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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
I thought it was pretty blatantly obvious.
I may be mistaken but didn't Batman flashback to the night his parents were killed the second Superman said the name "Martha".
Personally thought they made it pretty clear that Superman saying Martha tied directly to Bruce the night his parents died when his dad's last breath was Martha. That spooked him and caused him to see that his actions were wrong.
Never for a second did I think "Oh look he stopped trying to kill him because their moms have the same name".
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Both are incredibly weak story wise. The difference in thinking one or the other is negligible.
Saw the movie yesterday and obviously went in with super low expectations and I will say it exceeded those. The story was as basic as it gets so I'm not going to get into that. The acting and action scenes were well done and I liked Batman and Wonder Woman although I have quite a bit of gripe with their character development, but I'll get back to that.
The worst part of this movie is the cheesy ass cinematography, music, and tone. Just awful. Takes itself waaaaay to seriously and tries too hard to be epic but in my opinion it falls flat on it's face. I'm not saying that this movie shouldn't have had an "epic" tone, of course it should have but it just wasn't well done.
The second worse part of the movie was the dream sequences. Honestly, seemed like a cop out to me. Seems like whoever wrote the script wanted to convey all of these fears and emotions but couldn't think of how to do it within the confines of the story so they just added stupid dreams to equation and then repeated it like 4 times. Seriously, if you just stuck random dreams into a story you wrote in sixth grade because you couldn't work the point into the story, you'd fail. If you took out the dreams, I'd probably enjoy this movie 10 times more.
I also thought the dialogue was quite thin and like I said, I don't think Batman and Wonder Woman were developed nearly enough for me to care about them. If the dreams were supposed to do this then fail. I think it was more a symptom of them making this movie before the independent Batman and Wonder Woman movies. I think that was the crux of this movie and that decision made it pretty much impossible for this movie to be genuinely good.
So now that the bad is out of the way, I really liked seeing the Man of Steel final fight through the eyes of a civilian on the ground. I think it would be cool if Marvel made a movie about a regular soldier caught in all of these battles but not have his story actually related to the Avengers. Just like a grounded view of a normal soldiers life criss-crossing with with all this crazy superhero nonsense. I also liked the teasing of the other JL members and to be honest, I think a proper JL movie could be really sweet. I like the more serious and grounded tone vs. Marvels universe, I just think the "epic" tone needs to be done by director who knows how to pull it off properly (ahem Nolan?) and this movie should have come way later in the development but I guess DC was in a tight spot cause an independent Wonder Woman movie would probably bomb.
Either way, hard to write a real review of it since I lowered my expectations so much but yeah.... 5/10. MEH.