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Justice League

the movie was pretty bland overall. it had a few good scenes and not many bad scenes, but there were absolutely no scenes that I would call great. the best scene is probably the one where steppenwolf first appears and battles against all of the amazons... which is pretty sad to consider because 1. it wasn't even an amazing scene or anything, it's just that nothing else in the movie was really all that exciting and 2. it was totally disconnected and unrelated from EVERYTHING ELSE going on in the movie. to make matters worse, the villain shows up like an ultimate badass in this scene but then is basically just who cares for the entire rest of the film. honestly I was waiting for darkseid to appear at the end and it just never happened. can't believe how much of a non-entity this villain was. he was literally a guy that superman, wonder woman, or aquaman could slap around senselessly in a 1 v 1 fight... and for some reason the ENTIRE JUSTICE LEAGUE was going up against him.

superman: felt disconnected and weird in this film. I felt this actor did an "okay" job in the previous movies as, at least, the casual version of what people think Superman is supposed to be. in this movie they just made him seem like an awkward alien.

batman: his characterization was okay. it felt a bit weird they had to do that one batman is an asshole moment almost as if just to acknowledge the meme of batman being an asshole.

wonder woman: her characterization was okay. I think I liked her better in her own movie but she wasn't bad here or anything.

cyborg: probably had the best characterization of anyone in the film.

flash: lmao cringeworthy awkward nerd. he was kinda funny at times I guess but not at all heroic in any way.

aquaman: pretty much just as cringeworthy as the flash but even worse because they were trying to make him seem badass or something. as a fan of the aquaman character I can say this adaptation did not work for me. I think the issue is, really, it's just jason momoa. yeah he did a good job with khal drogo, we all remember that fondly. but I believe now that was probably carried mostly by GRRM's amazing writing and the fact that game of thrones season 1 actually followed the books closely. between this movie and the ridiculous conan the barbarian remake I think we've seen enough evidence that momoa is just not that good.

the action scenes were... definitely better than something like avengers 2 where I hated every single action scene. there did seem to be some pretty decent directing here in terms of how the action played out. nothing notably bad and there were a few standout awesome moments. steppenwolf wrecking all of the amazons as previously mentioned above. the part where the flash tries to run behind superman to ambush him and then they have the shot of superman being able to follow his movements was pretty much amazing, especially afterwards when he starts attacking the flash and totally turns the tables on him while fighting at super speed. I thought that was done really well.

also I take back the part about no fight scenes being bad. hahahah holy shit the scene where steppenwolf defeats aquaman AND mera while fighting underwater hahahhahaahahh this shit oh man what. I don't even know what to say. I'm just remembering now how bad this was. the fight was poorly directed, there was no tension, nothing exciting about the combat, and they literally had aquaman's first fight EVER on the big screen as one where he literally jobs to an enemy while FIGHTING UNDERWATER.

aquaman. jobbing. underwater. fucking hell.

the story was incredibly low stakes and made me feel like the entire movie was pointless. once again you're waiting for darkseid to appear and justify the fact that batman needed to get a super team together and then they just defeat pushover steppenwolf and the movie just sort of... ends.

6/10 maybe 7/10?
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