Batman v Superman Dawn of Justice - It's out! All impressions positive!

[Squinty]

I thought Man of Steel was alright. Seems like everyone hated it.

[Memento Mori]

I liked Man of Steel too. It's not a bad film.

[Victor Mildew]

Fuuuuuuuck

[Joer]

Just got back from seeing this now. Would give it a 5/10.

Wonder Woman was great, best character in the film by far.

Story spoilers of this and The Force Awakens below, don't read if you don't want spoilers you little gooseberry fool.

I was a little relieved that they'd killed off Superman (although my first thought was something a long the lines of, first Han, and now Supes too, how could they?) as the fight scenes with him in are just so... gooseberry fool. It's just fire and explosions and buildings falling down. I was chuffed when I thought he'd died as it meant there's less chance of that kind of mayhem in future films. Compare it to the awesome Batman fight scene in the warehouse and it's just so boring.

[Saint of Killers]

Spoilers for what, Star Wars TFA?

[Joer]

:lol: Spoilers for what, Star Wars TFA?

Good point. Edited in a warning for that!

[Lagamorph]

Just seen it.
I don't know how to feel.

[Christopher]

Just got back from seeing this.

Absolutely awful, Lex and Batman were nothing like the characters we all know. Batman was like The Punisher at times and Lex was the Riddler.

I would usually side with Batman over Superman but Batman is a monumental prick in this and completely unlikeable. Affleck is wasted in this turd, he could be a great Batman but this was not the movie to prove it, what with this being Batman in name alone.

Wonder Woman's brief appearance is the highlight of this travesty.

It might just be my least favourite movie with Batman in it. Alicia Silverstone in the Batgirl costume just edges this.

I'd say this is a solid 2/10

[Garth]

Channel 5 weather:

[CitizenErased]

Just got back from seeing this.

Absolutely awful, Lex and Batman were nothing like the characters we all know. Batman was like The Punisher at times and Lex was the Riddler.

I would usually side with Batman over Superman but Batman is a monumental prick in this and completely unlikeable. Affleck is wasted in this turd, he could be a great Batman but this was not the movie to prove it, what with this being Batman in name alone.

Wonder Woman's brief appearance is the highlight of this travesty.

It might just be my least favourite movie with Batman in it. Alicia Silverstone in the Batgirl costume just edges this.

I'd say this is a solid 2/10

*Looks at avatar*

*Looks at gamercard avatar*

*Reads review*

[Garth]

So Bryan Cranston had been interviewed for the role of Lex Luthor in this, but they decided on Jesse Eisenberg instead after he came in to audition for Jimmy Olsen who was killed in the movie:

Olsen is the photographer who accompanies Amy Adams’ Lois Lane on a dangerous mission to interview a warlord in Africa, and soon outed as a CIA plant. Olsen’s punishment? He gets shot in the head and dies in front of a horrified Lane.

Director Zack Snyder explained his decision to sacrifice the character in an interview with EW:

“We just did it as this little aside because we had been tracking where we thought the movies were gonna go, and we don’t have room for Jimmy Olsen in our big pantheon of characters, but we can have fun with him, right?”

It’s meant to be a shock to the audience, but Snyder ended up softening the blow by not identifying the character at the start. On the R-rated “Ultimate Edition” of the film, which will be released this summer, Olsen reveals himself up front. “He comes up to her and he goes, ‘Lois Lane, I’m Jimmy Olsen, photographer, obviously … You know, I’ve been assigned to you for this mission.’ But it turns out that Jimmy Olsen is a spook for the CIA.”

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As Eisenberg thought out loud in rapid-fire bursts, Snyder watched the nervy, jangled young actor and started thinking of withdrawing the Jimmy Olsen offer. And after the 32-year-old actor left the meeting, Snyder turned to his wife: “I was like, ‘Wow, that guy is crazy… Debbie, what about Jesse as Lex?”

At that point, they had were still interviewing actors about the Luthor role – most of them older, more imposing figures, such as Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston.

