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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
We Just Have a Bad History with Freaks Dressed like Clowns.
The only thing I can think of that attracts me to see a movie more than the fact that it’s a comic book movie is when I hear that it’s terrible. Especially with today’s movie. I was always a Marvel fan growing up, so when I hear that a DC movie is shitty, I feel the need to go revel in their failure … and act like there hasn’t been a Marvel that was terrible. Elektra was great, guys! The reviews for today’s movie, and some fear of spoilers, made me rush out to see it, and then I had me some thoughts. So I will now write them down as I review Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, written by David S. Goyer and Chris Terrio, directed by Zack Snyder, and starring Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Jesse Eisenberg, Amy Adams, Gal Gadot, Jeremy Irons, Diane Lane, Laurence Fishburne, Holly Hunter, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Lauren Cohan, Kevin Costner, Michael Shannon, Jason Momoa, Ezra Miller, and Ray Fisher.
In an attempt to explain why it was totally cool that Superman (Henry Cavill) destroyed the greater Metropolis area in his battle with General Zod (Michael Shannon), Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck) is upset that his favorite corporate headquarters was knocked down in the fight … and he’s probably bothered that that people died and some dude lost his legs. Lex Luthor (Jesse Eisenberg) also doesn’t like Superman, and decides to use the corpse of General Zod to take Supes out. In the meantime, he sets out to pit Batman (also Ben Affleck) and Superman against each other. It works and they V. They V it up!
Disappointingly, the critics apparently thought they were going in to see Shakespeare or something. This movie was not terrible. It doesn’t blow the mind, but it doesn’t blow anything else either. It’s what I wanted and expected. Perhaps one could find it disappointing just knowing that it’s based on the Dark Knight Returns, which is one of the best Batman comics I’ve ever read. This movie isn’t that good and doesn’t quite live up to the comic, but it’s solid. It has its problems, but it delivers on what it promises. One of those problems is that they went back to the stupid green rocks that are the major antagonist in every Superman movie. I thought it was the big decree in Man of Steel that they wouldn’t be relying on those? Well, I guess they need to use everything they can to make Superman interesting. Another problem I had was with the constant dream sequences. They did like 7 of them! Just whenever they realized that they hadn’t done any action scenes in a while, they teased us with a fake one. They even had a dream sequence WITHIN A DREAM SEQUENCE! Fuck you movie.
Probably the biggest problem with the movie is that it’s fairly predictable. Sure, I’ve read the comic that it’s based on, but it’s LOOSELY based on it, so you can’t say for sure where it’s going. Then you could say it’s obvious because … well because it is. Who would win in a fight between Superman and Batman? The same person that would win in a fight between Superman and anyone: Superman. Superman’s powers might as well condense themselves to be “Whatever he needs to do to win eventually.” And you can throw green rocks at him and slow him down a little, but I’ve seen him lift an island made out of green rocks in Superman Returns, so that doesn’t mean that much. But Batman is too popular and cool to let lame ass Superman beat him, so who wins? I was asked this question shortly after this movie was announced and my prediction was, “Stalemate.” They battle to a stalemate so that no fans have that much ammo to complain with and then they realize there’s a bigger problem and they team up. The title gives that away! “Dawn of Justice?” Meaning it will dawn on them that they should create a League of some sort, with Justice in the name somewhere. But I didn’t come to this movie to be surprised. I just wanted to see them fight and for things to explode.
And explode they did! The action was pretty good, but not without their problems. For instance, do you all know how the best part of any Batman movie is when he kicks the shit out of a building full of bad guys, but we just hear about it from witness reports later? Yeah, I don’t either! The first two or three times Batman does something awesome, we find out about it when the police enter the building and find a bunch of unconscious bad guys and one of them has a bat branded on his chest. And if we’re lucky, we’ll find out that Batman was goofily hanging out in the upper corner of the room hoping no one would turn their head and see him there. Then, when we finally see Batman do something, he’s not great at it because he’s wearing a big chunky suit to fight Superman, but I did find that fight pretty similar to Dark Knight Returns and pretty satisfying. And later, while fighting Doomsday, the writers really couldn’t figure out anything for Batman to do so he spent the battle hiding or running from laser blasts while Wonder Woman and Superman did all the work. But between that, Batman did a pretty sweet Arkham City impression when he whooped up on a room of baddies in true Bat-fashion. Does it sound like I’m only talking about Batman fights? Well that’s true. Because Superman can suck it and Wonder Woman is underused.
