‘Justice League’ Bullet Point Review

Using bullet points, I’m going to give you my thoughts on the controversial, heavily talked about “DCEU” Frankenstein movie, ‘Justice League’!

 

• I don’t like that a song with words played during the opening credits
  • it felt weird and doesn’t match the vibe that we’ve got so far in these DC movies
• Was there a “Don’t be gay” joke made by Barry’s dad, Henry (Billy Crudup)  to Barry (Ezra Miller)? Or was I just hearing stuff
  • Miller is gay in real life so I wouldn’t think they would make that joke and that would be a left field joke for a universe that barely made jokes up until this point
• The intros to the heroes felt rushed
• The tone start feels so different than the other DC movies. Feels odd
  • the movies color pallet is even all bright and whatnot
• Steppenwolf’s (Ciarán Hinds) entrance was funny and showed him to be a serious threat
  • he does look like he supposed to be a character in a video game
  • that serious threat feeling goes out the window at the end of the movie
• Cool nonchalant Green Lantern appearance, tease or whatever you want to call it
• Why does J.K. Simmons’ Commissioner Gordon have a gross little comb-over hairstyle?
•  A small detail that was added that I was glad to see was Flash (Miller) tripping sometimes while he was running
• The background CGI looked crazy at times
  • The people in those scenes looked like they were standing in front of a backdrop
  • maybe it was a focus issue that made it look like that
• The Henry Cavill mustache controversy is noticeable for people who knew or didn’t knew he had his mustache digitally removed for some scenes
  • There had to have been a better way to deal with this ridiculous issue
• Its funny how the entire movie feels like it’s in a rush to end but Batman (Ben Affleck) takes forever to get to places compared to his counterparts…hmmmm
• Batman shouldn’t tell jokes or let out corny one liners but it wasn’t as bad as I expected
  • It’s less annoying though when it’s Bruce Wayne (Affleck) doing it
• When Superman (Cavill) came back to his senses and was his normal self, he was cracking jokes at a rapid fire rate
  • It was like he was trying to make up for lost time
• The ending was so rushed
  • When Steppenwolf was defeated, it was like the movie wanted to see how fast it could get to the credits
• Joss Whedon definitely came up with the mid credit scene
•  It seems like Aquaman (Jason Momoa) said the least but he seems like he would best carry to a solo movie
• Why the Flash run like he has super long arms?
• The action wasn’t great but it was cool and there was a nice amount for a movie that is under two hours
  • Ugh why is this movie under two hours…
• Steppenwolf wasn’t a bad villain for a big ol’ alien. The movie even gave him as much backstory as it could
  • But his demise was extremely lackluster
• Once the jokes got going, I settled into the fact that this was a wannabe comedy
  • But that first half of the movie was such an adjustment for me
  • It did feel good though to laugh at a DC movie no matter how odd it felt
  • These disappointing got to have something that doesn’t make them a complete disaster
• The rushness (yep I’m saying that’s a word) of the whole movie, the tone meshing and character intros hurt the overall quality
• Zack Snyder didn’t come correct with ‘Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice’ but maaan do I wanna see his version of this movie
• To Sum it Up: This should have been a “moment” movie but it wasn’t. It should have been special but it wasn’t. It just blended in with the rest of the sub-par entertaining movies out there

 

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