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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

Look at him in the trailer. He just looks like a douchebag. He is there having people bow down to him. He is flying around like he owns the place. He looks at Batman like he hates him when that is not who Superman is.

Now if DC were to reveal that this movie universe is actually the Justice Lords or CSA, it would all make sense and I would be cool with that.

Anyway,

Arrow - Love the new suit, love that they are bringing Mr Terrific into it, but not liking Anarky. Stop bringing in Batman villains!!

Flash - Not liking the idea that Zoom will be the villain because we just had a speedster as the villain for the first season. It should be Grodd. I love that Jay and Wally are going to be in it, and that Cisco is going to become Vibe.

Legends of Tomorrow - Doctor Who but with DC characters? That works for me. Love the idea of them fighting Savage in different time periods, but I really hope they reveal who is playing Savage soon.

Suicide Squad really bad looking trailer - It looks, meh. Everyone was cheering when Harley came on screen but then forgot to cheer for Croc, Boomerang, Katana, and Enchantress. They do know there are other characters in this movie, right? Also, Will Smith seems to have forgotten that Deadshot wears his mask 90% of the time. Oh, still not convinced with Joker because he just seemed like some bad cosplayer with tattoos and a grill.

People are choosing to bow down to him on their own, and he's visibly uncomfortable with it. If he was a jerk, he'd have his hands raised welcoming their praise, like Zod. Instead he's not enjoying their reverence of him at all. He's just flying around, nothing about how he'd doing it is any different from how previous Superman have been shown to fly, and if a rich asshole started to have a personal vendetta against you because a psycho general knocked you through some buildings against your best efforts, yeah, most people wouldn't be staring fondly at Bruce either.

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Originally Posted by Kiwami

Unrelated to SDCC, but I just watched Justice League: Gods and Monsters and I really enjoyed it. The whole misfit/anti-hero Justice League is no new concept, but it worked well here. The overall plot is rather weak, but it gets the development for the characters and the world very well without feeling too forced and it has some very nice ideas. To be honest this might be a movie telling three good origin stories for three different characters without being to cramped, and I haven’t seen one of those in a good while.

I enjoyed the alternate universe Kirk Langstrom as Batman the most, I'm happy they didn’t went with an alternate Bruce Wayne. I haven’t read much about Manbat in the last years, honestly the origin story of this Dr. Langstrom feels more like Morbius the Living Vampire to me. At least the recent incarnation of the character. Not a bad thing, I think the vampire Batman was one of the best things this movie had to offer.

Superman as General Zod's son is interesting, for one because none of his character feels too much like Zod since he was still raised by humans and for two because he isn’t evil. Just an alternate character done right. Wonder Woman I have no idea who she's supposed to be, I don't know much about DC's space adventures.

The only thing I have to criticize is the forceful inclusion of known names. I get that Victor Fries is still an important scientist even in this universe, but do we really need all these Easter-eggs? It was rather painful seeing a scientist getting killed in the arctic, then his ID-card falls out of his pocket and it reads “Victor Fries”. Really? Come on. Same with Silas Stone.

As I said the overall plot is weak, especially when it turns out who the bad guy behind it all is, but I enjoyed the story around it. Animation and action-wise it's Bruce Timm, just awesome animation done right. The cost-cutting 3D-models that pop up here and there are bad, but not overused.

If you're interested in a good animated flick and if you don't hate alternate universe stories I would give it a shot.

I like that they somehow made them nicer than the Crime Syndicate, in that they actually want to help people and by the end they're getting less dark than they initially started as (except Bekka, Bekka was always good).