but a panic and an immediate response to the negativity surrounding Man of Steel. The only important bits of Man of Steel are the childhood scenes (to establish Superman's human morality, as fucked as it is in these movies) and the final battle with Zod because that's the big world revealing moment that Superman is force for good. Batman v Superman should not have happened as the second movie in this universe because Batman v Superman is barely a movie. It's two and a half hours of shoehorning and rushing edited to resemble a movie. People can talk about how BvS fundamentally misses the point of the titular characters til the cows drown but it's just a failure as a coherent movie.

It's not interested in letting their characters play on the screen. Everything has to be rushed because oh no Marvel's putting out a movie where like most of their characters are fighting and we gotta beat them to the punch. The reason Civil War worked - apart from having a vision and competent directing - is precisely because the audience has spent time with these characters since fucking 2008 and while I found that the relationship between Stark and Rogers was never all that 'friendly' on screen the conflict at least made sense given the narrative both of Civil War and the previous Marvel films. Batman v Superman doesn't have any clout because there's no real sensible or logical reason that these people are fighting and the audience has no stake in either one apart from "Well I like Batman so...go Batman?" or ditto with Superman. By the time the titular fight happens why should we care? The movie doesn't. It's just had a good hour and forty some odd minutes to try and convince you that this fight had to happen and instead it was too busy planning ahead. 'Here's a weird dream-vision with Parademons' 'Here's future Flash for reasons' 'Here's a break in the climax to give you trailers for our other heroes'. The main event of Batman v Superman feels like an afterthought.

It didn't have the confidence to let the conflict be the conflict. It didn't need Doomsday and it made the already bad Death of Superman story fall limp. The climax of the movie wasn't a climax, it was just moving pieces for the next one. The only reason Superman died is to facilitate the third act reveal in Justice League because they're not fucking doing the Four Supermen angle unless they're really clueless. You haven't gotten invested with these characters by the end of BvS to make the ending play. That's the basics of the basics: Make your audience CARE. DC was thinking they could get by on name recognition alone whereas Marvel (and I do hate to play the comparison game but it works) had to make people care. Who the fuck cared about Thor? Ant-Man? Captain America? While Marvel hasn't had a perfect track record, they at least know how to put together a stand alone film while still having it be part of something larger. DC doesn't, at least not yet, because it's bashing you in the head with a crowbar and forcing you to care not about what you're watching but what you COULD be watching in the future.

In Winter Soldier when that one dude is talking about other supers he just casually drops 'Steven Strange' as a subtle nod that fans would pick up on and the casual 'only watches the movies' sorts will now understand.

Batman and Wonder Woman should've had their solo efforts first. Wonder Woman, based on the trailer, has no bearings on Justice League and is an origin story and based on the rumors about the Ben Affleck helmed Batman movie it's a similar scenario there. After those movies came out, introducing Wonder Woman to audiences and re-introducing Batman then you have a reason to care and things wouldn't feel so utterly forced. DC has no confidence in itself or its characters and no real game plan other than "Justice League ASAP".

Suicide Squad is an anomaly because it feels even more disconnected. Suicide Squad is like the DCEU version of Guardians of the Galaxy. Guardians at least fit in by showing more of the Infinity Stones and Thanos and the overall cosmic element; Squad, with the exception of the Batman cameo, doesn't feel like a part of the same universe and it's thanks in no small part to how they introduced magic. Poorly, of course, but in a universe that was careful to make things seem at least more realistic now there's magic happening. But Squad has the same problem of Batman v Superman in that it's an incoherent mess that fails to make you care about these characters. This was their carte blanche. They were introducing some pretty D-Tier characters and re-introducing a character people liked because of Dark Knight and they fucked it up completely.

There's nothing interesting in Suicide Squad, a movie that feels more interested in making sure you buy the soundtrack than giving a shit. It's like watching a hackjob for two hours. There are no stakes in the poorly shot action scenes. "We can't shoot these weird mud zombies" Proceed to do nothing but shoot them and win. And the big final fight scene makes absolutely no sense other than "Well we have to make our villain dumb and less threatening because otherwise we've written ourselves into a corner." Enchantress is literally a powerful ancient magic thing and she decides "No I'll fight these people in hand to hand I guess". It's terrible writing in a movie that is nothing but terrible writing.

Why does Suicide Squad exist in this canon? What did it do to belong? Why was it not its own thing? It exists as a movie just to have the mid-credits scene with Waller and Bruce Wayne but that same scene gave no new information because it was just re-stating what was established in the last movie. That's not how you tease.

DC needs to let its directors have more creative control. Marvel may run a tight ship but it seems at least that it lets its directors work well within the guidelines. DC is so reactionary to criticism that it further hints at them having no real plan in mind. DCEU is the movie version of someone doing a school project in the period before it's due.

Wonder Woman has a chance, a small fucking chance, but a CHANCE to be good simply because it's removed from the present day DCEU. But I'm not holding my breath on that and neither should you.

The first step to salvaging the DCEU without just sinking the ship and starting over again is getting rid of David S. Goyer. They did that and brought in Chris Terrio which, hey dude won an Oscar for screenplay. If they're determined to have one director helm the main movies then the second step is getting rid of Zach Snyder because he thinks shooting a comic book movie is just 'copying the panel' like he's tracing and he's also a shit director that thinks visual bullshit is more important than anything else. The third is getting a Kevin Feige type because it doesn't seem like Geoff Johns cares at all. And the fourth is having some fucking confidence in your product. Suicide Squad and parts of Batman v Superman are so frustrating because behind the shit are elements clearly chopped and skewered from better, more realized movies.

DCEU isn't totally fucked but they're flailing about and they need something to throw them a fucking lifeline.