Justice League

Some thoughts

I had to sneer and chuckle at the opening credits. “Superman created by Joel Siegel [and some other schmuck].” No: Superman created by Frederich Nietzsche in the book, Mensch und Ubermensch (Man and Superman). They took a work of genius and turned it into a comic book.

I LOVE Gadot as Wonder Woman. To me, she has nailed the role every time. I know it’s mob-mind cool to dump on WW84. Hate the script, lemmings. SHE has dignity, class and grace—not to mention magic, which shuts down all the haters who rank on her physique. Note bene: Superman had only 2 physical vulnerabilities: Kryptonite, and magic.

The movie is largely joyless: bombastic, CGI up the rectum, funny when it does not mean to be, but absent any soul. It has fighting for the sake of fighting.

Maybe this comes from the comics on which it is based, but the facile use of names (Steppenwolf, Darkseid) and armor (Steppenwolf) perverted from Norse myth is lazy and deserves scorn. Another note bene: The Vikings did not wear horns on their armor.

It’s much too long. I had to break it into 2 viewings, and I was not eager for the second one. It was a bit better than the first. Brevity is the soul of wit. This was witless, bloated with as much pseudoscience as an episode of the CW’s Flash or Arrow.

Finally: Ezra Miller is in no way, shape or form The Flash. Worst. Flash. Ever. Fucking Quicksilver from X-Men is better, and I’m talking about the actors and the realization of their characters in the movies. The Flash is my favorite superhero. I accept no substitutes. Miller is light in the loafers, but he’s not fast in the meat . . . sorry, I meant feet. Not really.

I can’t understand ANYONE “rooting” for Steppenwolf, who wanted to bring Anti-Life to earth. I can understand that there is a lot of clinical depression on the internet and among comic book fans who are perhaps too old to be comic book fans.

The sheer joy in Superman peeling back his shirt and revealing the S on his chest. We saw this in Superman: The Movie and Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man. It never gets old. It’s an iconic moment.