I was watching the video on my PS4. When I saw that edit I had to come to my computer just to comment how good it was. I'm happy to see so many people appreciate Ben's top notch work.
The concept of Superman walking into a room and, doglike, becoming transfixed by the stink of piss and knowing there’s a jar of it in the room with him is the funniest shit I’ve ever heard in months
I really wish Lex Luther was the manic, socially awkward mess in public, but behind the scenes he's calm and collected, classic Lex Luther genius who is a genuine threat instead of just being a psychotic mess all the time
If you want to see how lex Luthor should be portrayed, read Superman: American Alien. There isn’t too much of him in it, but the scenes with lex are so well written and paint a perfect picture of him
I never take my shoes off when climbing in the tub. Have I been doing it wrong this whole time? And I never take my clothes off when doing my washing either. I just climb into my washing machine with my clothes still on, that's what I thought scuba gear was for. Have I been doing that wrong as well?
You underestimate the amount of piss that comes in one session. Try it sometime. You'd probably be closer to overflowing the jar than not filling it up lol
I can’t be the only one that was sad they didn’t say “They punch for a bit, then they’re mates.” That and “MAD GHOST!” Are my favorite quotes from these two.
MAD GHOST!!! (Sorry, in my head-canon of the Weekly Planet-iverse it's bad luck if when someone yells "MAD GHOST!" someone else doesn't instantly yell "MAD GHOST!" back at them.) Btw, my favourite quote is by Mason in reference to fans of this exact movie: "That's fine..., fine. You're wrong, but it's fine. It's COOL..., but it's wrong, but it's fine. If you thought the movie meshed well you're wrong, but it's cool, but you're fine..... Jeez, we're gonna have to do this forever, aren't we?" (All said with a tone of unutterably weary resignation.)
ikr if he had just said "save my mom" it would have humanised him more, whilst not necessitating that against all odds Batman and Superman's mothers have the same name. I know they've both been called Martha in various comics, but that doesn't justify this dumb decision.
@@filbencs5098 it isn:t the same, I only have one mom, there are millions of actors, if I just say ‘the actor’ yiu won’t know who I’m talking about, if I say ‘my mom’ you’ll know, ya just gotta figure out who my mom is, and to do that it would be safe to assume you could ask one of my friends, or literally anyone else associated with me
A bit of extra insight on the red/blue eyes symbolism: The original batman suit eyes were supposed to be green. However, the glow was added in post (pure CG) and they had a lot of problems getting the green hues to render properly, so they made the decision to change it to blue which showed up a lot better. This led to the movies working title, Blue Harvest.
This is my favorite CoG. So many hilarious moments. "Just smuggle it in, mate. You're already done those murders." "What's he gonna do? Kill Superman again?" "HE'S STILL OUT THERE!"
“Never looked slower” “What love affair?” “This lex Corp bullet, who did this?” “How does he even put his shoes on?” “Well that’s the problem isn’t it?” Those, and so many more always get me too
@@bern9642 He didn’t really need too in that scenario. It would have made more sense if Wonder Woman wasn’t in the fight or got knocked out but they didn’t do that. But I think they shouldn’t have included Doomsday and should have saved it for a later film after more development and time with Superman
@@dylanburton4955 He probably meant the movie needed a "shock factor" from it being so god damn boring. And I agree doomsday should've been in the sequel. Doomsday was just a bad mistake for a bad movie, they should've made lex the villain all the way through then in the sequel have the doomsday and superman death, but hey its a dcu movie, bad choices are what they do
Can't wait for GvK, and the bit where Kong is about to punch Godzilla's head off but Godzilla stammers out "must...save...Mothra" and Kong reveals he's also best mates with her and they must team up to save her from Destroyah
Spoilers ahead: Lmao exactly what happened except it was godzilla on kong And there was no “save mothra” It was just godzilla roaring in pinned down kong’s face then godzilla just leaves him on the ground for no reason then goes to fight mechagodzilla
@@shumaatiqunnassa4123 Tbf, they are animals. I have no issue believing that Godzilla would just go off and fight another monster after beating another and forgetting to kill him lol
This didn't come up in the video so I thought I'd toss it here: it might be old-fashioned DC comic fan of me but I could never stand or get over the fact that Lex Luthor just *knows* both Batman and Superman's secret identities. He just HAS that information. We don't see him figure it out, we don't learn HOW he ever figured it out, the movie just all of a sudden is like "oh yeah by the way, Lex knows who both of these guys are". Which makes it feel pointless that they were ever hiding their identities in the first place?? And by not-showing us any scene(s) wherein he earns that knowledge, it does nothing to make Luthor seem actively more dangerous. They might as well just say Luthor was born with a super power where he can figure out someone's identity because that's just as hollow.
He has shit on Lois Lane. What did she spend most of Man Of Steel doing? Finding out who Superman is... As for Batman, it's not difficult to follow a car to its hiding place if you can afford the technology to lure him out and then track it.
It's absolutely true! ...and now I need to adopt the head canon that Superman just doesn't mention the jar of piss to spare everyone's feelings. He was probably thinking, "Should I mention it? Nah, probably not. What are they gonna say if I do? 'Thanks Superman, I know. That's my sentimental piss jar, actually.'"
He's a cave troll. He looks almost identical to the cave troll from LOTR. Well...., if the cave troll got REALLY into CrossFit: images.app.goo.gl/1LaxPYzUAShw1TxE6
I think this would be regarded as one of the best movies ever if for some reason Snyder was really actuate to comics jimmy, like everyone is dark and brooding, then there’s jimmy with his bright argyle sweaters
@@nosausepizzaboy1904 yeah, I do like this movie, specifically the extended cut, but jimmy olsen could’ve had a really genuinely interesting role if handled correctly
@@nosausepizzaboy1904 I think it should be more like this: Superman should be the bright-eyed hopeful character and he influences people around him. despite the world being a dark place, SUPERMAN IS THE LIGHT! Olsen could have had a rough background, taking things out on the world, but Superman brings the best of him out. so over the course of the film, Olsen becomes that bright character we know him as. He should have been the emo creative type, that decides to see the goodness in the world through photography.
The editing is phenomenal Ben! The Lex Luthor noise cuts are hilarious. They turned a powerful, threatening villain(comics) into a cringey, live-action, Daffy Duck.
Oh he was threatening for sure though. Cause I remember a movie where he killed many government agents, blamed superman, blew capital building, framed superman, pissed off batman into fighting superman, blamed superman and in the end, killed superman
No, they just exposed that he was a cringey Daffy Duck the whole time. The kind of threat that he exuded in the film was more akin to a sexual predator and rapist.
@@DivvayKhatri But not because it made any logical or reasonable sense for any of that to happen because of his actions though. It only happened because the writer wanted it to happen. That is why this film left us scratching our heads so much. There were too many, "Wait... what?" kind of moments that the writer used to move the story along. The reason they are fighting makes no sense other than the writer wants them to fight. The reason they stop fighting makes even less sense other than the writer wanted them to stop fighting. Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor was never threatening in the least in this movie. At least he should never have been a threat to Superman. The only reason he was is because Chris Terrio said he was. Not because it made any sense at all. He seemed more like he should have been a creepy serial rapist than anything else.
@@ScaryMason Yes! it makes so much sense for him to be the Riddler. This movie was SUCH a letdown, we ALMOST walked out. We are such fans of the comics and the animated series/movies, but the DC live action movies are in constant struggle-mode!! Zach Snyder should NOT have been given Superman to start the DCEU, Warner Bros. should've let him do a LOBO movie with his style.
Freekofnayture wow you Snyder fanboys are the worst first of all it’s called and opinion and second Zach can’t make a decent movie even when he tries his best so please don’t be rude because your director is garbage
Snyder is more of a visual director, his movies may suck but they look really good, i think that if you give him a really good script, he'll make a great movie.
“A drunk fight in the parking lot ” is the perfect summation of this movie. It’s just two blokes, blind to the pleas of their friends saying it’s not worth it, clumsily kicking and punching in the middle distance until a bouncer breaks them up and they team up to kick the shit out of him. I don’t know who Wonder Woman is in this allegory but the Martha moment is that moment when you’re absolutely shit-faced and tell your mates you love em. That Martha scene in general makes a lot more sense if you imagine them pissed
Shall I direct you to the nearest 3 hour long "analysis" video about how the Martha scene makes perfectest of senses if you read Infinite Crisis and Batman #171 which destroys haters with facts, stone-cold, hard-hitting truth, and logic? Because there are lots of those videos, you know... -_-
The Ultimate Edition is definitely better than the standard edition. That being said, both aren’t great but the Ultimate Edition definitely helped me like it more
William Wright The ultimate edition did clear up major plot holes in theatrical cut, such as how superman was framed, how superman did not see the explosive in the court house and shots of clark kent in Gotham actually being a journalist and displaying his growing feud with a batman who crossed the line he swore he world never cross. My only problem with the film is Lex luthor’s performance and the fact that Batman kills
@@WillWright-lx4hf more fledged out Africa scene which makes it sensical, more character development for Clark along with providing him motivations against batman, more fledged out lex's plan and more proof that batman is broken and different and also the fact that he's changed. I call that huge improvement. I love the ultimate edition
Speaking of Clark not knowing who Bruce Wayne is. In both Superman the animated series and Justice League War, Superman uses his X-ray vision to look through Batman’s mask and instantly recognizes Bruce Wayne. It’s just kinda weird that Zach Snyder decided to do things this way
Because zack Snyder doesn’t use his brain when it comes to the story points of his movies. Just look at his version of justice league. You’ve got darkseid fucking just forgetting about the only planet he lost on, where he lost his most prized possessions at, where his entire main goal is. And then Snyder fumbles over this batshit excuse as to why it happened. Then you have now a second movie where a word ending threat is taking place and Martian Manhunter was just chilling like “oh I hope you guys can do it!”
@@codybarlik4524 In fairness that's clearly just because the Darkseid and Martian Manhunter stuff was something they devised specifically for the 2021 Snyder Cut and they're obviously lying when they say that was the plan from the beginning.
@@videogamenostalgia idk man, they released a comic book a few years ago that is a tie in for the snyderverse and it revealed that Martian Manhunter was general swannick the whole time. And BVS had that stupid fucking nightmare sequence that showed earth being controlled by Darkseid with Superman being his enforcer. I truly think Snyder’s vision for the DCEU was just THAT bad lol
This is what I've been saying since this movie came out, cut Eisenberg Lex out of the movie, shave Affleck's head and call him Lex, you've just improved the movie in so many ways. You don't have all the weight of having to introduce and establish a brand new Batman and you don't have to have them be friends at the end. Lex makes a suit to fight Superman in the comics so you have to change almost nothing until the Martha scene which you conveniently side step entirely.
@@alexanderforbes1452I thought the same thing, even about turning armoured Batman into Lex in his power suit. You just have Martian Manhunter save Clark as Lex is about kill him with the kryptonite spear.
