A Land Far Away

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Looks like a good hit for DC

What? No Picard? Yawn.

Okay, maybe I'm a little excited.

Looks like once again DC was going for maximum grit.

Batman also needs to lay off the autotune.

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I quite liked the idolation theme at the start. Seems plausible.

Batman thinking he can punch superman in the face? Not so much.

Batman can do anything.
He's Batman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaM_tYWBdyU

Pretty big Supes and Bats fan, but not so sold on the last few DC movies or this one. The trailer to me was underwhelming, felt like DC rushed things through to remind people they're still around with Avengers coming out.

And I'm actually starting to hate the over the top Batman fanboyism. Batman's gritty, yeah, but utterly despise, hate what the exaggerated take to the limit angst is doing to the character; he's become an over the top faux-gritty caricature of himself on gritty Bat-steroids of super grittiness (a pleasant surprise when he speaks in complete sentences besides "I'M THE GODDAMN BATMAN!!" lately), and sadly it even rubbed off on Supes thanks to Snyder.

But then again, I didn't think the first Avengers movie was that great either; best superhero movie since Batman Begins was Cap 2: Winter Soldier

Ithildur wrote:best superhero movie since Batman Begins was Cap 2: Winter Soldier

That just shows where personal taste lies, because I thought Cap 2 was average at best.

I'm with swift on this.
However I can't agree with him because he want's to DM where he plays, that bastard.

Swift wrote:

Ithildur wrote:best superhero movie since Batman Begins was Cap 2: Winter Soldier

That just shows where personal taste lies, because I thought Cap 2 was average at best.

Apparently so!

But for what it's worth (and it's not always an accurate measure), it's one of a few movies in the genre that got rave reviews from just about every movie critic as well as audiences. And for good reason; it's far from perfect but it is quite good, and a movie I did not feel embarrassed at all about telling my friends who aren't big superhero fans (which is most of them) to go and spend hard earned money on.

Upon further thought, it's also not surprising that people outside the US might not have taken to it as much for a number of reasons. Aside from the whole 'it's Captain AMERICA, the nation's greatest hero, living legend (at least in the comics and Cap's solo movies; Josh Weadon/Avengers 1 apparently thinks Cap is best served as a one liner straightman foil to RDJ's Tony Stark) of the country everyone loves to hate' thing, there's definitely layers of political-cultural element that, while citizens of many nations in the West could identify with to some extent, are uniquely close to home for a lot of Americans living in post 9-11/NSA/non existing WMD etc era.