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So Today I Watched… Justice League // Warner Bros (2017)

I had to wait this long to write about Justice League because I needed to process this movie with a cool head, do a couple more re-watches so I could finally bring myself to put what I feel about this film in the right words. This is not gonna be pretty, I tell you right now. This is gonna be messy.

Every single geek in the world has been expecting this film. It doesn’t matter how old you are, if you grew up in the 70’s or 80’s chances are you watched The Superfriends cartoons. If you grew up in the 90’s and 2000’s you are familiar with the DC animated universe created by Bruce Timm and Paul Dini that started with Batman: TAS and ended with Justice League Unlimited. So if your age is between 10 or 60, you must have asked yourself how they could pull off a Justice League film. Marvel paved the way with the first part of the answer to that question: A shared cinematic universe.

Sure, Warner could have done a film that stood on its own legs with a solid casting. They sure as hell tried in the past, and the efforts feel through over and over again (for a time Warner was in deep development of a Justice League film with George Miller, he of Mad Max fame. The movie was even casted with the big 7 as the main leaguers).

After Marvel had set shop with Phase 1 with the ultra-solid Avengers film of 2012. Warner must have felt they were really behind on the game. I mean, they had ALL their properties under one roof and the only thing they have managed to sell to audiences with some level of success was Batman stories. They decided to begin their DC Cinematic Universe in 2013 with Man Of Steel, and from that moment on every single thing they have done has been rushed to try and catch up with their competitor. DC and Warner have taken a hard fall with every step they have given. DC films were lost from screens for 3 years after MOS and when they came back they were lackluster at best. Justice League is no different, I’m sad to say.

Justice League suffered every mayor problem that BVS had, times infinity. And this time the movie shows every single problem on the screen. First of all the movie was overhyped to the point of exhaustion. The trailer did a better job of hiding the plot (as a matter of fact it’s a great job, since not a single key scene on the trailer is present in the final film) By premiere time I was already sick of seeing the league everywhere all over the net and most mass media out there.

When it comes to execution, Justice League is one the blandest films out there in the superhero genre. For a movie that it’s about the gathering of the top dogs of the DC Universe it has a script that is generic on a good day, fairly simplistic on its worst. There is no deep in here, there is no balance, the movie is just bland script-wise. I’m amazed that the actors did such a good work with such poor material I can’t put a pin on any of the guys acting on this, they played their parts to perfection, doing their best with what they were given. Except for Ben Aflleck. The man is definitely NOT a good Batman, he’s already had two movies to prove himself and he has done poorly on my opinion. Let’s hope these rumors for a recast are true.

The other thing that has to be criticized is the CGI and the re-shoots. Zack Snyder had already set a tone for the DC Cinematic Universe, It probably needed a little tweaking, but the re-shoots on Justice League completely scraps what Snyder had done. Henry Cavill’s CGI edited face is distracting, it upsets you right off because is the first fucking thing you see when the film begins. A mix of PS3-launch game graphics with a simplistic plot and a heavily edited final product makes this one a loser on all accounts. Make no mistake, you are going to see this no matter what I tell you. You fucking have to, because it’s the Justice League we are talking here. But if you have some love for these characters, you’ll be pissed at the studio for what they did to this film.

Let’s hope the DC Universe can still be saved with their one hit Wonder of this year.