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Affleck is probably about ready to be done with Batman.
DC should stop making movies for at least ten years, so people start missing the DCEU and blame rotten tomatoes and consider all those movies as cult classics.and whoever said ESPN is bashing it, they are paid by Disney so of course they are going to bash it, I don't think I've head them praise any DC movie including WW
RT can go to hell and die along with Claw Man
Do you wish u didn't buy them the second timeWell I canceled my ticket for the second time
Thanks DL
@Dragonlordxxxxx
Eeek
6.5 / 10
It's fun at times and Individually the Hereos are fine , but some of the Dialogue is so bad and the way the Story Flows leaves a lot to be desired.
The Good
Wonder Woman - Its clear that they edited it to where she is more prominent since the success of her solo Movie , I can dig that Gadot has a natural Charisma .
Flash -- Playing him as the wide eyed rookie in awe of the Other Heroes worked.
Aquaman -- Aqua Drogo had a cool quality about him , I like to rip on the Aquaman Character because of the old Cartoon Network Commercials but they presented him as this loner on the fence of what he wanted to be.
The Bad
The Story is pretty bad along with the Dialogue, it feels like 2 Movies one filmed by Snyder and mixed in with scenes edited and shot later by Whedon, the Tone doesn't Match.
The Ugly
Sunken Mustache CGI on you know who .
Ugh it's frustrating because you have Flashes of greatness , but overall jist falls flat.
Do you wish u didn't buy them the second time
fandango is great tho the imax near me doesn't sell their tickets on it for whatever reasonIt doesn't make a difference
Fandango refunds all my money and I can just use it to see another movie
Affleck is probably about ready to be done with Batman.
@Dragonlordxxxxx
Eeek
6.5 / 10
It's fun at times and Individually the Hereos are fine , but some of the Dialogue is so bad and the way the Story Flows leaves a lot to be desired.
The Good
Wonder Woman - Its clear that they edited it to where she is more prominent since the success of her solo Movie , I can dig that Gadot has a natural Charisma .
Flash -- Playing him as the wide eyed rookie in awe of the Other Heroes worked.
Aquaman -- Aqua Drogo had a cool quality about him , I like to rip on the Aquaman Character because of the old Cartoon Network Commercials but they presented him as this loner on the fence of what he wanted to be.
The Bad
The Story is pretty bad along with the Dialogue, it feels like 2 Movies one filmed by Snyder and mixed in with scenes edited and shot later by Whedon, the Tone doesn't Match.
The Ugly
Sunken Mustache CGI on you know who .
Ugh it's frustrating because you have Flashes of greatness , but overall jist falls flat.
Update: November 16, 2017
Dragonlord’s Review of JUSTICE LEAGUE (No Spoilers)
Bottom Line: Clunky and doesn’t flow smoothly, Justice League is adequately entertaining but far from the excellence the world’s greatest superhero team-up deserves and could have been.
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice was a mess because Warner Bros. rushed to catch up with Marvel Studios and so stuffed what should have been a Man of Steel sequel with a plethora of characters and inserted, and ultimately wasted, different iconic storylines from the comic books (Death of Superman and The Dark Knight Returns). Coupled with Zack Snyder’s dour and joyless storytelling, BvS deservedly got panned by critics and audience alike.
Warner Bros. knew it had to course correct the direction of the DC Extended Universe. WB knew at that time that Snyder with his “dark, metallic visual style and grim, brooding, muscular-emo sensibility” was not a good fit for their brand, let alone be the one to shepherd the rest of the DCEU movies. But the studio didn’t have the time to search for a new writer or director without delaying the production and so bit the bullet (and to save face from the public) and proceeded with Snyder at the helm for Justice League.
Due to his daughter’s death, Snyder took some time off and Joss Whedon was brought in to finish post-production. WB used this opportunity to cut off Snyder’s power as he will now have less creative input in the direction of the DCEU going forward. WB spent a massive $25 million on extensive reshoots that lasted two months (average reshoots range from $6 million to $10 million). And so after knowing the history of the production and behind-the-scenes drama, has WB transformed Justice League into a winner? Eh. It’s not a home run but it’s not a trainwreck either.
Justice League is about Batman recruiting a team of superheroes to save the Earth against an alien invasion led by Steppenwolf from Apokalips who seeks out three MacGuffins, Mother Boxes, scattered all over the world. The story is generic as they come, no different from most of the other superhero movies out there, but it is the execution that counts which Justice League is a bit lacking.
The first half of the film is clunky and the flow of the movie doesn’t run smoothly. WB’s foolish decision to not introduce these characters in their own solo movies bites them here as the film drags a little due to giving these new characters background origins as well as updating what’s happening with the existing main characters. Lois Lane (Amy Adams) and Martha Kent’s (Diane Lane) scenes in the first hour were momentum killers.
