Snowflake Day 3
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lightofdayeIn your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
So a lot of different things flitted through my head for this. HP. Star Trek Beyond, an episode of Star TRek or Avatar Franchises, Marvel's Avengers Film (the circle shot!) and Batman Beyond: Return of The Joker but the first one I thought of and eventually settled on was:
Justice League
The 2017 live action movie. The 5th(!) movie of the DCEU. It happens to be the one DCEU movie I own on DVD and my favourite of the lot. Now I am a fan of both Marvel and DC and I shall try to avoid talking too much about the MCU or the rest of the DCEU but some comparisons are inevitable.
Now JL is fairly formulaic as these things go. There is an alien invasion to reform three macguffins that will cause an apocalypse. A team of superheroes gather to stop him, they don't get along at first but then they do, big fight, the day is saved!
So why reccomend it? Because of scenes like this:
Unlike BvS, Batman here is not an asshole. He doesn't rant or rave or insult or threaten Flash. He, in a gruff and laconic way, understands; being a superhero is scary thing to attempt and really fighting alien monsters is tough. He gives Flash a task that can help and that he can do and then trusts in Flash's innate goodness and heroism to keep Flash moving and helping.
That's a great take on Batman, who can be gruff and grim but at his core is a deeply caring and compassionate man and why he's batman. And of course this batman has trained at least one Robin. (I hope the common assumption the dead one is Jason Todd is correct and it's not Dick Grayson that died. I'd love to see a Affleck!Batman/Nightwing team up.)
And that's one example, there are lots of scenes littered about the film of the characters encouraging each and bonding and becoming friends. Avengers (2012) beats this film out in a lot of ways (including sadly spectacle, despite DC higher power levels) but I only most saw them as fire-forged, battle companions, not friends in the same way the JL seem to be. (CW's 'so was I' line from Tony's was undermined for me by the sure mileage the previous films got out of putting Tony and Steve at loggerheads)
The more cheerful upbeat rendition of Superman only heightens this fact.
Objectively, Justice League is only an okay film, but to me it's watchable, engaging and most importantly really seems to be sincerely trying to give me the JL and the characters I wanted to see in the DCEU and that means I will cut it a lot of benefit of the doubt.
So a lot of different things flitted through my head for this. HP. Star Trek Beyond, an episode of Star TRek or Avatar Franchises, Marvel's Avengers Film (the circle shot!) and Batman Beyond: Return of The Joker but the first one I thought of and eventually settled on was:
Justice League
The 2017 live action movie. The 5th(!) movie of the DCEU. It happens to be the one DCEU movie I own on DVD and my favourite of the lot. Now I am a fan of both Marvel and DC and I shall try to avoid talking too much about the MCU or the rest of the DCEU but some comparisons are inevitable.
Now JL is fairly formulaic as these things go. There is an alien invasion to reform three macguffins that will cause an apocalypse. A team of superheroes gather to stop him, they don't get along at first but then they do, big fight, the day is saved!
So why reccomend it? Because of scenes like this:
Unlike BvS, Batman here is not an asshole. He doesn't rant or rave or insult or threaten Flash. He, in a gruff and laconic way, understands; being a superhero is scary thing to attempt and really fighting alien monsters is tough. He gives Flash a task that can help and that he can do and then trusts in Flash's innate goodness and heroism to keep Flash moving and helping.
That's a great take on Batman, who can be gruff and grim but at his core is a deeply caring and compassionate man and why he's batman. And of course this batman has trained at least one Robin. (I hope the common assumption the dead one is Jason Todd is correct and it's not Dick Grayson that died. I'd love to see a Affleck!Batman/Nightwing team up.)
And that's one example, there are lots of scenes littered about the film of the characters encouraging each and bonding and becoming friends. Avengers (2012) beats this film out in a lot of ways (including sadly spectacle, despite DC higher power levels) but I only most saw them as fire-forged, battle companions, not friends in the same way the JL seem to be. (CW's 'so was I' line from Tony's was undermined for me by the sure mileage the previous films got out of putting Tony and Steve at loggerheads)
The more cheerful upbeat rendition of Superman only heightens this fact.
Objectively, Justice League is only an okay film, but to me it's watchable, engaging and most importantly really seems to be sincerely trying to give me the JL and the characters I wanted to see in the DCEU and that means I will cut it a lot of benefit of the doubt.
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Date: 2019-01-03 11:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-01-03 11:33 pm (UTC)Not that those films didn't have potential and some decent ideas but were tonally very different from what I hoped for.
I definitely know what you mean. I am more of a Marvel fan than a DC one but I like both, I don't go into any movie hoping it will suck and waste my time.
the sad thing...
Date: 2019-02-16 10:02 pm (UTC)scene like these are Gold and what the superheroes movies should strive for but studios are too caught of on 'drama! conflict! serious movies! that they forget that these characters are characters people look up to with hope (SPECIALLY due to current events)
if we wanted grimdark, we only need to watch the news
so i'm happy they're Finally pulling away from that and getting more balanced/positive interaction/characterization in movies.
Re: the sad thing...
Date: 2019-02-16 10:30 pm (UTC)