TW: DCEU film mentioned
I walked out of Batman V Superman completely fucking wrecked. I don't think it's awful, but I didn't want to watch any more movies after that. It took about 4 or 5 days for me to try to watch something else. It sounds like I'm being an exaggerative comic book media obsessed psycho- I guess I am. I wanted to enjoy it, I occasionally did, but mostly I felt completely deflated, struggling to understand what kind of plot ZS & co were presenting- and which side of the political spectrum the film was on (it explicitly was trying- I'm not reading too much into it). The music was overwhelmingly pulsating and while I love Hans Zimmer (he's up there with Williams for me) it just was unrelenting. The visuals were occasionally beautiful and ZS uses CGI as a genuine art form, but the screen is smeared with muddy dark brown template making me struggle to focus on the screen. At its core- it's meant to be a comic book film for children. What a depressing feeling to be a parent if you had to watch the film with your kid who was genuinely excited for these silly characters to be onscreen together.
Can anyone articulate why it was that much of an atrocity? You watch some scenes on youtube and it's decent-ish, but I don't think I could put myself through that again.
That movie about the wormholes, I can’t even remember its fucking name, was a huge disappointment. It was just long, boring, and nonsensical. Why are you writing weird code to Murph from the future? Just write in plain fucking English! Why are we spending the first 40 minutes of this fucking shit learning about the dust bowl and whining about pop corn? Let’s get your fucking characters into space! Jesus!
I like the director’s other work despite his repugnant politics but jesus that movie sucked. I also love and live SF and wanted to love that movie.
It was way too dreamlike and despite some realism like the planetology shit was really weird. I'm still 50/50 about it though. I did enjoy it showing how boring a post-apocolyptic climate war ravaged U.S. would actually be.
I love that movie. Guess I'm just better than you 😎.