I'm convinced Snyder's DC universe exists in a different solar system than ours with a different day-night cycle and visible light spectrum. Even when it shows daylight, it's so dimly lit. Everything is at nighttime or dark indoors. Perhaps, sunlight is made of toxic radiation on this world.
Something about these DC movies (Superman, Batman V Superman, and now Justice League) just seems off to me. They just feel like a series of hero poses and montage sequences.
It's the Zack Snyder effect of making sick trailers, and WB's desperation to rip off the success of the Avengers. http://www.cinemablend.com/news/1638230/why-logans-director-hates-most-superhero-movies Clearly, he see that direction as being as far away from other comic book adaptations as possible, because James Mangold has now admitted that he actually despises the current brand of tentpole superhero movies. James Mangold explained: Tentpole movies in general, they are not movies, generally. They are bloated exercises in two-hour trailers for another movie they are going to sell you in two years. There are so many characters that each character gets an arch of about six and a half minutes at best, and I'm not exaggerating. You take 120 minutes, you take 45 of it for action, what are you left with, divide it by six characters, you have the character arc of Elmer Fudd in a Warner Brothers cartoon. That formula is empty for me. While James Mangold doesn't come out and name Marvel Studios as the victim of his contempt, it's quite clear that's who he is aiming his comments at. I mean, just look at Captain America: Civil War, which was packed to the rafters with most of the MCU's superheroes, even managed to introduce a new one in the shape of Spider-Man, and then left an unresolved conflict that audiences are dying to see resolved over the next two, three or fifteen movies. Still, the airport scene was absolutely dynamite, though. I didn't even think Civil War was as blatant a tentpole movie as other ensemble superhero movies.
Wow, that trailer looks horrible, absolutely horrible. And I'm not embarrassed to say I thought Batman v Superman was a good and entertaining movie.
I'm pretty excited about it, think the trailer looks solid. Aquaman looks like he'll be the breakout star if they work the humor correctly. Erza's Flash seems pretty interesting as well.....I"m looking forward to it....
Can someone explain the hate for Batman vs Superman? I thought it was great. I even shed a tear when Superman told Batman to find himself and save his Martha. That **** was deep bro.
Its just marvel fanboys. I like both but you can't do that apparently, it's either you have an xbox or a ps4.All the batman and superman movies have been phenomenal.
The Dark Knight trilogy was great, and everybody loved it accordingly. I always find this argument preposterous. As if there is this massive fan base that loves Marvel and nothing else. That fan base includes the vast majority of film critics who have never picked up a comic. If you have liked the movies so far, great. But most of us have been very disappointed because they have access to the greatest of comic book characters, and put forth a real clusterf**k of a movie that was neither fun or well written.
I liked Man of Steel as I took it as 9/11 p*rn, but I thought BvS had too much joyless fluff, ridiculous plot holes, and buildup that ended up being a big mess. The bits with Wonder Woman were nice but her impact made it nothing more than a trailer inside a movie. I ****ing hated Eisenberg as Luthor. Doomsday was a mess. There was nothing memorable about the character. The biggest flaw was emo Superman. Will Smith had a better take on that. It would probably be a much better movie with tighter editing and direction from someone who gave a **** about the characters...like not killing Superman's long time companion Jimmy Olson in the first 15 minutes.
It would be interesting to see if any director has the guts to re-lighten the Batman series back to the 60's. Star Wars showed some balls throwing in the vintage rebel alliance scene with vader and it worked. And the funny thing is how dark Michael Keaton's batman seemed at the time, I mean it drew rave reviews for it's darkness, and now that's like a low carb pastry. I was surprised to see Batman Returns got better reviews than Batman on rottentomatoes. That actually makes no sense to me. I hated DeVito's penguin.
Acting was atrocious. Characters are horribly written (lex luthor specifically). Story was terrible and the only interesting parts where stolen from the comic books. Utterly humorless and comic book movies should be fun.
That whole bit about Martha and "WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME" was so ridiculous. Ruined the whole movie for me.
