Starting it again. I fell asleep at two hours last night.
This is an ordeal.
Its character driven, and they spend a lot of necessary time with the characters to get the payoff Marvel movies get because they make so many movies. WB interferes too much with DC Films, while Disney knows well enough to mostly leave Marvel Studios alone.
DC Comics have traditionally let creative talent tell new stories about their iconic characters, while Marvel focused on creating a cohesive NY fairy tale world.
The same strategies work best in the movies too. Captain America wasn’t going to carry a trilogy by himself... the third movie is basically an Avengers movie. Gwynneth Paltrow couldn’t even keep straight the names of Marvel movies she played in because from her perspective they were Avengers or Iron Man stories.
Meanwhile Nolan’s Batman was the best the genre has ever achieved, and it was.very much a solo superhero world.
Snyder’s Superman was average, and then the studio tried to mutate Snyder’s plan for the sequels into an extended universe. Big mistake. It might have worked had they created movies for individual superheroes first before introducing the Justice League.
The 4 hour movie is the next best thing, and it’s well done.
