GENESIS (All Reviews)

So, lets talk about this verions of the JL. I'll start about by saying it was WAY better than the first one, however, being honest, I'm still not sure I can give Z.S all the creidt since he basically got the greatest redo in movie history. I mean, he got an extra, what, 70m+ to make it, and more time and it ended up being 4hrs+ long. Where else as this happnened? Never. Also, I have no doubt that THIS isn't in any way the movie we would've gotten had it been him from start to finnish, but that's just me. I feel this movie is a collective work, from the fans to those actually making the movie, which is why people like me who really really hated the original, have come around to like this movie and yet, well, we're still kinda raw about it. No reason to go into great detail since this movie fixes alot of issues from the original. I will say a few things though. 1) Ben is way better as Batman in this version. No stupid jokes yet the humor flows around him, instead of coming from him, which is better. 2) Still hate the sewer crawler toy thing that Batman had. Just clucnky and slow and well, CIG bs. Wish they would've scapped it. 3) Still not a fan of the suit. Ditch the damn pads and foam. 4) Yeah, stil an Owl Man vibe but ya know, w/e.... Wonder Woman is better, and her being so departed from the rest of the Amazons makes way more sense now and the fact the magical arrow flew so far, well, makes sense since it's now an actual weapon of a godess. The Amazons were great. Aquaman is better too, though his dialogue still wasn't the greatest. And Atlantis mattered more now, which is good for over all world building. Flash and Cyborg really got upgrades in the plot and action department, which was very much needed and Flash certainly had one of the best scenes in the movie and no, not the hotdog one, which was odd despite w/e you think about it. Cyborg being more central to the story since he's OF the Mother/Father Box tec, was made that more important in this version. Superman, well, his death was much more respected in this verison. The shout heard round the world was a great way to tie everything and everyone together with what exactly what happend and I mean, yeah, the black suit was great. Someone green showing up twice in the movie, a bigger moment at the end, well, didn't really make senes but was still fun. The nightmare bit, yeah, still not really sold on it, but it still works....kinda.... Leto did better and so the terrible version of that character before, for me, is no more. I knew Darkseid wasn't going to really flex his muscles in this and w/e we saw would be a teaser, so I wasn't upset by what happend and at least this time the fight between all the species of the world vs Darkseid didn't come off as a shitty LOTR knockoff this time, which was good. For me, honestly, the best thing about this moive is that it totally deletes the need for BvS, which is still a terrible movie. If you go MoS, WW and THIS ZSJL, you no longer need BvS and I'll tell you why. 1) MoS intros you to Superman 2) WW reveals Batman is looking for supers/meta huamns, though we don't know why till this JL when he tells us it's because Lex was already looking for them (for Darkseid no doubt, plot we later piece together ourselves) 3) The Trinity is formed (we as the audience should just GET THIS since they're the oldest comic heroes known the world over and therefore, we also assumed that the World's Finest of Batman/Superman was already a thing before that and w/e exact way it happned is kinda unneccesary) to defeat Doom/Zodsday and that's all we need to know. 4) There's no more terrible version of Lex since we're shown in this version of JL that he's cleary working with/for Darkseid and when we see him later, he's way more as we all know him to be and should be. 5) The Martha Line no longer needs to exist. 6) The terrible plot of Batman wanting to kill Superman no longer needs to exist. 7) The outcome, Superman's death, still happens via this new JL. How does WW84 work in this timeline? Aquaman's stand alone? Yeah, no answers for you. But no more need for BvS though. Which I'm so happy about. Watch the movie. If you hated the first one, I bet you'll like this one, even if it's a crazy 4h+ movie you never would've otherwise seen without the first failure. The DCU is a mess. We should all admit that, but there's hope yet.