Ntharotep
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I was already lowering my expectations when the pre-release "sneak peek" reviewers were dogging the movie. And, perhaps, this made me enjoy it more than I would have but, IMHO, this movie was not nearly as bad as the critics remarks.
I was in another forum and one poster said this was "the worse superhero movie ever" to which I replied with images of the movie posters for Batman and Robin and Superman IV.
Anyhow, here's my break down without giving things away and my :twocents: on the good and bad of it.
GOOD
• There were scenes directly from the comics, beautifully done scenes that ranged from Perez to Miller homage stuff that was just sweet.
• Gal Gadot was amazing as Wonder Woman. Even when she was losing a fight she had this "YES! THIS is a fight" grin on her face and she ran between sophisticated and fierce warrior nicely.
• Afleck was a good, aged Bruce Wayne. And was a rather good match up for Cavill's Clark Kent/Superman.
• I had my trepidations with Jesse Eisenberg as Lex...he looks 12. BUT, he did a pretty good job at not only playing the egomaniac but bringing it into his own with a different, more insane take on the character. I was most pleasantly surprised by his performance. His plans actually made some twisted sense to.
• The other hero types that appear do so in a way that doesn't take away from the movie's plot at all but gives a nice nod to them nonetheless.
• ACTION! This movie is the longest movie I've seen in awhile and still flew by with everything happening.
• Magic works on Kryptonian types...I won't elaborate but yeah...
• Plot Twist
• Lois Lane did things!!
NOT SO GOOD
• There were scenes that really needed more explaining and were confusing (still nicely and beautifully done scenes but kind of wtf is going on here? in their placement).
• One character got his butt handed to him one time too many for a guy with his skills and powers.
• C'mon guys...learn something from Marvel and have afters...
• Some of the acting...some of the dialogue just made no sense... "I failed him in life" especially...you knew him for two seconds...c'mon!!
Now. I think personally one of the biggest things against Batman v Superman is Marvel. Marvel took years to bring a team together in a way that DC is doing in a few movies.
I think this is more the fans and critics' faults than DC's as well. They got tunnel vision with Marvel and decided that this was the only approach to a team movie. It isn't and DC hasn't done a bad job with their own approach.
The downside IS that we don't get to know the characters as well as we know the Marvel characters because we are only seeing them in a movie or two before they are thrown together but if that's the worse thing we face going into JLA then it is definitely not a showstopper.
I hope this franchise survives (despite its showing and money, Warner can be pretty skiddish so there's still a chance they shelve JLA which would be too bad). It seems Wonder Woman, at least, is green lit and in the making which is nice. It will be good to see a good showing of a female superhero in her own movie, something we haven't really gotten yet (the 80s Supergirl far far far aside).
That's what I've got.
I was in another forum and one poster said this was "the worse superhero movie ever" to which I replied with images of the movie posters for Batman and Robin and Superman IV.
Anyhow, here's my break down without giving things away and my :twocents: on the good and bad of it.
GOOD
• There were scenes directly from the comics, beautifully done scenes that ranged from Perez to Miller homage stuff that was just sweet.
• Gal Gadot was amazing as Wonder Woman. Even when she was losing a fight she had this "YES! THIS is a fight" grin on her face and she ran between sophisticated and fierce warrior nicely.
• Afleck was a good, aged Bruce Wayne. And was a rather good match up for Cavill's Clark Kent/Superman.
• I had my trepidations with Jesse Eisenberg as Lex...he looks 12. BUT, he did a pretty good job at not only playing the egomaniac but bringing it into his own with a different, more insane take on the character. I was most pleasantly surprised by his performance. His plans actually made some twisted sense to.
• The other hero types that appear do so in a way that doesn't take away from the movie's plot at all but gives a nice nod to them nonetheless.
• ACTION! This movie is the longest movie I've seen in awhile and still flew by with everything happening.
• Magic works on Kryptonian types...I won't elaborate but yeah...
• Plot Twist
• Lois Lane did things!!
NOT SO GOOD
• There were scenes that really needed more explaining and were confusing (still nicely and beautifully done scenes but kind of wtf is going on here? in their placement).
• One character got his butt handed to him one time too many for a guy with his skills and powers.
• C'mon guys...learn something from Marvel and have afters...
• Some of the acting...some of the dialogue just made no sense... "I failed him in life" especially...you knew him for two seconds...c'mon!!
Now. I think personally one of the biggest things against Batman v Superman is Marvel. Marvel took years to bring a team together in a way that DC is doing in a few movies.
I think this is more the fans and critics' faults than DC's as well. They got tunnel vision with Marvel and decided that this was the only approach to a team movie. It isn't and DC hasn't done a bad job with their own approach.
The downside IS that we don't get to know the characters as well as we know the Marvel characters because we are only seeing them in a movie or two before they are thrown together but if that's the worse thing we face going into JLA then it is definitely not a showstopper.
I hope this franchise survives (despite its showing and money, Warner can be pretty skiddish so there's still a chance they shelve JLA which would be too bad). It seems Wonder Woman, at least, is green lit and in the making which is nice. It will be good to see a good showing of a female superhero in her own movie, something we haven't really gotten yet (the 80s Supergirl far far far aside).
That's what I've got.