YES. Luthor, in his best interpretations, is actually right about most things but has a few crucial personality flaws. He's basically Bruce Wayne but more egotistical and fundamentally selfish. The character is most interesting to me when Lex is actually heroic in a certain perspective, which the beginning of BvS would be the perfect set-up for.
Having finally seen Godzilla v Kong, I can say that they REALLY dropped the ball with BvS when Kong and freaking Godzilla had more sense and emotional intelligence than Bruce and Clark here
@@tmac731honestly if you think about he's actually right, heck they even gave 2 movies to Godzilla and 1 to Kong previous to their matchup that even gave them solid character development, to giant monsters that can't even speak, and it worked
@@tmac731 not really, the whole ordeal is about getting the titular characters to fight; but Superman could've avoided it entirely, had plenty of chances to talk to Batman about what's going on; and Batman is a complete idiot that doesn't know Superman's got a mom? It's super contrived, you can clearly tell they wrote the fight first and then wrote whatever around it.
@@TIMMUT17 Which Snyder has said that's not the "real" Doomsday lol. Which has to be covering for Doomsday looking like shit, and barley being a character yet killing Superman. Why would you have a "fake" Doomsday kill superman? But yes Bizaro would make more sense. This Doomsday is a cave troll from LOTR. It's shit
Although, maybe he smells every full bladder and unflushed toilet in a 5 mile radius ALL THE TIME. When you think of all the things he would have to concentrate on ignoring because of his heightened senses, I'm certain he's very happy to be a fictional character.
I remember going to the midnight for this with a friend, after the first five minutes (The death of the Wayne's and Bruce in Metropolis) she whispers in my ear (I love this film already), about fifteen minutes later she was struggling to stay awake, I've never seen a film unhook someone so quick.
Even though I didn't want to see the Wayne parents get killed again I remember thinking this looks really good. However as soon as Bruce starts rising with the bats I knew was in for trouble
I dont care about the aesthetic of seeing his parents die if its stylized or what have you because its predictable. We already know his parents got killed...
Hey I also went to the Midnight showcase it was bloody awesome. But I was letdown with JL they should have went with Injustice mixed with Darkseid . I was so tired the day after and my then manger gave me a half day off to leave early.
I remember the first twenty minutes of this movie being awesome, then when Superman just let Jimmy Olsen die in Africa the whole film just took a massive nose dive.
Apart from "because Lex Luthor" why did they shave his head before he went to prison? He wasn't joining the army. There's no grooming requirements required to go to prison. Then at the end of Justice League he still has a shaved head. Why didn't he grow it back?
I vividly remember that before the movie came out Snyder said the worst change that fans will complain about is that Gotham and Metropolis are next to each other. No one cared about that. I don't think I heard a single complaint about that.
It was an early sign though that they were going to rush this movie, they only did that so they can conveniently have B and S interact throughout the movie easily by shortening the distance between them But you're right after the movie came out it was a tiny complaint compared to everything else lol
I always say that there should’ve been a Man of Steel 2 that addresses the Metropolis stuff and Superman’s personal ethos to learn to not kill and to inspire hope. That way by the end of the movie you can establish that the citizens love Superman (maybe make the final villain a Metallo or something and superman saves the day without any destruction). Then you can totally understand Superman’s side so that the BvS conflict can be established based on a deeper understanding of the characters
Issue was Zack never wanted to show the heroes as heroes, he wanted to depict them at the worst points of their lives and with their morals destroyed to set up a Injustice style story
Thats totally what they should have done, you could rework the movie and combine Lex and Batmans character into one guy, then have the wheelchair dude a more fleshed out character and eventually become metallo for the end of the fight, then have Bruce Wayne as a cameo interacting with Lex towards the end of the movie or something and set up a more fleshed out B&S movie.
Mr Critical well here’s my view on that. At the end of this theoretical Man of Steel 2 the world sees Superman as a god and a beacon of hope and all that. Batman’s conflict can be something like “if the people see you as perfect they’ll follow you even if you do something evil and it’s one bad turn away from fascism” which I think is still sorta in line with Batman’s line of reasoning in this movie before it becomes a pissing match of miscommunication. Cause nothing makes it less satisfying than it being a fight Lex set up than a legitimate fight of their personal morals.
R A I say keep Lex in the background of Man of Steel 2 but have him build Metallo and the bullet Lois is inspecting in BvS is actually a piece of Metallo left over after Superman destroyed him that brings her back to LexCorp in a more meaningful way
BvS had some decent ideas. But they tried to cram 5 different movies into one: Batman Vs Superman, Lex Luthor being introduced, Justice League, Doomsday/ Death of Superman. The initial idea of Lex Luthor tricking Batman and Superman into fighting is good. Lex figuring out both of their secret identities off screen before his appearance is kind of dumb. This version of Lex is awful, and they try to justify it by saying "no no.. this is lex Junior", why would I want that? Why give me a character who is in no way similar to the original, but expected to fill the same role.If you have to have the justice league tie in, just make it a post-credits scene. Doomsday should have either been Man of Steel 2, or the focus of Justice League ending in Supermans death, that way the characters who know superman could realistically be shocked by it. Not a big fan of the "this is a batman who kills", that defeats the whole purpose.. Also if they had focused more on setting up a real reason for Batman and Superman to fight, and had previous fights (like had been mentioned, where batman realizes he is no match). It just feels like they tried too hard to both set up a cinematic universe, which never works when ever someone tries too hard to force it, and catch up with marvel. I'm not saying Marvel is the only formula that can work, but it is the only one that has worked so far. You cant jump straight into the big team up movie. It is a long process, but seems to have worked out pretty well for marvel. You don't have to do a movie for every single character, but you cant have a Superman move, then a Batman/ Superman crossover (with very forced character introductions), then the big team up.
It's a storylinr and a character from the dark knight returns, a character from superman 52 and another from superman birthright (lex), a storyline called the death of superman. 2 storylines and use of 3 comics is a lot? Idk what's dumb in lex finding out the identities. I don't care about lex a lot. I thought he was new and a breath of fresh air but nothing special at all. Doomsday showing up in this movie only disturbs it cause you know who he is. It's not your fault that you know the comics, but it is your fault that you think this is I'll timed. This is not what the writers wrote. This is what happened in the universe. Do you cry the same way when something odd or different happens in mcu? As for batman, he does kills some times in tdkr but I don't care. His core is still present and he's defeated, and dealt with shit ton of stuff. It's in the dialogues and more fledged out in the ultimate edition. And he does come back in the end after Superman's sacrifice inspires him. As of jumping straight into a team up movie, jl for me is not canon cause it's shot and the Snyder cut (3.5-4 hours long) is coming. I'll judge it there and then but it is no rule to follow the marvel formula of timelines. Btw batman was introduced properly in bvs itself
It’s Zack Snyder and WB trying to desperately catch up with marvel. They want to go balls to the walls with cameos and character introductions and set ups for other movies that are never going to happen. They focus on making sure they can jam all that shit in as opposed to making sure it’s well written and introduced in a coherent and meaningful way. Imo, they should’ve started the DCEU with a justice league movie as a quick intro to main players, focus on having them learn to work as a team while they fight steppenwolf. Then work on giving them their own movies that flesh them out eventually coinciding to darkseid arriving on earth and them testing the limits of their abilities and trust in one another. But instead they wanted to copy marvel but RUSH to get there
@@DivvayKhatri There should have been a Man of Steel 2, a Batman solo film and a Wonder Woman solo film and then Batman V Superman. There would be more time to get to know all the characters before this crossover. The Batman solo film would have been a good way of showing how he became the more brutal version of himself The death of superman feels very unearned because we haven’t really spent much time with this version of Superman and it feels rushed to do it straight after his first solo film All those comics could have truly great live action adaptions but here it’s just so half arsed and crammed in with so much other stuff, his death could have been easily avoided too. Wonder Woman could have easily done it, an easy fix for that would be for Wonder Woman to just not be in the film or have her be knocked out by Doomsday
Not an apologist for this film at all but I’ve always perceived the “I thought she was with you” line as batman assuming that Wonder Woman was Kryptonian since her and superman have similar powers.
But he never saw her in action did he? He only saw the picture, since weren't like 100 years that she was inactive? Or he thinks that longevity is another kryptonian superpower?
Krin I assumed since she dropped out of the sky in a super suit with and ancient sword and shield willing to fight doomsday? I might just be putting my own thoughts into it
No, I think the simple truth is that it was a great line for the trailer so they just kept it in the movie. In the context of the trailer, it was a great line. But for the movie, it's bad.
@@eternalblessing4984 nah, it turns out that when you take a film which is fascinating for the immaculate pace at which it makes baffling, terrible decisions, and you tack on a bunch of extra runtime, the whole thing just collapses into a boring slog.
Maybe because they have other plans for jl? They were actually going injustice for justice league 1 but now we'll get it in jl 2 or 3 who knows. I don't mind using these story lines like this as long as it's something new and sensible. I also appreciate the realistic approach
Maybe the jar of piss was really Zach Snyder's way of telling the true fans how to make it through all of his excessively long movies without having to leave the theater
my favourite part of bvs is that lex luthor hides the wheelchair bomb behind some lead so that superman doesn’t see it... despite the fact that in neither that movie nor man of steel is it established that this superman can’t see through lead? like how did lex know clark’s powers better than clark?
The story picks up right after MOS ,was it established that the people know superman has the ability to see through objects and specifically XRay vision
@@neilbreen371 The general public might not know, but it's not a long stretch to think Lex Luthor found out. After all, X-rays are radioactive and probably not that hard to detect by a guy like Lex, not to mention he had acces to the kriptonian ship and was able to study Zod's body for a long time.
Never in the movie are they shown as friends or anything. Batman just says it once to martha in order to make her feel better. Now I'm not sure if you were joking or not but it's really not helping because that's what the movie's backlash was. Unnecessary jokes on the movie
But why does Lex blow up Mercy Graves?! Honestly , probably the same reason Snyder killed off Jimmy Olsen. No idea what to do with the character going forward
@@night6724 Marvel at least got its core heroes right. Under Snyder, Superman became a charmless stick in the mud, Batman became a complete psychopath, Flash became an obnoxious fanboy (though Whedon may bear some of the blame for that), Aquaman became a block-headed surfer jock, and Lex Luthor became an insufferable twitchy cartoon. Batman is my absolute favorite superhero, and he is nowhere to be found in this film. Whoever this guy dressed as a bat is, he has a complete disregard for human life. I'm not going to act like Mercy Graves and Jimmy Olsen are characters I'm dying to see "done right", but the fact that they're technically in the film just for Snyder to kill them off speaks to the overall middle finger attitude he has toward the fanbase.
@Graham Norwood There are plenty of good DC movies, in it's only in the last decade that we had some real stinkers thanks to Warner Brothers's incompetence.
