Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Everybody has an opinion good or bad, mostly bad, on the highly anticipated, greatly overestimated movie Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. So do I! Then let's begin... Fair warning beforehand: if you haven't seen the movie, this entry involves spoilers! (May also involve some swear words, I would like to apologise but this movie deserves it!)

Finally I got to see that epic failure of a movie everyone is talking about and boy was it bad! I had this feeling for months that it was going to be bad and to be honest the casting of Ben Affleck did have a major effect on this feeling, but to my surprise I found Affleck's performance pretty satisfying in the majority of the movie.

I have never had a problem with Henry Cavill. I am not the biggest Superman fan there is but Cavill sure turned the character into a much lovable hero I must day. His performance in Man of Steel was really good and he kept up the good work in this one too.

Since we started from the cast let's continue with Gal Gadot before we move on to the atrocities of the screenplay. Honestly, I couldn't have imagined a better casting for the wondrous Wonder Woman. (See what I did there?)

However, the great performance and an amazing character was wasted with so little screen time. Yeah yeah, Wonder Woman will get it's own movie and there will be Justice League blah blah... Still, I think that they either should have given her a bit more focus or should have excluded her entirely for this one.

The over-crowdedness of the storylines probably is the thing that messed up everyones opinion of this movie in the first place. The single movie which is approximately of a 2 and a half hours length involves 5 different storylines that deserve to have their own individual screen play about themselves.

At the end of the movie Man of Steel we were given the hints of people's potential for fearing Superman's power. The storyline of people versus Superman is big enough to make a movie but okay so dear Snyder decided to add Batman into the mix. Batman siding with the people against Superman a whole other storyline that should have been handled on its own. But it's not enough. Because there is also Lex Luthor to fuck the things up. You apprehended Luthor? Then here is BAM! here's Doomsday!

And Zack Snyder wanted to add the Joker and the Riddler in this movie too! It was almost going to be the entire DC universe under 3 hours.

The whole movie just jumps from vine to vine swinging between major plot points without doing justice to any of it.

Ever since his appearance in the trailers there has been huge controversy on Eisenberg's Lex Luthor. I personally like new approaches to old characters; and I definitely enjoyed Jesse Eisenberg performance. What was problematic to me in the character that the character was so manic that at moments I felt like I wasn't watching Lex Luthor but I was watching the Joker. The laugh, the mimics and gestures... It was a good performance but I though it was a bit too much for Luthor.

There were a lot of things that were problematic in the movie. First of all, there were many points that seemed important during the movie that are left unexplained. For example, after Batman wakes up from his second? dream (this movie by the way had more dreams in it than inception) a mysterious person comes through the screen rambling things about Louise Lane and am I too soon, I'm too soon... Thanks to my comic book fan boyfriend I learnt that was the Flash. Despite being very familiar with the character and his abilities, I wouldn't have guessed it on my own in a million years.

And why the hell Batman wears a coat on his bat suit? Just why?!

Two of the milestones in the movie that disturbed me most firstly was of course (as everybody has been complaining about) is the point the dispute between Batman and Superman was resolved. I mean if only Superman said the name Martha in the beginning of the movie, the city would be saved from a lot of destruction. Plus I don't get it; Lex Luthor knows that Superman is Clark Kent but "the worlds greatest detective" Batman doesn't? It's just plain stupid.

Second of all, in the second part of the movie we see Diana Prince fleeing from every scene that has a conflict in. Towards the very end we see her basically running from the city, until she sees the electric waves, or whatever they were, and she says "oh well, I have been running but what the heck, maybe I should go and check it out."

Also if you didn't already know that Diana Prince is the Wonder Woman, you can't figure it out just by watching the movie. Because her name is not mentioned once in the entire movie. Not once!

This has been a loooooong entry. But finally I have to say this: Jason Momoa as Aquaman is most likely the best casting I have ever seen. A character that is this humiliated can only be dignified this brilliantly. I can say that despite having this low opinion of this movie, I am looking forward to the Justice League; mainly to see Aquaman =))

Maybe not let Zack Snyder direct the next one? Pretty please?

And I leave you with Sad Affleck.

Thank you for reading my humble opinion.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Recently I don't get much time to spend on watching movies and I keep disappoint myself with the movies I choose to when I get the time.

Don't get me wrong, it wasn't so bad. Just... I haven't seen Batman v. Superman yet and yesterday I sat down to watch this. (Not that I hear good things about Batman v. Superman.)

Quick acknowledgement: I'm a Whovian, my favorite doctor is 11th (Matt Smith), Matt Smith is dating Lily James in real life, and as the duty of a fangirl I dislike her.

To be honest before seeing the movie I really didn't know what to expect. I mean the cast looks amazing but the premise... As a Jane Austen fan and a fan of the creepy stuff, I wasn't sure if this was the best thing ever or the worst thing ever. Because sometimes no matter how good two things are separately they don't mix well together. But then again sometimes we try things and get the sweet sour sauce.

Just let me say this movie was no sweet sour sauce. As I said before, I can't necessarily say that it's bad. But it wasn't good either.

I confess long before the movie was made I thought of reading the book but not being the biggest book worm it is hard for me to steer from Neil Gaiman. But given the premise of the book, I kinda knew what to expect and the casting was pretty satisfying towards my expectations.

No matter how much I oppose being a fan of Lily James, I have to admit she was really good in her role of Elizabeth. Yes she's pretty, yes she's a good actor; fine I'm over it. Whatever.

I was very... very surprised to find Matt Smith in the role of Mr. Collins (Sorry Parson Collins). And even though I am very confident of his talent I wasn't sure if it was the right choice. But it was. It really, really was. I have seen my fair share of Pride and Prejudice adaptations and this was the first time I actually liked Collins. I can really say that Matt steals the show from every other character. Good job Smith!

Lena Heady, oh God that was the perfect choice for Lady Catherine de Bourgh. But Charles Dance, in my opinion was a wasted talent as Mr. Bennett. Too passive of a character for such a treasure.

I can't say that I am satisfied with the entire cast though. Sam Riley kinda disappointed me. I really liked his performance in Maleficent so I didn't doubt that he wasn't going to be able to carry the role of Mr. Darcy. I should have. The whole movie was like Sam Riley's audition for Batman. I can easily say that the majority of the points lost  of this movie (acting wise) is because of Colonel Darcy.

Now, my copy of the movie was not brilliant so the colors were a bit confusing and when I get confused I absolutely can't focus on the cinematography. But I'm guessing that if you watch Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, you don't watch it because you expect it to be a piece of cinematic art.

So let's  talk about the screenplay. First of all I wasn't expecting for the story line to be this similar to the original. At least for the first half. In the beginning this caused a bit of a confusion in me. The evolution of Elizabeth and Darcy's relationship has always been the best part of the story and in the movie it was depicted in the worst way possible. One second they hate each other and the second they are totally in love. That's not how it goes. But of course this movie is not supposed to be a love story as it originally is; in fact I have no idea what genre it fits into.

Visually I believe it lives up to the grotesqueness of the zombie apocalypse. This statement is also a warning to you if you have a sensitive stomach. Just because it is combined with a classic love story doesn't mean that they went short on displaying the savageness. Blood, brain eating and rotten flesh (lots of gross rotten flesh) is a common sight throughout the movie. If you don't like seeing your characters eating other characters, you have been warned.

In a nutshell, I can say that this movie is watchable if you don't have great expectations. If you don't mind the blood and not looking for a great screenplay also if you think Batman sounds cool, this is the movie for you.


Bu hey, it's just my humble opinion.

What do you think? Feel free to leave a comment.

Until next time, thank you for reading. =)