This is just a little piece by me, I say my spiel, and I am not, and won't get, involved in any flame wars and polarized conflicts. I'm not a "snobby critic" in case anyoen wnated to throw that at me, I'm a lifelong fan of comics and want to just say something without seething hatred or absolute love as it seems everyone else is. Here I go: It wasn't good. It wasn't Plan Nine From Outer Space, but I'd never say it was great, except for maybe the special effects. More like a disappointment to what I imagined, "okay", meh, blah. I saw Dawn of Justice before most reviews came out, at a morning show, so if anything sounds like a review, it wasn't from one. The opening credits sequence was well shot, though, and I'm still looking for the Art of the Film book for the production and special effects design. But there were a lot of little things that started building up as I was watching. For example, why Gal Godot had like a Spanish accent. Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor, just, everything about him, I was picturing Clancy Brown's voice in my head at one point to improve it. The direct dialogue rips from The Dark Knight Returns, which got annoying after a while when it felt like they didn't want to create original dialogue (or action, such as Superman being caught in a nuclear blast and then revived to full health). The shortness of the fight, like what 5 minutes, and it was only after Lex Luthor prodded Superman into doing it. The reliance on accidentally drinking urine in the senate subcommittee scene as a major plot twist. The reliance on the fact that both Batman and Superman have mothers with the name Martha in the plot. Superman flying with a kryptonite staff. Batman, pretty much blowing up flamethrowers and trucks with people in them, and probably killing the guys in the car chase scene. No explanation that i could catch on how Superman found out Batman's true identity. No apparent explanation why the Knightmare sequence is set in a desert or anything beyond the Omega symbol. The shoehorning of other members of the Justice League for the sequel (though Cyborg and Flash's security footage were sweet). No idea how Lex knew about Darkseid. Superman's time in-bewtween Man of Steel and this is not really explored, so it lacks some emotional depth when he dies and gets a state funeral. The guys who Bruce tries to save and fails in the beginning, he knows hem but we don't. Ham-fisted references to the comics that sort of offset them. The plot seems more like 7 different plots, that are badly edited going from one scene to another, almost like a stream of conscious; for example, the ending could have been cut down, or simply not juxtaposing another scene after a minute (so that it'd be the state funeral of Superman, then Affleck visiting Eisenberg, and finally the Kent funeral where Batman and Wonder Woman talk and Superman is alive). The gratutious cameos by people form Anderson Cooper to Nancy Grace. The general feeling that they were overworking in trying to be great, and of such wasted potential in the story. That's what I saw and processed, sure there is more but i won't go into it. I'm not going to talk about it anymore, I've got a lot of stuff I need to do and read, but at least it's inspired me to really work on making my own comics, since DC (and probably Marvel if Civil War II is a sign) pretty much, can't be trusted.
27 Mar 2016, 5:22 pm
