Ragitsu Posted March 25, 2016 Report Share Posted March 25, 2016 http://screenrant.com/batman-v-superman-kills/ Batman being a killer is still the outlier representation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragitsu Posted March 25, 2016 Report Share Posted March 25, 2016 http://www.cinemablend.com/new/10-Vicious-Quotes-From-Critics-Who-Really-Hated-Batman-V-Superman-120147-p2.html"If anything, Batman v Superman's action is so adolescent and over the top that you half expect the film to end with Emily Browning opening her eyes, having just finished another off-camera striptease in Sucker Punch.""No major blockbuster in years has been this incoherently structured, this seemingly uninterested in telling a story with clarity and purpose.""This offers nothing new in any way, shape or form. It’s a convoluted mess that’s caught in no man’s land. It actually takes itself too seriously yet offers ridiculous action (ridiculous as in dumb, not as in wild or fun) and even more ridiculous characters.""Despite being way too young for the movie, 4-year-olds who delight in bashing toys against each other for no reason may be the only people who could have fun in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.""Honestly, I can’t remember the last time I was legitimately looking this forward to a movie that I found this dull. About halfway through this over two-and-a-half hour movie, I had to stop my brain from thinking about other things, like what groceries I needed to pick up at some point.""The endgame is your typical WrestleMania nonsense, bereft of weight or grandeur, set in a generic rubblescape that’s emblematic of the script’s lack of human stakes.""Batman v Superman drowns so much in the juvenile angst of its heroes that the thought of getting away from them in the next two DC films is a welcome relief.""Snyder botches the only scene fans truly crave: the fight between the classic superheroes. After an intriguing teaser... the brawl is a head-scratching letdown." "The movie starts out fine. Then, it degenerates in to a big fat throw-everything-at-the-screen-and-see-what-sticks insult. By the end you feel cheated of everything: fun adventure, a tangible sense of peril, anything approaching drama and even a sense of wonder. You experience or feel NONE of those things watching this movie." "[Much] of the action... is a dog's breakfast of discombobulating editing. The film's final passages are such an aggressively hard to watch collision of excessive CGI and murky colour palate that it's hard to make heads or tails of most of it." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted March 25, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2016 Batman being a killer is still the outlier representation. In case the wasn't indicator enough: The Screenrant writer (like most of them at Screenrant) is a freakin' moron. Anyway, I'll be skipping this, and any other movie tainted by Zack Snyder in the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 25, 2016 Report Share Posted March 25, 2016 Has anyone here actually seen the damn movie? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 25, 2016 Report Share Posted March 25, 2016 Meanwhile, NPR had this feature on Marketplace yesterday. (The radio segment was longer than this blurb.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigdamnhero Posted March 25, 2016 Report Share Posted March 25, 2016 The Av Club gets it: As any 10-year-old comics nut can attest, pitting the biggest household names in superheroism against each other has never made much logical sense; being the world’s greatest detective doesn’t count for much in a fistfight with someone faster than a speeding bullet and more powerful than a locomotive. No, the showdown only works if you consider what these iconic characters, the shining stars of the DC Comics stable, really represent: They’re the perfect inverse of each other, a beaming beacon of mankind’s promise going toe-to-toe with the dank underbelly of its fears. And that’s where Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice first runs into trouble. When the Last Son Of Krypton seems every bit as anguished, as edgily dark, as the Dark Knight himself, what’s the point in bashing them together? Their conflict isn’t so much “day versus night,” to quote the bad guy, as “late evening versus slightly later evening.” http://www.avclub.com/review/batman-v-superman-dawn-justice-inelegant-its-title-234188 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted March 25, 2016 Report Share Posted March 25, 2016 Has anyone here actually seen the damn movie? Not I. I hope to see it tomorrow night Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted March 25, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2016 Has anyone here actually seen the damn movie? Nah, that's your job. We'll expect a full report. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted March 25, 2016 Report Share Posted March 25, 2016 Has anyone here actually seen the damn movie? Stop talking logically and get on the 'hate' bandwagon! Yeesh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted March 25, 2016 Report Share Posted March 25, 2016 Considering how much I hate MoS, I can't see spending time or money on this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigdamnhero Posted March 25, 2016 Report Share Posted March 25, 2016 I was genuinely hoping I was wrong about how bad it was going to be... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolgroth Posted March 25, 2016 Report Share Posted March 25, 2016 I'm not going to see it until DVD or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted March 25, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2016 Unless Old Man's report changes my mind, I'm just going to skip it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted March 25, 2016 Report Share Posted March 25, 2016 Review of the film from a friend on twitter: ".