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Lawlight on 21 May 2016
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Runa216 said:
Lawlight said:

BvS. Both have much of the same problem but BvS, I felt, had better action and the action sequences were filmed better. I also enjoyed it more because it was "different" compared to CW which was more of the same. And time flew by for BvS compared to CW.

I think both had too many characters and some pointless scenes.

My wife asked me, when we left the theatre "Did you check the reviews prior to us seeing this movie?" and I said "yes, everyone loves it" because she felt it was even worse than I think it (she fell asleep so that says a lot).

What action scene in Batman v Superman came anywhere close to the Airport scene in Civil War?  I mean, I can only think of a few action scenes in that entire slog of a movie and most of them were pretty dumb.  The final fight scene with the trinity vs Doomsday had some cool images but was interspersed with stupid military stuff and stupid characters.  The early stuff was kind of cool with the memories of the Man of Steel fights.  The only fight or action scene I thought was well handled was Batman's siege on Martha Kent's captors.  That scene was visceral and powerful and effective.  

But even the best action scene in that film didn't come close to the fourth or fifth best action sequence in Civil War.  

1 - The Airport scene, Hero vs Hero
2 - The african Chase, pursuing the Winter Soldier
3 - The emotional final fight, 2 on 1
4 - The Brainwashed escape
5 - The opening siege on Crossbones

All of these scenes were better, had more emotion, and more thrills than the final fight or the batman siege on the captors.  Did I miss an entire movie's worth of action sequences?  because I was bored to tears throughout Batman  v Superman, especially after the superpowered ballet that was the climax to Man of Steel (which, all plot points aside, I actually quite liked).  

I thought the airport scene was nothing special. It really had no weight and tension. As I said, they were going for killing blows without wanting to kill. Like when Rhodes is injured and Falcon immediately stopped fighting and apologised. What did you think was going to happen? Of course, the quips didn't help.

The emotional fight scene? Lol. Again another clumsy fight. Why didn't Iron Man just crush Bucky if he really wanted to kill him (and he seemed like he did).

Here's when I know an action sequence is good - it's when I want to see it again. Like The Raid or some of Ip Man's fights or Nightcrawler in X2 - just some examples). None of the action sequences here, I think, are worth going back to. They were very derivative and run-of-the-mill.

The Batman fight in the warehouse is easily better than any action sequence in CW. No shaky cam as well.