A while ago, I was about to write a few choice criticisms about the movie...
Jeremy Irons, who was in the movie as Alfred, actually sums up one of my criticisms about the movie here:
http://www.ew.com/article/2016/05/29/batman-v-superman-jeremy-irons-criticism
The movie, in and of itself, was actually a rush and literal mish-mosh of several plot lines in one movie, which was disappointing to say the least.
Some people actually hit on it, but let me go over some of the issues I had with it.
First... Lex Luthor.
The casting of Jesse Eisenberg, was, in my opinion, not a reasonable one for the movie. Not so much for his looks, but the acting or what he was directed to act for Lex Luthor in the movie.
Over all, Gene Hackman and Kevin Spacey's version of Lex Luthor was much more adequate for the person, even in the really bad Superman II and IV movies for Gene Hackman.
The Eisenberg version seemed more like he was trying to mix a little of The Joker with Lex Luthor. While his Lex Luthor was condescending genius, sort of way, his sociopath take on him read a bit too much like the Joker.
Even the Animated version of Superman, voice acted by Clancy Brown and the Justice League, the Lex Luthor in that series was much more composed, even near the end of that series where he is shown to be less than sane.
Next... Plot points...
Suffice it to say, the original intent of Batman versus Superman is a plot point from one comic, "The Dark Knight Returns" by Frank Miller... Where an old Bruce Wayne becomes Batman once again, to the point he has to face off against Superman... The movie also decided to throw a few too many other things to it to 'make it exciting'.
One of those plot points is 'Injustice - Gods among men'. A scene plays out where Superman is seen as an Overlord, dispensing Justice in a nightmare that Batman has. This is literally from not only "Injustice" but also one of the Justice League stories, where the Justice League becomes Justice Lords...
Another plot point shoved into our face is the formation of the Justice League, in this case, the joining of forces with Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman against a powerful foe.
Another plot point is the introduction of Doomsday and the death of Superman... Again, this is another plot point from one of the more significant events in the Superman storyline around the early 2000s.
Batman's Origin being another plot point sort of shoved in there, and tying the name of Martha Wayne to Martha Kent was a bit of a reach.
A reference to Crisis of the Infinite Earths is also included in there, where you see a brief showing of the Flash trying to tell Batman something, which made Batman almost dismiss it as being a hallucination.
Basically, too many different plot points crammed into one movie to make it exciting, but even in how it was structured, it was almost nonsensical to me, on some of the jumps in logic made on certain information.
Overall, the movie was rushed and tried too many things at once. The logic behind it all could only be masked by the action, but I think the action itself can't make the movie seem confusing and rather not as good as "Man of Steel".
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Sunday, March 13, 2011
Battle: LA
Well, I think I will start off with the most recent movie I went to go see:
Battle: LA
Before I went to see it, I pretty much went, "YAWOTW Movie" (Yet another War of the Worlds) movie.
In some ways, it was, and in other ways it wasn't. In most of the War of the Worlds movies, we are greeted with Alien War Machines that are fairly unstoppable. I saw the train wreck that was 'Skyline', which followed the tried and true formula of the unstoppable Alien War Machines. While it was grotesque in the way it was 'unstoppable', which was basically, machines powered by using the brains of the humans it captured and harvested, the movie was pretty much the tried and true of Aliens beating the crap out of the humans, only to end with one of those humans becoming one of the aliens and fighting within.
Battle: LA, on the other hand, puts an interesting twist. The aliens are attacking, but not necessarily unstoppable, just overwhelming and completely alien in regards to the conventional warfare.
Now some spoilers of the movie will be mentioned, so you might want to skip reading this if you don't want it spoiled.
In the movie, majority of the technology seems just slightly more advanced than ours. Some Anti-Grav for some of their vehicles, but not many beam based weapons, only the drone ships seem to have that. The alien soldiers are fairly armorplated, but not completely protected. The difference here is the fact they are alien, you can't kill it like you can a human, which obviously is resilient, but not impossible to stop.
The aliens take out military forces fairly expediently, which later is proved how that happens. They locate based on transmissions from the soldiers. They also fight less conventionally, a lot of military tactics are based on ground fighting, literally from building to building and from ground positions, however, the Aliens are attacking from rooftops of some 1 or 2 story houses, which usually don't have easy to get onto roof without assistance.
