Amph Justice League

Well you see Zack Snyder is directing this way because he's being manipulated by Darkseid. It makes perfect sense if you look at the second draft of the script and this IGN interview with a stack of $100 bills.

 

I like it.

 

Affleck looks miserable. Can't really say I blame him.

 

I dont like Cyborg's CGI. Looks bad. I wish I had hopes for this film, but given what has come before, I'm just scared

 

Bunch of the effects look like placeholders. A little disappointed in how empty the spaces feel.

 

This caught my eye. Mother Boxes all over the place. As they are used to summon boom tubes this then has quite a bit in common with the MCU and Avengers story.

 

It... depends? I sort of agree with certain things like some of the Cyborg shots feeling like "not final" versions, and certainly going all the way back to X-Men with the unfinished Cyclops shot in the first trailer and fans going bananas over nothing (though, since we have 18 years to know this one wonders why anyone puts unfinished FX shots in a trailer for a tentpole), so I tend not to jump on that bandwagon as the finished effects in that case were more than good enough.

There's a LOT of CGI stuff that gets done that you don't notice in a lot of cases, even in movies you don't think have any CGI, let alone a lot...

 

I do hope that Jason Mamoa sounds like something resembling a human being in this rather than some hillbilly gargling marbles in every other film he's done.

 

The bit on the Batmobile at the end looks like something out of the first Sin City movie or Grindhouse - where they're drawing attention to the effects.

And I'm not saying they need to busy things up, I'm saying the shots themselves feel empty, devoid of people. It feels remarkably forced that there are NO civilians around in harm's way that need saving.

EDIT: I'm struggling to explain what it feels like to me, but it's mostly just that the line between what's a digital stunt double and the actor feels incredibly apparent. These films really struggle to show how these characters move, across the board.

 

I've got to say I'm still pretty shocked after all these years that WB ok'd Zack Snyder to shepherd this series, given that prior to Man of Steel he bombed big time with Sucker Punch.

 

This looks beyond bad. Everyone looks so out of character. I've long been a DC fan but their recent comic book and movie offerings are terrible. I'll stick with the Dark Knight trilogy

 

****, if that was the case, Hollywood would be short of directors. A lot of directors have had a bomb right before they did something big. Fortunately, Snyder had hits before then.

 

Sure, and the Chris Nolan appointment factor was a huge influence as well.

 

That doesn't look too good to me. And that usage of that Come Together cover almost sounds like a joke somehow... just a really cheesy cover of the song, and a way too obvious reference to the heroes "coming together". Like they wanted to hint at "assemble".

 

It's about as cheesy as the tagline "Justice for all" that they're going with, and taking into account that we're suspending disbelief far enough to imagine a world where a Kryptonian, an Atlantean, an Amazon, a meta-human, a cyborg and a billionaire who dresses like a bat are fighting together against a major threat from outer space, well... Cheesy is kind of part of the deal, so my only concern is that the cheese is well-mixed with the other ingredients.

 

The Flash is just still cringe-inducingly bad. I have to admit I'm surprised by how much fun Momoa seems to be having. Maybe he'll be the wild-card figure here to lighten all the grim self-seriousness. The DCU could use a fun character.

 

If they replaced Batfleck with Lego Batman I'd go see this movie.

 

Momoa's Aquaman in the trailer reminds me of this guy:

 

It's a shame that Superman Returns didn't turn out better, because, for all its failings, Singer captured the precise tone that I wish had been replicated for the subsequent films: breezy yet stately.

All we get here in this trailer is grim posturing and Avengers-styled sass. (Was that Aquaman or Lobo?)