Matt Reeves new director for 'The Batman'

So far his only film directing credits are

Cloverfield
Let Me In
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

>>89834670

So it'll probably be solid, not great. I can deal with this.

>>89834682
At least solid is a step up from Snyder. Which really says something about Snyder and the rest of the DCEU

>>89834487
He can deal with big budgets, and i'm sure Affleck's still in charge

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>>89834487
Could this be a shimmer of light in this sea of darkness?

This guy is always on the list of redditty blockbuster directors like Nolan, Fincher, Villeneuve, Affleck, Cuaron, etc. and then I look at his filmography and... it's literally nothing.

Why the fuck do people like this guy again? Why are people happy he's making a Batman movies?

>>89834859
>Why the fuck do people like this guy again?

I think it's mainly because people like Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.

I mean he's not David Fincher, but still a solid choice. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is a really well done genre action movie.

>>89834882

Reeves

90% Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes
88% Let Me In
77% Cloverfield
42% The Pallbearer

War of the Planet Of The Apes is also prolly very good.


Zack Snyder

27% Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
55% Man of Steel
23% Sucker Punch
50% Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
65% Watchmen
60% 300
75% Dawn of the Dead

Who would you trust with batman after affleck?

>>89835258
Everyone agrees he blows Snyder out of the Water, but that's really not a high bar.

>>89834859
>This guy is always on the list of redditty blockbuster directors like
>>>/tv/

>that DCEU fag I know sends me the link to this
>says "and boom"
>starts saying it's a proof that criticisms against WB are unfounded
>"WB hires real authors"

Is it going to happen with every DC movie? Fanboy grabbing what they can as a proof that "it'll be better next time"

>>89835756
>WB hires real authors

What the fuck does that even mean? Is he just referring to the fact that he's had jobs as a screenwriter?

>>89835756
>>"WB hires real authors"

Life is too short to associate with people like that anon.

>>89834689
Snyder haters are so misguided. The guy is incredibly talented. He just didn't give your entitled ass what YOU wanted. Poor fucking baby

Who cares about Batman anymore?

>>89834859
Do you know anything about film, you stupid cunt? Plenty of the world's most beloved directors only had a few films ever. You are fucking clueless

>>89836187
>He just didn't give your entitled ass what YOU wanted

lol I hope this isn't bait and Snyderfags have really become so deluded that they think it's entitlement to want a good movie.

>>89835471
Actually.. As a director yeah it is. You know jack shit about film

>>89836199
A good 1/3 of America.

Maybe.

>>89836187
They are kids that only watch blockbusters, they don't go to the cinema of the movie isn't animated or jurassic park/star wars/capeshit. This board is shit

>>89836243
You're right, you should probably go back to /tv/

You know, because /tv/ isn't shit

>>89836187
>>89836221
>>89836243
Snyderfags' persecution complex is probably the most entertaining thing on this board.

>>89835756
Now let's see if this one doesn't leave because of "creative differences" like the previous...five

>>89835258
>citing RT
Really, faggot?

Reeves

7.6 Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes
7.2 Let Me In
7 Cloverfield
4.9 The Pallbearer

Zack Snyder

6.7 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
7.1 Man of Steel
6.1 Sucker Punch
7 Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
7.6 Watchmen
7.7 300
7.4 Dawn of the Dead

>>89836342
>actually using IMDB ratings
How the fuck is that accurate? They get flooded with 10s for everything

>>89836342
>Citing IMDB
You can't possibly be serious

>>89836016
I don't know. I told him it didn't prove anything, and that the guy might just as well be treated like shit like the others. And he said" just let me dream".

>>89836164
I know. Aside from that he's nice. But he's way too obsessed with consuming like his life depends on it. He bought a bunch of lego minifigs after we saw Lego batman, and he takes every criticism towards DC as a personal offense.

Other friends think he's lacking self esteem, and his obesity doesn't help.

>>89834670

Three solid movies right there

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>>89836187

>>89836187
>He just didn't give your entitled ass what YOU wanted

You're right, I wanted a good movie.

