Justice League Movie - suckfest?

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Justice League Movie - suckfest?

Post by Mr. Oragahn » Mon Oct 23, 2017 6:56 pm

Been watching trailers, extended trailers, mini-trailers (teasers), super enlarged trailers made by fans, etc.
For all the porn-like amount of sticky CGI thrown at the screen, it's really sad how it fails to convey any sense of wonder or even excitement.
The thing tries so hard to be funny, in a tongue-in-cheek way, it just exploits about all the possible cliches imaginable.
The Flash, for one, is just so insufferable. All his facial expressions are so millenial-tuned modern Disney garbage.
The Chewbacca that comes from waterworld and speaks to the fish, Water Guy, is so one-dimensional (yes, that's less than flat).
The chick playing the Amazon queen Wonder Brahman is buttfuck ugly and not even cool. Black Widow is.
The enemies? Well, they're coming. Oh wait, they're already there. No, just a sec... ah I see. Yes, they're actually coming. From inside. Inside a box? Happy Meal?
Anyway, what about them? Well, they're... the... err... the others. Sorry, the Others. What do they do? Well, other things. And that's about it, they're totally random villains.
For all Marvel's exhausting flood of movies being produced, one may objectively admit that they at least seem to have something about them that kinda gives them a decent charming level and perhaps an overall sense of continuity, a sliver of coherence and lore weight.

Superman is perhaps the best character in the movie DCverse because he really had a deeper transgalactic family theme going on for him and was doing all he could to be adopted by a planet's population whilst he had to destroy the remnants of his own people — in other words, plain treason — even if that was totally forced because of the unfair plot that put Zod's Clintonians on a collision course with Sup instead of, well, having them pick any other random planet that's suitable for life and use their super duper terraforming tech to live there; starting with Mars, but it's not like we're not finding Earth-like planets right now in our close stellar neighbourhood...

Anyway, without Sup, the overall team is just so super... ficial, precisely because it's made up of totally anonymous heroes, people with barely any character exposition at all to back them up.
Fish Guy has muscles, growls (I could never understand Momoa's unique language since I saw him in Stargate Atlantis), he likes alcohol and sea water too. Woot. Allen is fast and has no friends. Hard to build any chemistry on that! At least in the show he has friends and a family.
Wonder Bra. She doesn't whip nor tie anything (where's the kink there dammit!?). Always that shield and that sword. What's her problem? She's top head of a secret people of shieldmaidens it seems in some lost Roman-like place nobody cares about anyway. Edge of the seat material here, for sure. :|

And people will be paying to see that? Seriously?

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Re: Justice League Movie - suckfest?

Post by Sothis » Tue Oct 31, 2017 9:49 pm

I thought Man of Steel was ok, Batman vs Superman was a disjointed mess and Suicide Squad was massively disappointing. Wonder Woman was the first DCEU film I enjoyed, but I'm not excited for Justice League - would much rather see Ragnorok and the leaked Infinity Wars trailer makes that film look positively awesome.

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