Saw batman/superman. I would rate it as not quite as good as the last superman movie but definitely not horrible like some people are saying. Since this is a weightlifting site there was a brief scene of batman working out in his home gym.
Also found out my theater has a new special screen called Regal RPX with reclining seats and slightly better quality everything than the normal screens. It costs about 50% more per ticket but was definitely worth it for the extra arm and leg room. I read a review of this and it sounds like not all locations are the same so mine may have been one of the better ones. This is their solution to the dying 3d movie market and the fact peoples home setups are getting better.
Batman v Superman - First the good: Affleck was pretty good as Batman, and the actual Batman v Superman fight was cool (until the WTF ending). That’s about it. Hated the shit out of the rest of it:
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The last 10 minutes are total nonsense. I bet there wasn’t a single person that saw this that thought what was happening was actually for real.
Jesse Eisenberg’s Lex Luthor was fucking terrible. Like a cross between his character in Zombieland and Heath Ledger’s Joker.
The meta-human file browsing was only there to lead into the other movies. It served no purpose to the story. The MCU uses post-credit scenes for this purpose. Zack Snyder decided to put it right before the titular conflict.
So…I guess Batman is cool with killing people now?
The dream sequences…WHAT. THE. FUCK.
Wait, your mom’s name is Martha too? Cool bro! I totally don’t want to kill you anymore! Weird that you refer to her by her first name, but whatevs y’know?
That’s not even everything. I really hated this movie. I’m glad that some people liked it and don’t feel like they wasted their time and money. I wouldn’t see it again if I got free tickets. I wish it wasn’t making so much money, because Snyder is going to ruin any other movie he touches in this franchise.
I’ve seen him on a few of the late night talk shows, and every time he looks embarrassed to be there. I think he was the high point of the movie, but that’s faint praise with this piece of shit.
The dream sequences, meta-human files, and the weird stuff lex said at the end (info he acquired from the krypton ship) were all tied together in foreshadowing the events of the next movie including the next villian, highly related to the comics. The last 10 minutes were also mirroring the comics, there was even foreshadowing that death isn’t forever after the nuclear explosion. Batman killing also in the comics, if anything the previous movies messed that up.
The ending was in line with the “God” theme they were trying to include so clumsily and one dimensionally throughout the movie. Wait… that makes Russell Crowe God. Fuck Russell Crowe.
10 Cloverfield Lane - Pretty good. Lots of twists and turns. Good suspense. Can’t really say much without spoiling it. Goodman is awesome, but goddamn does he look awful in this movie. When I saw it, I didn’t realize that it was filmed around 18 months ago. He’s lost all the weight now, which I’m glad to hear because he looks like he’s ready to drop dead at any second. 8/10
Eye in the Sky - Compelling moral/ethical/political drama involving a drone pilot (Aaron Paul from Breaking Bad) and an anti-terror operation in Kenya. Basically it comes down to the political and moral implications of knowingly killing civilians in order to also kill known terrorists. I thought it was a little over-acted by some of the cast, but the concept was intriguing enough to make it worth watching. 7.5/10
Also, finally saw the end of the new Star Wars…I really dislike this movie.
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3 things that would have improved it:
Kylo Ren keeps his fucking helmet on, except maybe for the scene with Han Solo at the end. Just imagine how much worse the original trilogy would have been if Vader took his helmet off every 10 minutes. Terrible decision, IMO.
And why did he wear a helmet in the first place? Vader only wore one because he needed it to breathe. No other Sith that I’m aware of wear helmets…so why does Kylo Ren have one? I could get past this if he never took the damn thing off in the first place, but damn it bothered me.
Rey’s force abilities are unearned and therefore bullshit. She finds out she has force abilities and then 40 minutes later she’s overpowering Kylo Ren, the guy that can stop blaster beams? Nonsense.
Avoid the Star Killer base plot line entirely. I totally zoned out during the “climax” to that story. We’ve already seen it twice, FFS.
After seeing the ending (missed it the first time due to family issues), this is a 5/10. Someone else said it best: this is a bad story told well.
