Saw it last weekend...it was ok. Pretty good for the most part. But weirdly enough, I'm not sure I've evver been taken out of a movie faster than EVERY single time I heard the weird, beep-boop sound effect that they chose for the teleportation cylinder that Steppenwolf used. I swear it must have been ripped out of an early 90's video game. The first time I heard it I thought perhaps I had imagined it or something, but then it happened like FOUR MORE TIMES. Such a weird choice.
I didnt get it, until I put it into a reply and realized there was a second spoiler. His will is weak, as his story has been told through his coaching career.
Just finished watching it over a few days. Ain't nobody got time for a 4 hour movie in one sitting . Pretty good overall. As others have said, I'm not a huge DC guy but this one was pretty legit. Not Dark Knight level or anything, but pretty damn good still. I enjoyed it.
My vote goes to Wesley Snipes to play Green Lantern. That or perhaps Eddie Murphy. See below for compelling evidence.
First thought is that it seems like the Directors cut would be an easy way for the movie industry to make money each and every time. Expect more of it. Folks will watch it for even 15 minutes extra. Second thought is that you've got to set up the villain in the theater version. In Spiderman homecoming it took them less than 3 minutes with a kid's drawing, and Keaton being stripped of his job to make the payoff. So simple, but Justice League whiffed badly.
I don't feel like this ZS Cut would have made the box office with a R rating... obviously the movie would not have been an entire 4 hours long. Haven't seen it yet (put plan to) but if this is as good as people are saying, this version would not have been released in theatres, which to me means that it would have possibly been on par with the Whedon Theatrical Version. Either way, I'll watch it and hopefully enjoy the improvements over the crapfest that was JL v1.0
The main thing that struck me with Snyder cut was how prominent Cyborg was. Give him a regular friend to interact with and a throwaway villian and you've basically got a full movie. If you remove all of his exposition from JL, you've suddenly got a movie that very easily could have clocked in under 150 minutes. It really drives home the point of how stupid it was to cram that much in to one picture. His 4 hour version never, ever would have seen the light of day pre covid.
I don't thinks that's the case, from what I've read Snyder was already getting push back from WB to make it "lighter" and more Marvel like. He was sticking to his guns until the tragedy with his daughter. Studio used that to get Whedon to redo it the way they wanted resulting in the frankenmoster movie that was released. He rewrote a bunch of stuff and what he did use was altered in some form or another. After watching the Snyder cut, it's really confusing because Whedon dropped a lot of stuff that worked really well IMO in terms of character motivations and plot. If Snyder had stayed on, I'd assumed they could have released it as a 2 parter.......
I've never seen the Whedon version, but the Snyder cut I give a C+. Overly bloated, dismal cinematography (TV series quality), uninteresting villains, actors who are clearly not wanting to be there (Ben Affleck). The only standout is Jason Momoa's Aquaman, he brings some gravitas to the role.
C+ is more than fair IMO, possibly generous even, but you need to understand the Whedon version is a F-. If it was rated 0-100, we're talking like... a 7/100.
I’ll be honest, I was already pre-judging this movie before watching, especially after the initial version that was released years ago that was straight up trash with that said, this one was definitely better to me, Steppenwolf was a bit more fleshed out Still, gtfoh with a 4 hour run time. Not even Infinity War could justify keeping us in the theater for that long, so this movie really has some nerve. I’d give it a 5.5/10
good for them, because I would’ve left halfway through and said I’ll catch the rest later Snyder needs to trim all the fat and give us the lean cut
I finished watching last night. Having seen both versions I'd have to agree that the Snyder Cut is the more coherent of the two. I now have a better understanding of just what JL was supposed to be about. They fixed the Batman-Superman relationship, enhanced how WW was presented (more warrior, less sexual babe), made the Flash storyline make more sense and completely redid the Cyborg storyline so that his role in the movie proves to be the most pivotal one. However, Superman is still only marginally presented although his part is better depicted now. Now THAT being said, this movie is an absolute bloated mess with poor CG and excessive slo-mo sequences that had me using my "Cam Newton face" constantly. And was it just me or did this movie feel like a cheap knock-off of Avenegers Endgame? Like the folks doing the DCEU cannot come up with an original idea that's fresh: Earth's mighiest superheroes band together in a desperate fight against a supremely evil villain bent on destroying/conquering all life in the universe - yeah, haven't seen that one before. As for the Epilogue well, that was clearly intended to setup future sequels where the JL goes toe-to-toe with Darkseid culmunating in a final battle on a devastrated earth where Superman has turned against the JL because of Lois Lane's death and his subsequent mind control by Darkseid (that's from the Cyborg vision when he touched the magic box). Anyway, NOW there's a movement afoot to force WB to complete the Snyderverse trilogy which WB has already shot down. And to be honest - after sitting through 4+ hours of this - I'm OK with their decision.
The theatrical release of this movie came out a year before Avengers: Infinity War (meaning most of this was shot before Avengers: Infinity War) so it would be hard to be a knockoff of a movie that came out a year after Infinity War.
I know, I know but the more I watched this the more the two movie plots began to blend together: Gather the Infinity Stones that will allow you to control all life in the Universe vs.Gather the Mother Boxes to find the Anti-Life Equation that will allow you to control all life in the Universe; Even the two villains (Darkseid & Thanos) looked far too similar. The key difference is that with the Avengers Marvel had taken the time to introduce their character backstories in separate films while WB only setup Superman from Man Of Steel and Green Lantern. Green Lantern was such a disaster that it was never spoken of again (with GL MIA in the JL film). BvS (with WW shoehorned in) was muddingly incoherent and somewhat trite (Martha! You must save Martha!). The casting of Jesse Eisenberg as LL was a total miss and the film's goal of setting up JL completely missed the boat STS. That's why the Whedon version felt so disjointed because there was precious little backstory to that film - you were literally dropped into the story as Batman is assembling the team. The Snyder Cut restores that missing backstory but there was SO much that it ballooned the film's length. Oh well...
