![]() ![]() Chalk it up to the multiverse which, incidentally, this cut does acknowledge. Following Aquaman, it’s odd to see Heard still faking a semi-English accent even weirder, she maintains it in her reshot scene. Snyder renders Arthur Curry (Jason Momoa) more of a strong and silent type, but Vulko (Willem Dafoe) and Mera (Amber Heard) fill in some backstory. Just as Batman v Superman retroactively improves once the viewer has seen Wonder Woman, so too is Justice League now enhanced by Aquaman. More importantly, it takes the time to establish the world and character of each major hero. The story follows the same basic beats, but less awkwardly and with more transitional logic. We don’t have to be told that the world fell apart after Superman died the symbolism of his being a lost hope that must be revived is clear. That’s no less potent for not having been the original plan. This year, however, it makes Justice League feel like the first truly post-COVID superhero movie, with its empty streets and open countryside aching of quarantines and lockdowns. In 2017, that they gave the film a similar feel to DC’s direct-to-video fare, where the viewer gets the sense that animators simply don’t like creating dynamic crowds of people. Both cuts of the movie feel oddly empty of regular humans. Snyder wants his world to feel lived in, to have us take time with these heroes in the spaces they inhabit. brought Whedon in to make the movie into Marvel-style, constantly light entertainment. ![]() RELATED: Zack Snyder Describes the Differences He Sees Between Marvel and DC Or the bit where Batman finally concedes that he bleeds. Gone, however, is any humor that undermines the heroes in any way, such as the scene where Aquaman tells the awkward truth under Wonder Woman’s lasso. Snyder is not without humor, as most of Ezra Miller’s jokes remain. But the directors’ visions also massively conflict. Snyder having had seemingly all the time and money in the world, relatively speaking, makes the current version what it is. When a director can’t even light (or post-process) Superman’s costume properly to hide the padding underneath, that’s just an elementary fail. ![]() And rather than just being a tall gray guy with a turkey neck and funny hat, he’s now a hammer-headed mutant in silver, with oddly large and occasionally soulful eyes.Ĭonsidering Whedon did an undeniably good job with the first two Avengers movies, at least some of his incompetence on the first cut has to come down to time and money crunches. But at least this time he has some semblance of motivation and larger backstory beyond just being evil. Yes, the giant CGI villain Steppenwolf (Ciaran Hinds, sort of) is still the flimsiest Superman movie baddie since Nuclear Man. (The Themyscira stuff is basically 300 with women, although they do wear tops.) RELATED: First Zack Snyder’s Justice League Reactions Praise It as Epic The once-goofy looking Parademons now resemble shiny Star Trek Borg with wings, and everything else sees to have gone through the Snyder 300 desaturation filter. The red sheen pervading all the climactic moments is now the darker gunmetal favored by Snyder. Choices made in the 2017 edit now seem doubly baffling scenes shot by Whedon that looked egregiously fake are long gone. Hopefully the sequel lives up to the hype.It’s truly remarkable how much of this footage existed and was not used before. Justice League Dark: Apokolips War looks like DC's version of Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, though it is very much its own thing. Marvel's What If.? animated series might be testing those waters to see what the reception is like. Marvel definitely has a leg up on the big screen side of things, but one has to wonder why they haven't branched out into more of the animation projects, especially with Disney+ at their disposal. The studio has been killing it with their animated projects, which is something that Marvel Studios has yet to really tap into. The animated movie has been rated R for "bloody violence, language, and some sexual references." While it is rated R, the trailer is very much intended for all audiences to get fans sucked in.ĭC fans were much happier with 2017's Justice League Dark than they were with the big screen live-action DCEU movie that featured many of the same characters. In addition to including such a massive cast, the movie is also dark and cryptic. Justice League Dark: Apokolips War boasts the largest DC superhero cast ever assembled in a movie and it's something that fans of the first installment should not miss out on.
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