The loudest cries from the nerd community before this movie were about Ben Affleck. He already ruined a superhero when he made Daredevil, so how could he do what Chris Evans and Ryan Reynolds did already and redeem themselves with their next attempt at a superhero? Also, we liked the last Batman, and remember how we all liked the last Joker when it was Nicholson so we preemptively hated Ledger? And then he was terrible and in no way blew the last one out of the water? That couldn’t happen again! Well he was good. He did redeem himself from Daredevil with me and, though I wouldn’t say he blew Bale out of the water, he at least rose to the challenge and did not disappoint. So I’m absolutely convinced that the next time an actor has to change, the nerd community will be understanding. But one of the biggest complaints about these recent DC movies is their gross misunderstanding of the characters as we know them. Man of Steel=Superman kills someone. Supes don’t kill. BvS=Batman uses a gun the first time we see him. Bats don’t shoot. Granted, it was just a dream sequence, but since I’ve already said those could go fuck off, I will say this particular one also goes to fuck off. It’s like taking away Deadpool’s mouth when his nickname is The Merc with a Mouth. And who would be dumb enough to do that? Supes was fine in the movie though. He seemed very Superman. I hated him, but that that means he captured the character correctly. Although he did feel at times like he wasn’t doing anything for the world unless it involved saving Lois Lane. And when Superman tells Batman to stop being Batman? Fuck you, Supes! How are you gonna tell this man not to be violent? ‘Cause he don’t need to go the same route that you went? Forget about that!
A lot of the secondary characters were good as well, except maybe some of them shouldn’t have been so secondary! Wonder Woman? WAY underused. Dub Dubs just spends most of the movie as a hot chick walking around all mysterious-like. Way to waste a great female character! Let’s step that up for the next movie, shall we? She basically only Dub Dubs it for the last battle of the movie. But her intro was rad. It was strong, powerful, and COMPLETELY RUINED BY THE TRAILER! It was awesome, but since it was pretty much the only time you used her in the movie, it was the only scene you could show in the trailer. But she totally had the lasso, and that was worth it. They had other superheroes too, but don’t get your hopes up. They were just shown in surveillance footage. It was cool to see them, but not significant. Lois was there too. I don’t know why she had to be in a tub at one point. I assume people will complain about that in much the same way as that scene in Star Trek Into Darkness. It was just unnecessary, but I’m not too bothered by it. That’s for the rest of the internet to bother complaining about. I found Jesse Eisenberg’s performance as Lex Luthor annoying for the greater majority of the movie, but it was pretty good once he started letting out the evil near the end. He didn’t seem quite as smart as Lex is usually portrayed though. Lex is supposed to be a super genius, so how is his big plan to fight Superman to reanimate the guy that Superman just beat? It would seem that the real smart money would be to bet on literally anyone that Superman hasn’t beaten over the one guy that he has. And lastly, why are Superman’s parents the worst? In Man of Steel and in this movie, their big thing is trying to talk Superman out of doing anything good with the special abilities only he has. Even when the option is either you let Clark be Superman just a little bit so that dad doesn’t get swept away by a tornado! The Kents used to be so nice!
So that’s what I thought about Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Nowhere near as bad as most critics said it was. It’s exactly what I expected. Batman v’s Superman, and it’s pretty cool. What more could you want? Besides maybe a little more Wonder Woman. I say go see it. And if there were any chance of that, you probably already have or have made plans to. But I’m gonna take credit for it. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice gets “That son of a bitch brought the war to us” out of “I thought she was with you.”
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The Walking Dead: Season Two (2011)
Am I the Only One Zen Around Here?