The last part with Excalibur sums it up perfectly about Snyder's vision of superheroes movies. He is on the right track, he can implement complicated themes to mundane oversaturated superhero movies, but while trying too hard to make movies "seem" or "feel" deep, he forgot the fundamental core values of his characters. Every scene has its cool themes and easter eggs, and then some nice visuals. But in the end, when Snyder has to combine all these sophisticated mumbo jumbos together, it feels awkward, long, and tiring to watch and keep track. We weren't going to remember much by the in of the movie and to be honest, Snyder also probably didn't.
Another Excalibur reference: The Arthur's death by Mordred spear. Arthur push the spear though his own chest to reach Mordred with his sword. Superman did the same to kill Doomsday in the final climax.
Cool, I bet if Arthur had a super powered lady 3 feet away that could probably do it better....well he'd wonder what a woman was doing on the battlefield because it was the middle ages....but once he got past that he'd hand it to her and have her kill Mordred lol
@@doomstadt2371 but WW was already close to Zodsday and restraining him. Did you want Superman to stop by her for a chat, hand over the spear (thus releasing the rope) and then go to battle?
I've debated that with myself before as well and am conflicted as while Lucius would be a great pick, he is typically a holdover associate of Thomas's and around his age. With Bruce at about 45 in this that would make Lucius ancient and unlikely to still be around in a serious day-to-day managerial position. A good compromise could have been Luke Fox, but that hits on the same issue as the audience doesn't know him, then again I suppose a way could have been worked in for someone to call him Mr. Fox in addition to Bruce calling him Luke (it could actually substantially add to it as that would mean they'd have been childhood friends who grew up together); but all in all this has never really bothered me to much as it's a pretty minor nitpick.
Martin Sevcech Exactly, they should have chosen somebody the audience already knows about. That would have made it even more compelling, whether it was Lucius Fox or not.
Lex: (uses his wiles and influence to gain access to ship, gain access to Zod, gain access to gestation interface, and... just kinda *hopes* that this random cocktail of Zod stuff, deformed stuff, and Luthorblood will be an obedient mutant thing)
@@JamesWVanFleet " Lex: (bombs Senate building, kidnaps Lois and Martha, and... just kinda hopes that Bruce picks this exact night to fight Superman) " He gives the order to kidnap Lois after Batman is calling on Superman. Hence Luthors line: "The night(Knight) is here". Also both Luthor and Batman knows Superman is away. facebook.com/watch/?v=1813850978890406 th-cam.com/video/mfYDSCJC6xE/w-d-xo.html Also the "it did not take much to push him over. Big bang, red notes.." etc. th-cam.com/video/1DyD2jrWjFM/w-d-xo.html " Lex: (uses his wiles and influence to gain access to ship, gain access to Zod, gain access to gestation interface, and... just kinda hopes that this random cocktail of Zod stuff, deformed stuff, and Luthorblood will be an obedient mutant thing) " When did he "kinda hope" that? He had no idea about it until he asked the computer for information. It's obvious that he asked(off screen) the computer for a weapon/being to kill Superman. "the archieves contains information etc" "Good TEACH ME" th-cam.com/video/xsBBryVv06c/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/xsBBryVv06c/w-d-xo.html Notice the countdown? "Born to destroy you" The movie shows everything and gives every information to you. How did you miss this?
@@The80sWolf_ I know right. Everything has a meaning it it. Every sentence said is important. Then the critics bashed it. It shows how ineffective the critics are and how they don't pay attention to small details.
You know, I think I've done something no one's ever done in researching this movie. I read Clark's obituary. Apparently, he's an award-winning journalist. It brings up so many more questions to light.
I know it's insanely nitpicky but does Clark have a degree in journalism? The guy goes from working on a fishing boat to bussing tables at a diner to a digger on an excavation site and finally as an award-winning journalist at the local newspaper. Oh yeah, and he doesn't recognize the richest man in town.
@@ANewShadeOfBlue -- Even with her clout he'd still have to be a decent journalist to keep his job as this version of Perry doesn't seem to be the kind that suffers fools. But this exchange has me thinking: for all of Superman's powers he's not super smart. Aside from leaping tall buildings, speed of a bullet and power of a locomotive there's nothing in the Superman mythos that speaks to his ability to out-think his opponents. That moniker is usually associated with Batman, who's normally regarded as the world's greatest detective (something he fails to be in the Snyder universe) but Superman is by all accounts a man with god-like powers but not any smarter than the AverageMan. In fact it's usually Lex Luthor who outsmarts Superman on a regular basis. But maybe that's part of Superman's appeal. He's certainly not dumb but his powers, for as great as they are, don't extend to his comprehension or intellect.
If you want to dive into other continuities, there are a few that also depict him as super intelligent, but the appeal for me was always that he’s basically an average small town guy who likes to help people, and he just so happens to have the power of a god. I don’t remember which incarnation it was, but in one story Clark admitted that the reason he loves journalism so much is because writing is one of the few things he doesn’t have a natural advantage in. He takes more pride in being a good reporter than being Superman because he feels the former was earned. I think that’s the reason I was disappointed by BvS. I was hoping to get more insight into Clark as a person instead of just a symbol or an allegory.
@@incredibilistic Its funny because superman has at least 8th level intellect so he technically the smartest being on earth if not one of the smartest, He probably views our technology as primitve especially when he sees what krptons were using but yeh for the plot he cant be smarter than cerain guys otherwise they would be useless.
*"I WON'T BE CIVIL!"* That being said, it felt like this film is just a bunch of beautifully choreographed scenes with great cinematography, just strung by some weird plot of "quick summary of some comic".
Yeah thats a good assessment, I won't argue with people who say the film looks amazing because it does, but the plot just rushes through too many plot points too quickly and leaves a lot to be desired
@@itsgeegra The action scenes look great, but anything else is really ugly. The colours are extremely muted, which was very clearly done in post if you look at the lights of some scenes.
@@thomascoleing6467 the action is defs better than MoS, I think that might be the poorest direction in Zack's ouvre - there's shakycam digital zoom every 10 seconds in the fights and it's fucking terrible to look at
I honestly cannot believe how long this movie is, it feels like I’m watching paint dry, and halfway through when the music starts building up and lex Luther is making doomsday, everyone’s running about barman’s discovered the league, Lane has figured the mystery out, and I check the time expecting to find the climax, and there’s still bloody ONE HOUR AND TWENTY MINUTES LEFT
Lol this is the only movie I can think of where I spend most of the running time feeling like nothing's happening, then get to the end feeling like they crammed in too much
@@floydharper1216 Batman V Superman should have come much later, there should have been a Man of Steel sequel, a Batman film, maybe even a Wonder Woman film then do Batman V Superman, so much wouldn’t have had to be crammed in if they did it like that
@@floydharper1216 Its funny because alot of people think they didnt put enough and wanted clark fleshed out more, I watched it again today and it was honestly not too much.
You missed the Chris Terrio writing connection with “Mothers some how having to do with stopping a killing blow.” Leia stops Ben and some how makes him see the light. Martha stops Bruce and some how makes him see the light. Lol
I agree with this 100% That being said, reading "some how" that many times in such a small comment hurt me physically. (English isn't my native language, take this as a tip for improvement, I hope you don't feel offended)
Credit goes to Moviebob for this but he had a great idea to improve this movie. Take out Batman and just make Ben Affleck Lex Luthor. He hates Superman because he had a ground-level view of the destruction Superman caused in Man of Steel. He spends most of the movie making thinly veiled threats and trying to get his hands on some Kryptonite. Then, at the end, he builds a bulky metal suit and he and Superman have a punch up.
"Doomsday" looked like a shitty orc from Lord of the Rings or a shitty Ninja Turtle. I don't know what the hell the character designers were smoking when they said, "That's it! Perfect!"
To me it looks half done, like the artists had just built the frame for the animations and then Zack Snyder walks in and says "THAT'S PERFECT!" and stumbles back out again. I don't get why people think he's a good director. He's average at best and needs people to tell him no regularly.
@@andromidius because his movies are so deep and "the movie isn't bad, you're just not intelligent enough to get the deep symbolism of Snyder, no that's not the real Lex Luthor and Doomsday! He has a big plan for these movies that he totally isn't just making up as he goes along".
What are the 4 movies you're seeing exactly? The Justice League stuff is literally just a tease, nothing more. Doomsday is part of Lex's plan. The Africa sequence is part of Lex's plan. It all ties back to Lex, so I'm struggling to understand the argument that this film has too many subplots.
@@nlg070301 Dark knight returns Superman:Doomsday Injustice And most importantly: Doctor Lex Luthor: How I learned to stop worrying and loving the bald
@@StevenZephyc you've just listed some of the source material they used. It defeats the point of an adaptation if you strictly follow one comic book. It's like saying Batman Begins has too many plots because it has Falcone, Scarecrow and Ra's al Ghul.
@@Dagenspear perhaps but saying a film has too many plots simply because it blends different comic book interpretations is just not right. If it's like a Spider-Man 3/TASM2 situation I'd agree there's too many plots. But everything in BVS links together pretty well. At least in the Ultimate Edition it does. The only thing that feels out of place is the stupid email teaser and the knightmare sequence, but even the knightmare sequence works in showing Bruce's growing fear.
@@nlg070301 It's kind of a colorful exaggeration, but it is too much. For starters, you don't need Luthor. You just don't. Superman doesn't like Batman killing, and Batman fears Superman on an existential level so he wants him dead. That's enough. The movie is called Batman V Superman. There it is, the conflict. You don't need Luthor. Not just that, having Luthor hurts the conflict and so the movie Second, the Lois Lane plot. Totally useless. It only leads up to her being captured and you can do that without the investigation There are other things, but you get the point. It's an unfocused movie
"There is a point in this fight, were batman is reloading his grenade launcher ..." I had to pause and laugh after that XD because if that doesn't sum up the absurdity of this film I'm not sure what does.
It’s so stupid, Batman got very lucky when Supes used his super reflexes to catch the Gas Grenade instead of dodging it causing him to get gassed in the face. Batman should’ve reloaded straight away like he’s in a FPS, he’s supposed to be tactical.
@@kickhuggy you know, i was gonna say that that's a bit harsh, but yeah that lines up. the man has good ideas, it's just, how we get there is weird. i personally really liked man of steel/dawn of justice, justice league we haven't seen the snyder cut yet, but i think that could be good too,
will nelson he definitely has great ideas, the issue is he needs DIRECTion, he needs someone to focus his ideas. I think those films were fine (with a lot of great visual esthetic), but imagine how they would have turned out with a better plot.
It’s funny how they’re doing BvS and MoS and all the other DCEU films. It seems like they’ve already done them 3-4 times already. I guess they haven’t done a Caravan of Garbage so whatever. Edit: After watching this in full now, this episode of CoG is AMAZING. Lmao.
@@Anshumansahu23 Is that actually true thoigh? Cuz the movie heavily implies that he went off the rails after Jason Todd’s death Even then I think Batman going all the way and actually killing is a bit too far and not something he can easily come back from
@@Anshumansahu23 Pretty sure it was more related to the death of Robin. And he was murdered by Joker so why not kill him instead of lesser criminals? And there was zero reason to blame Superman for the destruction of Metropolis. Zod invaded. Superman saved the world. Batman is really going to kill him because he got thrown into a few buildings lol?