>>89836369
>>89836372
>implying The Dark Knight isn't better than Schindler's List
>implying Inception isn't better than Apocalypse Now
>implying The Matrix isn't better than Casablanca
>implying Interstellar isn't better than Psycho
>implying Braveheart isn't better than Chinatown

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>>89834487
What are the chances now that they push Batman to 2020 and it's a reboot post DCEU with no Affleck?
WB has already funded his vanity dream project, and it was truly terrible.
He doesn't have to pretend he likes this Batman stuff anymore.

>>89834682
Ayer was also a great director choice, and we saw how that turned out. I honestly think the execs behind the whole DCEU are complete morons. These superhero movies are very much the products of the studios involved and the directors have a lot less impact than usual.

>>89836016
I think he mean "auteurs".

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>>89836628
They've become permanently convinced that the key is recreating The Dark Knight, no matter what the actual comic is like.
Somewhere, someone is considering a Shazam film with a TDK flair to it.

BvS is the Barry Lyndon of cape cinema.

There, I said it.

>>89836757
>Snyderfags are this deluded

Why don't you just go back to calling it Citizen Kane?

>>89836614
IT was pretty decent actually

>>89836913
Because Barry Lyndon is far better than citizen kane

>>89836757
Actually this sounds about right

>>89836710
The fact that you call it "shazam" instead of captain marvel means no one should care about your opinion

>>89835258
>Who would you trust with batman after affleck?

I don't trust

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I hate the DCEU and MCU. I say this as a DCfag. Last capeshit movie I enjoyed was Dr Strange.

Next one that looks decent is Thor Ragnarok just cause it's in space. Logan and GoTG look pretty gud too.

Fuck Homecoming and WW.

>>89837406
>Fuck Homecoming and WW

WW is going to be such garbage. I have no faith in WB. I wanted to support WW so hard but the movie will suck and her book is one of the biggest disappointments of rebirth.
feels bad man.

>>89837634
Yeah I know what you mean. They hired a literal stick to play her, and then rushed out her movie so critics can pat them on the back for a female-led movie, when it'll be dog shit.

I dislike both companies like I said, but at least Marvel actually put some shit out that I can watch every couple of years.

>>89837634
Her book was awesome you just dont like the slowness of the truth part.

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>>89834670
Cloverfield is shit. Let Me In is an okay remake of a genuine classic. I never saw DotPotA.

Meh.

I'm honestly curious if audiences will even give a shit about the DCEU by the time this movie comes out.

>>89837406
>I hate comic movies, last one I enjoyed was the last one to come out

>>89837352
>The fact that you call it "shazam" instead of captain marvel means no one should care about your opinion

Don't be an autist. The movie is going to be called 'Shazam', regardless of what the character's name used to be

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>>89837738
What DO normies say about WW and JL, and DCEU in general? I don't have anyone to ask

>>89837757
That literally doesn't change anything I said, retard. Everything before Strange was shit. Civil War, BvS, AoU, Ant-Man.

>>89837940
>Strange isnt shit like the rest

>>89837981
>I'll use greentext to argue

>>89835258
>Who would you trust with batman after affleck?

Disney

>>89837919
Major hype for jl, more than BvS or cw had, www less so

>>89838004
>ill use greentext to simplify the stupid thing you have said

>>89837738

Cloverfield is great, Let Me In is ok and Apes is great too. Stay wrong though

People love Batman and will see anything with him in it. WW is fucked though

>>89838012

Everytime I feel sad or tired, I think about how the Mouse will never EVER get the rights of the X-Men back and how the MCU could never be rebooted so once it's done, it's done forever, and it brings me pure joy to my heart.

>>89837738
>I'm honestly curious if audiences will even give a shit about the DCEU

irrelevant. Audiences will always give a shit about Batman.

>Ben leaves
>HAHAH DC is finished
>LOL The City of The District of Colombia Comics
>The Beginning of the End for DC!??????

