Posted on 11/17/2017 10:50:41 AM PST by drewh
Thanks only to its lean 120 minute runtime, Justice League is not as bad as Batman v. Superman, which had a runtime of interminable. Nevertheless, the Justice League screenplay still plays out like the first draft of Marvel’s much-much-much superior Avengers.
We are five titles into DC’s extended universe, and Warner Bros., a studio that has been producing movies for around 100 years, is still being serially-humiliated by Marvel Studios, which is only 24 years old and did not really start producing its own films until around 2006.
And while the sycophantic Hollywood trades pretend that Justice League’s $130 million opening is a big win, the truth is that Batman v. Superman opened to $166 million and The Avengers opened to $207 million. Everything is going the wrong way for DC. Justice League was supposed to be a climax, the chapter America was building all of its anticipation to see, the one in which our heroes assemble.
The truth, though, is that Thor, a B-character in the Marvel world, just released his third movie and it is probably going to kick the collective ass of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Aquaman, and Cyborg.
And all of this fail comes down to an audience rapidly losing faith in the quality of DC’s storytelling, a faith that will not be resurrected by Justice League.
That is not to say I was bored. After a terrible 40 minutes, events move fast enough to hold your attention. But the movie is never good enough to justify its own existence.
Sony was smart enough to save its failing Spider-Man franchise by turning it over to Marvel.
If I were Warner Bros., for the next five years, I would offer Christopher Nolan a cool billion dollars and complete creative control over all things DC.
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... much-much-much superior Avengers.
Oh, heck, get Cary Bates and Elliot S! Maggin out of retirement. They wrote the old DC comics, they know how it’s done.
its all been downhill since the Dark Knight returns..
Ben Affleck is a curse.
Fire Ben Affleck, watch some movies that tell personal stories well, and hire their screenwriters.
I used to be hugely into all those films, but they just got too cluttered with special affects that it was too hard to follow what little story line they have. I really liked to two sequals to Captain America. I forget their names.
As a young man I watched Star Wars in the theater 27 times. I used to be into that stuff. I’m 64 now. I need a good story. (and, truth be told, star wars was a great story, and a great western).
The two Captain America sequels - Winter Solider and Civil War - had underlying concepts of security versus liberty and how security can lead to tyranny. Made them far more substantial than the other Marvel films.
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I'm just about that way and I'm only 43, the last movie I was dragged to was the most recent "Transformers" movie this summer. All I remember is two hours of bright flashes, loud noises and mayhem. I could not tell you then or now what the plot was suppose to be about. That is pretty much the way it's been with all the action movies in the last decade. The various superhero movies, Star Trek / Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter etc. they all just seem to blend together into a cascade of light and noise after awhile. I think the last movie I actually enjoyed was a biography about the life of Steve Jobs a couple years ago...
“As a young man I watched Star Wars in the theater 27 times. I used to be into that stuff. I’m 64 now. I need a good story. (and, truth be told, star wars was a great story, and a great western).”
I was too poor to see Star Wars more than once in the theater when I was a kid but I became a life long fan from the first viewing. Now I rarely go to the theater. Many movies are visually stunning but the stories are boring, plots are thin, and I simply don’t care about the characters. I did enjoy the two Guardians of the Galaxy movies - the cast has a good chemistry. Even the new Star Wars movies aren’t as interesting to me as I hoped they were. I am still into Star Wars, but I have tired of the insistence on “girl power” in the new trilogy and Rogue One.
Up until about twenty-five years ago I used to go to see movies all the time, two or three times a month almost without fail. Now? Two or three times a year. I was surprised to realize that I went to see 4 films in 2015. That was a lot for me. There have been entire years since 2000 in which I did not see a single film at a theater.
We rarely go to the theater. By rarely, I mean once every few years. I’m a collector of 1970’s “separates” vintage hi-fi and, though it’s stereo with a subwoofer, things get pretty audibly “real” at my place. Our room is smallish with a 55” 4k monitor and, frankly, the movie experience is BETTER than most theaters with the exception of the 3D Imax experience.
We have no need to ever set foot in a theater again. And that was just expanded on when we found out we get a TON of free stuff with Amazon Prime. That being said, after “prime immersion”, I put in one of my blue ray’s and noticed I had forgotten just how sharp the image is. But Redbox covers us if we really MUST have perfect images.
*** “There have been entire years since 2000 in which I did not see a single film at a theater” ***
Decades here
How much are they paying audiences to watch it?
FTA: Anyway, after the death of Superman, the world is losing hope. White men are hassling Arab women, the seas are rising due to man-made Global Warming, and adults have lost their ability to banter…
Something that is painfully obvious in a handful of scenes where the Justice League is about as comfortable with each other as a sleepy woman is in a room with Al Franken.
HA!
1996-2017 without going to a movie theater... trend will continue.
“...the Justice League is about as comfortable with each other as a sleepy woman is in a room with Al Franken.”
I still remember sitting in a theater and seeing the trailer for Star Wars for the first time. I had heard nothing about that movie, but it was a time when Hollywood liberals had killed off the Westerns and war movies I had grown up with. I immediately recognized what Star Wars was. I turned to my wife and said I HAVE to see this movie!
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