Last movie was Batman VS Superman. First time I ever saw it, I wrote it off as just a conglomerate mess of too much story and not enough time to tell it. Watching it now, I've warmed up to it, but it still definitely has its problems. Characters and their motivations are clearer now, such as Diana/Wonder Woman, and exactly why Batman has turned so cruel. I still feel like the movie has a lot of problems, though.
Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor (Jr, I guess?) was a terrible miscast. Eisenberg is clearly out of his element here, and although he plays a wonderfully psychotic dweeb, this is basically everything that Lex Luthor, criminal mastermind, is not. Batman's utter apathy for human life seems to go against everything I understand about his character. Angsty Superman, again, not what Superman is meant to be. The film's drab color scheme and desaturated color timing only adds to the feeling of despair, and felt like Warner Bros was trying to make this more of a Batman movie than a Batman+Superman+Wonder Woman movie. I think the only good that came from this is that we got more colorful and interesting costumes and color timing in the subsequent sequels such as Wonder Woman and the recent Aquaman, both of which are actually quite entertaining and genuinely fun movies unlike Batman VS Superman.
As far as the aforementioned pacing problems, this movie is way over packed. With this movie, I felt like Warner Bros tried to run before they could crawl, introducing us to several new key characters all while trying to pull off multiple plot lines. They wanted to introduce us to the Justice League to bring us that movie as quickly as possible, and thus brought in Wonder Woman, who ends up being superfluous for all reasons except to introduce the Justice League. The Batman VS Superman plot that should have been the main focus of the movie instead feels like it gets brushed aside in the final act for the fight with Doomsday, which could have and should have been a movie all on its own. The Death of Superman itself was another comic book arc that could have and should have been its own movie. In the end, we just get this mess of a film that fell apart like like a soggy cardboard box left out in the snow on December 26th.
Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor (Jr, I guess?) was a terrible miscast. Eisenberg is clearly out of his element here, and although he plays a wonderfully psychotic dweeb, this is basically everything that Lex Luthor, criminal mastermind, is not. Batman's utter apathy for human life seems to go against everything I understand about his character. Angsty Superman, again, not what Superman is meant to be. The film's drab color scheme and desaturated color timing only adds to the feeling of despair, and felt like Warner Bros was trying to make this more of a Batman movie than a Batman+Superman+Wonder Woman movie. I think the only good that came from this is that we got more colorful and interesting costumes and color timing in the subsequent sequels such as Wonder Woman and the recent Aquaman, both of which are actually quite entertaining and genuinely fun movies unlike Batman VS Superman.
As far as the aforementioned pacing problems, this movie is way over packed. With this movie, I felt like Warner Bros tried to run before they could crawl, introducing us to several new key characters all while trying to pull off multiple plot lines. They wanted to introduce us to the Justice League to bring us that movie as quickly as possible, and thus brought in Wonder Woman, who ends up being superfluous for all reasons except to introduce the Justice League. The Batman VS Superman plot that should have been the main focus of the movie instead feels like it gets brushed aside in the final act for the fight with Doomsday, which could have and should have been a movie all on its own. The Death of Superman itself was another comic book arc that could have and should have been its own movie. In the end, we just get this mess of a film that fell apart like like a soggy cardboard box left out in the snow on December 26th.