That was unique. (The film) There are reasons why the movie was on a technical level terrible. In fact of all the films in the DC library, and probably every superhero film I've ever seen this was visually the ugliest I've ever seen. Scenes from the reshoot were poorly edited in and because Henry Cavil had a mustache he couldn't shave they had to... Well you know when in comedy sketches where someone will have someone elses lips and they'll speak as that person? They had that for Henry Cavill and it's horrible It's one of the worst thing's I've ever seen, but then you have it be literally the first thing you see in the movie he has the first lines in the film, it's really fucking bad. So that said; saying that the editing is terrible, saying that the CGI is just ugly, and saying that the visual style of the film is hopelessly comprimised, That film with those gigantic flaws was still better the Batman V. Superman by a long shot. Holy shit.
That's the most damning thing I've ever had to say about Batman v. Superman, that this film which if it came out in a vacuum I would be lambasting is elevated by Batman V. Superman being so fucking terrible. Its a damning indictment of Zack Snyder and how everyone knew he'd be bad, he was bad and now everyone looks back and says he was bad. Like what the hell? Why did this person ever have to be involved? This movie for all it's conflicting tones and jokes and stuff did more for Superman as a character then either of those two films that focused entirely on Superman and you know what they did? They just had him be Christopher Reeves Superman. They brought back the John Williams theme, they had him smile. He was kind, and gave a shit about saving people spoke to some kids. It was great, it was just like old times. They gave Batman the Danny Elfman theme, and made him less of psychopath. People called him crazy, Alfred Cracked jokes about his lack of love life, he punched things. It was great, It was just llike old times. And it was very indicative of the problem with this film and the prior films, The gross mischaracterization which despite all the issues those films had (This film was worse on a technical level. Easily) caused this film to be a better one. Does that make sense to you? Because that doesn't make sense to me and I watched these movies.
But the thing is I don't think on it's own that would have mattered if the prior movies didn't mishandle the characters as they did. As it was, no one was themselves and in fact they were grosser, less competent, more sociopathic versions of themselves. And you can change personalites in a medium, feel free, I encourage it. However It was very clear it wasn't to the benefit of the characters or the films. The versions that they changed to were muted like the colors of the films they appeared in, they were hopeless as the tone and they were as miserable as the viewer after watching them, and that needed to change more then anything else. So man Zack Snyder needed to be removed from those films fast, and if they wish to continue these movies, they can't let a Zack Snyder anywhere near the reigns again.
If I were a critic I wouldn't even give this a good score. Out of ten I would give it a six, not too terrible but that six only exists because I saw Batman V. Superman. If I hadn't I'd be 3/10. This movie felt like an apology for that movie.