>2 weeks later
>already have better director than Ben

>Cloverfield director

Okay, that's cool.

>wants to drop Ben

No! Why would you do that?!?

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>>89838144
>People love Batman and will see anything with him in it.
Hah, no.

>>89837738
>never saw Apes

What do you live under a fucking rock? It was the best action movie in years.

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>>89838979
Because he's fucking boring, and maybe, just maybe, we might get a director who wants to make Batman the most interesting character in a movie?

I mean, probably not, but a man can dream.

>>89834670

DOTPOTA was a good movie though.

>>89838979
Boco why are you making up rumors you stupid attention whore piece of shit. The article says nothing about him wanting to drop Ben.

>>89840836
Not just good, great. It was basically what if Shakespeare made a play about Apes.

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>>89840837
Ben gives every sign of wanting to get rid of Ben.
We've gone the full spectrum from
"OMG BEN LIVES FOR BATMAN, HE BUILT HIS OWN BATCAVE ONCE OMGZORS PERFECT BATMAN!"
to
"Ben will only do it if he can bring in his own writer to fix Goyer's garbage script"
to
"Well, I am no longer willing to direct, but I guess I can show up and drive the not a car thing around..."

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>>89836342
>imdb

wow

>>89840854
Apekino?

>>89840891
No, its more like he realized all anyone gives a fuck about is him as Batman and if he fucks up he will not live it down.

Only a brain dead idiot would have wanted him to direct the world's most popular superhero as his first summer blockbuster.

>>89840921
The Gameinformer of movie reviewers.

>>89834487
I only like his Ape movie. So feel really lukewarm about this. But hey, isn't Flash supposed to be first and they already ran trough 3 directors. So maybe we'll get someone with a better resume, and just fuck a style or something. This guy's just your fill in director.

>>89840926
"Does he really want to direct Summer Blockbusters?" is the question.

Some people only involve themselves in them to pay back-taxes or to build up favor with the studio. WB already rewarded Ben with his Big Important Movie project, and it utterly shit the bed.

>>89840996
That is my point. He wouldn't have been a good director.

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Personally I think he'd rather helm another Good Will Hunting or Argo rather than push into big Summer flicks.
He has to know that he's not charismatic enough to carry a flashy action film. He remembers Pearl Harbor, and being the 9th most interesting character in Armageddon.

But that's Ben's niche, being the 7th-9th most interesting character in movies.

>>89840891
Every interview has been how he better not fuck up.
Its alot of pressure when youre an actor worse when you are also the director since the blame would be out solely on them(unless its the DCEU because the extras even get blamed) so i doubt he would want to be put on that bucking horse.

This board is going to be a riot when Ben announces he's leaving the Batman and DCEU

>>89838071
>Major hype for jl, more than BvS or cw had, www less so
Why are you lying

>>89841049
I feel pretty confident that if JL does SS numbers, the DCEU will collapse for a couple of years and the whole thing will reboot as a series of Batman movies with an entirely different cast and creative team.

Joker, Harley and Batman will be back of course, but no one playing those roles now is even remotely valuable in them.

JL will need TDK/TDKR numbers to keep this turd-berg afloat.

>>89841165
And they've shot their big load with Batman vs Superman, Justice League is just the trio going against "villains no one has heard of" with a supporting cast of CW rejects.
I laugh my ass off when they attempt to hype Aquaman or Cyborg.

>>89841165
Thats fucking stupid considering the movies have been hugely financially successful.

>>89840837

Yeah, I misread it as "new director wants to replace Ben" instead of "new director will replace Ben AS DIRECTOR, but Ben isn't leaving."

Although with every new announcement it feels like Ben just doesn't want to anymore. Too much pressure.

Also, hasn't Ben admitted he only does the DCEU to get money/favors for his personal projects?

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>>89841233
Which movies are we talking about?
Because I'm pretty sure their goal wasn't to underperform the Nolan films by half a billion dollars.