@bazzaclarke Summary: it was absolutely awesome. Also: f*ck the critics." https://twitter.com/OhMDee/status/713256621409894400 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragitsu Posted March 25, 2016 Report Share Posted March 25, 2016 The IMDB rating has dropped from 9.5 to 7.7 over the last three days. Ouch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted March 25, 2016 Report Share Posted March 25, 2016 Based on what? Has anyone that isn't a paid critic actually witnessed the film. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted March 25, 2016 Report Share Posted March 25, 2016 It struck me today that DC's television series are trending toward a lighter, more fun tone than their movies; while the Marvel TV shows seem to be going in the opposite direction relative to their films. I have no idea whether that's in any way significant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted March 25, 2016 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2016 At least the Marvel TV shows aren't as relentlessly grim as the DC movies. They still have lighter moments. Levity seems verboten at DC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted March 25, 2016 Report Share Posted March 25, 2016 Based on what? Has anyone that isn't a paid critic actually witnessed the film. Yes. my friend above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted March 25, 2016 Report Share Posted March 25, 2016 Review of the film from a friend on twitter: ".@bazzaclarke Summary: it was absolutely awesome. Also: f*ck the critics." https://twitter.com/OhMDee/status/713256621409894400 A stranger on twitter liked it? Whew, my worst fears have been completely erased. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twilight Posted March 25, 2016 Report Share Posted March 25, 2016 Yeah, I'm not going to see this movie. I don't watch superhero movies to see the heroes fight each other, that's what supervillains and the trailers I've seen haven't really inspired me to give these particular movie makers my money. Not even on Tuesday cheap night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted March 25, 2016 Report Share Posted March 25, 2016 The good news is reviews are coming out from fans on sites like CBR Superhero hype etc and there seem to be a lot of folks who ..well... liked it, and a lot who say its at least okay with some good stuff mixed in and not the anti-christ of superfilms Everyone seems to agree Eisenberg is a terrible Luthor though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted March 25, 2016 Report Share Posted March 25, 2016 In an interview in Youngstown today, Acme Products CEO Kevin Tsujihara underlined his company's commitment to Wile E. Coyote's leadership in Project Roadrunner. Critics have suggested that in the light of Wile E. running off a cliff while under the influence of supervitamins, it might have been a good idea to rethink the whole "get the Roadrunner with pills" idea, as perhaps being too grim and unpleasant a way of exterminating the obnoxious desertland denizen. Tsujihara, however, was adamant that the pills approach had been effective to that point, by various metrics. After all, supervitamins did help Wile E. catch up with the roadrunner, although he then unfortunately ran off a cliff. As for the lean and hungry predator's decision to consume an entire bottle of earthquake pills after a tragic misunderstanding of the side-effects of the roadrunner-specific dosage (no side effects, and no effects, either), Tsujihara pointed out that the whole "character arc" was true to Frank Miller's vision. "In the comics, the Dark Knight drinks," he points out, apparently failing to understand that Dark Knight Returns wasn't canonical for a reason. Nevertheless, he went on to say, the next, Giant Catapult, phase of the project wasn't necessarily commited to the "pills" vision. "Wile E. will be painting on a broader canvas," he said. "In blood. Hopefully, other people's blood. Probably roadrunners'. Although possibly Jason Momoa's. It's hard to say." Asked whether Foghorn Leghorn's approach of not trying to fight Dawgs and chicken hawks in an endless landscape of cliffs and precariously hanging boulders might have something to do with his relative lack of falling-off-cliffs and being-smashed-into-an-accordion-by-falling-rocks related accidents, Tsujihara scoffed. "That's all right for some rooster in the South," he said. "But our vision is grander. Operatic, even!" The fact that Foghorn often manages to get the better of Dawg and L'il Chicken Hawk was dismissed. "By opening weekend metrics, we are well within range of the Barnyard Antics universe," he pointed out. On the question of wether Wile E.'s tenure at the helm of Project Roadrunner might, eventually be tied to some kind of record of succces in actually catching roadrunners, Tsujihara was firm. "He's a supergenius!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted March 25, 2016 Report Share Posted March 25, 2016 Wut? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted March 25, 2016 Report Share Posted March 25, 2016 Everyone seems to agree Eisenberg is a terrible Luthor though Well, maybe not so much "terrible" as "inappropriate." Some are comparing Eisenberg's interpretation of Alexander Luthor (and this isn't supposed to be "Lex Luthor," but his son) to the Joker, or one of Jim Carrey's twitchy characters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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