Poll: Justice League

[Phoenixmgs_v1legacy]

Superheroes I have lost interest since I cannot enjoy DC movies because everyone expects them to be like Marvel now, which I hate because I always found their heroes lame and unheroic (Yes I don't think Captain America is a heroic as Superman), and since DC is gonna reboot it most likely to appeal to people like Moviebob's tastes, its dead now to me.

Oh wow, that's amazing!!! So every new movie DC is gonna make from now on will be in tune with Moviebob's tastes so we can finally return to the days of Watchmen [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDnWCuWY6Kw] and The Dark Knight [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5TcnsEXm4g]. And now DC will copy this year's Logan [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8wHz9jKXSI&t=327s] too. Man, I can't wait for the new DCEU!!!!!

 

[Natemans]

I rant to this day that Marvel movies are overrated and made for children and nerds that cannot stand anything grey and serious.

So...Maybe it's just that Marvel's presentation is good and isn't trying to make us take is super seriously, so we ignore some of the silliness and just go along for the ride. And maybe DC's presentation is pretty bad, and is full of holes that make you go "Wait, I'm supposed to take this seriously? What?"

But I take Superheroes Seriously. The moment comic book pushed away from the campy Silver Age into the modern age and stories like Watchmen and such showed me how I can take Superheroes seriously.

Dude, superheroes are cheesy and ridiculous. Their target audience was originally meant for kids. Hell, even the Silver Age had plenty of serious storytelling. Just look at a lot of Marvel's comics. You can have the silliness while taking itself seriously and some depth. Both DC and Marvel have done this well in the comics. The problem I have with people focusing on Watchmen is that it was meant to be this only one-off take on deconstructing the superhero genre as a whole and they tend to miss this point entirely which is why everyone is obsessed with these serious, dark and dour stories. Even Infinite Crisis pointed out this issue in its story.

I don't want cheese in my Superheroes what I want is epic.

You can have epic as well as some cheese.

 

[Natemans]

Superheroes I have lost interest since I cannot enjoy DC movies because everyone expects them to be like Marvel now, which I hate because I always found their heroes lame and unheroic (Yes I don't think Captain America is a heroic as Superman), and since DC is gonna reboot it most likely to appeal to people like Moviebob's tastes, its dead now to me.

Oh wow, that's amazing!!! So every new movie DC is gonna make from now on will be in tune with Moviebob's tastes so we can finally return to the days of Watchmen [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDnWCuWY6Kw] and The Dark Knight [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5TcnsEXm4g]. And now DC will copy this year's Logan [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8wHz9jKXSI&t=327s] too. Man, I can't wait for the new DCEU!!!!!

That's the problem I have with people that try to desperately copy the success of Watchmen, Dark Knight or Logan. Also not everything has to be Watchmen. People seem to take Watchmen in a wrong outlook and take its ideal into making everything dark, gritty and epic when the whole point of that book was this one-off deconstruction on the superhero genre.

 

[Chewster]

Zack Snyder was never an especially strong director IMHO. He has a flair for striking visuals framing scenes well but his best film (Watchmen) was good because it had rich source material from which to mine and not especially because of anything he did that any other flashy director could not have pulled off as well.

Man of Steel was fine, as was Batman vs. Superman and while I am not in a rush to see this, I will eventually and I imagine it will be adequate.

As long as it is not the abortion that was Suicide Squad. My God, that was a truly dreadful film. Which is a shame because at least a couple of David Ayer's other films are quite good (End of Watch and Fury to be specific.)

 

[McMarbles]

I would at least rank the movie above Doctor Strange.

How that two hours of fucking nothing got critically acclaimed is beyond me.

 

[ReservoirAngel]

Honestly... I kinda liked it. Maybe that has something to do with how everyone and their dog was running it down and seeming to promise it was going to be some unwatchable pile of shit, but I actually liked the thing.

I'm not saying it's without its flaws, obviously. But to say it's genuinely a terrible movie is to do it a disservice. It was less absolute shit and more just missed potential for most of it. And I think a lot of it's problems wouldn't be there if WB executives hadn't demanded the runtime get butchered to fuck and everything that was in the original vision was on screen. Hopefully we do at some point see an extended, fully-realised version of what the thing was like before executive meddling got involved.