Loosen up and take another look

Rating: Null/10 (11 May 2016)

I really don't get all the bashing of this movie. You mean to tell me that this stands among the pantheon of green lantern, fantastic 4, jonah hex, cat woman, batman & robin? C'mon. The difference being the amount of sweat and tears you could literally feel were being poured into the making of this film. While those other films you could plainly see they had no clue what the hell they were doing. Zack and the whole crew must felt really blindsided by those reviews. No one could have done it any better at pulling off so smoothly an introduction of that magnitude considering the ambition Warner bros has for this universe. They keep talking about the serious and somber and violent tone of the film but what is wrong with that? Game of thrones get its audiences with those exact formulas. And they didn't just gratuitously employed those formulas, but with finesse and bravado. Meaning they really did their homework. If you read dc comics like I did the tone has been somewhat serious ever since crisis on infinite earth (bear in mind this is still comic world so I'm not talking about in your face real life drama seriousness). The filmmakers are very much in tune with the pages of DC, which when it comes to Justice League it has never strayed anywhere less than epic. And that's where they hit with flying colors, literally and thoroughly from the pages, albeit some necessary adjustment, which I'd call enhancement, in order to bring it to the screen. Which beg the question, how many of these reviewers even have any inkling of the dc comic universe? Just like the filmmakers of those previous movies stated above, the negative reviews of BvS were made by just as clueless the reviewers as those filmmakers were with their sad attempts. Only peeve I had was with Jesse Eisenberg as Lex. Tried waaay too hard. Had an opposite effect other than believable. Now if they got Joaquin Phoenix on the other hand, I'd have no cause of grievance altogether. But the prick hailed himself too important for the role. Gal Gadot exceeded my expectation although I still feel Olga Kurylenko would have been a hell of a femme fatale. She was considered but guess the studio ultimately deemed her too racy too eurocentric for the role (google picture her to understand what I'm talking about). Ben Affleck gave a believable enough performance as Batman so I couldn't take anything away from him, although I still think someone else could have nailed the part better. Michael Fassbender would have given a spectacle of a performance. Hollywood would have no problem making him look older. Karl Urban's pretty second, especially the age. And they'd stand better equal to Henry cavill's Superman considering ben affleck towers over him by over 3 inches. Maybe they could still get Joaquin Phoenix by getting lex's character a face transplant or makeover tragic story line. Or whoever else...convincing. Coz yes, he's a major and only obstacle to the finished product in my view.