BATMAN V SUPERMAN (Dragonlord's Review, post #1)

[Big Brown Clown]

 

[Rav1nHunter]

Extended cut made a lot more sense really elevated the film in my opinion not better than Civil war but much better then X-men. @Gambitpool I agree it made Lex a much better character still miscast but better.

 

[Cool Hand Luke]

so lois lane's tits or no?

 

[Kiddo716]

so lois lane's tits or no?

asking the important questions.

 

[Killswitch91]

The extended cut is like a completely different movie.

I can now say I don't blame Zack for this. He had an amazing movie, and WB made him hack it down. The extended version should have been the version released to theaters.

 

[Big Brown Clown]

The extended cut is like a completely different movie.

I can now say I don't blame Zack for this. He had an amazing movie, and WB made him hack it down. The extended version should have been the version released to theaters.

Haha I agree. Everyone on Zack Snyder after watching UC:

 

[prod2821]

I need to see the ext cut soon, hearing a lot of good things

 

[GearSolidMetal]

Go to see the Ultimate Cut today. I can say that I really enjoyed it. Like a lot. It's definitely like the Directors Cut to Watchmen. It gives a ton of context and answers many plot holes from the theatrical version. My biggest surprise was that the added footage vastly improved the 1st half of the film. It's very much a political thriller in the vein of the Winter Soldier. It actually kind of hurts the 2nd half for me. The switch to balls to the wall action in the 2 nd half becomes jarring. My god does the added footage help the pacing. It's 3 hours, but feels half that. I've never seen an extended cut do that to a movie.

Now if you had major problems with these:
-The Martha scene.
-Doomsday
-Shoehorning the Justice League cameos.
-Jesse Eisenberg's acting
-Death of Superman
-Batman killing criminals
-The Knightmare sequence
-And the Future Flash cameo

Then this cut probably won't change your opinion much. But if your major problems were with the atrocious editing, the slow pacing, and plot holes, then you'll enjoy this cut. It improves all of these problems. I gave the theatrical cut a 6/10. The Ultimate Cut gets an 8/10 from me.

Just finished watching the Ext Cut, and this summarizes my opinion perfectly.

Except I gave the theatrical a 7/10, and would give this a 9/10. This is the version we were meant to see. Not as good of an extended cut as LOTR Return of the King, which should be considered the gold standard, but it's far better than the vast majority of extended cuts which add mostly useless bullshit to extend the runtime and ruin the pacing of a film, just to add 'Extended/Director's Cut' to the box art for marketing purposes.

I would imagine explaining it like this - Imagine if they cut Braveheart to two and a half hours and released it in theaters. It'd suffer many of the same problems BvS did, in reguards to pacing, plot holes, and a few of our favorite characters would have been cut out. It'd still be good, possibly great, but when we saw the full-length three hour version when released on video, we would have seen how better it would have been if that was the first version we saw in theaters.

For all harsh critics of BvS, I'm not saying your viewpoint isn't justified. But you owe it to yourself to see this and see if alot of the criticism you have are resolved, or at least now be considered forgivable.

From a 7/10 (probably because I saw it with friends and we all had a great time), to a solid 9/10. It's that much of an improvement.

 

[Ikuza]

Update: June 28, 2016

First 10 Minutes of BATMAN V SUPERMAN Ultimate Cut Officially Released

Nope. Still out. I shouldn't have this many critiques after 10 minutes.

 

[Cool Hand Luke]

tits?

 

[KnightTemplar]

asking the important questions.

That's why Luke's a Mod

 

[KnightTemplar]

Is storing an important secretive USB driver in a vending machine on a level so much better, or . . . . I cant even remember how most of things were done in the last two Cap movies. They were so pedestrian.

At least in BVS everyone remembers that scene. That is how you set up a sequel, and intro the new characters.

A Mod should just sticky, KT''s Gym Analogy so I don't have to beat MadSquabbles over the head with it every time he posts shit like this.

Marvel is the skinny little runt who starts lifting at his local gym. He's weak, he lifts baby weights. But he uses good form, follows a well thought out program and slowly builds size and strength. His nutrition is on point, so he puts on quality weight, not fat.

Eight years later, the skinny little runt is now the biggest, strongest Bro in the gym. He's got Pecs and Gunz that turn on nuns. He's Jacked and he can Bench teh 275. For reps. He can do all this because he left his ego at the gym door and paid his dues.

DC is the naturally big and strong dude who can't wait to get even bigger and stronger. He maxes out every workout. He lifts with shit form, because technique is for pussies, and anything over three reps is cardio. Programming? Nutrition? Those are for Bodybuilders, and everyone knows Bodybuilders are Homos.

He runs a dirty bulk, so he gets bigger, but a lot of his new size is fat. After a few months of this kind of training, he blows out a rotator cuff while trying to Bench teh 275 with his ass in the air and his spotter upright rowing the bar the last four inches.

 

[highkicknomore]

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[TheRuthlessOne]

alright guys I have a score for the ultimate edition.......................................8/10 probably my favorite Super hero movie of the year

 

[TheRuthlessOne]

Let me talk about the Funeral/end scene in the Ultimate Edition

HOLY MOTHER FUCK why wasn't this in the theatrical version. The way they show you Metropolis Gotham completely empty. That was some deep shit

 

[hughesfan20]

The Ultimate Edition should've been the one in theaters. I just got done watching it and wow the editing/pacing was so much better imo.

 

[heavyarms21]

Alright , I want to see it now.

 

[ProBoxingInsidr]

i watched it. it was ok. this lex luthor was the absolute worst villain in any superhero movie ever.






ever.

 

[highkicknomore]

Let me talk about the Funeral/end scene in the Ultimate Edition

HOLY MOTHER FUCK why wasn't this in the theatrical version. The way they show you Metropolis Gotham completely empty. That was some deep shit

Makes you wonder why WB would approve a 3 hour movie in the first place, then butcher it.

If they really wanted a 2.5 hour movie to begin with, they should've had a script for it.

 

[JBSchroeds]

Makes you wonder why WB would approve a 3 hour movie in the first place, then butcher it.

If they really wanted a 2.5 hour movie to begin with, they should've had a script for it.

I was just about to post the same sentiment. It sounds like the extended edition is pretty widely being called a noticeably better film (with lots of ~6/10s being bumped to ~8/10s). I remember some of the early buzz was that people at WB were really impressed with the film, and I really think that must have been coming from the extended cut. And yet they then turn around and force it to have almost 20% hacked out? There must have been some sort of behind the scenes power struggle for something like that to be approved. And, in what would be a twist of irony, cutting it down so they could make more money off more shows-per-day created a worse movie that earns far less money.