“We talked about the usual suspects that you would imagine; any actor who has been bald, probably,” Synder says. “Bryan Cranston would have been great, right? And by the way, he’s an amazing actor. Can you imagine how different the movie would be?”

Instead, they decided to take a chance and experiment with a younger, weirder, and more frenetic Lex. Eisenberg said yes, but that wasn’t his first impulse when it came to the Jimmy Olsen part.

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This Lex is a spoiled brat, a millennial intern who happens to be the billionaire boss, an adult who still tantrums like a child, and a boy so horrifically abused by his father that the only way to release his torment is to unleash it on the world. He despises both Batman and Superman.

No heroes ever came to his rescue. He is determined to turn them against each other. If the world ends, so be it. Lex wants for nothing. Literally – nothing sounds pretty good to him, and that suicidal impulse manifests itself as a desire to see the whole world annihilated, too.

Eisenberg has no idea how he fits into the pantheon of other Lex Luthors. “I’m so unfamiliar with anything surrounding it because I didn’t grow up reading the comics or watching these movies,” he said. “I read a little bit out of interest, but it was meaningless.”

This was the exact kind of cold indifference Snyder says he wanted. “He can’t fake it,” he says.

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/03/25/ba ... immy-olsen

[Lagamorph]

I think DC need to just give up on films for a while and focus on the TV universe they have going.

[Tineash]

Zach Snyder's a strawberry floating hack, a mini-Bay.

[Preezy]

Saw on Twitter that despite the reviews this film has outperformed Avengers: AoU, Iron Man 3 AND The Dark Knight.

[Christopher]

The last twenty five minutes are good to be honest, once the BvS fight is over.

Warner need to remove Snyder from this franchise and delay Justice League. Affleck will be a great Batman Ineed to try and forget his stone cold killing.

[jamcc]

My mate went to see this tonight (he's very into his films). Said it was "such a gooseberry fool film."

Ouch.

[Garth]

Warner need to remove Snyder from this franchise and delay Justice League. Affleck will be a great Batman Ineed to try and forget his stone cold killing.

Some words from Snyder on that:

I tried to do it in a technical way. There’s a great YouTube video that shows all the kills in the Christopher Nolan movies even though we would perceive them as movies where he doesn’t kill anyone. I think there’s 42 potential kills that Batman does! Also, it goes back and includes even the Tim Burton Batman movies where this reputation as a guy that doesn’t kill comes from.

So, I tried to do it by proxy. Shoot the car they’re in, the car blows up or the grenade would go off in the guy’s hand, or when he shoots the tank and the guy pretty much lights the tank [himself]. I perceive it as him not killing directly, but if the bad guy’s are associated with a thing that happens to blow up, he would say that that’s not really my problem.

A little more like manslaughter than murder, although I would say that in the Frank Miller comic book that I reference, he kills all the time. There’s a scene from the graphic novel where he busts through a wall, takes the guy’s machine gun…I took that little vignette from a scene in The Dark Knight Returns, and at the end of that, he shoots the guy right between the eyes with the machine gun. One shot. Of course, I went to the gas tank, and all of the guys I work with were like, ‘You’ve gotta shoot him in the head’ because they’re all comic book dorks, and I was like, ‘I’m not gonna be the guy that does that!’

http://heroichollywood.com/zack-snyder- ... thods-bvs/

It's just manslaughter!

[Lagamorph]

Get Joss Whedon involved. Maybe we can have an actually fun DC movie then.

[zXe]

[chalkitdown]

Just back from seeing this. I quite enjoyed it! Had it's problems (and a couple of really gooseberry fool scenes; it really needs a shorter edit!) but on the whole it entertained me a lot. Probably 7/10. Batman and Wonder Woman were great so I'm looking forward to their standalone movies now, particularly Batman's. Some of the hyperbole in the really negative reviews is hilarious.

stone cold killing

Were you not a fan of the Burton movies either, then?


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I LOVED that Batman just didn't give a strawberry float and went all out at certain points during this. It fits perfectly with where his character was.