AlmightyKfish
This Is No Longer A City.
Saw it last night, have really mixed feelings about it. I guess overall I'd say it was alright.
But there were bits I really liked, bits I absolutely hated, and bits which were just fine.
Alfleck was good as Batman/Bruce Wayne, Jeremy Irons was great as Alfred and their dynamic was pretty fun. Wonder Woman was also pretty great, although she really didn't have much to do.
Cavill was alright I guess, but once again is basically given nothing to do. His Superman is still basically a blank slate.
I didn't hate Lex in it, at least for the first half, I mean it wasn't the Luthor we've been used to for awhile but I didn't mind that. But then about half way through or so it just goes of the deep end as was a bit of a mess.
It looked good, visually, but I mean that was the one thing I wasn't worried about. I mean Snyder has many flaws but he knows how to make stuff look pretty.
It was also way too long, but still felt as if it was missing a bunch of stuff, which I think was just poor storytelling really. Scenes just kind of happen throughout it with no real connections, so it feels really really eclectic and jumpy.
The Justice League cameo things were so hamfisted it was painful. Like people complain that Iron Man 2 tried to hard to set stuff up for the future, but jesus this makes that look like an exercise in subtlety.
Stuff I hated was mainly
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Batman killing people. Seriously, for all the flack MoS took about Superman and how they try to address it in this and emphasis 'your not a killer' etc, they then do the exact same thing but worse with a character for who not killing is as if not more important than for Superman. He was a bit like the Punisher here and I hated that. It just seems to show once again that they don't really care about the characters. I mean, if in Nolan's 'realistic' trilogy you can uphold the no killing, there's no reason to have it here. It's completely against what Batman should be...
The actual plot felt like a bit of a mess. Like, bits of it just didn't make any sense if you thought about it for more than 5 seconds. But yeah, there seemed to be bits of 3 or so really good movies spread throughout this, yet it just didn't work as one cohesive film. It also tried to do these big dramatic character moments or scenes near the end that just felt completely undeserved because there was nothing leading up to them. And there were things that were just glossed over that should really be important things ie
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Everyone just finding out each others identity with no real fanfare or weight to it. Like, those should be important scenes and moments. Especially problematic when you realize there's now a Lex Luthor that knows everyone's identities, which unless they kill him in JL or something, is gonna be strange going forwards.
Also the ending was just not good. Like, at all.
Overall, really mixed feelings for a really mixed film. But good god I hope they make the next films more upbeat. There's really a limit to how much dark and gloomy and brooding Justice League I can take at this point.