It would’ve been so easy to make it simple, Superman gives people hope but with that he also lets people down when he can’t save everyone. Meanwhile Batman is preparing just in case Superman were to turn bad, Lex creates Bizarro to frame Superman for a bunch of attacks and Batman strikes whilst Superman is trying to clear his name. Easy and doesn’t require the plot to be this convoluted
From day one I thought Eisenberg was miscast as Lex Luthor, even when they realised a photo of him bald. The way Eisenberg plays him fits the character of the Riddler far better, especially the Batman: Arkham Riddler, with his physical mannerisms. And his party speech still makes me cringe.
Yeah what happened apparently was that Zack wanted him as Jimmy Olsen but because of how short the role was he said no. Then for some reason Snyder wanted him for the movie so bad he asked if he wanted to be Lex.
The Tobey Maguire "HE'S STILL OUT THERE" edit was the best editing I've ever seen great job Ben
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That and the Lex Luthor slurping noises compilation were beyond perfection.
I was watching the video on my PS4.
When I saw that edit I had to come to my computer just to comment how good it was.
I'm happy to see so many people appreciate Ben's top notch work.
I almost spat out my drink
I absolutely died when I saw that 👌👌😂😂
Batman being the opportunist he is, sees all the newly orphaned kids in metropolis and creates an army of robins
Wild as fuck how this basically happened, but with the Batman Who Laughs lmao.
They create themselves. We Are Robin.
The opportunist who kills everyone? And he wants to motivate orphan kids?
@@aviram7129 *groom
@@aviram7129 lol wtf ???
That Lex Luthor weird noises montage is the most unpleasant thing I've seen in a long time. Well done!
Uh um ee um um
Mark Zuckerberg soundin dude
Yes but also really really really annoying
Needs to be edited into a rap, dance complimation.
@@cherry27 THE ONLY BAD THING IN THIS MOVIE IS JEFFREY EINSTEIN AS LEX LUTHOR THE MOVIE IS GREAT I DON'T CARE WHAT ANYONE SAYS!
The concept of Superman walking into a room and, doglike, becoming transfixed by the stink of piss and knowing there’s a jar of it in the room with him is the funniest shit I’ve ever heard in months
This part has me dying
'I envy the amusement of the Lower intellects.'
Me, a rick and morty fan.
If there’s too much piss, there is something amiss
@@svenskallaru9466 1 year later
I read this comment right before that part, had me laughing so hard
'If there's too much piss there's something amiss' - Nick Mason
Folksy wisdom
The state motto of Kansas, (because its folksy wisdom)
@@Getwright- you can hear it whispering in the corn stalks of good ol kansas
Isn't the piss in a Mason jar?
I've cracked the case 😁
Mmmmm...that's so peachy!🤪
The real jar of piss was the friends we made along the way
The Real Doomsday Was The Friends We Made Along The Way.
The real friends we made were the jars of piss we made along the way
The real jar of piss are the jarates we made along the TF fan animations.
The made real along the.. DAMN IT!!
Shane Large-Chip The real damning of it was the friends we made along the way
Superman walks into the court room
sniff* sniff* “there’s a jar of piss in here”.
That made me laugh very much.
Me too. Then reading your comment made me laugh again.
Super-smell.
Looool
Best summary of this movie I’ve ever heard is: “It’s just two murderers pissed off at each other for murdering people.”
I maintain that everyone was asking for Heisenberg for Lex Luther, and they misheard
Head canon accepted
I too watch Jeremy Kahn’s
There i some uncertainty involved.
This is the objective truth and I will not listen to anyone else.
I'd get it.
"If there's too much piss, there's something amiss."
I found my yearbook quote
so poetic
You forgot to talk about Clark making fake fried eggs while shirtless.
Those eggs did look so damn fake lol
@@Thebellreve I care that they forgot to mention it
And he gets into a tub with pants on
Bell Reve The answer to your question is the comment you replied to smart one.
@@Thebellreve #ICare
I really wish Lex Luther was the manic, socially awkward mess in public, but behind the scenes he's calm and collected, classic Lex Luther genius who is a genuine threat instead of just being a psychotic mess all the time
Well the scenes where he’s by himself are really good
If you want to see how lex Luthor should be portrayed, read Superman: American Alien. There isn’t too much of him in it, but the scenes with lex are so well written and paint a perfect picture of him
He's not lex senior he's the neglected son of lex luthor who abused and neglected him so it makes perfect sence for him to act the way he does
@@Karlos.Fandango. stop making up plot points.
@@codybarlik4524 they'll never stop. Who cares if it makes sense if it's not very entertaining😂
really that no one cares about Clark Kent enter the bathtub with his shoes?
i think they actually mentioned that a couple years ago when the trailer came out
That still bothers me
Lois likes wet socks
Hopefully he didn't have dog shit on the soles.
I never take my shoes off when climbing in the tub. Have I been doing it wrong this whole time? And I never take my clothes off when doing my washing either. I just climb into my washing machine with my clothes still on, that's what I thought scuba gear was for. Have I been doing that wrong as well?
It’s just...it’s so much piss. What is that, half a liter? Three quarters? How many sessions would it have taken to fill that huge mason jar?!?
And if it was piss, you'd have to smell it. The jar didn't have a lid.
You underestimate the amount of piss that comes in one session. Try it sometime. You'd probably be closer to overflowing the jar than not filling it up lol
*Dedication*
@@hawkeyeplerce5238 especially if you knock back beers like I do
A 'Mason' jar?
I don't appreciate the bias. Why couldn't they use a James Jar.
#FillJamesWithPiss
The Tobey Maguire "he's still out there" edit is the best shit I've seen in awhile.
totally agree hella funny
I was gonna say. That killed me 😂
do you have a time stamp? I missed that
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Lmao i love it
James calling out Martian Manhunter never fails to make me laugh
How did he even know?? The Synder cut wasn’t even out yet lmfao
@@tmac731 leaks
@@tmac731It was known for years before the Snyder cut. Basically since 2013.
Them dogging on Martian man hunter is the best
The fact that they just assert the general guy is clearly Martian Manhunter kills me
HE'S STILL OUT THERE!
I doubt Zach understands the characters and just says things so people like him
who the hell is Martin?
Rinchen Gonpo Martian Manhunter, a superhero in the justice league who is from Mars.
I can’t be the only one that was sad they didn’t say “They punch for a bit, then they’re mates.”
That and “MAD GHOST!” Are my favorite quotes from these two.
You're a dog of a bloke.
MAD GHOST!!! (Sorry, in my head-canon of the Weekly Planet-iverse it's bad luck if when someone yells "MAD GHOST!" someone else doesn't instantly yell "MAD GHOST!" back at them.)
Btw, my favourite quote is by Mason in reference to fans of this exact movie:
"That's fine..., fine. You're wrong, but it's fine. It's COOL..., but it's wrong, but it's fine. If you thought the movie meshed well you're wrong, but it's cool, but you're fine..... Jeez, we're gonna have to do this forever, aren't we?" (All said with a tone of unutterably weary resignation.)
We're Mates just seeing to guys saying We're Mates
You know superman is powerful when he can fry eggs without a shirt on.
@@onion_wind Yeah, I'm 95% sure they were rubber
@@onion_wind yea, I actually paused the vid to type
You know Superman is so powerful he turned the eggs into rubber.
Fun fact, the stove wasn't even on.
Those eggs were cooked just off of Supes' hotness.
those eggs looks like plastic lol
my biggest problem with the “save martha” scene is who the hell calls their mom by her first name
ikr if he had just said "save my mom" it would have humanised him more, whilst not necessitating that against all odds Batman and Superman's mothers have the same name. I know they've both been called Martha in various comics, but that doesn't justify this dumb decision.
@@phrogjeef No! That is not the same thing!
@@RetroIsaac It actually is the same exact thing.
Well he said the first name because he was appealing to their mothers sharing the same name .
@@filbencs5098 it isn:t the same, I only have one mom, there are millions of actors, if I just say ‘the actor’ yiu won’t know who I’m talking about, if I say ‘my mom’ you’ll know, ya just gotta figure out who my mom is, and to do that it would be safe to assume you could ask one of my friends, or literally anyone else associated with me
I have one thing to say about Lex Luthor in this movie. He is definitely the best Riddler ever put on screen.
OMG! Why didn't they just make him The Riddler? It would've made a lot more sense, at least with Jesse Eisenberg.
@@Danniboi03 he's still rich and popular like lex luthor
Nah hes lex luthors son
Paul dano says hi
@@heimdallstatus1376 yeah i buy that more.
That Lex Luther little sounds cut was all i need to see from this movie
A bit of extra insight on the red/blue eyes symbolism: The original batman suit eyes were supposed to be green. However, the glow was added in post (pure CG) and they had a lot of problems getting the green hues to render properly, so they made the decision to change it to blue which showed up a lot better. This led to the movies working title, Blue Harvest.
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but it took me far too long into this comment to figure out what you were doing
@@mrsundaymovies - I’m dead rn
This never stops being funny
that's a bit of green trivia there.
@@maximillion322 *R H O D N E Y !*
This is my favorite CoG. So many hilarious moments.
"Just smuggle it in, mate. You're already done those murders."
"What's he gonna do? Kill Superman again?"
"HE'S STILL OUT THERE!"
“Never looked slower”
“What love affair?”
“This lex Corp bullet, who did this?”
“How does he even put his shoes on?”
“Well that’s the problem isn’t it?”
Those, and so many more always get me too
God the “just smuggle it in mate” one keeps me laughing to this day. Seen this video a thousand times and it still cracks me up
Wonder Woman could have thrown that spear accurately and hit Doomsday with it. Thats the kind of thing they do on Themyscira.
Well superman needed to die.
@@bern9642 He didn’t really need too in that scenario. It would have made more sense if Wonder Woman wasn’t in the fight or got knocked out but they didn’t do that.
