S.T.A.G.E. said:
Um...sorry but no. There were bits of Flashpoint Paradox (Flash dreams) Justice League War (Cyborg video borrowed from war animation, Visions of the Parademons in the future) and Batman vs Superman (loosely based off of the actual comic and animation. Of course, featuring no Green Arrow) Then we have the dawn of justice plot which is the precursor for the Justice League in itself featuring none other than Lex Luthor. The whole fact that Doomsday was an issue. Didnt you notice that fan complaints stopped once they took Doomsday out of the commercial and left it just as Superman vs Batman? DC has been taking liberties using old storylines from their most successful animated films and novels and cramming as much nonsensical information into one barely coherent script. Lexes motivations were not known throughout the whole movie. We knew what he was waiting for and we knew that he set things up...but never knew why. A waste of two and a half hours that never finds its resolution as to his logic. A movie like this is only as strong as its primary antagonists ambitions and motivations and it lacks there beyond reason.
As the editor said, the original cut was was four hours. What they should've done was made this into a two part story with Batman vs Superman and then Dawn of Justice. |
Those are set-ups for a sequel. The movie was still a single story told quite simply, and easy to follow.
I'm not going to agree with you when I had an easy time keeping up with what was going on.
You take the elements of the story, and separate them as if they were the comic books from which the movie takes its inflences. They're not their comic books counterparts. This movie told a different take on these events and included them in a single story. They're not separate entities. They're all elements that build up to a climax, just like in any other movies.
As for the movie not explaining everything, they're setting up the sequel and other movies. The videos showcasing other "super" beings present the viewers with elements of Lex's character. He's had his eyes on those beings. He knows. That's not separate stories. In the movie, they're showing us that Lex has known about those being for quite some time now and it explains parts of his behaviour and actions.
You look at things and remove them from their context, based on what you know from outside the movie (comics, other movies, whatever else), instead of looking at the movie as it is and linking its parts together.
The movie is a single story. And no amount of nay-saying will make me see it otherwise. I simply ain't getting on this hate-train you're on. And really, it's actually quite obvious that's what you'rte doing. And when someone does that, there's simply no point arguing. They simply don't [want to] see what's right on front of them.
I used to like debating/arguing with people like that, trying to make them see otherwise, but I simply don't have the energy/will to do that anymore, and quite honestly, I simply couldn't give a rats ass about what other people think I should hate.
