Phillip Thompson stops by the Gutter to give his thoughts on the new Batman v. Superman movie.
If you are pressed for time, here is a hint: it sucks. Oh, and Zach Snyder hates your children
If you are pressed for time, here is a hint: it sucks. Oh, and Zach Snyder hates your children
Batman v. Superman Review by Phillip Thompson
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In the journalism business, there’s a mistake that reporters try to avoid, but occasionally make: burying the lead. Batman v. Superman did exactly that, if you are like me and think that the “v.” in the title meant that the movie was going to be about, you know, Batman fighting Superman. And, for a brief period, it was. But that wasn’t until too much irrelevant stuff had happened, and the whole story seemed, sadly, boring.
And the problem wasn’t Affleck as Batman, or Cavill as
Superman for that matter. They each did the best they could with the limp
script they were handed. And each pulled it off as gamely as possible, but you
can only brood so much. With the Marvel universe, you expect some darkness,
yes, but you also expect levity (even from The Dark Knight) and some sense of
purpose, rather than superheroes arguing with their butler and girlfriend,
respectively.
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Besides the script:
- You lost me at the “energy-fueled Kryptonian Snot Monster” that became, in one hammy moment, “unkillable.” Seriously? Batman and Superman are supposed to be, you know, “v.” each other and they're both getting their asses kicked by a giant alien booger? And only because Lex Luthor (played admirably and psychotically by Jesse Eisenberg) wants the kryptonite Batman has?
- When your script lacks dramatic weight, laying overly dramatic orchestral music over it doesn’t help.
- WHAT IN THE SERIOUS HELL IS WONDER WOMAN DOING IN THIS, and I use term loosely, STORY? Oh, yeah, the franchise and the Wonder Woman movie.
- This thing was AT LEAST 45 minutes too long.
- If you put too many dream sequences in your movie, the audience will soon realize it’s a nightmare.
I
really wanted to like this movie, and I’ll admit that, being a Batman fan since
the age of six, there was no way I wasn’t going to see this movie on the big
screen in Full Living Color 3D whatever. But I kept waiting for a “v.” to come,
and when it did, it didn’t really seem to matter, because neither The Dark
Knight nor The Man of Steel had enough personality (or purpose) to make me think, “Oh, hell, I
hope _______ wins this one.”
In
the end, we all lost. The marketeers should have changed the hashtag from
#whowillwin to #whoevencares.