That acceptable for Wonder Woman or a poorly though out Superman movie. But not for the big Batman clash with Superman with Wonder Woman as the cherry on top.

You don't make that sort of ensemble film hoping to squeak by Thor: Dark World and then celebrate.

>>89841304
Stop just puking back up what you hear. BvS did decent numbers and SS was hugely successful especially with merchandise.

>>89834670
Pretty decent. I don't know how they can fuck up this on.

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>>89841370
Wait, now BvS is "decent"? What happened to yuge?
Suicide Squad was a good success, although Deadpool made more and cost less than a third as much (probably a quarter or less with marketing).

I don't know how you measure "merchandise" or separate the general sale of Joker and Batman stuff from specific SS items. I'm sure they sold a good deal of Harley stuff, but let's not exaggerate. I shop too, and you just don't see SS merchandise as pervasively as Avengers stuff, not even remotely.

But yeah, Harley 2: Electric Boogaloo seems to be the only spin-off that's on track anymore.

>>89841463
Deadpool did not make more. SS Squad literally broke the record for that month and all the articles were citing how it made more than Deadpool. Stop using 4chan as a source you idiot.

>>89838144
>MCU could never be rebooted

You're cute.

The DCEU is irrelevant now. DC's future lies in LEGO movies.

>>89836187
The guy's movies aren't nearly as bad as everybody says, and a lot of the criticism towards them is just because everyone's used to the Marvel-style movie.

But you're a moron if you think that Snyder's vision of the DCEU is anywhere near what it should really be.

>>89841526

You're not factoring in profit. Considering how cheap Deadpool was to make, it easily made more for its studio than SS did for WB.

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>>89841526
>canttelliftrollingorstupidbutprettysurestupid.jpg.

>>89841592
it grossed more period.
>>89841649

>>89841666
But that marketing didnt it cost like a zillion dollars or does it only effect DC movies

>>89841592

Deadpool made more money for it's studio than most films ever had. There's arguments that it made about as much as Civil War when you factor in the budget marketing and the fact that films get less from the foreign box office

It was a freak of a film It was also the best cape film last year

>>89841693

Deadpool barely had any marketing compared to what they did for SS.

And lets not forget the money WB had to spent for reshoots and making the "funnier" edit of the film.

>>89841729
If you honestly bekieve they can film ebough to change the tone of a movie in less than 2 weeks.

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>>89841693
Deadpool was made for 58 million dollars, to Suicid Squad's 175 production budget.

Deadpool had some weird as fuck marketing, but nothing that couldn't be done for 20-30 million tops.
Suicide Squad was given the heavy WB marketing treatment for weeks (as a Joker/Harley movie). It assuredly spent well over 50 million minimum.

>>89841782

According to everyone who's seen it, they can't and didn't.

What is even going on ITT? Who fucking cares how much money movies make.

Can we talk about how this is the best director to be signed onto any cape movie? This could be a masterpiece.

>>89841782
Most of the movie takes place on dark city streets with guys in Kick-Ass tier costumes. And Croc, who's really barely in it anyway.
They could reshoot a lot of it in 2 weeks if they wanted, especially light quippery. It's not a Star Wars sequel.
It's a CW episode with a bigger CGI budget.

I mean, I guess Will Smith prepared for months to play Will Smith or something.

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>>89841820
>Can we talk about how this is the best director to be signed onto any cape movie? This could be a masterpiece.

>>89841820
This fuck off drones, stop trying to deter the thread. This is amazing news.

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>>89841865
Are you going to sit there and act like the man that made fucking Apekino is not a better director than Joss Whedon or Snyder?

Did yo even understand Apekino? All of the symbolism in it?

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>>89841867
"DCEU film goes through yet another director while film is pushed back another year" is amazing news at this point?

>>89841887
I was the one who coined that term a little while back, actually.
And I'll admit directing CGI apes is a good launching point for the DCEU at this point.

>>89841834
But you still need to take in account location and get everything in place for the reshoot. This movie wasnt in a studio, you cant control the outside world. To think they did more then reshoot a few scenes or that flash cameo is just shitposting.

