{"id":4570,"date":"2016-03-20T00:40:51","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T06:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.eastfist.com\/?p=4570"},"modified":"2016-03-20T00:40:51","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T06:40:51","slug":"batman-v-superman-dawn-of-justice-early-review-warning-spoilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/20\/batman-v-superman-dawn-of-justice-early-review-warning-spoilers\/","title":{"rendered":"Batman V Superman Dawn of Justice Early Review! Warning: Spoilers!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)<br \/>\nEarly Review<\/p>\n<p>Warning! Contains spoilers!<\/p>\n<p>By Chongchen Saelee<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Batman V Superman Official Early Review Warning Spoilers!!!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zMGmYwq3SaA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I went into Batman V Superman blindly with low expectations and I think it was super. I thought &#8220;Man of Steel&#8221; was satisfactory, but it wasn&#8217;t anything that was epic or memorable, other than the fact it was the biggest and most interesting interpretation of the Superman lore to date. Given time, even these darker more realistic phases will pass, and descendants of comic book movie fans will see it as a sign of the times. But that doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s not a thrilling piece of entertainment for now.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The movie is almost entirely focused on Batman. It starts out with typical crime in Gotham City sequence and we are introduced to The Batman. He&#8217;s this really dark and sadistic son of a bitch. After he dispenses justice on criminal element, he takes pleasure in leaving his calling card. Batman&#8217;s like full psycho in this, pretty much like Joker. And then, just like that, the in the next cut, he&#8217;s Bruce Wayne, waking up from a mad trip or something. It&#8217;s like he&#8217;s got split personalities and he doesn&#8217;t remember what he did last night, got too crunk or whatever. It&#8217;s a really interesting way to depict his psychosis.<\/p>\n<p>So Bruce Wayne has to fly to Metropolis to do his business thing and shit goes to hell because the buildings are collapsing and no one knows what the hell is going on. Of course, if you&#8217;ve seen &#8220;Man of Steel&#8221;, you already know it&#8217;s because Zod was fighting Superman. Wayne runs into the dust cloud while everyone runs away because that&#8217;s the kind of man he is.<\/p>\n<p>After the dust clears, Wayne&#8217;s building is in ruins and he looks up and sees Superman fly off and he&#8217;s pissed. So Wayne blames Superman for the death of thousands at that moment. The rest of the movie is Wayne investigating who Superman is and revealing more of his backstory as to why he became The Batman.<\/p>\n<p>And the movie pretty much cuts back and forth between Wayne and Clark. Clark is investigating a new &#8220;threat&#8221; in Gotham City called The Batman. Some really bad shit went down in Gotham earlier, domestic terrorism, which put the city in ruins. Of course, for those in the know, it was because of the events of Suicide Squad, where they took down the entire city in attempt to kill Batman. We know they failed, but Joker ends up killing Jason Todd in that event. And Dick Grayson, who is undercover, infiltrating the Suicide Squad, couldn&#8217;t help it. We know Batman gets villified because of Amanda Walker&#8217;s public relations campaign against him. That&#8217;s why Clark thinks Batman is bad guy too.<\/p>\n<p>By the time Lex Luthor, Jr., is introduced, the picture that is painted is Bruce Wayne is hot on the trail of Superman\/Clark Kent and Clark is hot on the trail of The Batman. All Lex has to do is very simple maneuver and pit them against each other.<\/p>\n<p>Lex Luthor&#8217;s motive is that he sees himself as the &#8220;people&#8217;s hero&#8221; and that he&#8217;s actually doing good because he&#8217;s anti-aliens. So naturally he&#8217;s against the most prominent alien Superman. He doesn&#8217;t like Wayne because he&#8217;s a business competitor. That&#8217;s why Lex doesn&#8217;t like Superman and Batman, so he&#8217;d rather they knock each other out. And then when he &#8220;saves&#8221; mankind, he gets even more respect from the &#8220;people&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s where Zod&#8217;s rotting corpse comes to play. Lex uses Zod&#8217;s DNA to build a weapon that&#8217;s suppose to fight the incoming alien invasion. In the process, Lex pricks his finger accidentally on a needle (so cliche) and gets infected with Zod&#8217;s DNA. He has his hand wrapped up like a villain. It turns out, wait for it, Lex is the one that transforms into Doomsday. Stage by stage. I think that&#8217;s why they make it clear this is Lex Luthor, Jr., is because they can kill this one off because the real Lex Luthor is still out there and he&#8217;s more bad-ass than this whiny beanpole. But that&#8217;s just me speculating. Anyway, Lex turns out to be Doomsday.<\/p>\n<p>Wonder Woman just appears in small scenes throughout the movie, but kind of weaves them all together, like hinting that there may be a bigger universe out there other than Metropolis and Gotham City. She seems very cultured and diplomatic. She has a motive too and that&#8217;s to retrieve ancient Amazonian weapons for impending fight with alien invasion. Wayne is in possession of some of the weapons like her lasso, sword, shield, bracelets. Wonder Woman, known only as Diana, is investigating LexCorp and the events of Metropolis. You get a sense she&#8217;s reporting back to someone. May it be Aquaman? Hint, hint.<\/p>\n<p>By the time the exposition info is setup, Doomsday is on the loose. The Earth goes into apocalypse mode. This is where you get cool montage of all the Justice Leaguers fighting all over the world. The fight pretty much levels the earth. Yes. They went there. And when the black smoke settles, like it can ever completely, Batman becomes even more weary and wary of this &#8220;alien&#8221; problem, even though these meta-humans just helped him fight off alien invasion. Aquaman invites Superman and Batman to join their &#8220;team&#8221;, they never mention Justice League, but Batman leaves them behind to fight alone.<\/p>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s a huge alien ship approaching in Earth&#8217;s orbit with Darkseid emblem on it. And that&#8217;s how the movie ends.<\/p>\n<p>So, you see, it&#8217;s typical popcorn flick. But that doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s bad. Just like Man of Steel, I&#8217;d have to give this a strong 80% out of 100. It&#8217;s still weird to me to see two buff ass men in body condoms on screen at same time. It may have work for Man of Steel because Superman was the only &#8220;special&#8221; person in the context, so seeing just him amongst all the &#8220;normal&#8221; humans made his body condom unique, it suspended my disbelief. But then you see Batman in a body condom next to Superman, and there&#8217;s like no explanation how he got the suit because it&#8217;s man-made. So how did Bruce Wayne come up with that idea if it&#8217;s not based on something before him? Anyway, that&#8217;s side-tracking.<\/p>\n<p>Batman V Superman is THE COMIC BOOK MOVIE of the past few decades because it is quite respectful of the source material and also very respectful of the art of filmmaking. It borderlines as a film. That&#8217;s saying a lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) Early Review Warning! Contains spoilers! By Chongchen Saelee Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I went into Batman V Superman blindly with low expectations and I think it was super. I thought &#8220;Man of Steel&#8221; was satisfactory, but it wasn&#8217;t anything that was epic or memorable, other than the fact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[256,276,679,681,809,1189,1701,2434,2902],"class_list":["post-4570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moviereviews","category-entertainment","tag-batman-v-superman","tag-ben-affleck","tag-dawn-of-justice","tag-dc","tag-early-review","tag-henry-cavill","tag-movie","tag-spoiler","tag-zack-snyder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}