Yeah, I really didn't notice any of the product placement this time around either...
Printable View
Yeah, I really didn't notice any of the product placement this time around either...
I rarely ever notice product placement in films, and I did once for both of these films. Strangely enough, both instances involved Lois Lane. MoS had her climbing the ice cave and then placed the camera in such a perfect close-up. BvS is during the bathtub scene where her shampoo bottle was distractingly blaring its brand right behind her.
Opening flashback sequence played like a commercial for whatever 2016 SUV Wayne was driving... the shampoo Peng mentioned... the long zoom into the Aston Martin logo on Wayne's vintage car... I can't remember precisely what the others were, but I remember there being at least two or three more.
It was a perfect encapsulation of Zack Snyder's worldview, though, that his interpretation of Smallville, which is supposed to be the quintessential nice folksy American small town, has its Main Street a row of IHOP, Sears, and Wal-Mart.
I guess it was the senseless attention the small brands got, which were jarring in the context of the film. I've come to expect branded buildings in Hollywood blockbusters.
Just got back, and agree this was bad. I mean, I generally don't care for superhero films anyway (still haven't seen the latest Cpt America or Avengers), but I do like Batman for the most part. The slow motion was too much, the story was too hard to follow, and never really gave me a reason to care. Not only that, but it's already been touched on in this thread about the []That was so utterly stupid that I stopped caring about anything but when the movie would end, and it was like another 30 minutes of "action" and "excitement" before the conclusion. []
Ha. Sad Affleck is amazing. Coming off a string of critical hits, this has to be pretty rough.
I just remembered the funniest line in the movie. When Batman just randomly tells Wonder Woman that they're in an evacuated neighborhood, right before fighting Doomsday and blowing the whole place up. I chuckled because that concern is so at odds with how much casualty there were in the first two hours of the movie. I couldn't help imagining a subliminal image of Snyder just dusting off his hands and then waving two middle fingers.
still better than The Dark Knight Rises
whoops. yeah, what he said!
No to both of those posts.
It's not better than most films that I can recall right now.
This literally felt like I was watching the superhero equivalent of True Detective’s second season. As awesome as the final big action sequence, Jeremy Irons and the score were, and the use of newscasts is a solid homage to The Dark Knight Returns. . .this was an absolute slog. If the movie was trying to make the viewer pick a side in the five-minute fight between our heroes, it would've helped to have made them a little likable and less brooding or hyperviolent. What little “humorous” banter there is doesn’t feel organic to the story, and neither do scenes that only serve the purpose of screaming “THIS WILL MEAN SOMETHING IN ONE OF OUR NEXT FOUR MOVIES”, which stick out like a sore thumb. It tries too hard to add thought-provoking substance with its heavy handed metaphors, the characters' motivations change at the drop of a line, and why is Wonder Woman in this movie again? Ugh.
I thought about this a bit, as I do think aside from her hilarious theme music she's maybe the most interesting presence in the movie despite her lack of real function. I think honestly the script just needed []
In other news, this will make around $170 million this weekend so there's a good chance the filmmakers and the studio will just shirk off its critics as "lolhaters" and learn nothing from its totally valid maligned response! Yaayyy!
In case anyone hadn't seen this:
Quote:
Originally Posted by Armond White
Well I won't pay to watch this again. Wonder Woman came off very well. Batfleck came off aight. Eisenberg was a big fat no. That trailer gave everything away. Lots of silliness. No big sequences that we didn't see in the trailers, so I came away feeling like I just watched a longer trailer. No really big "wow!" sequences that we hadn't really already seen. Unfortunate.