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Batman v. Superman RT Thread: like standing ovations in rain

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jett

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The Redlettermedia review justified paying for the ticket.

It's sad how Jay and Mike, who are very far removed from being comic book geeks, seem to understand what Superman should be like more than the people that actually make movies about Superman.
 

Toa TAK

Banned
This movie is like the comic book movie version of the mayweather vs pacquiao fight. You knew who was going to win anyways, but couldn't believe how lame the fight was after all that hype around it.
 

Bleepey

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The excuse usually goes that he wasn't Superman yet and that he was just a guy who flipped out when trying to save his mom. I think it was dumb as shit. He still left his mom there alone with a bunch of crazy ass Zod acolytes while he took Zod on a whirlwind tour to Smallville. And he stupidly brought Zod to the center of Smallville during this tantrum and got everyone there involved with this super bullshit when he could have tried to at least keep it contained to the cornfields. And like you said, he destroyed a lot of shit on the way there.

I mean, it led to the awesome Smallville fight so it's whatever. But the nagging feeling that what led up to it was done kinda bad lingers on.

I just finished watching MoS. I feel that It gets more hate than it deserves and I think it's unfairly shat on. I probably won't watch it again but l was buying what they were selling. With regards to the damage, I think he only brought the fight to th population once and that could fairly be attributed to anger from having to defend his mother. The U.S. Army was way worst but that could be justified. Generally, I don't think there was much to do to stop the violence, Zod would not stop till Earth was terra formed.
 

Spinluck

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Makes sense. Man of Steel told a story while this movie only pretended to.

Some of the worst editing and pacing I've ever seen in a movie. And the
forced Justice League crap was just so bad and didn't feel natural at all
. The big VS fight was a pile of shit, and the exchange that got them to stop fighting... So bad. I just have no idea what this movie was trying to be.

Lex Luthor was absolutely terrible, like criminally bad.
 
Just finished it. Not particularly a DC fan, didn't like MoS too much, was okay.
Thought this was great and I feel that a lot of the negativity towards this film is way overblown, but the complaints are valid.
 

Prompto

Banned
This movie needs more apes..
Sounds like Tarzan will be up your alley

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JohnCYQ

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Question: While MCU has Kevin Feige holding the whole thing together, does the DCCU have an equivalent?

It feels like DCCU is being rushed too much to "catch up" with the MCU, with the way they are already setting up for Justice League. By comparison, MCU started small and gradually got bigger as they slowly set up the whole Avengers thing.

With a strong leader, I imagine that DCCU would have avoided much of its current problems.
 

Nokterian

Member
Going to watch some Batman & Robin..need to wash my brains after this movie sure it made a lot of money but that doesn't say the movie is any good..and it isn't.
 
All according to plan, right? This was DC's and WB goal?

It's the long con. You set up Affleck as the unfortunate soul whose ambitions were ruined by Snyder and Eisenberg's bumblings, so that everyone feels sorry for him and is happy to just let him do solo Batman movies without asking for the whole Justice League thing.

WB can go back to making profitable and critically lauded Batman movies, without being constantly harassed to "expand the universe" into Aquaman or Cyborg or whatever other lame-duck that's expected as a result of Deadpool and Ant-Man succeeding.

The perfect scheme.
 

ArtHands

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Question: While MCU has Kevin Feige holding the whole thing together, does the DCCU have an equivalent?

It feels like DCCU is being rushed too much to "catch up" with the MCU, with the way they are already setting up for Justice League. By comparison, MCU started small and gradually got bigger as they slowly set up the whole Avengers thing.

With a strong leader, I imagine that DCCU would have avoided much of its current problems.

Apparently they did it this way because they are not Marvel. So they released ensemble movie before their individual movies, and also no post credit scene. But deep down inside we all know they are after that pot of gold without the groundwork.

They said the Marvel way isn't the only way for this to work, but we ended up with a movie that suffered from having to juggle several stories, and those jarring dream scenes and that cringworthy awkward JL email scene.

While Age of Ultron made the same mistakes with those Thor scenes too, they were never this bad like the dream scenes we have here.
 
Question: While MCU has Kevin Feige holding the whole thing together, does the DCCU have an equivalent?

It feels like DCCU is being rushed too much to "catch up" with the MCU, with the way they are already setting up for Justice League. By comparison, MCU started small and gradually got bigger as they slowly set up the whole Avengers thing.

With a strong leader, I imagine that DCCU would have avoided much of its current problems.

There's no Kevin Feige figure, the closest one is Zack Snyder, who's a director or producer in most DCEU movies, which is why plenty have lost hope for the DCEU unless Warner announces next week that Zack Snyder is no longer working for them (fat chance)
 

Kalentan

Member
So at this point is the Superman and Batman in those "How it should have ended" videos on youtube, a better representation than what we're getting?

Maybe being hyperbolic now tho...
 

B33

Banned
Disagreed about WW's acting, I thought she was fine given her material (a curve everyone in the film has to be graded on). Otherwise, yeah. Pretty much.

I hope Rich is a mainstay of the show now.

Agreed. Gal Gadot's acting isn't terrible. The material she had to work with is bad.

Rich Evans's laughter lifts my spirits.
 
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