Maryokutai Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 I still don't quite understand what the movie is supposed to be. From what I've gathered they added a completely different villain (Darkseid) into it which kind of makes a lot of the stuff that happens in the original redundant. But they also seem to keep all that, because the movie wouldn't be friggin' 4 hours long otherwise. Is this what FFVII Remake was, but for movies? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shinymcshine Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 I'm thinking (hoping) that it's a wholly 'different' film, from what I take from the previous reports of Whedon ditching Snyder's the original work and essentially making his own movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCH Posted March 15, 2021 Share Posted March 15, 2021 So instead of a two hour-ish train wreck, it will be four hours? I don't know how increasing the length of this film will improve it. I really can't see it being that removed from the first cut, either. As it should still echo most of the same story beats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shinymcshine Posted March 16, 2021 Share Posted March 16, 2021 Positive reviews for Snyder's JL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-56415738 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-armed dwarf Posted March 16, 2021 Share Posted March 16, 2021 Some of the reviews I saw were fairly rotten so it's surprising to see really positive ones. I guess this will be another Watchmen type of thing. I am really curious about it just cause it retcons out an entire tentpole film from existence with its cancelled director. I can't think of anything similar to that ever happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maryokutai Posted March 16, 2021 Share Posted March 16, 2021 There are probably a lot of outside forces influencing the reviews in either direction ("I sat through this but it's still shit" – "This is Snyder's vindication!" etc.). I'm a bit intrigued to be honest but I have no idea how to watch this in Europe. Maybe it'll be on the Movies thing on Xbox? I'll check that one out on the weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shinymcshine Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 Thought I might give JL a watch, but then found out its 4:3 ration, so with nasty black bars down each side when watching on TV. Apparently this is a better ration for iMax showings, but doesn't really draw me to it anymore. https://www.cnet.com/news/why-the-snyder-cut-of-justice-league-looks-weird-on-your-tv/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maryokutai Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 Really good idea to finetune your movie's look to the iMax aspect ratio in this day and age. You might think they'd actually go the other way and try to go full-on 16:9 so that people have it all full-screen on their TVs at home, where they're going to watch a VOD-only movie... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-armed dwarf Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 Aspect ratio isn't a big deal for me personally, tbh is there even a significant difference in screen estate lost between 4:3 and the way most films are letter boxed (I don't actually know but it doesn't seem that significant) Main thing keeping me from checking it is it's 4 hours long and I think it's only on Now TV which do horrible low bitrate 720 streams, now that triggers the fuck out of me lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCH Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 The four hours does it for me. I can't bring myself to watch it. Even if Darkseid is now a feature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimboxy Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 2 hours ago, OCH said: The four hours does it for me. I can't bring myself to watch it. Even if Darkseid is now a feature. You can watch it over multiple sittings. Regarding the 4:3 thing, I'm watching it now (about 10 mins in) and I've already stopped noticing it really. I've no idea what the fucks going on as I've not watched any of the films that lead into it apart from Man of Steel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmmark Posted March 20, 2021 Share Posted March 20, 2021 I was going to watch a ghost story or the lighthouse when they came out but 4:3? Fuck off. I’m a true fan of film! I demand to see what’s on the left and what’s on the right. Spoiler 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimboxy Posted March 20, 2021 Share Posted March 20, 2021 @mmmark whilst I completely get what you're saying, it is very jarring for a Hollywood blockbuster to be in a different screen ratio. I ended up watching about 45 mins of JL in the end, I forgot about the screen ratio thing pretty quickly. It seems ok to me. It's broken down into slightly obnoxious sounding chapters so there are obvious point to stop and resume watching. I'll probably finish it off this evening. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmmark Posted March 20, 2021 Share Posted March 20, 2021 It might be jarring for about 10 seconds but if you’re going to bin a film off regardless of budget because of its aspect ratio, that’s just dumb. It might be even worse than people that don’t watch films with subtitles because “they want to watch a film not read a book lol”. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-armed dwarf Posted March 20, 2021 Share Posted March 20, 2021 I hope Shiny doesn't stretch/crop his episodes of Twin Peaks when he watches the original series... ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shinymcshine Posted March 20, 2021 Share Posted March 20, 2021 I've still got Twin Peaks first & second seasons (plus pilot) on NTSC VHS if anyone want to borrow those to watch? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCH Posted March 20, 2021 Share Posted March 20, 2021 14 hours ago, Jimbo Xiii said: You can watch it over multiple sittings. A four hour film isn't the issue. The Justice League film now being four hours is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maryokutai Posted March 20, 2021 Share Posted March 20, 2021 Feedback for this really is all over the place. Or at least my internet bubble powered by facebook and google is making me perceive it this way. On one end it's blowing every Marvel movie out of the water, on the other hand it's just the same dull thing as it was originally, but two hours longer. I kind of expect the truth being closer to the latter though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-armed dwarf Posted March 20, 2021 Share Posted March 20, 2021 Mark Kermode talked about it and said it was an improvement, but also it was now 'consistently dull' rather than a fragmented bore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimboxy Posted March 20, 2021 Share Posted March 20, 2021 11 minutes ago, one-armed dwarf said: Mark Kermode talked about it and said it was an improvement, but also it was now 'consistently dull' rather than a fragmented bore. I'm normally pretty inline with Kermodes take on things but his ww84 review was pretty far off the mark I thought (he liked it). I'm quite looking forward to getting back to JL if I'm honest, which I genuinely didn't expect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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