Critics Wrong Again: Justice League Was Pretty Good 0

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Thought it was pretty darn good but I don't think that Cyborg has historically been that important to the League and that was a seat that the Martian Manhunter deserved.  I always felt the Manhunter was the "sane" one in the League and could be trusted to clean up the mess the other members created.  He also embodies more the ideals of the League whereas Cyborg spent too much time in this picture in various angsty type scenes fretting about himself.

[Silver Surfer]

I am excited to see it but hopefully this is the last time we see Batfleck.

Edited November 23, 2017 by Silver Surfer

[rjpb]

I pretty much have zero interest in this movie, now a JSA movie set in the 1940s - that I could go with - as long a Black Canary is a part of it.

[Mercury Man]

Haven't seen it yet.  I think critics are overly harsh on these type of movies.  They are big, loud, full of eye candy with minimal substance.  They are supposed to be fun, and they are.  

[Sqeggs]

22 hours ago, Flex Mentallo said:

Howard Hawks' definition of a good director was "someone who doesn't annoy you." He came to believe that a good film consisted of at least three good scenes and no bad ones--at least not a scene that could irritate and alienate the audience. He said, "As long as you make good scenes you have a good picture--it doesn't matter if it isn't much of a story."

Love the dialog in Hawks's films.  Rewatched (for about the tenth time) His Gal Friday a few weeks ago.  Great stuff.

22 hours ago, Flex Mentallo said:

Annoyingly, Snyder relies far too heavily on the tropes of Dark Knight mood and lighting. His films may as well be in black and white. He seems to be entirely devoid of humor, far too in love with CGI to be truly cinematic. Nothing worse than bathos in a movie.

From all I've read, the Warner execs are very worried by the dark tone of the past few films (WW excepted, of course) and Whedon was brought in to lighten things up.  The relatively weak opening of this film in North America has done nothing to allay those fears.

[Flex Mentallo]

6 hours ago, Sqeggs said:

His Gal Friday a few weeks ago.  Great stuff.

Only angels have wings

[Randall Ries]

On 11/22/2017 at 10:57 AM, Marwood & I said:

There's something satisfyingly appropriate about someone called 'ender' disapproving of an overuse of Wonder Woman's bottom 

Yes. The irony wasn't lost on me either.

[FineCollector]

10 hours ago, Sqeggs said:

From all I've read, the Warner execs are very worried by the dark tone of the past few films (WW excepted, of course) and Whedon was brought in to lighten things up.  The relatively weak opening of this film in North America has done nothing to allay those fears.

For what it's worth, seeing previews of a barbarian Aquaman was enough to turn me off from watching this.  They're not making movies that look like my comics, devoid of all joy and hope.

Waiting to see something for free on cable used to take a long time.  Waiting to see something for free on Netflix is much more palatable.

[Mmehdy]

Much better than Batdog V super> reason: new director JW came in took over from that hack Synder...give all the credit to the new director and his 15% of the film which made it WAY BETTER, thumbs UP, good popcorn fun, but the best movie of the year by far is the new Bladerunner, you have to see it on the big screen...amazing production design.

[Sqeggs]

19 hours ago, Flex Mentallo said:

On 11/23/2017 at 10:16 AM, Sqeggs said:

His Gal Friday a few weeks ago.  Great stuff.

Only angels have wings

Yep.  Another great example of Hawks's cross-talk dialog (if that's what it's called). 

[50YrsCollctngCmcs]

15 hours ago, Mmehdy said:

Much better than Batdog V super> reason: new director JW came in took over from that hack Synder...give all the credit to the new director and his 15% of the film which made it WAY BETTER, thumbs UP, good popcorn fun, but the best movie of the year by far is the new Bladerunner, you have to see it on the big screen...amazing production design.

One sign to me of a good movie is how much time you spend thinking about it after you have seen it. In the case of JLA that was about zero for me; in the case of Blade Runner I was thinking of scenes for days afterwards.

The production work of BR was also outstanding as you mention; it also made my best of the year movie although Coco sounds like a winner too.

[Chicago Boy]

Finally gotten around to seeing JL and wasn't interested in what the critics said beforehand.  That behind said I thought it was the worst DC movie I have ever seen since the inception of Man of Steel for this Universe.  I thought the acting was poor for the most part, the CGI was extremely phony looking, and I didn't care about any of the characters on either side.  It reeked of trying to be too "Avengery" for me at times.  I despised Aquaman but thought Cyborg had potential and I thought Ezra Miller did well as the Flash but it seemed to me they needed a Tom Holland like character and they got it (although I hear the cartoon Flash is played for laughs and that's pre Civil Way)  So disappointed  

[woowoo]

52 minutes ago, Chicago Boy said:

Finally gotten around to seeing JL and wasn't interested in what the critics said beforehand.  That behind said I thought it was the worst DC movie I have ever seen since the inception of Man of Steel for this Universe.  I thought the acting was poor for the most part, the CGI was extremely phony looking, and I didn't care about any of the characters on either side.  It reeked of trying to be too "Avengery" for me at times.  I despised Aquaman but thought Cyborg had potential and I thought Ezra Miller did well as the Flash but it seemed to me they needed a Tom Holland like character and they got it (although I hear the cartoon Flash is played for laughs and that's pre Civil Way)  So disappointed  

       it was good

[Chicago Boy]

15 minutes ago, woowoo said:

       it was good

It was so bad I'm ashamed to own a Tec 27

[Larryw7]

Just now, Chicago Boy said:

It was so bad I'm ashamed to own a Tec 27

I'll help you get over your shame. I'll take that Tec 27 off your hands.

[Jaydogrules]

On 11/22/2017 at 7:57 AM, Marwood & I said:

There's something satisfyingly appropriate about someone called 'ender' disapproving of an overuse of Wonder Woman's bottom 

Erm.... This girl's head is bigger than her butt.  Sooooo not impressed.

-J.

[Flex Mentallo]

On 11/24/2017 at 5:02 PM, Sqeggs said:

Yep.  Another great example of Hawks's cross-talk dialog (if that's what it's called). 

Yes, rapid fire, naturalistic, improvised. And he also understood how to build tension, which I think CGI destroys, because at its most heavy handed and intrusive, it distracts from the 'human' interaction...'Calling Baranca.....calling Baranca....'

Edited November 26, 2017 by Flex Mentallo

[Flex Mentallo]

4 hours ago, Jaydogrules said:

Erm.... This girl's head is bigger than her butt.  Sooooo not impressed.

Well, if my head were bigger than my butt, I'd need a bigger door...

[woowoo]

11 hours ago, Chicago Boy said:

It was so bad I'm ashamed to own a Tec 27

I did not really like Batman in the movie  I liked SUPERMAN .You are right Batman

Edited November 26, 2017 by woowoo

[Chicago Boy]

I'm still upset........  looking forward to Thor vs Planet Hulk  (I'm behind) to get the bad taste out of my mouth......