This was always going to be the case. Warner Bros/DC being reactive to Marvels success and trying to do too much, too soon, ending up offending and alienating all but the hardest of hardcore DC fans.
Speaking of, where's runatme and TS Quint? Wouldn't mind getting their opinions on this abomination of a movie
I'm here mate.
Took me a while to get to see the movie.
As for my opinion of it......
It's not hard to say that it was a bit of a disappointment. Having said that, I still liked it. I had a great time while I was watching it. The disappointment would have to do more with the fact that it was one of my most anticipated movies ever, but the fact remains that they could have done a lot better with it.
Other people have said it in this thread - it is a movie where every scene works on its own, but put together it is a bit muddled. It could have done with another editor, I think. There are really interesting themes going on in this movie, but there just may be too many of them. The senate hearings with the Holly Hunter character, and the Scoot McNairy character would have been perfect in a Man of Steel sequel. That's a movie just on its own.
Then there is the Batman stuff. I loved Affleck as Batman. Apart from him not giving a shit about killing people (which I don't mind), he was the Batman from the comics - ruthless, revenge-driven, criminals are scared shitless of him.
His reasons for wanting to destroy Superman are fine...the way he changed his mind was poorly handled though.
Wonder Woman was fine, though didn't have enough screen time to make too much of a difference to my overall opinion on the actress. The other JL characters were shoehorned in a bit awkwardly. I did like the first sighting of Flash (the Crisis-like part) because I know that shit from the comics, but I understand why someone who isn't well versed in comic lore would have no idea what the f**k it was. I saw it with my girlfriend (who hated it), my Mum (who loved it) and my Dad (who liked it but thought it was just way too long) and they were all so confused by that scene.
Too many dream sequences. Drop them all. None are needed. Especially the 'Desert Batman' sequence. Looked cool, directed fine...but just completely unnecessary.
I was fine with Doomsday. Don't care if he doesn't look exactly like in the comics.
I was ok with Lex through the beginning of the movie...but around the halfway point he started to grate on me a bit. His little bit right at the end behind bars was laughably stupid (where he starts singing music to Batman). Felt like he was trying to be a low-rent Joker.
So much to talk about with this movie, but I really want to check it out a second time to see how/if my opinions change.
Overall I still really did enjoy it.
Can't wait for Civil War now.