But I think they shouldn’t have included Doomsday and should have saved it for a later film after more development and time with Superman
@@dylanburton4955 He probably meant the movie needed a "shock factor" from it being so god damn boring. And I agree doomsday should've been in the sequel. Doomsday was just a bad mistake for a bad movie, they should've made lex the villain all the way through then in the sequel have the doomsday and superman death, but hey its a dcu movie, bad choices are what they do
She was kinda busy restraining and stoping doomsday from moving and evolving
Superman could have pushed him from behind into the spear impaling them both
Can't wait for GvK, and the bit where Kong is about to punch Godzilla's head off but Godzilla stammers out "must...save...Mothra" and Kong reveals he's also best mates with her and they must team up to save her from Destroyah
This is the best thing I've ever read
Watch Doomsday be Mechagodzilla turning into Mecha-ghidorah as the thing
@@SirJokerMcDuff Congratulations. You are clairvoyant
Spoilers ahead:
Lmao exactly what happened except it was godzilla on kong
And there was no “save mothra”
It was just godzilla roaring in pinned down kong’s face then godzilla just leaves him on the ground for no reason then goes to fight mechagodzilla
@@shumaatiqunnassa4123 Tbf, they are animals. I have no issue believing that Godzilla would just go off and fight another monster after beating another and forgetting to kill him lol
This didn't come up in the video so I thought I'd toss it here: it might be old-fashioned DC comic fan of me but I could never stand or get over the fact that Lex Luthor just *knows* both Batman and Superman's secret identities. He just HAS that information. We don't see him figure it out, we don't learn HOW he ever figured it out, the movie just all of a sudden is like "oh yeah by the way, Lex knows who both of these guys are". Which makes it feel pointless that they were ever hiding their identities in the first place?? And by not-showing us any scene(s) wherein he earns that knowledge, it does nothing to make Luthor seem actively more dangerous. They might as well just say Luthor was born with a super power where he can figure out someone's identity because that's just as hollow.
If you have not realised secret identities aren’t cool anymore. They worked before, but lately it’s better off if you don’t refer to them a lot
You didn't see the facial recognition software being used on Diana when Bruce was looking through Luthor's files?
He has shit on Lois Lane. What did she spend most of Man Of Steel doing? Finding out who Superman is... As for Batman, it's not difficult to follow a car to its hiding place if you can afford the technology to lure him out and then track it.
@@emanuel6693 Wrong.
It depends on how you handle it.
@@Fenris30 luthor hacked a alien spaceship but sure lets get hung up on how he figured out the two most obvious identities.
"Superman should have entered the room and be like: *sniff sniff* there's a jar of piss in here!"
THIS IS SO FUNNY AND YET SO TRUE!
It's absolutely true! ...and now I need to adopt the head canon that Superman just doesn't mention the jar of piss to spare everyone's feelings. He was probably thinking, "Should I mention it? Nah, probably not. What are they gonna say if I do? 'Thanks Superman, I know. That's my sentimental piss jar, actually.'"
@@thombruce Wait this is hilarious
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@@thombruce he probably looked at the guy in the wheelchair and thought "oh, catheter."
As Freud famously said, "sometimes a jar of piss is just a jar of piss."
Well Said.
I dunno... this more "sh!tty" imo
I got that: I understood that reference (she says with her certificate of psychoanalytic theory finally proving relevance).
“Toothy tadpole” is probably the best description of that “doomsday” I’ve heard
He's a cave troll. He looks almost identical to the cave troll from LOTR. Well...., if the cave troll got REALLY into CrossFit: images.app.goo.gl/1LaxPYzUAShw1TxE6
the could have called it bizaro and it would make more sens to me
#NotMyDoomsday
@@LoganBluth Fancy meeting you here
People are going to lose their minds when the Snyder Cut reveals that Darkseid's mother is also named Martha.
Darkseids uncow is called Steppenwolf
This is the best thing I’ve read today 🤣🤣🤣
Marthseid
@Paul in Long Beach: Is this Paul in Long Beach from The Post Geek Singularity, I wonder?
the twist is gonna be that theyre about to kill darkseid, but darkseid planned for this contingency by renaming his mom to martha.
The reason Snyder killed Jimmy Olsen is because he doesn’t know what to do with a hopeful, inspiring character.
I think this would be regarded as one of the best movies ever if for some reason Snyder was really actuate to comics jimmy, like everyone is dark and brooding, then there’s jimmy with his bright argyle sweaters
@@nosausepizzaboy1904 yeah, I do like this movie, specifically the extended cut, but jimmy olsen could’ve had a really genuinely interesting role if handled correctly
No
Or his weakness in basic storytelling. Olsen was created to give the audience a proxy. I doubt he has the skills to do something like that.
@@nosausepizzaboy1904 I think it should be more like this: Superman should be the bright-eyed hopeful character and he influences people around him. despite the world being a dark place, SUPERMAN IS THE LIGHT! Olsen could have had a rough background, taking things out on the world, but Superman brings the best of him out. so over the course of the film, Olsen becomes that bright character we know him as. He should have been the emo creative type, that decides to see the goodness in the world through photography.
The editing is phenomenal Ben! The Lex Luthor noise cuts are hilarious. They turned a powerful, threatening villain(comics) into a cringey, live-action, Daffy Duck.
Oh he was threatening for sure though. Cause I remember a movie where he killed many government agents, blamed superman, blew capital building, framed superman, pissed off batman into fighting superman, blamed superman and in the end, killed superman
No, they just exposed that he was a cringey Daffy Duck the whole time. The kind of threat that he exuded in the film was more akin to a sexual predator and rapist.
@@DivvayKhatri But not because it made any logical or reasonable sense for any of that to happen because of his actions though. It only happened because the writer wanted it to happen. That is why this film left us scratching our heads so much. There were too many, "Wait... what?" kind of moments that the writer used to move the story along. The reason they are fighting makes no sense other than the writer wants them to fight. The reason they stop fighting makes even less sense other than the writer wanted them to stop fighting. Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor was never threatening in the least in this movie. At least he should never have been a threat to Superman. The only reason he was is because Chris Terrio said he was. Not because it made any sense at all. He seemed more like he should have been a creepy serial rapist than anything else.
I assume that’s The Riddler. He stole Lex Luther‘s identity. The real Lex is played by Andre Braugher.
@@ScaryMason Yes! it makes so much sense for him to be the Riddler. This movie was SUCH a letdown, we ALMOST walked out. We are such fans of the comics and the animated series/movies, but the DC live action movies are in constant struggle-mode!! Zach Snyder should NOT have been given Superman to start the DCEU, Warner Bros. should've let him do a LOBO movie with his style.
They should explain Clark Kent's return as him being Clark's identical twin, who is also called Clark, then never mention or allude to it ever again.
😂😂😂😂lmfao
yes, pls
His twin brother Armin Tamzarian.
I say just give em different glasses & No1 will know it's him 😂
I read it in Zack's jl Lois lane introduces Clark Kent as Superman to perry
Can we talk about Zack's fetish for showing spent shell casings bouncing off the ground in slow motion? It happens in all his movies...A LOT.
Even in 300 he drops his shield and sword in slow motion and it bounces
Looks cool af though
Its because Zack is a human affliction t-shirt thats been allowed to direct movies
Freekofnayture wow you Snyder fanboys are the worst first of all it’s called and opinion and second Zach can’t make a decent movie even when he tries his best so please don’t be rude because your director is garbage
Snyder is more of a visual director, his movies may suck but they look really good, i think that if you give him a really good script, he'll make a great movie.
_"If there's too much _*_piss,_*_ there IS something _*_amiss..."_*
Words to live by.
“A drunk fight in the parking lot ” is the perfect summation of this movie. It’s just two blokes, blind to the pleas of their friends saying it’s not worth it, clumsily kicking and punching in the middle distance until a bouncer breaks them up and they team up to kick the shit out of him. I don’t know who Wonder Woman is in this allegory but the Martha moment is that moment when you’re absolutely shit-faced and tell your mates you love em. That Martha scene in general makes a lot more sense if you imagine them pissed
this is gold
Wonder Woman is the T-total friend who’s not drunk and has to help out when they start beating the bouncer
@@mrcritical6751 *when the bouncer starts beating both your friends
Shall I direct you to the nearest 3 hour long "analysis" video about how the Martha scene makes perfectest of senses if you read Infinite Crisis and Batman #171 which destroys haters with facts, stone-cold, hard-hitting truth, and logic? Because there are lots of those videos, you know... -_-
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*Can we get a 👏🏽 for Ben’s editing?!*
*Guy consistently kills it!*
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The Ultimate Edition is definitely better than the standard edition. That being said, both aren’t great but the Ultimate Edition definitely helped me like it more
I wasnt that fond of Theatrical Cut - but I really love the UE
Why? the ultimate edition add like 2 extra cgi shots of blood, a shot of batman's ass, and a few scenes with Louis lane with a bullet.
William Wright Also Clark investigating Batman and actually having a reason to want to stop him.
William Wright The ultimate edition did clear up major plot holes in theatrical cut, such as how superman was framed, how superman did not see the explosive in the court house and shots of clark kent in Gotham actually being a journalist and displaying his growing feud with a batman who crossed the line he swore he world never cross. My only problem with the film is Lex luthor’s performance and the fact that Batman kills
@@WillWright-lx4hf more fledged out Africa scene which makes it sensical, more character development for Clark along with providing him motivations against batman, more fledged out lex's plan and more proof that batman is broken and different and also the fact that he's changed. I call that huge improvement. I love the ultimate edition
Speaking of Clark not knowing who Bruce Wayne is. In both Superman the animated series and Justice League War, Superman uses his X-ray vision to look through Batman’s mask and instantly recognizes Bruce Wayne. It’s just kinda weird that Zach Snyder decided to do things this way
Because zack Snyder doesn’t use his brain when it comes to the story points of his movies. Just look at his version of justice league. You’ve got darkseid fucking just forgetting about the only planet he lost on, where he lost his most prized possessions at, where his entire main goal is. And then Snyder fumbles over this batshit excuse as to why it happened. Then you have now a second movie where a word ending threat is taking place and Martian Manhunter was just chilling like “oh I hope you guys can do it!”
I think Snyder just forgot about the x-ray vision? I don't think he's used it once since Man of Steel
@@codybarlik4524 In fairness that's clearly just because the Darkseid and Martian Manhunter stuff was something they devised specifically for the 2021 Snyder Cut and they're obviously lying when they say that was the plan from the beginning.
@@videogamenostalgia he uses it when Superman looks through the one way mirror when he’s arrested in Man of Steel, maybe. It’s not said outright
@@videogamenostalgia idk man, they released a comic book a few years ago that is a tie in for the snyderverse and it revealed that Martian Manhunter was general swannick the whole time. And BVS had that stupid fucking nightmare sequence that showed earth being controlled by Darkseid with Superman being his enforcer. I truly think Snyder’s vision for the DCEU was just THAT bad lol
The Lex Luther noise compilation was brilliant 😂
They need compiled into a dance complimation.
Would love it to be a seperate clip, just that minute of noises
I will always love Wonder Woman's entrance to the Doomsday fight. The music alone is amazing!
Yeah that's the only part of the film I actually like. You could take that scene and put it in a better movie and it'd be amazing.
DUNG DUNG DUNG DA DUNG DUNG DUNG
It reminded me of the score from spy kids
Yeah I was so freaking hyped when she showed up I wasn like 🤩 her music is so kickass made me wanna cheer "fuck yeah!"
They should have given Bruce's motivation to Lex.
Holy shit you're right. They should've just made Man of Steel 2
They should have waited until after Zack Snyder's Justice League to make Batman vs. Superman.
