By Jeffery Baldwin (Las Vegas, NV, USA)
After watching Batman v Superman, I was left confused, simply put. What just happened? What can I expect in the next film Justice League Part 1? I have so many questions now; don’t you hate it when a movie you’re excited about leaves you feeling this way? Well, I’ve done my research and I’ve read some of the comics so let me explain what you just watched!
The movie has multiple endings. The most disappointing of them is the quick death of Doomsday. Now in the comics, it doesn’t go down this way. This ABSOLUTELY DID NOT do Doomsday any justice. In the comics, Doomsday kills the entire Justice League roster after first rendering Superman and the rest of the team useless. They all attempt to take him on, the entire team! Did I say that already? Yes, the entire team gets knocked out by Doomsday. And Superman is the only survivor. Superman recuperates for a little while; meanwhile, Doomsday wreaks havoc on the planet one city at a time. Eventually, Superman takes Doomsday on in a final intense/epic showdown. Superman eventually defeats Doomsday once and for all, seemingly at the cost of his life. But of course, he doesn’t really die, he is Superman after all!
Then there’s another ending, Batman and Wonder Woman attend Superman’s funeral as he is currently dead. They don’t know they simply need to put him in the sun to heal him. So they do the exact opposite and put him in a box blocking out the sunlight and burying him 6 feet under. Literally the exact opposite of what they need to do to bring him back to life. But I understand, right now it’s best he appear dead. Right now he is best serving as the martyr of the Justice League. Ok cool, Batman briefly talks with Wonder Woman about assembling a team of super heroes, thus, we have some idea of the next movie, a very small, undetailed, fully to the imagination idea of what’s to come next. At least, Marvel gave us a solo flick of each individual character prior to releasing an Avengers movie, allowing us to get to know our heroes and giving us an idea of who and what we’re dealing with. But DC contains my favorite hero of them all, Superman; the all American alien who bears the burden of making the right decision no matter the situation.
Then there is the third ending, yes, a 3rd ending. Dear lord, we snap to a shot of Clark Kent’s unburied casket with a handful of dirt bestowed upon it by Lois Lane, his lover. And in a split second, the dirt rises up off the casket in the smallest way; letting us know Superman isn’t, in fact, all dead. After all of the mind games with Lex, Batman poisoning him with kryptonite and making him bleed, ultimately kicking Superman’s ass. Then Doomsday coming to life and giving him the shortest fight to the death they, Zack could imagine while still attempting to stay true to the comic. Superman prevails, he isn’t dead.
What a roller coaster ride of an ending right? I mean, that was intense, 3 endings packed into one movie. I think DC is in a hurry to create the Justice League, and while I’m ecstatic about the upcoming Justice League Part 1&2, I think for the sake of story-telling, this movie is a little out of sequence. This masterpiece/rollercoaster of a movie that I already love should probably have come after we got a Wonder Woman, Cyborg, maybe a new Affleck’s Batman, and a new Green Lantern for sure. They could have done Doomsday so much more justice in the dawn of it this route. I’m no filmmaker I have no idea why Zack Snyder went this rout e in the first place; however, it is obvious that things are rushing along. Regardless, I’m a huge fan of Zach Snyder, Huge fan of DC, Superman fan who recognizes he could dominate Goku in a fight with one arm, all day, and can’t wait for what’s coming next for us humanoids to bear witness to!
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I’m so lost why people are mad at this movie. For once they make a movie that takes a darker look at how the Justice League could have come about. Btw you’d also have to be an idiot if you haven’t noticed yet that every movie that comes out with superheroes is a spoiler for 75% of the movie. It’s kind of the point and it’s not easy establishing a plot for the entire Justice League (which was in the title and for the love of God I hope you understood that) without being like the Avengers and kind of throwing them all together in an hour. Very doubtful that anyone would want to read further, but here’s what I posted on my FB about the reviews I read…
“Right, I’d like to know why nobody understands the plot? ***SPOILER ALERT*** I thought it was pretty clear that Batman just felt powerless for the first time after 20 years of being dominant. So why can’t his other point be that Superman literally could destroy everyone if he wanted to? That’s reasonable I would say. They showed both sides of the story the whole time. Batman himself literally experienced his life go from being the good guy for so many years (which they showed a Robin/joker reference) to borderline bad/more hardcore. Who’s to say that Superman wouldn’t too if the world kept bitching at him? Which they were the whole time. So when the one time opportunity comes up to get the kryptonite that could kill Superman before Superman finds out about it and takes it away so it can’t be used against him. Batman quite perfectly just used it on him with Superman not expecting it was even out there which worked and he about died.
Batman being the fucking genius he is just said fuck it, I’ma kill Superman. He even fought Superman without pulling out all the guns right from the get go which I feel was a symbol of Batman not being a little bitch cheater and him letting Superman spar with him while they were somewhat equal. Kind of did a good job establishing Batman as the (in Bruce Wayne’s eyes) “hero” for the world that all these douche critics keep publishing about how there aren’t any. You didn’t need that with Superman because he already had a movie before as the hero and throughout the whole movie he was being a hero. Everyone knew this was a dark movie going into it too and the trailers never showed anything but that so I’d like to know what the hell these reviewers were expecting? Mk that’s my rant.”
I forgot to mention anything about how Lex Luther, which was surprisingly a nice set up. I didn’t agree with Jesse Eisenberg being casted, but if you pay attention you see that he knew already about all the super humans on earth already. Then after seeing his opportunity to rise to power by learning every organism in the galaxy from the kryptonians ship. He becomes more sick and twisted to go along with his already superior intelligence. The movie seriously had it all in the plot if you pay enough attention. Was it all executed perfectly? Not at all, but that is the case for every movie. The Dark Knight Rises was a good movie, but really? You watch both of these movies back to back and tell me if it was really that much better if better at all.