Among the new characters properly introduced, the Flash (Ezra Miller) steals the show not only with his comedic awkwardness and wide-eyed, gee-whiz enthusiasm but also for the fantastic feats from his super-speed. But traditional Barry Allen fans might not like this new version of the Flash. Aquaman (Jason Momoa) is a bore when he just grimace and broods early on but becomes more fun when he lets his wild side loose. Cyborg (Ray Fisher) is bland but amiable and is just there to make the team’s job easier since he has a connection to the MacGuffin. Mera was a badass and actress Amber Heard looked smoking hot.
Coming off from the success of her solo movie, Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) continues to be a bright spot. Her bracelet bouncing prowess during the terrorist attack was dope. In what may be Ben Affleck’s last performance as the Caped Crusader, Batman is pretty good in here but less cool in some ways and more quip-friendly.
The main villain Steppenwolf (voiced and motion-captured by Ciaran Hinds) is a dull CGI villain and joins the ranks of one of the worst villains in modern comic book movie history. Though he gets to kill a lot of people and beat up the Justice League, he has no charisma, likes to sprouts cliché lines and his motivation is so unimaginative. It doesn’t help that his CGI face looks fake and takes you out of it.
Snyder and Whedon’s styles are so distinctly different that you can practically guess correctly which scenes are from Snyder and which are from Whedon. The film is visually gorgeous thanks to Snyder but wished he would lay off the pretentious slow-motion shots in uneventful scenes like the thugs being arrested for harassing an ethnic-looking store owner.
The action looks terrific most of the time. But some of the action – Wonder Woman and Aquaman battling Steppenwolf in particular - gets repetitive at the end and seemed to drag on forever to finish. The best part of the film which put a huge smile on my face was the awesome fight scene roughly at the one hour mark (see spoiler box below).
The most ironic thing is the ending to Justice League is very similar to the climax of Whedon’s Avengers: Age of Ultron. But there is one critical flaw in JL’s ending and that is it felt so isolated with no media coverage, no government monitoring and only a few civilians were seen and in harm’s way. As formulaic as it is, you can’t have an epic save-the-world scenario without those elements. That’s one of the reasons why JL’s climax felt flat.
As much as BvS got it wrong, there were a lot of really cool scenes in that movie. Justice League doesn’t have a lot of highlight reel moments. Though there are less mistakes and blunders, Justice League feels safe and didn’t take enough risks with Snyder being shackled and Whedon unable to effectively create any big impact on the movie with the limited window he had.
Danny Elfman did a good job with the score and I particularly loved it when he incorporated Tim Burton’s Batman theme and Richard Donner’s Superman theme in there. Wasn’t happy with the music he chose for the terrorist attack scene, reminded me of Elfman’s typical superhero score he prevalently used in the early 90s which made that terrorist attack scene feel too cartoony.
There’s two post-credits scene. The first one, which I bet is from Whedon, is an awesomely fun scene that pays tribute to its comic book roots. The second post-credits scene is an exciting meeting between an old DCEU character and the debut of a popular comic book character.
Does the film succeed in making me excited to watch the planned solo movies for the individual characters? It's a mixed feeling. Cyborg movie? Don't really care. Aquaman movie? Only if it's the wild and talkative Aquaman. If it's the brooding Aquaman, I'll still see it but don't have high hopes for it. Flash movie a.k.a. Flashpoint? If WB proceeds with the planned Flashpoint storyline, then the studio still doesn't have a clue what they're doing since you don't introduce a major altering storyline to a live-action universe that is just getting its feet wet.
The most disappointing of it all is they cut out all the scenes of the sixth member of the Justice League despite being heavily promoted in their posters [1] [2], cover books [3] and they even showed a clip [4] of this member in action.
Overall, Justice League is adequately entertaining with a few shining moments but seeing that this is the first live-action movie about DC Comics’ most iconic superhero group, you can’t help but feel that this could have been so much better.
Rating: 6.5/10 or 7/10
The movie was sort of bleh for the first hour but things got a whole lot more exciting when they revived Superman and he started fighting the League. This is my favorite part of the movie by far. I was grinning like a kid when Superman’s eyes suddenly followed Flash’s movements.
The ending with Steppenwolf showing fear and swarmed by Parademons was a bit lame. It got even lamer when they were all teleported presumably back to Apokalips. They should have killed Steppenwolf.
It would have had more of an effect if Lois Lane's first appearance here was when Alfred drops her and is revealed to be the "big guns." Meaning they shouldn't have shown her in the first hour.
I’ll add more after a while.
Link to previous thread: http://forums.sherdog.com/posts/135845257/