The Official Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Movie Thread

[Return of the Jedi]

Movie was good. Affleck and Irons killed it. We need a solo Batman flick.



.....BUT, Batman broke all his rules and I fukkin hated that. Completely defeats the reason he hates Supes in this. Robs him of what he represents. And don't hit me with the shyt about him killing in '40s comics and Nolan movies. Just gonna take some getting used to, I guess.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Movie was good. Affleck and Irons killed it. We need a solo Batman flick.



.....BUT, Batman broke all his rules and I fukkin hated that. Completely defeats the reason he hates Supes in this. Robs him of what he represents. And don't hit me with the shyt about him killing in '40s comics and Nolan movies. Just gonna take some getting used to, I guess.

I honestly don't remember him straight up bodying someone unless you are talking about the nightmare sequences. Even in the warehouse he was fukkin nikkas up for sure but he wasn't outright killing. Couple dummies tripped on their grenades tho

@jay211 What about the plot was nonsensical to you breh? I think the editing had a lot of issues but I was still able to piece together everyone's motivations.

 

[Wild self]

for real.. i swear to christ there wasn't a 5 second period in the entire movie that i wasn't completely engrossed or entertained... every second was 100% engaging

The pacing was a little off at first, but everything came together around the first hour and flew from there. Only real complaint is I wish there was more Jeremy Irons and a couple more fight scenes where Superman creatively used his powers. Other than that, it's a good start of the DCEU.

Wonder Woman is and if her solo film is in the right hands, it will be lit.

 

[CarbonBraddock]

Just got back, this movie owned so goddamn hard. Goddamn, have to go see this shyt again on Sunday. Don't know what the critics were watching because this shyt was all the way off the chain. Ben Affleck is the best Batman i've ever seen. Wonder Woman got filthy at the end. Doomsday worked. I even liked the guy playing Luthor. In fact, about the only thing i can say that i didn't like was how it was kinda Return of the King mode with the endings at the end imo. But other than that, highly recommend seeing this.

 

[CarbonBraddock]

i have to lol at these negative reviews. most of the people who i see that didn't like it are: critics or dc fans that didn't get their lil special version of what they thought it should be. for ya'lls information, the reasoning behind

Spoiler: spoiler

batman not killing superman

and the reason it is such a good moment is because batman had completely dehumanized superman and because he had been fighting crime for so long, he had basically lost something of his humanity. in that moment he got it back. and you can tell when he tells superman that he wouldn't let martha die tonight or whatever he said. it was also good bc a large portion of the human race had stripped superman of any humanity also, basically reducing him to just this image that they could bestow their hatred upon. it showed that they were wrong about him. it would've worked better with a better actor, but it still worked.

 

[Arishok]

The movie was perfectly understandable, I don't get how ppl felt it was all over the place. I will say editing was a little wonky though.

8/10

 

[darryl]

I liked it thats all i can say right now. Just got back from seeing it. The death of superman thing suprised me but the movie wasn't bad.

 

[darryl]

Ill get into more of it tommorow

 

[Busby]

Just got back from seeing it. First off, I'm a Christopher Nolan stan.

His BATMAN trilogy are the greatest comic book movies. No one better dare ever shyt on Nolan or The Dark Knight Rises after seeing this film.

I'm also a DC fan, as I like their dark and gritty movies. But this movie was a complete shytfest from the opening till the end. The plot was nonsensical, the acting outside of Affleck and Wonder Woman was cringe worthy. Actually, Alfred did his thing. This movie is an abomination. It jumps from scene to scene with little rhyme or reason. Lex Luthor has some crazy scheme going on that makes no sense.

No character development.

Batman's reasoning for stopping from killing Superman was cringe worthy.

Warner Bros is in trouble. They better pray David Ayer's Suicide Squad is the real deal. I believe and pray Suicide Squad will be legit.

I will say that Affleck's solo Batman movie can work, but they better study that Nolan playbook before they start shooting that movie.

What's crazy is Man of Steel shyts on this movie.

Pretty much sums up my feelings about this movie. It was literally all over the place. Jumping from scene to scene without any real reason.

Lex's reason to fukk up shyt had no reason at all. shyt even Kevin Spacey's Luther plot made more sense.

Jessie Eisenberg as Luther was just dumb. He was doing his best Jim Carrey impersonation. If Jessie would have portrayed Luther the same way he portrayed Zuckerberg in Social Network just turned up a notch and just slightly darker. It would have been cool. But no...

