![]() This is a much different movie than Whedon's version. Said team consists of Gal Gadot's noble Wonder Woman, Ezra Miller's eager speedster Flash, Ray Fisher's sullen half-man, half-machine Cyborg, Jason Momoa's sea-king-as-surf-himbo (ph) Aquaman and, if they can swing it, a resurrected Superman played by Henry Cavill. WELDON: Batman, played by Ben Affleck, assembles a team to defend Earth from Darkseid's pointy-headed goon named Steppenwolf, voiced by Ciaran Hinds. Both the Snyder cut and the Joss Whedon version of "Justice League" tell the same overall story of humanity's efforts to prevent the evil intergalactic despot named Darkseid from acquiring three so-called Mother Boxes hidden on Earth, which he intends to bring together to be evil, intergalactically or whatever. "Justice League" was originally intended to be the third film in Zack Snyder's take on the DC Universe, following "Man Of Steel" and "Batman V Superman," but it didn't work out that way because Snyder had to step away from the project. WELDON: We're going to spread the love, spread the fear. MORRIS: And, J.C., I will bathe in your fear, too. WELDON: We are going to get to some of that - yes, we will. And in honor of today's movie, I just want to say, I will bathe in your fear. He is a podcaster and the co-writer of the upcoming graphic novel "Bubble," which was based on one of his hilarious and very smart podcasts and is available for preorder right now. Also, with us for the first time, from his home in Los Angeles is Jordan Morris. Howard, a producer of NPR's TED Radio Hour and How I Built This. Joining me from his home in Washington, D.C., is J.C. And today we're talking about "Zack Snyder's Justice League" on POP CULTURE HAPPY HOUR from NPR. The result is "Zack Snyder's Justice League," a sprawling four-hour-and-two-minute epic that is big and bold and certain to delight the very vocal fans who clamored for it. Following an extended online campaign by Snyder's hardcore fan base, the director has gone back and recreated his original vision of the film. The studio tapped Joss Whedon to take over, and he ordered extensive rewrites, reshoots and completely re-edited the film, which premiered to mixed reviews and polarized reactions. Director Zack Snyder suffered a family tragedy and stepped away from the film in post-production. No joke! Look it up.The 2017 film "Justice League" had a famously rocky road to the big screen. I was Time Magazine's Person of the Year in 2006. Rewards go to anyone who can deduce exactly why. Teddy Roosevelt is the president I admire most. My bookshelves are filled with classical literature, and volumes on philosophy, science, tactics, film making, linguistics, self help, chess, and other subjects.Īt least once a week I pause to be thankful that spiders cannot fly. ![]() I consider myself an autodidact and polymath. I believe this is why dogs sometimes bark at me for seemingly no reason. My humor is often so subtle that only dogs can hear it. I've also reviewed and written about various topics like science fiction, martial arts, philosophy, fencing, and Wing Chun. I've published dozens of movie reviews for a public web site that is now gone, and I had my own web site full of reviews, but Comcast took down their free user web pages, so I'm going to start recreating that here. I'm the sort of person who never shows up for one late, and always sits through the credits. Amelioration is an important part of my existence. We get a very odd time reversing scene at the end, that feels like the characters know something that we don't, there are implied repercussions that don't happen, and I really don't think that's how time travel would/could work in any sci-fi fictional version.įun, fit, witty, and a bit nerdy. They mentioned things like Flash and time travel that I understand only from the tv show. I accept we don't need to waste time learning about Batman, Superman, or Wonder Woman's origins because we should know them from the previous films, but Martian Manhunter and Deathstroke appear with no explanations of who/what they are. The movie gave me nothing beforehand, and at the end, I'm not sure if I understand enough if I saw it again. I don't know much about mother boxes and Darkseed. And it really needed less slow motion, and more time to explain things. And probably 5-10 minutes of the Whedon stuff could've fit nicely in here, improving it. I'm certain the film didn't need to be four hours long. It is more than twice as long and far from twice as good.
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