>>89841898
Who said it was pushed back. Did it even have an offical release date. This isnt the flash

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>>89841887
Should we expect a loyal adaptation?

>>89841820
>the best director to be signed onto any cape movie?

Objectively Raimi and Nolan

>>89841950
It's been moved to 2019, last I heard.
Aquaman and Flash are big ??-marks at this point.
Only thing that seems certain now is that WB is hungry for a Harley follow-up.

DC was planning 3 movies a year at one point.

>>89842017
No retard. "Last you heard". There has never been a release date.

>>89838144
>how the MCU could never be rebooted so once it's done, it's done forever,

They'll just use the muiltverse excuse

MCU2, then Ultimate MCU

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>>89841982
I'd throw Del Toro in there too. Both for Hellboy and Blade.

>>89842030
Since everything you assert is factually untrue, maybe you should cool with throwing around "Stupid/Retard/Moron" junior.

>>89842076
Are you stupid? Find me a single article where WB stated a release date.

You are the fucking idiot that takes everything you read on /tv/ or facebook as fact.

>>89842030
Forbes is reporting both the new director and a likely pushback to 2019. Among other sources.

>>89840996
>WB already rewarded Ben with his Big Important Movie project, and it utterly shit the bed.
Which one?
>>89841049
You say that despite him directing both Argo and The Town

>>89842126
Cool so more rumors and speculation. WB never gave a release date.

>>89842098
Oh nevermind, you're just a shitposting douche. I though you were just ignorant, which can be helped.
Carry on.

>>89842165
Kek so you can't find one

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>>89842133
>Which one?
The one that made $20 million dollars worldwide on a $65 million dollar production budget.

>>89842133

The one from a few weeks ago. 'Live by Night'.

>>89842126
So there was never an offical date released? Cool

>>89842042
>then Ultimate MCU
But it's already Ultimate MCU.

>>89842182
>>89842232
At this point, it no longer has a release YEAR.
If that offers you two some little bit of comfort.

>>89842220
>>89842230
Yeah something tells me that movie was not his "Big Important Movie project"

>>89842290
It never did. Again it was all entirely rumor and speculation.

>>89842305

He sure thought so.

When he was promoting it he kept getting annoyed at people asking "When's Batman"?

>>89842305
Ben wrote, directed, starred in, his name is on half the production.
It was literally his dream project, and it got a pretty hefty budget for a period gangster film someone wrote in the bathroom.

Yes, it was clearly his personal thing.

>>89837919
My brother thought that BvS looked absolutely incredible, literally everyone I knew was hyped. Then it came out and nobody went to see it. The entire crowd of people I know are the prime superhero targets- they love the Dark Knight and the MCU; only 3 people I know have bothered to see it and only because it was a featured film on Turkish Airlines.

If they had made a good movie it could easily have done double what BvS actually did.

Nobody is excited for JL or WW.

>>89842322
So what ARE the non rumored DCEU movies past Justice League?
because people like you and the Tripfaggot have been breathless about WB's schedule all year. What is actually set in stone? Nothing now?

Who gives a shit, really?
It's Batman. It'll still print money.
They could pick up a no name off the street with no filmography and no work credits and no talent whatsoever and kino trolls would defend it as a bold avant-garde decision on the part of Warner Brothers.

Ability has never mattered. Critical scores have never mattered. Only memes matter.

>>89842475
>It's Batman. It'll still print money.
see
>>89840751

>>89842463
Aquaman, and Wonder Woman are the only 2 with a release date. Flash as well but that is in limbo.

>>89842463

Past Justice League nothing is set in stone except for Aquaman in November 2018. They're waiting to see how JL goes. before making any more commitments.

At one point the ideal lineup was Flash and Batman in 2018, and Shazam and JL2 in 2019. But with all the shakeups those could all change.

>>89842545
So 12 months with nothing to look forward to but Aquaman? Not a single 2018 summer flick?
Doesn't that seem a bad sign to you?

