I saw BvS/DoJ the other day.
It wasn’t good. And I need to get this off my chest. I told a friend of mine and he agreed, saying the following (Spoilers and stuff, if you’re that guy who still cares and hasn’t seen it):
Guns and killing and Batman are a fucking ungodly no no.
Worst dialogue ever.
My weakness is my mom's name.
Wtf were those dream sequences?
Ben afflecks bad acting was the best part of that movie.
Wonder woman was hot.She played no fucking role in the movie.
Lex Luther isn't supposed to be borderline schitzophrenic...
Here’s what I think:
His points are all "I know these characters, these, good sir, are NOT these characters" complaints, and they are all valid. From a "lets make a movie people want to see" standpoint, it doesn’t get better.
"Superman is evil and must be destroyed"
"but wait, the password is martha"
"you are my friend. we shall save the world"
(that all took place in a matter of 8 seconds)
the time travel flash thing is dumb, confusing, dumb a 2nd and 3rd time, and doesn't really provide any context in any direction.
there were 2 necessary gal gadot scenes: at luthor's house stealing the jump drive (and then she should have put it back, so wayne gets the info too, but he's “on to her”) and then appearing to kick doomsday's face in, which, btw, she was totally doing when superman decided the only way to end this fight other than by standing there and letting the woman end the fight, would be to die. #mensa.
There’s no other reason for her to be in the movie. She was great, probably the best part about it, but there should have been less of her, which is depressing.
the files stolen/”Wonder Woman uses computers” scene should've been an end credit scene. i 0% buy into the idea that "because marvel does it, dc should do it", however if you're attempting to build a multi-movie universe, you need to tie movies together in a way that makes sense. as it was, "there are 3 more strong people, other than the 3 you've met in this movie, even though, yeah, spoiler alert, the hot girl is IRLOMG wonder woman."
It has nothing to do with the movie. and they could've (should've) made it a longer scene. To be seen after the movie. 4-5 minutes. the flash/surveillance video could stay as is, cyborg thing could've, I don't know, been clear what we were looking at and maybe made a little (some?) more sense - if wonder woman is so tech savvy. why can’t she go full screen? WHY?? Maybe give aquaman an actual scene and remind people WHY Jason Momoa was chosen, and then you can end with the WW photos/wayne asking who she is and her responding "we need to meet" or some shit.
Now I've reduced 4-6 minutes from the already-too-long movie (by removing every WW scene that isn’t her normal/superhero introduction, plus the “cameos”) AND built a small amount of excitement for the mutli-billion-dollar universe you (zach snyder) just diarrhea vomited all over. like civil war, the initial premise is flawed. the avengers didn't ruin NY, the chitauri did. superman didn't try to turn NY into Krypton, Zod did. Why does everyone jump on this false premise so quickly? as for the characters: we never need to see how the wayne's die ever again. I don't care if it's a nod to a specific origin comic book. we've seen it. But if you're showing us a batman who uses guns and kills people, it DOES make sense to show us how THAT batman came to be. It’s a 3 hour movie. you couldn’t fit in even a cursrory “here’s why batman isn’t the batman you know” glossing-over? (and no, showing robin’s vandalized suit doesn’t do it. that says “Robin is dead” not “Batman has gone to MurderMode.”)
You said the loud part quiet and the quiet part loud, if the loud part was the thing you never said at all, and the quiet part was the thing you said 4 times in the movie that every single human being alive already knew. Oh, and so, we're all cool with Lois Lane having a coworker boyfriend she lives with right? who has zero experience as a reporter but instantly gets a job there..? good? yeah? ok. Also, anytime she's in trouble superman shows up, to the point where the CIA uses her as superman bait. yeah? ok good, let's make sure to compartmentalize those for the rest of eternity because there's no way those 2 things are related.
I want my money back.
