Review of Justice League (2017) by Kooper — 23 Dec 2017

What everyone knows already: The CGI is indeed off (yes, that upper lip is as bad as they say), the story disjointed, and the style differs wildly in places. It seems that WB, in a bizarre loss of reason, decided that the best way to shoot a DC movie is to have the film made, then chopped up, reorganized, chopped up some more, reorganized again, rinse and repeat until you get a product that appears to still need a significant amount of polishing done. There's this knee-jerk approach they've seemingly adopted, and the movies are all the worse for it.

Why are Marvel movies so successful? Because it's driven by the same people who have a hand in the comics. DC's movies though? Those are run by people I suspect that do not have a hand in neither the movies nor the comics, Geoff Johns notwithstanding.

The main issue I think is that WB saw Marvel's success and decided that they're going to half-ass copy Marvel's approach and make big team-up superhero movies as quickly as they can, only they had none of Marvel's careful planning in any meaningful way.

Is it any wonder that Ben Affleck is done with the DCEU? This is the norm for WB DC movies, and it won't change as long as WB has control over it. Sadly that disinterest shines through in some of the actors' performances as well, especially so for this version of Batman.

It's bad. Not just this movie (there are good bits in as well here and there, to be completely fair), but the whole current state of the DCEU. It's just bad.