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irstupid on 17 November 2017
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Mixed bag. The movie was good, but I would rate it bad. I would rate it bad solely on its runtime and score. You could clearly tell many times where a scene was missing or cut short. When watchign BvS in theaters I couldn't quite place why the movie wasn't amazing, but as soon as I saw the extended cut I realized why. This Justice League though I could clearly tell the movie was suffering by being under 2 hours. I hope they have an extended cut. As for score. I don't remember it at all. Not one part of the music stood out for me in the movie. Never did I get goosebumps for some epic scene, and there were some epic scenes.

Heck on part of the movie was just pure amazing, yet I didn't get goosebumps. Think of Man of Steel. The scene were Superman is fighting the machine in India or where and he stands up and does the cliche yell and one last attack to beat it. It was the music accompanying that scene that gives one goosebumps, because as I said, it was cliche. You knew what was going to happne, you have seen in a million thing. Or the speech in Armageddon. Great speach sure, but the music with it gives one goosebumps every time. Goosebumps come with an accompanied score. Think of all other epic moments in movies that give you goosebumps and pump you up, and it is always accompanied by an epic score at the same time. This movie didn't have it. The best score the entire movie had was the first five minutes during the superman is dead, world is bad montage and the song with lyrics, and I usually hate songs with lyrics in movies like this.

But the movie has good bones. Cyborg was probably my favorite of the new 3 characters. Flash had a couple lines that just were too cheezy and bad for me. Aquaman just was a bit not concrete yet. Couldn't tell if he was a serious guy or a dude bro or what at times. None of those 3 were ruined though in any way. I'm excited to see them all in later movies.

Was it just me or where there like 5 minutes worth of just footage cut from the trailers alone not in this movie?

But its weird. I would rate this movie say a 6/10, and say rate Guardians of the Galaxy and 7/10, yet I liked this movie more than Guardians. It was a better movie, yet the fact that it could have been so much more makes one rate it lower. 


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Beyond the movies technical flaws, my two biggest gripes were probably the ending fight with Superman and Wonder Woman stuff. As for Wonder Woman, there were a few times where it was just such a glaring cut to her randomly like to play on her popularity of her movie. Like when all the heroes save Batman, he is like "this is not hte plan" and they say thank wonder woman. Then it randomly cuts to her and she gives that smirk you see in the trailers. It was just so ackward. She had a few other moments like that, where it felt like she was shoe horned in.

As for Superman fight at end. First his entrance was just stupid as F. He does some stupid ass one liner to the villain. I mean you have this finale fight going on and SUperman finally shows up and his reveal is a one liner? Really?

Then he was super OP in the final fight. Stepenwolfe stood no chance against him. The other 5 were losing to him when teaming up, yet superman can take him on without even trying. Superman is my fav superhero, so it's not that I'm upset he is amazing, but I want a fight to have some effort in it. Also they brightened his suit way too much in a couple of those scenes. I'm not against a more classic red/blue suit, but some scenes he looked like he almost glowed, like they up the contrast/brightness huge on his suit only and left the rest of the scene dark.

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Really most of all of my dislike is down to I beleive just pure editing. Not saying Wheden screwed up, but that he probably had no chance. From what I've heard there was like 4 hours of footage basically, and some big WB guy said it had to be under 2 hours. I don't care who you are, you can't make a great movie by cutting the material in half and hoping that the story is as smooth.