One of my gripes with the plot is the statement with regards to Earth's Water. Yes, the concept of using water as a reactor source is hardly something new. For those of you who don't know it, science has always theorized the use of water as a means to power a fusion reactor. Our current reactor technology is Fission, which is breaking down of Plutonium to Uranium (I believe) which heats water in a controlled fission reaction. Fusion, on the other hand, is the energy release when an element combines and breaks down. Our Sun is a fusion reaction, constantly going from Hydrogen to Helium conversion and vice versa. My rough understanding of the water based fuel is basically breaking down Water into Hydrogen and Oxygen, or often times creating heavy water (H30, 3 Hydrogen molecules and 1 oxygen molecule) to facilitate a fusion reaction.
Anyways, the complaint I had was how one of the commentators made out the alien's attentions. That Earth's water is in a convenient state. Yes... And No.
Within the range of our known science, there is probably planets with similar situations. In most cases, there are comets or other places where water is in an ice state. Physics of Water is that at Room temperature, its volume is 1 to 1 with its weight. However, when frozen, water's volume is slightly larger than its weight. Which is why ice floats, the density of ice is less in its solid form than it is in its liquid state. And while ice might not be 'convenient', the water of earth is hardly 'pure' or convenient for fuel than ice.
The one thing I noticed with Skyline and Battle: LA... Is that the Military is shown as knowing it is coming. Like Independence Day, it is observed coming, and the military is active for the most part. Unlike Independence Day, they don't make a showy appearance and blast a city, or like Skyline where a weird time, suck up a lot of people, then cause of lot of fighting, they try to assault and make a beach head and start pushing inward, then start rolling in their hardware behind their troops.
Over all, the movie was reasonable to enjoy.
Battle: LA
Before I went to see it, I pretty much went, "YAWOTW Movie" (Yet another War of the Worlds) movie.
In some ways, it was, and in other ways it wasn't. In most of the War of the Worlds movies, we are greeted with Alien War Machines that are fairly unstoppable. I saw the train wreck that was 'Skyline', which followed the tried and true formula of the unstoppable Alien War Machines. While it was grotesque in the way it was 'unstoppable', which was basically, machines powered by using the brains of the humans it captured and harvested, the movie was pretty much the tried and true of Aliens beating the crap out of the humans, only to end with one of those humans becoming one of the aliens and fighting within.
Battle: LA, on the other hand, puts an interesting twist. The aliens are attacking, but not necessarily unstoppable, just overwhelming and completely alien in regards to the conventional warfare.
Now some spoilers of the movie will be mentioned, so you might want to skip reading this if you don't want it spoiled.
In the movie, majority of the technology seems just slightly more advanced than ours. Some Anti-Grav for some of their vehicles, but not many beam based weapons, only the drone ships seem to have that. The alien soldiers are fairly armorplated, but not completely protected. The difference here is the fact they are alien, you can't kill it like you can a human, which obviously is resilient, but not impossible to stop.
The aliens take out military forces fairly expediently, which later is proved how that happens. They locate based on transmissions from the soldiers. They also fight less conventionally, a lot of military tactics are based on ground fighting, literally from building to building and from ground positions, however, the Aliens are attacking from rooftops of some 1 or 2 story houses, which usually don't have easy to get onto roof without assistance.
One of my gripes with the plot is the statement with regards to Earth's Water. Yes, the concept of using water as a reactor source is hardly something new. For those of you who don't know it, science has always theorized the use of water as a means to power a fusion reactor. Our current reactor technology is Fission, which is breaking down of Plutonium to Uranium (I believe) which heats water in a controlled fission reaction. Fusion, on the other hand, is the energy release when an element combines and breaks down. Our Sun is a fusion reaction, constantly going from Hydrogen to Helium conversion and vice versa. My rough understanding of the water based fuel is basically breaking down Water into Hydrogen and Oxygen, or often times creating heavy water (H30, 3 Hydrogen molecules and 1 oxygen molecule) to facilitate a fusion reaction.
Anyways, the complaint I had was how one of the commentators made out the alien's attentions. That Earth's water is in a convenient state. Yes... And No.
Within the range of our known science, there is probably planets with similar situations. In most cases, there are comets or other places where water is in an ice state. Physics of Water is that at Room temperature, its volume is 1 to 1 with its weight. However, when frozen, water's volume is slightly larger than its weight. Which is why ice floats, the density of ice is less in its solid form than it is in its liquid state. And while ice might not be 'convenient', the water of earth is hardly 'pure' or convenient for fuel than ice.
The one thing I noticed with Skyline and Battle: LA... Is that the Military is shown as knowing it is coming. Like Independence Day, it is observed coming, and the military is active for the most part. Unlike Independence Day, they don't make a showy appearance and blast a city, or like Skyline where a weird time, suck up a lot of people, then cause of lot of fighting, they try to assault and make a beach head and start pushing inward, then start rolling in their hardware behind their troops.
Over all, the movie was reasonable to enjoy.
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