'Justice League’ Review: Time for DC to Throw in the Towel

Breitbart ^ | 17 Nov 2017 | John Nolte

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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.

[morphing libertarian]

Definition of Hollywood failure.... 130 million opening.

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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.

Pretty much. I survived the latest Spiderman and Guardians of the Galaxy movies because of the jokes. The rest was pretty much a blur.

Even the jokes weren't much in themselves. You had to have a really good comic actor (Robert Downey Jr., Chris Pratt) delivering them -- or else a talking raccoon.

Seems like Justice League and the other movies are made with the same cookie cutter, but don't have the talent.

Batman v. Superman was particularly bad because they played it completely straight-faced and without the humor.

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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.

I didn't care for Nolan's Batman movies either. Way too dark and took themselves way too seriously.