JUSTice League Review

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It was fine.

I'm very much indifferent to what I just saw. The DCucks will claim it's a masterpiece and the critics and normal audiences will probably vary from saying it's mediocre to terrible.

With my low expectations, I was somewhat pleasantly surprised but when I try to look at the movie objectively, it falls apart a bit more. It was a much better movie than MoS and BvS and slightly below WW. It was a well-made movie, I'd say with no overt problems like BvS, but there's really just nothing that special about it. Just a serviceable superhero action movie. So I would say it's a positive addition to the franchise but I can also see why critics are rating it so low.

The movie is almost play-for-play exactly the same as the Avengers 2012's plot, with even some scenes being almost exactly the same. I don't know if this is Whedon's doing, but it's an issue nontheless. This is why I can't really understand the whole Marvel vs DC debate when it comes to movies, one is clearly just ripping the other one off in a lot of ways and just doing it worse.

With that said, there really wasn't a lot of humor shoe-horned in like I was expecting. The tone is pretty consistent with the Wonder Woman movie, and unlike Marvel, at least they knew when to take themselves seriously.

I've seen some critics saying that the new characters didn't get enough development, but I honestly might disagree. I think they were explored enough, maybe would have been better if they had their own movies beforehand but I pretty much got their stories/motivations. With so many characters they had to establish, the rest of the plot suffers. It was kind of like BvS where we were like an hour into the movie and not much has happened with the villain and then it all gets wrapped up pretty fast.

The villain was complete shit. Probably the worst of any of these movies. If they ever intended for him to be an actual character, it was cut. I can leave some more spoilery thoughts if anyone wants to hear them.

6/10

Since I think I'm the only person on here whose seen it, ama me anything.


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I think it's incredible how the series opened with a villain that was just okay, and has managed to make it worse with every film


 
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Better or worse than Superman Returns?


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Better or worse than Superman Returns?
Better(?)

That's hard for me to say because it's been a while since I've seen it and I actually liked it more than everybody else.


 
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and I actually liked it more than everybody else.
whoa

same


 
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Goodness gracious, great balls of lightning!
I guess they're gonna save Darkseid for part 2


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It was alright.  On the scale for current DC movies, I'd rate it second below Wonder Woman.  It's slightly better than the others, which isn't really saying all that much.  Story was pretty cookie-cutter as it gets, the villain was fairly forgettable, and I was incredibly distracted by the CGI and obvious green screen.  Cyborg himself looked terrible and it really took me out of the experience when he was in full-view without the hoodie.  I liked Batfleck in BvS, but here he just looked absolutely bored.  Ezra Miller was a fairly bad Flash in my opinion, and I was kind of annoyed that his scenes basically looked like Quicksilver's (X-Men version) scenes but with seizure-inducing lightning bolts exploding everywhere.

I will say though it was refreshing to see Superman have emotions extending beyond "I'm a brooding individual that's on the verge of cutting myself" and I noticed that there was actually a color palette besides the depressing grey/blue/black hues.  That really brought a smile to my face.
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I guess they're gonna save Darkseid for part 2
Don’t know if you’ve seen it yet, but based on the post credits scene I don’t think so.