This is what I've been saying since this movie came out, cut Eisenberg Lex out of the movie, shave Affleck's head and call him Lex, you've just improved the movie in so many ways. You don't have all the weight of having to introduce and establish a brand new Batman and you don't have to have them be friends at the end. Lex makes a suit to fight Superman in the comics so you have to change almost nothing until the Martha scene which you conveniently side step entirely.
@@alexanderforbes1452I thought the same thing, even about turning armoured Batman into Lex in his power suit. You just have Martian Manhunter save Clark as Lex is about kill him with the kryptonite spear.
YES. Luthor, in his best interpretations, is actually right about most things but has a few crucial personality flaws. He's basically Bruce Wayne but more egotistical and fundamentally selfish. The character is most interesting to me when Lex is actually heroic in a certain perspective, which the beginning of BvS would be the perfect set-up for.
Having finally seen Godzilla v Kong, I can say that they REALLY dropped the ball with BvS when Kong and freaking Godzilla had more sense and emotional intelligence than Bruce and Clark here
You didn’t understand the movie
@@tmac731honestly if you think about he's actually right, heck they even gave 2 movies to Godzilla and 1 to Kong previous to their matchup that even gave them solid character development, to giant monsters that can't even speak, and it worked
@@alejoSOTOful I get that but that doesn’t mean BVS dropped the ball. BVS is so misunderstood
@@tmac731 not really, the whole ordeal is about getting the titular characters to fight; but Superman could've avoided it entirely, had plenty of chances to talk to Batman about what's going on; and Batman is a complete idiot that doesn't know Superman's got a mom?
It's super contrived, you can clearly tell they wrote the fight first and then wrote whatever around it.
@@alejoSOTOful Batman literally mentions Superman having parents too before the whole Martha stuff
"If there's too much piss, somethings amiss!"
Words to live by
Top Ten Anime Quotes.
I’ll never understand why they didn’t just turn zod into bizzaro instead
Because the plan was to kill Superman so I guess they felt they needed Doomsday.
that would have made more sense
@@TIMMUT17 which was a stupid plan to begin with.
Cyborg Superman Michael Shannon would’ve been great.
@@TIMMUT17 Which Snyder has said that's not the "real" Doomsday lol. Which has to be covering for Doomsday looking like shit, and barley being a character yet killing Superman. Why would you have a "fake" Doomsday kill superman?
But yes Bizaro would make more sense. This Doomsday is a cave troll from LOTR. It's shit
"Superman should've gone *sniff* *sniff*.... there's a jar of piss in here"
That’s Superman’s most powerful of all powers
Although, maybe he smells every full bladder and unflushed toilet in a 5 mile radius ALL THE TIME. When you think of all the things he would have to concentrate on ignoring because of his heightened senses, I'm certain he's very happy to be a fictional character.
I like that in this scenario he even identifies the jar by smell. “That’s not just piss...that’s a JAR of piss.”
"He drinks, does cross fit. He does it all!" How to be like Batman
"If there's too much piss, there's something amiss"
More wit and intelligence in this one line than the whole movie
Damn that Tobey Maguire edit KILLED me
Stings doesn't it
@@saintniccage2818 speaking of stings, I'm gonna put some dirt in your eye.
@@Revilod you're trash brock
I remember going to the midnight for this with a friend, after the first five minutes (The death of the Wayne's and Bruce in Metropolis) she whispers in my ear (I love this film already), about fifteen minutes later she was struggling to stay awake, I've never seen a film unhook someone so quick.
Even though I didn't want to see the Wayne parents get killed again I remember thinking this looks really good. However as soon as Bruce starts rising with the bats I knew was in for trouble
I dont care about the aesthetic of seeing his parents die if its stylized or what have you because its predictable. We already know his parents got killed...
Maybe that was just the Rohypnol kicking in.
Hey I also went to the Midnight showcase it was bloody awesome. But I was letdown with JL they should have went with Injustice mixed with Darkseid . I was so tired the day after and my then manger gave me a half day off to leave early.
I remember the first twenty minutes of this movie being awesome, then when Superman just let Jimmy Olsen die in Africa the whole film just took a massive nose dive.
Apart from "because Lex Luthor" why did they shave his head before he went to prison? He wasn't joining the army. There's no grooming requirements required to go to prison. Then at the end of Justice League he still has a shaved head. Why didn't he grow it back?
Lex probably just liked how he looked with no hair lol
I vividly remember that before the movie came out Snyder said the worst change that fans will complain about is that Gotham and Metropolis are next to each other. No one cared about that. I don't think I heard a single complaint about that.
Aren't they quite close most of the time? I mean, it's a bit silly, but it happens in the real world...
It was an early sign though that they were going to rush this movie, they only did that so they can conveniently have B and S interact throughout the movie easily by shortening the distance between them
But you're right after the movie came out it was a tiny complaint compared to everything else lol
That's disturbing... pretty sure they're actually pretty close in the comics...
@@SimonBuchanNz Apparently Metropolis is in Delaware and Gotham is in Jersey.
They’re sister cities in some continuities and are separated by a bridge in the Lego DC universe
That “there’s a jar of piss in here” line’s the hardest I think I’ve ever laughed in a good minute wow. Good stuff James
I always say that there should’ve been a Man of Steel 2 that addresses the Metropolis stuff and Superman’s personal ethos to learn to not kill and to inspire hope. That way by the end of the movie you can establish that the citizens love Superman (maybe make the final villain a Metallo or something and superman saves the day without any destruction). Then you can totally understand Superman’s side so that the BvS conflict can be established based on a deeper understanding of the characters
Issue was Zack never wanted to show the heroes as heroes, he wanted to depict them at the worst points of their lives and with their morals destroyed to set up a Injustice style story
Thats totally what they should have done, you could rework the movie and combine Lex and Batmans character into one guy, then have the wheelchair dude a more fleshed out character and eventually become metallo for the end of the fight, then have Bruce Wayne as a cameo interacting with Lex towards the end of the movie or something and set up a more fleshed out B&S movie.
Mr Critical well here’s my view on that. At the end of this theoretical Man of Steel 2 the world sees Superman as a god and a beacon of hope and all that. Batman’s conflict can be something like “if the people see you as perfect they’ll follow you even if you do something evil and it’s one bad turn away from fascism” which I think is still sorta in line with Batman’s line of reasoning in this movie before it becomes a pissing match of miscommunication. Cause nothing makes it less satisfying than it being a fight Lex set up than a legitimate fight of their personal morals.
R A I say keep Lex in the background of Man of Steel 2 but have him build Metallo and the bullet Lois is inspecting in BvS is actually a piece of Metallo left over after Superman destroyed him that brings her back to LexCorp in a more meaningful way
@@mrcritical6751 and wb executives too the wanted so bad to catch up with the mcu
"Individual sequences being awesome but as a movie it doesn't hold together" are my general thoughts exactly about this film.
The music during the "jar of piss" conversation is amazing.
Game grumps fans:
*Macho madness flashback*
Is it mario?
@@donaldkjohnson9415 Never not thinking about Macho Madness
BvS had some decent ideas. But they tried to cram 5 different movies into one: Batman Vs Superman, Lex Luthor being introduced, Justice League, Doomsday/ Death of Superman. The initial idea of Lex Luthor tricking Batman and Superman into fighting is good. Lex figuring out both of their secret identities off screen before his appearance is kind of dumb. This version of Lex is awful, and they try to justify it by saying "no no.. this is lex Junior", why would I want that? Why give me a character who is in no way similar to the original, but expected to fill the same role.If you have to have the justice league tie in, just make it a post-credits scene. Doomsday should have either been Man of Steel 2, or the focus of Justice League ending in Supermans death, that way the characters who know superman could realistically be shocked by it. Not a big fan of the "this is a batman who kills", that defeats the whole purpose.. Also if they had focused more on setting up a real reason for Batman and Superman to fight, and had previous fights (like had been mentioned, where batman realizes he is no match). It just feels like they tried too hard to both set up a cinematic universe, which never works when ever someone tries too hard to force it, and catch up with marvel. I'm not saying Marvel is the only formula that can work, but it is the only one that has worked so far. You cant jump straight into the big team up movie. It is a long process, but seems to have worked out pretty well for marvel. You don't have to do a movie for every single character, but you cant have a Superman move, then a Batman/ Superman crossover (with very forced character introductions), then the big team up.
It's a storylinr and a character from the dark knight returns, a character from superman 52 and another from superman birthright (lex), a storyline called the death of superman.
2 storylines and use of 3 comics is a lot?
Idk what's dumb in lex finding out the identities. I don't care about lex a lot. I thought he was new and a breath of fresh air but nothing special at all.
Doomsday showing up in this movie only disturbs it cause you know who he is. It's not your fault that you know the comics, but it is your fault that you think this is I'll timed. This is not what the writers wrote. This is what happened in the universe. Do you cry the same way when something odd or different happens in mcu? As for batman, he does kills some times in tdkr but I don't care. His core is still present and he's defeated, and dealt with shit ton of stuff. It's in the dialogues and more fledged out in the ultimate edition. And he does come back in the end after Superman's sacrifice inspires him. As of jumping straight into a team up movie, jl for me is not canon cause it's shot and the Snyder cut (3.5-4 hours long) is coming. I'll judge it there and then but it is no rule to follow the marvel formula of timelines. Btw batman was introduced properly in bvs itself
It’s Zack Snyder and WB trying to desperately catch up with marvel. They want to go balls to the walls with cameos and character introductions and set ups for other movies that are never going to happen. They focus on making sure they can jam all that shit in as opposed to making sure it’s well written and introduced in a coherent and meaningful way.
Imo, they should’ve started the DCEU with a justice league movie as a quick intro to main players, focus on having them learn to work as a team while they fight steppenwolf. Then work on giving them their own movies that flesh them out eventually coinciding to darkseid arriving on earth and them testing the limits of their abilities and trust in one another. But instead they wanted to copy marvel but RUSH to get there
@@DivvayKhatri There should have been a Man of Steel 2, a Batman solo film and a Wonder Woman solo film and then Batman V Superman. There would be more time to get to know all the characters before this crossover. The Batman solo film would have been a good way of showing how he became the more brutal version of himself
The death of superman feels very unearned because we haven’t really spent much time with this version of Superman and it feels rushed to do it straight after his first solo film
All those comics could have truly great live action adaptions but here it’s just so half arsed and crammed in with so much other stuff, his death could have been easily avoided too. Wonder Woman could have easily done it, an easy fix for that would be for Wonder Woman to just not be in the film or have her be knocked out by Doomsday
I look forward to the H8 Mail But The Hate Has A Eight In It that this video will create.
“I hate all the weird noises he makes”
*Ben does his thing*
Not an apologist for this film at all but I’ve always perceived the “I thought she was with you” line as batman assuming that Wonder Woman was Kryptonian since her and superman have similar powers.
But he never saw her in action did he? He only saw the picture, since weren't like 100 years that she was inactive? Or he thinks that longevity is another kryptonian superpower?