Season one of The Walking Dead was so good, I couldn’t help but continue. Especially since I knew that season four was starting. Truth be told, season four has already started by this point, and I’ve already caught up and readied myself to start the fourth season, but I’ve resolved to finish putting out the reviews before I start watching. So let’s rush through this, shall we? I had a little bit of trepidation before starting season two even though season one was so good because I had heard this was slow and more about human interaction than zombies. Let’s see what I thought as I review The Walking Dead: Season Two, based on the graphic novel series by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard, developed for TV by Frank Darabont, and starring Andrew Lincoln, Jon Bernthal, Sarah Wayne Callies, Scott Wilson, Steven Yeun, Lauren Cohan, Laurie Holden, Jeffrey DeMunn, Emily Kinney, Chandler Riggs, Norman Reedus, Melissa McBride, IronE Singleton, Madison Lintz, Pruitt Taylor Vince, and Michael Zegen.
After the CDC turned out to be a bust, Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and his group set off for Fort Benning. On the way, the group gets stuck in dead car traffic and must hide while a large group of walkers passes through the area like a herd. In the confusion, Carol (Melissa McBride)’s daughter, Sophia (Madison Lintz), is chased into the woods by walkers. While searching for her, Rick’s son, Carl (Chandler Riggs) is accidently shot by a local farmer named Otis (Pruitt Taylor Vince). Otis hurries them back to the farm of Hershel Greene (Scott Wilson), a former veterinarian, who attempts to fix Carl up. Lacking the necessary supplies, Rick’s former partner Shane Walsh (Jon Bernthal) sets off to find them with Otis while the rest of the group continues their search for Sophia.
Y’all people be trippin’! This season didn’t seem to suffer in my opinion at all. I guess people complained that there wasn’t enough action in this season and that it was too much about interpersonal relationships. …Who cares? The show is awesome BECAUSE of that stuff, not in spite of it! I don’t think I’d be that into this show if it was all mindless action and zombie killing. They need some of that (and they get plenty enough for me) but I like it better because it’s more about the human interactions than just the zombies. So anyone that told me that is a stupid jerk and I hate you. The Sophia situation kind of slowed things down in the lives of the survivors, but I liked it on a human level. It probably would’ve been more effective if I hadn’t watched Chris Hardwick’s All-Star Celebrity Bowling before I saw this season, enabling me to put a few things together with a joke that he made to figure out exactly what the outcome of the situation would be about five episodes before it happened, but that’s really my fault for not having watched a great show earlier. I was still able to get angry early on when that dumb little bitch ran off in the first place. I don’t want to sound harsh or anything, but maybe she deserves to die in order to punish Carol for not raising her daughter to listen to what adults tell her while trying to save her life, or for running off in the first place when the herd of zombies were about to pass by. And speaking of bad parenting, why the hell did Rick let Carl approach that reindeer? Even if he didn’t get shot while trying to pet it, that thing could have gored or kicked him to death pretty easily.
There were lots of very effective moments in this season as well. The entire scene of the zombie migration was intense and aptly handled. I also found myself crying, “OH NO!” out loud while Andrea pointed the rifle at Daryl. My love affair with this show could have ended right there if one of my least favorite characters on the show had killed my favorite character in her stupidity. I also really liked Daryl’s story about the Cherokee Rose. Later on, Beth drops a pretty heavy argument in favor of suicide. Her logic was strong on that one. It was also effective when Rick admitted he had killed Shane and that if anyone stuck around, it was going to be his way or the highway. It was like the “This is not a cheerocracy; this is a cheertatorship” speech from Not Another Teen Movie. I wish he had said it was now a zombtatorship and not a zombocracy. There were also a couple of moments that were less than effective. I was not at all surprised by the results of the pregnancy test. They wouldn’t even have included it if it was negative. That would’ve just been a giant waste of time. I think the reveal of what was in the barn wasn’t that much of a surprise either. Maybe when they got more specific about what was in the barn it was a surprise, but the general contents were not. The reason for locking them up in the barn seemed much stupider than was typical for Hershel, but I guess he wasn’t in his right mind about it.