>>89842689
No. I dont want it to be like the MCU where they are shoveling out 3 movies of shit a year.

>>89842689

They were probably planning to bump up one of their movies to summer 2018 once one of them got far along enough in production. Or just rush one in, since that seems to be WB's new strategy.

>>89842801
>takes years between movies
>rushing
>???

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>>89836614
>>89842220
Is this what company wars have come to?
Live By Night was at the very least better than Argo.
None you have seen it.

I don't care about the DCEU at this point, either. They fucked it up.
But LBN was great.

>>89842491
That still made money.
Quality doesn't matter. Fanboys can fanboy anything no matter how shit.

>>89842855

Theres a very slim chance they were going to leave summer 2018 empty, is what I mean.

Or maybe not. Maybe they would have no choice but to go with only Aquaman. Its all up in the air right now.

>>89842868
I'd say they're about the same. Not the greatest, nor the worst things ever. They're OK dramas. In hindsight, Argo wasn't anything special.

>>89841163
I'm not, speak to people

>>89841277
No, now please fuck of course off boco

>>89841463
I Hinkley you may actually be retarded

>>89842463
Birds of prey, aquaman and batman

>>89843007
Shut the fuck up Boco you piece of shit

>>89843342

Love you too, man.

>>89834882

Anyone even remember Dawn of the Planet of the Apes?

>>89843476
Yeah, it was really good.

>>89842868
>>89843046
He still hasn't made a better movie than Gone Baby Gone.

When is the Justice League trailer though? I hope it's next month, it has to be. I want to know if yesterday's leaks were true.

>>89843645
What leaks?

>>89842415
What was the plot. Trailers it looked like a period gangster film and then alla sudden Klann and burning crosses.

>>89842305
He was going for an Oscar and winded up with a turd.

>>89843706
Just some guy made a thread yesterday claiming to have seen a rough cut, I'll post them in a bit if you like.

>>89843763
Go ahead.

>>89843791
Well, I watched the rough cut of the movie last week. It has pretty much the same qualities and the same flaws as "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice", but with a bigger scope and way more jokes. When it works, it works great. When it doesn't, it gets pretty messy.

Ask me anything, I guess. Though some details I'll try to keep vague out of self-preservation.

Yes, Lex has a minor, but important role.

As for the invading force, for most of the movie it's just a batallion of Parademons. In the end once the gateway is opened, there's a large army including a warship.

The Flash is on the same level as the TV show, I'd say. Runs at the speed of the sound and he does phase in one scene.

Atlantis is briefly seen, yes.

As good as you'd expect from Snyder. The lower-scale fights are pretty good, and once the scope gets big it gets a little tiresome.

Cyborg's pretty moody and stoic. Maybe even a little bit angsty. But he lightens up in the end.

Batman calls the shots at first and defers command once Superman returns.

Humour's VERY hit and miss. Especially the Flash. Which sucks because he's the designated comedy relief and makes a lot of jokes. Like a joke a minute at times.

Clarks's alright. He's definitely more confident and optimistic once he returns. Until then he's the broody, self-doubting Clark we've come to know from the previous movies.

Supes has longer hair and beard.

An afterlife/purgatory/limbo of sorts modeled after Kent Farm.

He interacts with Jonathan a lot, yes. Martha and Lois appear too, but he can't really speak to them because they're alive. Jonathan and him are preparing for a storm, which is a representation of the alien invasion, and gets closer whenever the Parademons get another Mother Box. Once the invasion starts Clark realizes he's actually in a death-like state and Jonathan is there to help him choose whether he goes back or stays with him. Clark eventually goes back when he hears Lois calling to him.

>>89844465

Steppenwolf's an alien monster in a black and red horned armor with a big axe. Yeah, he's CGI.

The League decide to revive him to stop Steppenwolf from using his body to create soldiers.

