Well, it had to happen eventually. This week on the podcast, I’m talking with movie and arts critic Robert Faires about Joss Whedon’s Justice League, the 2017 Frankenstein creation that merged Zack Snyder and Joss Whedon’s sensibilities to the satisfaction of no one.
The first act’s a little longer than usual, because we have so much to talk about: the parademon scratch-off game, terrorists with a vague agenda, fish with fomo, the fruit-kicking crime spree, and the blind spot that both Zack and Joss seem to have when it comes to the definition of “heroes”. Join us on this journey, as we try to make sense of it all.
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Here’s act 2:
And Act 3:
Next episode:
X-Men: The Last Stand!
— Danny Horn
Superheroes Every Day 
Fun week. My superhero onboarding was the Super Friends show in the early 1970s, 1950s Superman reruns (occasionally), 1960s Batman (occasionally), and 1970s Wonder Woman (religiously), so this lineup is rather comforting — even in a slapdash jerry-rigged movie such as this, and the Wonder Woman bomb scene is terrific.
I rewatched it yesterday (in 3D, the particle and energy effects particularly pop) and, try as I might, I can’t be bothered to notice the mustache thing (though you’re right that a fake mustache for the other movie would have been logical, or maybe MI could have shot around him for the brief period it would have taken for him to grow it back?).
I’ve never been curious about the Snyder Cut (I saw the original JL release in 3D and haven’t thought much of the movie since then), but did look into it after my JL rewatch and I have to admit it fleshes stuff out, but seems tedious, and all the clips I watched on YouTube just seem like more of the same. Two hours was about right.
Going back to Super Friends, I watched whatever adventure the group found themselves going through that week without knowing anybody’s origin story. The hook was that it was fun to watch and they were admirable characters without needing to know where they came from or what their inner demons are, aside from throwaway lines like “strange visitor from the planet Krypton” or whatever. It’s lively, exciting people fighting the bad guy! Hooray! I think these movies get way too much in the weeds and waste a lot of time on backstory, particularly in a cast-heavy team-up like this. Cut the Flash visiting his father in prison for a wrongfully accused crime blah-blah-blah and gives us a little more explanation of exactly what’s going on with this Steppenwolf dude and his para-party posse if you’re really pressed for time, please.
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I can’t believe you would have another Austinite on. Especially one with actual credentials who I’ve read for years.
Great coverage of a… not amazing movie and the wtf-ness of it all.
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