DC almost got it perfect!

Rating: 8/10 (16 February 2018)

Look, first off any movie made today can't have the kind of hopefulness that comic books from our youth had. You just can't sell hopefulness to millennials. They can't take hope, they've been fed a constant diet of doom and gloom all their lives and hope is a toxin to their system. No doom and gloom and it may as well be the Smurfs for them. So we of the generations raised on science fiction and super hero stories filled with hope for the future just have to accept that and celebrate what little bits of hope they allow us these days. Can't deal with it? Get Hulu and watch TV from the 80's, 90's and early 2000's.
With that lead weight hanging around the necks of those trying to write good science fiction and superhero stories we're lucky they don't have all the heroes in black with a chest full of awareness ribbons spending most of the movie preaching to the normals about how much the earth has been screwed up by their greed and short sightedness. In light of that the MCU has managed to dance that fine line like a ballet dancer while the DC folks have been dancing the line like a drunken Irishman at a DWI stop. However in this movie I think they got pretty darned close, more like an average joe with only one beer in them.
Maybe it's just me, I've always given super hero movies a lot of slack. Heck, I enjoyed the Green Lantern movie.
I will give you it's hard given the current political climate to just make an entertaining movie. What with every stripe of political animal ready to march, boycott and write emails to sponsors over things you'd never imagine could be taken offense to what's a guy to do? Super hero stories are going to be harder than most. The costumes alone can generate four years of college material for a Womyn's Studies Major. You can't put everyone in the same lumpy jumpsuits and hope to make that fly after all.
With that particular Sword of Damocles hangin' over their heads I am happy if the costumes are close enough, the characterizations are decent and their origin stories from the 60's and 70's aren't totally polluted with todays PC garbage. Justice League took it to the line and held it there the whole time bringing us the best movie we could hope for with all the forces of PC darkness standing against them.
So relax the politics people and just try to enjoy the movies. I'm giving it an 8 because I think that's what it deserves. Not trying to overcome the low voters who did so for whatever reasons they may have had or trying to hold down those who high voted it because of some other reasons. Maybe I could have given it a 7 but the easter egg made me give it a +1. You know what I mean... Brunch... Yup. Brunch.