Krin I assumed since she dropped out of the sky in a super suit with and ancient sword and shield willing to fight doomsday? I might just be putting my own thoughts into it
That's a really good shout.
No, I think the simple truth is that it was a great line for the trailer so they just kept it in the movie. In the context of the trailer, it was a great line. But for the movie, it's bad.
cgarciahfcu okay👍🏻
batman v superman is 2 1/2 hours of the exact cinematic tone with which michael keaton screamed “you wanna get nuts”
At least Ultimate Edition was decent.
@@eternalblessing4984 Better, not decent. Still trash
@@MrGooner9000 It's all a matter of opinion.
@@eternalblessing4984 Yeah fair enough
@@eternalblessing4984 nah, it turns out that when you take a film which is fascinating for the immaculate pace at which it makes baffling, terrible decisions, and you tack on a bunch of extra runtime, the whole thing just collapses into a boring slog.
The Dark Knight Returns AND the Death of Superman in the same movie, in back to back scenes. All this before the Justice League even exists. WHYYY?
Snyder, like JJ, hails from the 'bombard them with stuff' school of filmmaking.
Plus New 52, and a weird Flashpoint/Crisis Flash, and the New Gods tease
Maybe because they have other plans for jl? They were actually going injustice for justice league 1 but now we'll get it in jl 2 or 3 who knows. I don't mind using these story lines like this as long as it's something new and sensible. I also appreciate the realistic approach
It might be the only comics they've read just because they were edgy.
@@JustKrin I didn't even know about those. It's waaay too much.
Maybe the jar of piss was really Zach Snyder's way of telling the true fans how to make it through all of his excessively long movies without having to leave the theater
my favourite part of bvs is that lex luthor hides the wheelchair bomb behind some lead so that superman doesn’t see it... despite the fact that in neither that movie nor man of steel is it established that this superman can’t see through lead? like how did lex know clark’s powers better than clark?
It is established there you donkey
X-rays don't work through lead. It doesn't need to be stablished because it's in the name "X-ray vision".
Because X-rays can't pass through lead.
That's probably your long time awaited establishment you wanted to hear
The story picks up right after MOS ,was it established that the people know superman has the ability to see through objects and specifically XRay vision
@@neilbreen371 The general public might not know, but it's not a long stretch to think Lex Luthor found out. After all, X-rays are radioactive and probably not that hard to detect by a guy like Lex, not to mention he had acces to the kriptonian ship and was able to study Zod's body for a long time.
They punch for a bit and then they're mate's: The Movie
Basically
Eventually
They both have mamas the Movie
Never in the movie are they shown as friends or anything. Batman just says it once to martha in order to make her feel better. Now I'm not sure if you were joking or not but it's really not helping because that's what the movie's backlash was. Unnecessary jokes on the movie
@@DivvayKhatri he's referencing an older video they made about the 2005 proposed justice league script
But why does Lex blow up Mercy Graves?!
Honestly , probably the same reason Snyder killed off Jimmy Olsen. No idea what to do with the character going forward
Mercy Graves was in this? I'll just add it to the list of characters Zack Snyder butchered...and I'm not just talking about killing them.
@@night6724 Marvel at least got its core heroes right. Under Snyder, Superman became a charmless stick in the mud, Batman became a complete psychopath, Flash became an obnoxious fanboy (though Whedon may bear some of the blame for that), Aquaman became a block-headed surfer jock, and Lex Luthor became an insufferable twitchy cartoon. Batman is my absolute favorite superhero, and he is nowhere to be found in this film. Whoever this guy dressed as a bat is, he has a complete disregard for human life. I'm not going to act like Mercy Graves and Jimmy Olsen are characters I'm dying to see "done right", but the fact that they're technically in the film just for Snyder to kill them off speaks to the overall middle finger attitude he has toward the fanbase.
@Graham Norwood Amen. I love DC but I'm man enough to admit most DCEU movies suck.
@Graham Norwood There are plenty of good DC movies, in it's only in the last decade that we had some real stinkers thanks to Warner Brothers's incompetence.
@@liamcullins Spiderman....
“I’m sure they’re gonna be fine”
-Zack Snyder as he watches Batman murder a bunch of dudes
He's being sarcastic, kid
@@sujimayne thanks for that genius observation, sherlock
@@chimmichangart shut up say that to Christopher Nolan and Tim button who killed thousand of criminals but you clapped for him..
@@Anshumansahu23 Nolan's Batman didn't murder anyone as far as I know.
@@thegrayyernaut He let Ra's Al Ghul die. He also outright just kills Harvey
Nice. My expectations were sky high... AND THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN HIGHER. Best CoG to date!
"It's just piss, I think." -Mason
"It's still just piss! The politicians love piss!" Mason
This was a fantastic Caravan of Garbage.
The last part with Excalibur sums it up perfectly about Snyder's vision of superheroes movies. He is on the right track, he can implement complicated themes to mundane oversaturated superhero movies, but while trying too hard to make movies "seem" or "feel" deep, he forgot the fundamental core values of his characters. Every scene has its cool themes and easter eggs, and then some nice visuals. But in the end, when Snyder has to combine all these sophisticated mumbo jumbos together, it feels awkward, long, and tiring to watch and keep track. We weren't going to remember much by the in of the movie and to be honest, Snyder also probably didn't.
Another Excalibur reference: The Arthur's death by Mordred spear. Arthur push the spear though his own chest to reach Mordred with his sword.
Superman did the same to kill Doomsday in the final climax.
Uhhh so deep
Poetic, I love it.
Cool, I bet if Arthur had a super powered lady 3 feet away that could probably do it better....well he'd wonder what a woman was doing on the battlefield because it was the middle ages....but once he got past that he'd hand it to her and have her kill Mordred lol
Never expected you here
@@doomstadt2371 but WW was already close to Zodsday and restraining him. Did you want Superman to stop by her for a chat, hand over the spear (thus releasing the rope) and then go to battle?
As a fellow wheelchair user i found the exploding wheelchair scene really funny.
That caught me off guard 😂 but I wasn’t laughing
Despite the fact that I love the opening sequence of Batman v Superman, they should have replaced Jack with Lucius Fox...
I've debated that with myself before as well and am conflicted as while Lucius would be a great pick, he is typically a holdover associate of Thomas's and around his age. With Bruce at about 45 in this that would make Lucius ancient and unlikely to still be around in a serious day-to-day managerial position. A good compromise could have been Luke Fox, but that hits on the same issue as the audience doesn't know him, then again I suppose a way could have been worked in for someone to call him Mr. Fox in addition to Bruce calling him Luke (it could actually substantially add to it as that would mean they'd have been childhood friends who grew up together); but all in all this has never really bothered me to much as it's a pretty minor nitpick.
Martin Sevcech Exactly, they should have chosen somebody the audience already knows about. That would have made it even more compelling, whether it was Lucius Fox or not.
And then everyone would have got mad that they killed Lucius Fox straight away, like they did with Jimmy Olsen getting shot...
nlg070301 I know right
nlg070301 at least there would’ve been a reason for it to be lucuis. Unlike jimmy who’s name was just jimmy because reference
Luthor: creates a very complex and long plan to get Superman and Batman to hate each other
Also Luthor: I have your mum, go punch a bat
Whatever works
Lex: (bombs Senate building, kidnaps Lois and Martha, and... just kinda *hopes* that Bruce picks this exact night to fight Superman)
Lex: (uses his wiles and influence to gain access to ship, gain access to Zod, gain access to gestation interface, and... just kinda *hopes* that this random cocktail of Zod stuff, deformed stuff, and Luthorblood will be an obedient mutant thing)
@@JamesWVanFleet
" Lex: (bombs Senate building, kidnaps Lois and Martha, and... just kinda hopes that Bruce picks this exact night to fight Superman) "
He gives the order to kidnap Lois after Batman is calling on Superman. Hence Luthors line: "The night(Knight) is here". Also both Luthor and Batman knows Superman is away.
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Also the "it did not take much to push him over. Big bang, red notes.." etc.
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" Lex: (uses his wiles and influence to gain access to ship, gain access to Zod, gain access to gestation interface, and... just kinda hopes that this random cocktail of Zod stuff, deformed stuff, and Luthorblood will be an obedient mutant thing) "
When did he "kinda hope" that? He had no idea about it until he asked the computer for information. It's obvious that he asked(off screen) the computer for a weapon/being to kill Superman.
"the archieves contains information etc"
"Good TEACH ME"
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Notice the countdown?
"Born to destroy you"
The movie shows everything and gives every information to you. How did you miss this?
@@The80sWolf_ I know right. Everything has a meaning it it. Every sentence said is important. Then the critics bashed it. It shows how ineffective the critics are and how they don't pay attention to small details.
You know, I think I've done something no one's ever done in researching this movie. I read Clark's obituary. Apparently, he's an award-winning journalist. It brings up so many more questions to light.
I know it's insanely nitpicky but does Clark have a degree in journalism? The guy goes from working on a fishing boat to bussing tables at a diner to a digger on an excavation site and finally as an award-winning journalist at the local newspaper. Oh yeah, and he doesn't recognize the richest man in town.
It’s a heck of a career path, that’s for sure. I guess Lois just has that kind of pull.
@@ANewShadeOfBlue -- Even with her clout he'd still have to be a decent journalist to keep his job as this version of Perry doesn't seem to be the kind that suffers fools.
But this exchange has me thinking: for all of Superman's powers he's not super smart. Aside from leaping tall buildings, speed of a bullet and power of a locomotive there's nothing in the Superman mythos that speaks to his ability to out-think his opponents. That moniker is usually associated with Batman, who's normally regarded as the world's greatest detective (something he fails to be in the Snyder universe) but Superman is by all accounts a man with god-like powers but not any smarter than the AverageMan.
In fact it's usually Lex Luthor who outsmarts Superman on a regular basis. But maybe that's part of Superman's appeal. He's certainly not dumb but his powers, for as great as they are, don't extend to his comprehension or intellect.
If you want to dive into other continuities, there are a few that also depict him as super intelligent, but the appeal for me was always that he’s basically an average small town guy who likes to help people, and he just so happens to have the power of a god. I don’t remember which incarnation it was, but in one story Clark admitted that the reason he loves journalism so much is because writing is one of the few things he doesn’t have a natural advantage in. He takes more pride in being a good reporter than being Superman because he feels the former was earned. I think that’s the reason I was disappointed by BvS. I was hoping to get more insight into Clark as a person instead of just a symbol or an allegory.
@@incredibilistic Its funny because superman has at least 8th level intellect so he technically the smartest being on earth if not one of the smartest, He probably views our technology as primitve especially when he sees what krptons were using but yeh for the plot he cant be smarter than cerain guys otherwise they would be useless.
Batman V. Superman: Dawn Of Zack Snyder playing with ALL THE TOYS AT ONCE
This comment has made my week hahaha. Thanks✌🏾
But he’s like Sid from Toy Story he turns them into monsters.
When your friends don't know how to play action figures right when they come over.
