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My vacation starts Saturday, so I'll be posting a full review within a couple of days. In the mean time I'll share a couple of quick hits.
It's simply not put together well. The editing really is atrocious. I don't agree with many critics that there were too many subplots to follow. Once I've had time to digest everything, it's all pretty straight forward. But Christ, that editing certainly made it seem like this movie was juggling five thousand things.
This characterization of Superman sucks. Point blank. I don't know if Cavill just isn't a very talented actor, or if the material he has to work with is so bland and vapid that it just bleeds over into his performance, but they've got to stop with this nonsense. He's always frowning. He's always questioning what he's doing. You get the feeling that he saves people solely out of appointed obligation and not because he genuinely wants to. He slams a normal human being through several concrete walls at tremendous force, but we're supposed to believe he didn't just straight murder the guy.
That's the fundamental flaw with this characterization. They are so hellbent on approaching Superman as a god-like being that he comes across as being disconnected from humanity. Does he like these people? Why does he like these people? Does he consider himself one of us? Why is that? Too bad the filmmakers never bother to ask these ****ing questions. He comes across so cold and divorced from the people he's saving, you wonder if he actually does think he's above them. He certainly does nothing to suggest that he's not too different from them.
Eisenberg's Luthor was awful, and that final scene with him and Batman had me rolling my eyes.
"He's coming!"
WHO'S COMING? Did I miss something? Was there some other mention of Darkseid that I missed, besides the omega symbol during the pointless nightmare sequence? What the **** is this line from Eisenberg supposed to mean, and where the hell does it come from?
It was cool and all to see Wonder Woman, but she was pointless. Cool to see Aquaman, but pointless. Cool to see Cyborg, but pointless. Cool to see Flash, but pointless AND confusing as **** to the plot of THIS movie. Seriously. That warning serves NO other purpose than to set up a future film. It's amateur at best.
Snyder and Terrio fell into the trap. Rather than focus squarely on the Superman/Batman/Luthor conflict, they just had to work in all these little nods and winks to things to come. But they don't service this story being told, and frankly the manner in which they're introduced is confusing. This movie tried to tell a Batman/Superman story and build a universe at the same time. They overplayed their hand. It's a mess.
**** Doomsday.
It's simply not put together well. The editing really is atrocious. I don't agree with many critics that there were too many subplots to follow. Once I've had time to digest everything, it's all pretty straight forward. But Christ, that editing certainly made it seem like this movie was juggling five thousand things.
This characterization of Superman sucks. Point blank. I don't know if Cavill just isn't a very talented actor, or if the material he has to work with is so bland and vapid that it just bleeds over into his performance, but they've got to stop with this nonsense. He's always frowning. He's always questioning what he's doing. You get the feeling that he saves people solely out of appointed obligation and not because he genuinely wants to. He slams a normal human being through several concrete walls at tremendous force, but we're supposed to believe he didn't just straight murder the guy.
And then they kill him. Two ****ing movies into this shared universe. And the people of the world suddenly care for some reason, when these filmmakers have done everything in their power to show as little as possible as to why that might be the case. "Oh, let's show a brief montage of him saving people! But have him frown the entire time! And always frame it so that we constantly remind the audience that this is essentially a god saving a lower being!"
That's the fundamental flaw with this characterization. They are so hellbent on approaching Superman as a god-like being that he comes across as being disconnected from humanity. Does he like these people? Why does he like these people? Does he consider himself one of us? Why is that? Too bad the filmmakers never bother to ask these ****ing questions. He comes across so cold and divorced from the people he's saving, you wonder if he actually does think he's above them. He certainly does nothing to suggest that he's not too different from them.
Eisenberg's Luthor was awful, and that final scene with him and Batman had me rolling my eyes.
"He's coming!"
WHO'S COMING? Did I miss something? Was there some other mention of Darkseid that I missed, besides the omega symbol during the pointless nightmare sequence? What the **** is this line from Eisenberg supposed to mean, and where the hell does it come from?
It was cool and all to see Wonder Woman, but she was pointless. Cool to see Aquaman, but pointless. Cool to see Cyborg, but pointless. Cool to see Flash, but pointless AND confusing as **** to the plot of THIS movie. Seriously. That warning serves NO other purpose than to set up a future film. It's amateur at best.
Snyder and Terrio fell into the trap. Rather than focus squarely on the Superman/Batman/Luthor conflict, they just had to work in all these little nods and winks to things to come. But they don't service this story being told, and frankly the manner in which they're introduced is confusing. This movie tried to tell a Batman/Superman story and build a universe at the same time. They overplayed their hand. It's a mess.
**** Doomsday.
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