Thoughts on DCEU trailers for 2017

[Natemans]

Wonder Woman - looks decent. (Hell at least this looks like a movie.) Its got some gorgeous cinematography on Paradise Island (also COLOR?! What mad planet am I living on?!), a good cast and a nice setting, but its not perfect. The slow-motion is kinda tiresome (I know Zack isn't directing this, but the slow-mo looks and feels edited like his style of filmmaking), one or two CGI explosions look pretty fake to me, all 3 trailers have had a gag at the end and sadly they all suck. But my biggest problem so far is one source: Gal Gadot. Oh I think she looks the part and has the physique, but Christ, her line delivery is so dull and boring.

Justice League - Its pretty much what I thought it was going to be. And no, that's not a good thing. Its more of this looks bad. Typical Zack Snyder tropes (seriously Zack, your films had color in them and day time. What happened?), the green screen compositing and CGI look terrible especially Cyborg, some of the plot feels ripped from the Avengers and oh yeah, that "I'm rich" line is just lame fanfiction. However the only positive is that Jason Mamoa looks like the only one having fun. I don't agree at all with casting him as Aquaman and I don't like stripping the color, but he looks like the only one having fun with the crap. Also why does Batman have the robot mech from the LEGO Batman movie since the whole point of that thing was meant as a clever joke on giant mechs? Oh right, same reason we have Batman in Nite Owl costume: TOYS! (Yes, I am aware that films do that a lot, but noticing and pointing out an agenda for selling merchandise can be the opposite in approach) Overall this trailer is pretty much what I thought was so yeah, grain of salt.

 

[bastardofmelbourne]

Wonder Woman looks promising, but so did BvS. Cautiously optimistic on this one. Gal Gadot's acting isn't amazing, but it's much better than what I'd expect from a first-time actress who only had "supermodel" on her CV.

Justice League looks like it's going to be fun, at least. They're making a very conscious effort to swing towards Marvel's just-for-the-hell-of-it style while sticking with Snyder's usual hyper-real, colour-drained visuals. The biggest complaint I have is that Cyborg's CGI is extremely bad. They ought to have stuck to a bulkier character design with more practical effects - I was impressed that the Bat-mecha suit from BvS was mostly practical effects [http://cdn.collider.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/batman-v-superman-henry-cavill-ben-affleck.jpg] and not CGI - and a generally more grounded, Robocop-like look. As it is, he's half a human face photoshopped over a Transformer. Hopefully they improve it before the release; I've no idea how they'll accomplish that, though.

On the toys thing - I don't care that much. I mean, it makes them money, and if they make money then they make more movies, and I want to see more DC movies. I mean, at least one of them has to be unequivocally good. Eventually.