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1. I WATCHED THE MOVIE FIRST. Ever since they ruined Hulk catching Iron Man in The Avengers in a TV preview, I've gone into caves with movie trailers.
When i first skimmed bwood's comments, I was like "why would people hate this movie?" then I saw he said it was his favorite.
I have a 33 year history with movie Batman. The first one blew me the fuck away, I can still quote lines like my favorite rap songs. It is THE standard bearer for modern superhero films and TV (BTAS, JLU/JLA, etc). I don't know that it is truly appreciated for what it did. Look at who played in the major roles, some serious ass fucking actors. That being said, it fell the fuck off precipitously....
Then comes Nolan's trilogy and I loved LOVED LOVED LOVED the motherfucking Dark Knight. THAT.WAS.MY.SHIT. I saw it AT LEAST three times in IMAX. A whole bunch fucking more on dvd/blu ray. However, once I got over my revived fanboying (took several years), I was able to view it with a more sophisticated lens and while I appreciated that it is one of the greatest SPECTACLES ever, it wasn't even the best Batman movie of the trilogy (BB much more solid and consistent throughout). We can have that discussion though.
I fucked with Batfleck, but they put him in some shitty ass films.
With this movie, I wasn't sure what time I was going to go, whether I'd take my teenager or not (my family is usually banned from first viewings, them nigs talk too damn much or are too concerned with their food and drink), and I saw it was 3 hours so tried to get all my pee breaks out in a timely fashion. How about 45 minutes in I felt like I needed to go again but rode that shit through to the end? I WAS HIGHLY IMPRESSED AND ENTERTAINED. Looking forward to seeing again with my son. Bruce brooded without being emo, and that was fine fucking line, but pulled it off. You could see he hadn't yet grown into his real mask (Bruce the aloof), which will be interesting to see in future films. But as said before, this was a BATMAN movie. A 30/70 hybrid of Year One - Long Halloween.
Man of Steel, FTR was ok, but DCEU started a nuclear arms race with MCU and fell the fuck flat. I sooooo soooo tired of hearing DC defenders using the "people don't like it cause it's dark!" for their series of flops. A damn lie they is. Make.a.movie.that.makes.us.give.a.shit. THAT is the assignment.
The only part that rubbed me the wrong way was when Selina said "white male privilege." That shit felt way too Robin D'Angelo for me. The sentiment and concept was right, but the dialogue was ham fisted in that moment. Like in Black Panther when Shuri called Ross "colonizer" that shit landed with precision because it considered the contextual basis of the exchange. Selina turning academic all of a sudden didn't land for me. There were 5-10 better ways to say it than she did. I am happy for this to be my only real gripe.
Looking forward to additional screenings. I enjoy watching movies where I don't capture everything first time out.
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