Once united the Mother Boxes can create a gateway to Apokolips and bring an army to Earth. There are three, one with the United States government, one with the amazons in Themyscira and one of the atlanteans in Atlantis.

Supes revived with the scout ship in Metropolis.

Supes revived early 3rd act

Cyborg was rebuilt by the Mother Box and is connected to it, which is pivotal to defeating Steppenwolf, but the box itself still exists and works.

They send Steppenwolf back to Apokolips and he's offed by Darkseid.

Cyborg reverts the gateway to pull the Parademons back into Apokolips.

Wonderbat hold hands

Mera is briefly in it. She's the commander of Atlantis Royal Guard and not married to Aquaman yet. In fact she doesn't even like him.

Iris has a brief two appearances, yes. She's a newspaper intern who tries fishing for stories about the Flash in the Central City PD and is very quirky and stuff. Barry has a crush on her.

Clark reunites with Lois, but they don't mention what's become of his life in Metropolis

Aquaman probably the best non-Batman character. He's a moody asshole for most of the movie, but is still presented as a good leader, willing to make compromised. He could go very wrong, but manages to stay pretty endearing throughout.

Highlights

Batman fighting Parademons at Stryker's Island and using the close spaces to trick them into destroying themselves and each other

Aquaman saving the League from some Parademons in Themyscira and summoning marine lifeforms to destroy the ones attempting to escape

Wonder Woman lassos a hugh warship and uses it as a wrecking ball to destroy a swarm of Parademons before throwing it through the gateway.

Superman saving Batman from Steppenwolf.

>>89844512
It's safer, and I imagine general audiences will enjoy the action and the humor, but there's a lot of strange things Snyder added that might throw them off, and a lot could go wrong in editing. The cut I watched is over three hours long.

Luthor is in Arkham Asylum. Batman visits him for information on Steppenwolf, which Luthor leverages for release from Arkham. Batman agrees, but once Luthor tries to return to LexCorp he finds out Bruce Wayne is the new owner. Luthor is later seen hiring Deathstroke to kill Batman. Superman also confronts him through a window and Luthor vows to never stop until Superman is truly dead.

Yes, she does. Her role is fairly minor. She's still mourning Clark's death and working at the Daily Planet. For some reason she can sense Clark's presence while he's trapped in the afterlife.

Batman figures out she's the key to bringing Superman back and Flash brings her to the battlefield in Metropolis. She reaches out to Clark while's he's in the rebirth matrix and her voice calls him back to life. They're later seen reuniting at the farm. Martha is also there.

There's definitely some weird things in the movie. The leader of the ancient humans is what appears to be an ancestor of Bruce Wayne complete with a bat-like cloak/cape thingy, and Batman is a literal oracle who's having prophetic visions because fate chose for it to be so.

Also Superman's black suit just sort of happens.

>>89844541
Plot summary
>Humans, amazons and atlanteans fend off Darkseid in ancient times. Mother Boxes are left behnd.

>Batman is having prophetic dreams and trying to put a team together. He tracks down Aquaman but Aquaman turns him down.

>Batman meets with Wonder Woman in Gotham. They're down to Flash and Cyborg. Batman recruits Flash, Cyborg declines Wonder Woman's offer.

>Batman, Flash and Wonder Woman look into the kidnapping of several scientists which Batman believes is connected to his dreams. Meanwhile Superman is trapped in the afterlife.

>Cyborg's father is kidnapped and their Mother Box is stolen. Cyborg joins the others.

>They track down the Parademons to a nest at Stryker's Island and fight them off. Cyborg interfaces with the Mother Box but the Parademons escape.

>Mera asks Aquaman to return to Atlantis (he's staying at his home village to mourn his father's death). He says no, but then changes his mind.

>Batman finds out the Parademons have attacked Themyscira. They go there, but the second Mother Box has already been taken. Parademons attack but Aquaman rescues them.

>Aquaman moves the last Mother Box to a secure location guarded by Mera and Vulko. Batman wants to help. Aquaman doesn't want Cyborg around because he's part Mother Box, but Cyborg refuses to be left behind.

