Decided to give this one a look, see if it's as bad as some say (or as good as a few insist). Wow, the beginning wasn't so terrible, so I thought it was going to be ok. By the end, I found myself cringing every few minutes. Embarrassing for everyone involved.
shareMy biggest take-away from the current DCEU and their slate of films is that the characters are not likeable or I don't know who they are any more. The movies aren't that bad but I didn't care what was happening on screen with those characters. It almost seemed to explain why there is a vocal crowd of complainers to Marvel/Disney's approach when they bring up "No Stakes" and "Too Much comedy or Jokes". So-Called Warner/DC fans dislike their product so much that they take their angst out on Marvel/Disney yet they still attend the film and or pirate them but are not shy about negatively critiquing the MCU, their films and the characters.
They truly aren't fans of Warner/DC they just detest the success of Marvel/Disney as if it some Zero Sum film competition.
The characters don't remind me of the comic books I read as a kid.
shareAs a kid I would often be temporarily disappointed when a comic line would change artists or writers on a particular run. As a fan of Jack Kirby and Jim Steranko's works I bristled when they would no longer be on a particular title. (The one that comes to mind the most is Nick Fury Agent of Shield and when Steranko left I was not happy.)
So I get it that change happens and is some times even necessary. But the current character versions of the DCEU I have indeed had a hard time attaching to them and even their alter egos.
I don't remember Superman being so dark and brooding, that's for sure.
shareI don't remember Superman being so dark and brooding, that's for sure.Nobody does. But as I was typing that I realized that there is a model to pull off kind of a dark, brooding and really angst ridden but also hiding behind the costume.
It is an overblown example of taking what is a slate of good ideas and consciously working to screw the pooch.
shareYep. Someone told me to watch the extended cut because it was much better.
It wasnt.