[Movie] Justice League - Page 5

I thought it started off a little slow, but considering the movie had to introduce Aquaman and Cyborg and The Flash, I was okay with that. I liked the backstories and the tie-ins, although I thought that some of the humor from Batman, Superman, and Cyborg sounded forced (e.g., when Superman and Cyborg were giggling on the ground after the cube explosion). I thought Flash's humor and awkwardness was really on point though. I don't like how Superman was faster than Flash (shown when they saved the Russian families), and I really don't like how the fight plan was basically "Buy time for Superman to come around, then Superman wins at everything". The other heroes were really useless compared to Superman in the fight with Steppenwolf, and Superman came off as utterly invincible both during the resurrection fight and during the final battle, whereas in the Avengers you see a fairer distribution of work and assistance from Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, etc. Marvel does a better job of having multiple team members pulling their own weight. The only purpose of the non-Superman heroes (except Cyborg) was to resurrect Superman for the final fight, although I liked Wonder Woman's scene where she stopped the human bombers at the beginning of the movie. Cyborg's abilities were really useful too throughout the movie, which was nice, and I appreciated his "Boo yah" tagline at the end (and the fist bump with Flash). I want to see a Cyborg movie and a Flash movie.

I think the movie ended at an interesting point, with an obvious nod towards having more members (Green Lantern? Martian Manhunter?) in the mansion. The credits teaser reveals Lex Luthor and Deathstroke about to create an Injustice League or some other anti-JL team, which could be pretty interesting (especially if they can tie in The Joker or some other already-existing villains or anti-heroes, perhaps from Suicide Squad or previous DC movies). This direction confuses me a bit, though, because Steppenwolf ended up being the only villain in this movie, despite repeatedly mentioning how he wanted to unleash his mother or the power of his mother from the cubes (which never really happened; the crisis was completely averted), as well as name-dropping Darkseid. I'm not a comic book buff, so I'm confused as to why some big villains or potential disasters were mentioned in JL1 yet apparently won't exist in either JL1 or JL2.

just how weakened Wonder Woman felt after kind of standing up a bit to Doomsday. I mean fuck, Superman lays out the WHOLE fucking team like they're trash in Justice League, but in SvB shes actually useful and competent.

Superman is by far the worst part of Justice League, I'd have to have given it to Steppenwulf for his hideous look and devoid-of-interest motivations and general existence, but nothing ruins a TEAM movie like having a TEAM be rendered invalid by a single member of said team.

Flash was really good, loved Ezra Miller. Gal Gadot still charming as Wonder Woman, Aquaman was a little underdeveloped, but the weird Bro-sona he had was at least interesting. If he had short hair and armor the color of his traditional suit he'd have been really good for Aquaman.

So, overall:

Positives: the heroes. Except for Superman and Cyborg. They're solid takes on the Justice League (still really enjoy Batfleck) and their personalities are all interesting and unique and it works for a fun dynamic between them all.

Negatives: Superman. Steppenwulf. Ugly visuals (LOOKIN' AT YOU BROODY MOODY CYBORG). Super rushed story.

They really should commit to the Flashpoint hard-reboot ASAP so we can get better movies. Hope they find a way to keep Wonderwoman and Batfleck mostly the same though.