Just got back from it...yeah it was a pretty bad movie.

Batfleck is actually pretty damn good, certainly blowing away my expectations.


The music score was pretty epic (except for Lex Luthor's slow-mo walk down the hall of the lab.  That was corny as fuck)

...and that's really all the positives I have for this movie. I walked in open minded and still walked away disappointed.  The movie felt like it was trying so hard to set up all of these future events and movies, but along with an incoherent narrative and a disjointed story (especially the first half) it just falls flat on its face.

Also Snyder needs to fuck off with his action scenes going on at night.  His lighting was terrible and I couldn't tell what the fuck was going on.  The biggest offender of this was


And, yes, Jesse Eisenberg's Luthor was campy as shit.  Even the rowdy opening-premiere crowd was mostly dead silent whenever he delivered a joke or something that was supposed to stick as a funny phrase.  It was just embarrassing to watch.

And the movie's biggest weakness was that it definitely showed that it's trying so hard to ride Marvel's coat tails.  You want to see DC make an impact to show it can rival Marvel, but you realize it's too little too late now.

Overall, it's a substandard movie that just suffered from months of Halo 5-style hype that just backfired.

I don't think it's fair to blame DC for this, ultimately everyone was basically expecting DC to follow Marvel (And Marvel just got lucky with timing it first, otherwise the roles would be kind of reversed) to the point where everyone was downright demanding it. I don't think it's a situation of DC trying to compete with Marvel (despite what Marvel purists would have you believe) but more of DC trying to give comic book fans in general more of what they want, and I've been dying for a Justice League movie for ages.

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And the movie's biggest weakness was that it definitely showed that it's trying so hard to ride Marvel's coat tails.  You want to see DC make an impact to show it can rival Marvel, but you realize it's too little too late now.

I actually want to see DC rival Marvel, it causes competition for both companies to try and release superior products and put more effort into it.  However DC seems to only be winning the animation battle (I've heard the comics have been downhill since New 52) and, after seeing this movie, they should just stick with that.

I'm also not looking forward to Snyder directing Justice League.

ok i saw it tonight and its not as bad as the internet is making it out to be but it isnt necessarily good either i think a 5.5-6/10 is appropriate. there are a lot of good things about it but it felt like the shadow of a much better movie. extraordinarily disappointing.

I don't think it's fair to blame DC for this, ultimately everyone was basically expecting DC to follow Marvel (And Marvel just got lucky with timing it first, otherwise the roles would be kind of reversed) to the point where everyone was downright demanding it. I don't think it's a situation of DC trying to compete with Marvel (despite what Marvel purists would have you believe) but more of DC trying to give comic book fans in general more of what they want, and I've been dying for a Justice League movie for ages.

You're giving them way too much credit. Warner Bros. had basically been pissing around with the idea for a Justice League movie since the '90s but never had the balls to do it, even when they've had scripts and people ready to do it and a fanbase asking for it. Then when the Avengers makes 1.5 billion dollars they're suddenly ready to make an entire cinematic universe. This is obviously a series being forced by the studio and it's probably going to crash and burn like Sony did sooner rather than later.