*"I WON'T BE CIVIL!"*
That being said, it felt like this film is just a bunch of beautifully choreographed scenes with great cinematography, just strung by some weird plot of "quick summary of some comic".
Yeah thats a good assessment, I won't argue with people who say the film looks amazing because it does, but the plot just rushes through too many plot points too quickly and leaves a lot to be desired
Everyone talks about how beautiful it is to look at - I don't see it, it's so muted, the silvery blue/grey cast to it is just ugly.
@@itsgeegra The action scenes look great, but anything else is really ugly. The colours are extremely muted, which was very clearly done in post if you look at the lights of some scenes.
@@thomascoleing6467 the action is defs better than MoS, I think that might be the poorest direction in Zack's ouvre - there's shakycam digital zoom every 10 seconds in the fights and it's fucking terrible to look at
The most interesting character in this movie is alfred
I really like Jeremy Irons's portrayal and how he doesn't have massive speeches about burning forests down and just lets chicks into the Bat Cave.
@@li-limandragon9287 hahaha
That was Adrian Veidt cosplaying as Alfred
I hate that I agree with you
I honestly cannot believe how long this movie is, it feels like I’m watching paint dry, and halfway through when the music starts building up and lex Luther is making doomsday, everyone’s running about barman’s discovered the league, Lane has figured the mystery out, and I check the time expecting to find the climax, and there’s still bloody ONE HOUR AND TWENTY MINUTES LEFT
Lol this is the only movie I can think of where I spend most of the running time feeling like nothing's happening, then get to the end feeling like they crammed in too much
@@floydharper1216 Batman V Superman should have come much later, there should have been a Man of Steel sequel, a Batman film, maybe even a Wonder Woman film then do Batman V Superman, so much wouldn’t have had to be crammed in if they did it like that
@@floydharper1216 Its funny because alot of people think they didnt put enough and wanted clark fleshed out more, I watched it again today and it was honestly not too much.
You missed the Chris Terrio writing connection with “Mothers some how having to do with stopping a killing blow.” Leia stops Ben and some how makes him see the light. Martha stops Bruce and some how makes him see the light. Lol
Also protagonist and villain killing each other in the final battle... :thonk:
@@simonegreco1958 that was also Snyder. He took it from Excalibur and there's an Easter egg for the same during the Wayne murder scene in the start
So batman here thinks nobody but him has mothers?
@@midwings00 So the big question, What if Darkseid's mother happens to be named Martha?
I agree with this 100%
That being said, reading "some how" that many times in such a small comment hurt me physically. (English isn't my native language, take this as a tip for improvement, I hope you don't feel offended)
Credit goes to Moviebob for this but he had a great idea to improve this movie. Take out Batman and just make Ben Affleck Lex Luthor. He hates Superman because he had a ground-level view of the destruction Superman caused in Man of Steel. He spends most of the movie making thinly veiled threats and trying to get his hands on some Kryptonite. Then, at the end, he builds a bulky metal suit and he and Superman have a punch up.
Wow, that wouldn't hqve made it perfect but it would've been so much better than the trash i wasted 14 bucks on
@@Getwright- I think it was 14 bucks well spent, I loved the movie
Agreed. Batfleck isn’t Batman, he’s Lex Luthor.
That actually would have been a great Movie, when they would have done it that Way.
@@millatalonhand9242 This sounds ridiculous. Batfleck IS Batman.
What the piss then
Mason: Piss I think
Me: Wow that's deep
I love James under his breath going “YEAH” when Maso mentions Holly Hunter. And that zoom-in. It makes me also excited to see Holly Hunter in things.
I’ll give it to Aquaman, he fought a medium sized purple man instead of giant grey man.
"Doomsday" looked like a shitty orc from Lord of the Rings or a shitty Ninja Turtle. I don't know what the hell the character designers were smoking when they said, "That's it! Perfect!"
😂😂😂😂
Shitty ninja turtle indeed.
Shitty Ninja Turtles? Oh you mean Michael Bay's Turtles.. got it.
To me it looks half done, like the artists had just built the frame for the animations and then Zack Snyder walks in and says "THAT'S PERFECT!" and stumbles back out again.
I don't get why people think he's a good director. He's average at best and needs people to tell him no regularly.
@@andromidius because his movies are so deep and "the movie isn't bad, you're just not intelligent enough to get the deep symbolism of Snyder, no that's not the real Lex Luthor and Doomsday! He has a big plan for these movies that he totally isn't just making up as he goes along".
I just don’t know why they tried cramming so much in. There are 4 really good movies in there, but ended up with just 1 mediocre one.
What are the 4 movies you're seeing exactly? The Justice League stuff is literally just a tease, nothing more. Doomsday is part of Lex's plan. The Africa sequence is part of Lex's plan. It all ties back to Lex, so I'm struggling to understand the argument that this film has too many subplots.
@@nlg070301
Dark knight returns
Superman:Doomsday
Injustice
And most importantly: Doctor Lex Luthor: How I learned to stop worrying and loving the bald
@@StevenZephyc you've just listed some of the source material they used. It defeats the point of an adaptation if you strictly follow one comic book. It's like saying Batman Begins has too many plots because it has Falcone, Scarecrow and Ra's al Ghul.
@@Dagenspear perhaps but saying a film has too many plots simply because it blends different comic book interpretations is just not right. If it's like a Spider-Man 3/TASM2 situation I'd agree there's too many plots. But everything in BVS links together pretty well. At least in the Ultimate Edition it does. The only thing that feels out of place is the stupid email teaser and the knightmare sequence, but even the knightmare sequence works in showing Bruce's growing fear.
@@nlg070301 It's kind of a colorful exaggeration, but it is too much.
For starters, you don't need Luthor. You just don't. Superman doesn't like Batman killing, and Batman fears Superman on an existential level so he wants him dead. That's enough. The movie is called Batman V Superman. There it is, the conflict. You don't need Luthor. Not just that, having Luthor hurts the conflict and so the movie
Second, the Lois Lane plot. Totally useless. It only leads up to her being captured and you can do that without the investigation
There are other things, but you get the point. It's an unfocused movie
The line “I mean he’s 32, but he’s neeeww” kills me every time
"There is a point in this fight, were batman is reloading his grenade launcher ..." I had to pause and laugh after that XD because if that doesn't sum up the absurdity of this film I'm not sure what does.
I didn't laugh until I saw your comment.
It’s so stupid, Batman got very lucky when Supes used his super reflexes to catch the Gas Grenade instead of dodging it causing him to get gassed in the face. Batman should’ve reloaded straight away like he’s in a FPS, he’s supposed to be tactical.
Li-Li Mandragon I’m not even sure you people know what you’re complaining about anymore.
@@charliehustle3876 nitpicking tbh
@Charlie Hustle If a loser like me is thinking he can do better than Batman, something is wrong with the story.
The jar is us, the American people, who get pissed on.
Ugh. Ain't that the truth.
A jar gets pissed _in,_ not on.
SO MANY THEEEMES
@@ThreadBomb Howard Hughes was the OG billionaire who pisses in jars - Lex is so derivative.
That's deep man. Allegories and themes.
"There's good individual sequences but as a whole, it's just not a good movie."
So basically it's a Zack Snyder movie, you're saying...
Zach Snyder should never be allowed to direct another movie, but on the other hand, he should be hired for every movie for visual styling
@@kickhuggy you know, i was gonna say that that's a bit harsh, but yeah that lines up. the man has good ideas, it's just, how we get there is weird. i personally really liked man of steel/dawn of justice, justice league we haven't seen the snyder cut yet, but i think that could be good too,
will nelson he definitely has great ideas, the issue is he needs DIRECTion, he needs someone to focus his ideas.
I think those films were fine (with a lot of great visual esthetic), but imagine how they would have turned out with a better plot.
@@kickhuggy The plot was fine
@@kickhuggy Watchmen was a Masterpiece tho.
His works are just hit or miss and missing is what happens most times.
"He's still out there!" Hard cut to Tobey Maguire. Fucking killed me lol.
BvS started this channel....and now BvS will finish it.
I mean i hope this channel wont end here but it would be pretty poetic if it did ngl
You jinxed it
It’s funny how they’re doing BvS and MoS and all the other DCEU films. It seems like they’ve already done them 3-4 times already. I guess they haven’t done a Caravan of Garbage so whatever.
Edit: After watching this in full now, this episode of CoG is AMAZING. Lmao.
To me the biggest problem with a Batman that mercilessly kills random thugs is why on gods earth hasn’t he killed Joker?
Because he started killing after destruction of metropolis ....
@@Anshumansahu23 Is that actually true thoigh? Cuz the movie heavily implies that he went off the rails after Jason Todd’s death
Even then I think Batman going all the way and actually killing is a bit too far and not something he can easily come back from
@@Anshumansahu23 Pretty sure it was more related to the death of Robin. And he was murdered by Joker so why not kill him instead of lesser criminals?
And there was zero reason to blame Superman for the destruction of Metropolis. Zod invaded. Superman saved the world. Batman is really going to kill him because he got thrown into a few buildings lol?
It had my absolute favorite Batman line from all the movies. He says, "We've always been criminals, Alfred." That was fucking awesome.
Straight from the Dark Knight Returns.
I feel bad for Ben having to cut together all those Lex Luthor noises. God, he's just so bad in this. So very bad.
I still don’t understand why they felt the need to make the plot of this movie so convoluted
It's so convoluted for something that becomes insultingly simple to a point.
Ikr, way too much shit cluttered
It would’ve been so easy to make it simple, Superman gives people hope but with that he also lets people down when he can’t save everyone. Meanwhile Batman is preparing just in case Superman were to turn bad, Lex creates Bizarro to frame Superman for a bunch of attacks and Batman strikes whilst Superman is trying to clear his name. Easy and doesn’t require the plot to be this convoluted
@@mrcritical6751 lol the film is simple. Lex manipulates batman and superman into fighting and has doomsday in case of batmans failure
Darth El the concept is simple, but the execution of it is what’s convoluted
From day one I thought Eisenberg was miscast as Lex Luthor, even when they realised a photo of him bald. The way Eisenberg plays him fits the character of the Riddler far better, especially the Batman: Arkham Riddler, with his physical mannerisms. And his party speech still makes me cringe.
That’s who he wanted to play when he auditioned
Yeah what happened apparently was that Zack wanted him as Jimmy Olsen but because of how short the role was he said no. Then for some reason Snyder wanted him for the movie so bad he asked if he wanted to be Lex.
mike 4758 Judging from the way he acts in his other scenes, no it wasn’t.
I like how The Flash in the future had turned into John Leguizamo.
I thoroughly remember every detail of this film, yet didn't understand anything about it
They made fun of the doomsday saying it ain't doomsday . It's coz Zoe's ship was only at 38 percent accuracy. That's the reason it was an abomination.
@@pallavmishra686 I keep on learning new things about this film lol. I originally thought it was because it's zod's body and not the real doomsday.
@kavikiru kavikiru it ain't an excuse,it is what happened