Anyone seen it yet?
No spoilers, obviously, but...this was a vastly better film than the theatre cut. For a start, it actually makes sense.
Some of the CGI is still pretty ropey, of course, because DC still don't have that figured out compared with Marvel, but given that there's an actual coherent plot and the characters matter this time round, the dodgy CGI moments don't really matter.
It's quite slow, but all the backstory that was missing in the previous films is there - and it's clear that it's all that backstory that's actually the real setup for the DCEU.
Shame we're never going to see that version of the DCEU. On the strength of this, I think it would've been pretty great, and certainly better than the next phase of the MCU is going to be.
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A lot of people seem to despise Zack Snyder and also DC films generally, so it felt like the film was doomed from the start even if it had been amazing.
Having seen the Whedon version I thought it was actually OK, although I preferred what I assumed to be the Snyder bits. Henry Cavill's CG'd top lip turned the whole thing into a bit of a joke.
I am interested to see this new (old?) cut, though. Where's it available?
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
I think they've all been OK, and I would watch them anyway, even if they were total rubbish...
The one I liked least was Aquaman, which oddly enough seemed to do relatively well with both the critics and the box office. I found it all a bit dim-witted and childish.
@fretmeister Thanks, I don't have Sky so I may have to wait a while.
BvS was actually quite good in my opinion. The dumb-as-dirt Martha Moment aside, of course. And, when you see the new cut of Justice League (right to the end!), most of the eye-roll moments from BvS make a lot more sense.
The trouble is, we'll never get to see the rest of the world they built, because a) they've lost Cavill, and you can't have a DC universe without Superman, and b) they seem to want to concentrate on glib comedy properties like Shazam instead. Given that they've now decided to hand JJ Abrams a Superman reboot fresh from wrecking the Star Wars and Star Trek film franchises...don't expect anything worth watching to come out of DC in at least the next five years.
It's really quite astonishing how hard DC are working to ruin their own great prospects. Quite impressive, really.
Just cancel it on day 6!
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
Last time I signed up for a free trial - Shudder - they charged me straight away anyway! I'm always a bit wary of these things and how difficult it may be to cancel them.
I add and delete my passes all the time.
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
I will try to watch JL this weekend.
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For IMAX, but Snyder decided to do the whole film that way. To be fair he does use the extra height quite a bit in his framing.
All in all if a 3hr version of this was released it would have been a banger. There's easily 60 mins that could be cut without harming the story (some of the battle/fights are overly long, some of the moody stuff could be trimmed etc).