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The villain's mouth rarely matches up with the dialogue he's saying, and they cut away from his speaking for at least half of his lines. It's like watching a bad Godzilla dub.
I don't really blame the filmmakers or talent for this, tbh. I genuinely like that they went the "earnest superhero movie" route instead of the "smirky, smug, pseudo-Whedon superhero movie" route. No Ryan Reynolds level quippiness here. Instead, it dares to be very straight forward. Which doesn't work in this case, obviously... but again, I strongly, strongly suspect this Frankenstein only passingly resembles whatever they originally intended. Even Johnson's performance, which is awkward, was clearly meant to be intentionally awkward in many spots, but the timing of the cuts around everyone's lines is so off. I haven't seen such an obvious studio post-production hack-a-thon since the last Fantastic Four movie, really.
So I have more admiration for this-- something that was meant to be earnest, lower stakes, more character driven, etc-- than something like The Flash or The Marvels or what not. It's definitely not good, and there's no defending it, but I'll defend the tone they clearly aspired for-- and it makes me wish we could've seen whatever movie they originally shot instead of this mish-mash of a billion reshoots and redubs. My movies: http://russellhainline.com
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