Zack Snyder’s Justice League trailer has landed today and brings us a whole new mutton dressed as lamb approach.
With the film set to be released a month from now on HBO, Warner Bros has released a new trailer.
A film brought together by whining teenagers (or more realistically 30-40 year old comic book men) who for some reason thought that only Justice League should be remade after a plethora of DC films have failed long before and after said release.
Set after the events of Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice we have Batman and Wonder Woman joining forces to recruit a team to protect the world from watching anymore of these dull colour graded movies.
I apologise.
Let me continue.
Batman and Wonder Woman recruit their team but each must face demons from their own pasts that have held them back.
With a cameo at the end from Jared Leto’s Joker, yes, the very same Joker that many die-hard DC fans ridiculed in Suicide Squad and of whom a fanbase entirely disowned. Is back.
Sporting a new makeover and hair-cut and some laser surgery to remove the tattoo that was once plastered across his forehead.
It’s better than a CGI moustache removal though that’s for sure.
Flash, Aquaman and an upgraded Cyborg all back and the villains Steppenwolf and Darkseid do have a nice improvement in terms of their visuals.
All in all, I’m sure this movie will do stupendously well until some group of fans find fault with it, demand it to be changed and we get the Fan Cut Zack Synder Justice League release coming 2024.
Check out Zack Snyder’s Justice League trailer below
Put it this way, it’s like comparing shit (Justice League) to shit with whipped cream on (Snyder Cut), it may look a little better but that first bite is going to taste exactly the same.
Bon Appétit
REVIEW UPDATE – 18/03/2021 – I have now seen the film and I can’t even be bothered to give it a separate review post on the site so here’s my full review summary below.
A movie that makes Age of Ultron look like a masterpiece in comparison to this cobbled together funeral procession of a disaster is exactly why you don’t bend over to fan service as Zack Synder’s Justice League is the closest real-world definition of the saying ‘You Can’t Polish A Turd’.
Adding two hours to a movie doesn’t instantly put you in Lord of the Rings territory or masterpiece territory.
I can only imagine Martin Scorsese upon witnessing this movie to have the biggest smug Jeremy Clarkson grin on his face the world has ever seen.
What plays out like a 4 hour My Chemical Romance costume party Justice League doesn’t step all that far away from Whedon’s version than you might think.
The core story is there, the god awful villain is still around albeit fleshed out a little more in terms of motive but is still well equipped with some of the most terrible lines imaginable whilst wearing something that Elton John would be proud to swagger around in.
A good 60 minutes of exposition and still trapped within this gloomy Tim Burton landscape the film becomes more and more unbearable to witness as I’m actively trying to increase my screen brightness performing my own live edits as the film plays.
Whilst character arcs have become a bigger focus of the Synder version it’s sadly lost in the gloomy depressing world that he has created.
At a time in the world where a little ray of light would be a nice escape, we’re plunged headfirst into a world where depressive teens cry over their favourite band splitting up but sadly this group of ‘superheroes’ stick together when after all the films that have come before it, should really have gone their separate ways by now so we don’t have to witness any more train wrecks in motion.
Action scenes and CGI are improved in places which is what happens when you have that amount of cash to play with yet still in some scenes it looks disastrously bad.
Like Playstation cut-scene in the 90’s bad.
The film fails to find a flow and there’s no investment there for me as an audience member. There’s absolutely nothing on screen that I care about or wish to invest my time in.
Scenes have been thrown in for fan service but the service is as bad as McDonald’s on a busy day.
It’s all soggy chips and cold burgers.
The reliance on slow motion to try and heighten a particular scene is also annoying as hell.
No wonder it goes on for four hours as most of it is just slowwwww pacing blended with slowwww motion.
I wouldn’t say it feels disrespectful to the genre as DC movies have more than done their fair share of embarrassment over many years on their own but is this the DC film to save them all?
Is this the Infinity War or Endgame of the DC realm?
If you think it is, you certainly need to put that black eye-liner down, tear those MCR posters off your wall and enter the real world.
It’s tough out there and these flimsy, one-dimensional and quite frankly embarrassing superheroes are your only hope.
Best of luck.