Affleck as Batman........I still don't know how I feel. But I'm leaning towards feeling he did the best he can do. I can tell he studied the comics.

Overall It just seems like WB forced Snyder to cram as much information in one movie just so they can KEEP UP with Marvel.

Spoiler

Especially how they "introduced" the Justice League. Just put that right in the middle of the movie where it could have easily been a post credit scene.

Idk..this movie could have been so much more. But it was just...okay.

 

[Mr Hate Coffee]

Okay, I just got back from the midnight screening. The theater was only about 1/3 full. I've never went to a midnight screening before so I don't know if this is normal. Also, it was the second showing of the night. I came straight here to write up my review. No worries, I won't spoil anything. I haven't read any posts in the thread because I didn't want to get anchored. Here it goes.


I've long been an advocate of this movie. As many of you know, I worked with WB over the summer on some of the merchandise for the movie. This made me privy to certain details about the plot. But overall I had faith in the studio. You should know that I'm not a fanboy of DC or Marvel, but I do ENJOY comic book properties. The reviews had me a little concerned but I walked in optimistic because I felt there was no way they could mess up this movie.

The Good:

• Two of the top 3 superheroes of all time are in a major movie. This should make everyone excited.
• I really like Affleck as Batman. And Wonder Woman kicks ass as well.
• The movie is a decent setup for future flicks.

The Bad

• The movie is way too long. There were several times I thought to myself, "Will they just end this already?"
• I have a hard time understanding each of the main character's motivations in this movie.
• Jesse Eisenburg's Lex Luthor is more Joker than Luthor
• I'm not a fan of the fight scenes AT ALL. Most of Batman's scenes seemed overly choreographed.

Other

• This movie has a hard time balancing the seriousness of the DC universe with the humor and lightheartedness of the Marvel movies. The tone was so somber at times that when they injected humor it felt awkward and forced.

Conclusion: It's not a BAD movie but it's definitely not a good one. It's an average movie. Unfortunately for WB, this movie came out at a bad time. The bar has been set higher with original movies such as Deadpool... and as average as Age of Ultron was, it was mostly due to the fact that we had already come down from our high with the first Avengers movie. Marvel has found it's lane by making their movies entertaining while introducing the audience to new characters.

This movie was an opportunity for DC to build their superhero movie slate, using familiar and beloved characters, in a way that was refreshing to audiences. However, the movie was pretty formulaic and brought nothing new to the table. Also, Snyder and the screenwriters tried to cram too much into one movie. I couldn't help but feel that all of the protagonists stories would be better off as separate movies. Seriously, Man of Steel is better than this. Think about that.

At the end there was barely any applause and most people left the theater confused as to how to feel about the movie.

7/10

 

[Arishok]

I feel like unless you see the underlining foreshadowing the movie will go over your head and seem all over the place that is the writers fault too. Unless your a diehard DC fan whose been up on Easter eggs and speculations, you will look at the movie like

 

[TheGodling]

i have to lol at these negative reviews. most of the people who i see that didn't like it are: critics or dc fans that didn't get their lil special version of what they thought it should be. for ya'lls information, the reasoning behind

Spoiler: spoiler

batman not killing superman

and the reason it is such a good moment is because batman had completely dehumanized superman and because he had been fighting crime for so long, he had basically lost something of his humanity. in that moment he got it back. and you can tell when he tells superman that he wouldn't let martha die tonight or whatever he said. it was also good bc a large portion of the human race had stripped superman of any humanity also, basically reducing him to just this image that they could bestow their hatred upon. it showed that they were wrong about him. it would've worked better with a better actor, but it still worked.

Yeah, that moment made perfect sense although I agree it could've been sold a bit better.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

I feel like unless you see the underlining foreshadowing the movie will go over your head and seem all over the place that is the writers fault too. Unless your a diehard DC fan whose been up on Easter eggs and speculations, you will look at the movie like

That falls on Snyder and the editing team but also the studio. All of the pieces of the puzzle are there to make a great movie but it can't be done in 2.5 hours the way the studio wanted it to be done but I have no doubt the editing could have been a lot better also.

It'll be interesting to see what happens with the 3 hour version. But you can't release that in theaters, it would kill the box office revenue. This probably should have been a 2 part deal

 

[marcuz]

good god, they could have easily shaved 30 minutes off this shyt ​

 

[Mr Hate Coffee]

One more thing that I didn't understand. The basis for this movie is the destruction caused in MoS. But the last few fight scenes cause hella destruction! Maybe there weren't as many civilians around but