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Topic subjectIt was mediocre. Not a total train wreck, but still only barely workable
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709982, It was mediocre. Not a total train wreck, but still only barely workable
Posted by BigReg, Fri Mar-25-16 03:33 PM
Good:

There's a GREAT Batman movie in here with Bats+Alfred. Excellent interpretation of the characters.

Wonder Woman did the most she could with what she got. She looked great and was believable in a pretty fucking unbelievable movie, lol.

I liked the way it built off the Man of Steel (specifically how the world deals with the new forms of superpowered mayhem)and arguably made that movie better after the fact...

Bad:

...but it's a worse movie.

Lex Luger should be a great universe tentpole badguy, similar to Loki, but they just wasted him here as a generic psychotic. Don't know why the character can't seem to make the transition to celluloid (like, imagine if Kevin Spacey played him House Of Cards style instead of Elmer Fudd when he had his crack at it?)

Lots of nagging little plot/character holes to move the plot which leads to no sense of character and flow of the movie. I felt the specific plot device to make Superman Bat's fight was stupid particularly since the movie already built up enough beef between them(probably the only solid character motivation/plot point they executed perfectly)...lots of shit like this needed to be trimmed.

The Doomsday storyline was also wasted. He was never a great character but that storyline had genuine gravitas...where all this movie had was people moping. Which made the epilogue unbearable since the feels they tried to hit you with felt like a bad soap opera since it was unearned.