AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |
Back to Blog
![]() Clark? The narrative squirms its way around what should have been a simple point. We also don’t know who found Lois’ notebook and returned it to her mailbox. Superman flying to Africa to rescue Lois from mercenaries? Okay, that’s essential to the story. When we go back to Metropolis there’s some kind of public inquiry and it’s about this thing that happened in Africa, but we have no idea what happened. We don’t need to see a young Bruce Wayne seeing his parents shot, and then him falling into the cave of bats (we’ve seen it many times before). Kryptonite being hauled from the Indian Ocean? Not needed. A good start I would say, then it’s 18 months later. Bruce Wayne runs into the havoc, quite valiantly it must be said, and the sequence ends with Bruce glaring angrily into the sky. The film begins with Superman taking out Zod, and most of Metropolis. This is mainly because of the multiple starts to the narrative. What should have taken 20 minutes at most, actually takes about 50. The first thing you notice about Batman v Superman is that the first act is far too long. Let’s not just critically review this film let’s talk about what could be have been done to fix it. ![]() So, since you’ve most likely already seen it, or haven’t seen it and don’t plan on it, let’s change things up a bit. All the joy I got out of it was in concocting plans to fix it. You’ll know the story by now, Batman v Superman is pretty damn slow, boring, and confusing. So why, when it was so easy, did Snyder give us something that was like the pages of script had been put into a tombola, picked out at random, and reassembled by a drunk person? Zack Snyder could have fumbled his way through old DC ideas and imagery about these two and still come out shining. Were our expectations too high? No, not really. I had high hopes for Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice as, I imagine, did you. The troubled millionaire anti-hero taking on the alien with all the gifts to do good? What would win? Money and technology or alien superpowers? And who would win, the guy predisposed to do good or the guy driven by nightmares and revenge? Is it the good guy? Is it the guy out for revenge? Is it the guy with lots of money who is trying to right a wrong? Where are all the girl superheroes? etc. So the idea of Batman taking on Superman sounded great to me. When people ask me who my favourite superhero is I always wonder at what makes a good one.
0 Comments
Read More
Leave a Reply. |