Well, the Justice League movie finally came out. It was a movie. That played in theaters. So, uh...yeah I guess that happened...
Look after four movies, only one of which can be considered anything remotely resembling "good", it's not a surprise that people (myself included, obviously) were a tad skeptical as to whether or not uniting the league was going to be anything but painful, and that was before we heard about all the production problems, the director switch, the re-shoots, and Henry Cavill's CGI-mustache removal.
Yup they spent something on the order of $25 million giving Cavill a digital shave so he could appear in the re-shoots without changing his look from the next Mission: Impossible movie. You'd think at that point DC/WB might've pushed back from the table and said "you know what, let's rethink this thing. How about we delay this release a few months and give everybody time to re-assess and re-work this project into something fans and casuals alike can enjoy while saving ourselves $25 million in additional costs in the process?"
But yeah, it's the DCEU, making rushed, highly reactive, and otherwise bad decisions is kind of their forte. Pity it isn't making good movies because Justice League is pretty much exactly what we all expected it would be: the kind of tangled matte of CGI scruff that inevitably results from years of poor decision-making. Hence it's getting savaged by the critics, of which I am certainly one. So without further ado, let's take the razor to the gnarled mess that is Justice League:
Look after four movies, only one of which can be considered anything remotely resembling "good", it's not a surprise that people (myself included, obviously) were a tad skeptical as to whether or not uniting the league was going to be anything but painful, and that was before we heard about all the production problems, the director switch, the re-shoots, and Henry Cavill's CGI-mustache removal.
Yup they spent something on the order of $25 million giving Cavill a digital shave so he could appear in the re-shoots without changing his look from the next Mission: Impossible movie. You'd think at that point DC/WB might've pushed back from the table and said "you know what, let's rethink this thing. How about we delay this release a few months and give everybody time to re-assess and re-work this project into something fans and casuals alike can enjoy while saving ourselves $25 million in additional costs in the process?"
But yeah, it's the DCEU, making rushed, highly reactive, and otherwise bad decisions is kind of their forte. Pity it isn't making good movies because Justice League is pretty much exactly what we all expected it would be: the kind of tangled matte of CGI scruff that inevitably results from years of poor decision-making. Hence it's getting savaged by the critics, of which I am certainly one. So without further ado, let's take the razor to the gnarled mess that is Justice League:
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