Now while on the surface this sounds kind of fresh, he was recently caught making this statement about the latest actor to play Superman, Henry Cavill "Yeah, I tried to enjoy The Man from U.N.C.L.E. but Cavill was just too damn distractingly handsome in it". Um…someone get this dude off the trees and back over to the Red Light District stat! I’ve been known to get on a cold streak from time to time and have even looked to a glass of scotch or two to help ease the pain but if I ever make a statement similar to this one someone please pass me a purple drank and a blow up doll so I can at least technically get me a piece and get back in the saddle again!
The point of all that is, is I have another buddy who refuses to believe that Zack Snyder, the director or Dawn of Justice, is capable of making a good movie. He was so annoyingly persistent with his arguments that he actually broke me down and convinced me of the same. So much so, that I walked into Batman v Superman hoping to hate it. It had everything going against it: Ben Affleck replacing Christian Bale as the caped crusader, Snyder on to in effect make a sequel to the underwhelming Man of Steel, Jesse Eisenberg appearing as though he was overacting in the trailers, and Gal Gadot once again keeping all of her clothes on. Why on Earth was I paying to see this?!?!
And when I saw that the hack David S. Goyer co-wrote this film, I just knew that it was going to be awful! But then the movie started and it slowly but surely won me over. The film sort of picks up where Man of Steel left off. It’s just that you see the epic fight between Superman and General Zod through the eyes of the people who were caught in the aftermath of their battle as opposed to through the eyes of those who were involved in it. In the movies you always see the buildings crumble and fall but you never really see what actually happens to the people in those buildings.
Well in this case you do and what happened during the fight directly affected Bruce Wayne as well as his family, friends, and his employees. And as a result, he doesn’t trust the seemingly invincible Superman. He thinks that he does more bad than good and that it’s just a matter of time before he realizes his true power and turns on the human race. While he’s old as shit, Affleck actually did a solid job playing the angry and out for justice Bruce Wayne and I now have zero issues with him following up Bale. Who would’ve ever thought I’d say that after seeing the movie Paycheck.
Lex Luthor, who is played wonderfully by Eisenberg, seems to share in Wayne’s sentiment and as a result he is out for Superman’s head too, simply because he reminds him of God, who supposedly let awful things happen to him when he was a child. Now I’ll let you discover his evil plan for doing this on your own but just know that Eisenberg saw Heath Ledger’s performance of the Joker one too many times and took a trait or three from that performance and tried to incorporate them into his character. While that was a bit distracting, it didn’t totally take me out of the movie and he added enough of his own style to make Luthor his own.
The action in this movie is on point, even though some of it is a direct rip from the comics and the Dark Knight, and the score aides in keeping you on the edge of your seat. Snyder doesn’t do what normally gets him into trouble and that’s to solely rely on CGI to tell the story for him. He actually lets the actors do that this time around. And with all of the characters that were introduced in this film, you would think that the storyline would get bogged down but it never does.
My only real complaint was that when Batman was training to take on Superman, he should’ve been listening to Our Lady Peace’s Superman’s Dead in his IPhone. I hate to admit this but I have to rate a Zack Snyder film as very FRESH! Go check this movie out before they add the lame Aquaman and totally destroy any momentum they built with this effort.
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Someone please tell me why, when they introduced The Flash, he looked like a homeless dude who was trying to buy a six pack of Icehouse tallboys? I mean I thought he looked fresh but by no means does he look like a superhero. My idiot friend said that when he went into flash mode he should’ve stopped the robbery and finished a tallboy in the process.
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