>They go to a safe location planning to lure the Parademons into a trap. Cyborg interfaces with the last Mother Box, gets controlled and opens a boom tube through which Steppenwolf shows up, steals the last box and rekts everyone before Wonder Woman fends him off.

>Batman finds out while they were distracted Parademons have stolen Superman's body.

>>89844569
>Batman seeks Lex. Finds out Steppenwolf wants to harness the Codex from Superman's body to create soldiers. Needs the scout ship to do that.

>Batman and Wonder Woman go there alone because Aquaman doesn't want to help and they feel it was a mistake recruiting Flash and Cyborg. Cyborg blames himself for everything but Flash convinces him to try again.

>Steppenwolf and Parademons attack the scout ship. Want to use the scientists to revive Superman. Batman and Wonder Woman intervene. Flash and Cyborg join. Aquaman later comes around. Cyborg finds out Superman is in a death-like state and can be revived. They put him in the scout ship's matrix.

>Superman is healed, but still trapped. Flash brings Lois in and her voice calls Superman back to his body. He saves Batman from Steppenwolf.

>Steppenwolf activates the Mother Boxes and brings an army to Earth. The heroes fight them off.

>Cyborg reunites with his dad, they make up and it gives Cyborg strength to reverse the gateway created by the Mother Boxes and send everyone back to Apokolips.

>Superman, Aquaman and Wonder Woman defeat Steppenwolf and send him back. He's executed by Darkseid for his failure.

>The League is embraced as heroes. Superman reunites with Lois. The Mother Boxes are destroyed. Batman creates a base of operations for team. Batman/Wonder Woman teased. Aquaman gets over his dad, Flash gets friends, Cyborg's dad does love him after all.

>Luthor gets screwed over and hires Deathstroke to kill Batman.

>Superman and Luthor have a confrontation teasing further battles.

>Darkseid is revealed and mentions "the anti-life" as a sequel hook.

>Fin.

>>89844595
So that's it, pretty sure it's bullshit but it sounds kinda cool. The netherworld/afterlife thing sounds like something Snyder would do.

>>89844595
>Luthor gets screwed over and hires Deathstroke to kill Batman.

Boy thats gonna be awkward if the rewrite drops him.

>>89834670
I hope you're not implying that those movies are bad.

>>89834670
cloverfield was shit because
>TJ Miller

Let Me In was good
Apes was great

>>89840891
>"Well, I am no longer willing to direct, but I guess I can show up and drive the not a car thing around..."
Don't forget that he still have NOT officially signed up to play Batman in THAT film. He only has JL2 left on his contract, the Batman solo film isn't in it. Affleck, in theory, can walk away. Not likely, but if he is sufficiently pissed of he still can.

>>89841156
>This board is going to be a riot when Ben announces he's leaving the Batman and DCEU
That would be the last straw for DCEU methinks. At that point Aquaman might become a standalone film.

>>89840836
>>89834689

Fun fact about "Dawn" is that, much like MoS, they were under a time crunch and he was the only one willing to work under those conditions. It really shows the difference between those two directors, though, because all of Reeves' additions were the best parts, like the beginning where the apes are just hunting elk and living in trees, whereas Snyder.... yeah

Anyhow, just saying that, no matter how shitty a script is and how rushed it may be, a director can either elevate or reduce the film's quality.

>>89845108
They could cut that scene pretty easily.

>>89845108
I think WB is contractually obligated to have him in some way, especially with how publicized it was when he was cast.

>>89846362
I'm pretty hyped, ApeKino 3 is one of my anticipated movies

>>89844629
Yeah, very Snyder-esque, but I can live with whatever he does, hell I do for BvS

And about the big fights across the action films, I think they lose that spectacle when you get exposed so many and they start declining as films go along.

>>89846662
That's Rise dude.
Producers like working with directors that say yes or "I'll see what I can do". It also helps if you help if you partially fund the film, like Snyder does with his wife.