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.
I was only a 17-18 Australian when I saw the movie. I didn't have much context, but from memory the torture doesn't lead anywhere productive? They get their intel RE Osama from some random unrelated to the torture. I'd like to hear why it was pro torture. I mean the film didn't emphasise how little the torture is unethical and pointless, but it wasn't portraying it as productive (from memory at least, I haven't seen it since)
It was mostly the arc of Jessica Chastain's character initially being disgusted by torture but then coming round to it after her friend died that rubbed me the wrong way, plus as far as I remember it portrayed the info that led to Bin Laden's assassination as coming from torture and not, y'know, Pakistani intelligence giving him up on a plate
Torture is good sometimes is terrifyingly present in modern war/action films. So garbage