I can’t really say much about the look of this show. Still great. That swimmer in the well was exactly as disgusting as it should’ve been, and the part where the walker was peeling off his face while trying to stick it through the hole in a windshield was pretty awesome.
All of the performances in the show remain fantastic. About half of the characters remain assholes. I didn’t have many thoughts about Rick this season. He may have spent too much time whining around his unconscious kid. I couldn’t really get behind how quickly he let Lori off the hook for cheating on him. Sure, she thought he was dead, but maybe take more than a month to mourn before moving on. Now that I think about it, that’s more of a complaint about Lori. And here’s a couple more! I hate that bitch so much! Not that I was on board with Shane through most of this season, but this bitch could have stopped dragging him along. Do you want him or not? “Stay away from my son!” “I’m so happy you risked your life for my son!” You don’t know what you want so much it’s like you’re a woman or something. Speaking of which, she’s also terrible at driving! She crashes a car and almost gets killed by walkers because she’s full on reading a map while driving. I assume she was on her way to pick up makeup that she could put on while driving on the way back. I got mad at her again when she was shitting on Hershel because he was trying to save her sons life and he was just a veterinarian. Alright, bitch. Go pick from one of the thousands of human doctors you have at your disposal. Animals basically function in the same manner as humans do, and you don’t have a whole lot of choices. The worst thing she did was getting pissy when Rick killed Shane. He was trying to kill him! Are you just mad because he narrowed down your options of men to cheat on him with? Now you have to start considering Hershel? I also don’t understand her logic in not wanting to let Carl learn how to shoot. I’m not saying let him carry around a gun all the time, but would you rather he get killed by walkers because he can’t hit shit? Speaking of which, Carl was a bit of a little shit in this season. Most of the time I couldn’t tell if he was gravitating more towards his dad or Shane. There’s even a point where we’re not sure if he’s going to shoot his dad or Shane. It was a good shot when he finally made it though. Of course, the little asshole is the cause of one of the nicer people on the show dying because this little asshole had to go and pester a trapped walker until it was able to free itself. Never really got on board with the Andrea character either. First off, she shot Daryl. She also sucked with a gun for most of the season, and she fucked Shane. I don’t think I disliked her enough to just forget she existed when abandoning the farm as the other survivors did, however. I don’t know what the kid’s name was, but I also thought the young kid that lived on the farm was a dumbass. Why didn’t he start driving off once Carl and Rick jumped onto the RV? Fuck letting them climb down while you wait so you can get eaten by walkers!
I do like a lot of the people in the show, however. Daryl is the best. He seems like such a nice guy under his gruff exterior, and he’s the most useful person in the group. He can track, his weapon can be used at any time, and he carries around a giant baggy of useful drugs. I loved how dedicated he was to finding Sophia, and I kind of hope he winds up with Carol. She looks like she needs a little lovin’. Glenn is also great, but I think my favorite thing about him is Maggie Greene. It’s about damned time I got to see some of that sexy ass Lauren Cohan! I also liked Otis, and I was pretty sad to see what happened to it. I wasn’t surprised by it because that Shane is a piece of shit, but I was sad. Hershel was also very likeable, especially since he was supportive of Glenn’s relationship with Maggie. I wasn’t expecting that conversation to go that way. She wasn’t named in this season, but the lady with the samurai sword seems like she’s gonna be my jams. That’s exactly how I’d roll in the zombie apocalypse.
Season two of The Walking Dead was every bit as enjoyable to me as the first season. I suppose if all you want out of a series is random glory shots of zombie’s heads exploding then you might find the human drama a little boring. I would also find you a little boring. The only problems I’ve had with this series so far are that some of the characters are assholes and idiots. But I only hate those characters, not the performers. They are also awesome. And I suppose the show wouldn’t be as interesting if there weren’t some assholes for me to want dead. Check this season out on Netflix. I already purchased it. Moving on to season three as soon as possible. The Walking Dead season two gets “Merle Dixon’s clap is the best thing that ever happened to you” out of “If I hadn’t done what I did, you would be dead now.”
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