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I mean, I was done with them a lot sooner than everyone else was. Just not my thing, especially the Marvel factory formula version. I like plenty of dumb movies. But the constant quippiness is like a screwdriver in my eye. You know, the whole "Well, that just happened" or "He's right behind me, isn't he?" in the middle of a life-or-death scenario. It reads like some 50-year-old screenwriter's idea of Gen Z humor. I also hate how every movie ends with some CGI skybeam fight. There's zero weight or tension to anything.
The crazy thing is how much talent they've wasted over the years on top of the generic writing.
They had Christian Bale committed to playing Gorr, a morally gray villain that kills the gods as vengeance for his daughter's murder. Could have been an all time villain performance in a genuinely interesting story. Instead, they only gave him about 20 minutes of screen time in a 160 minute film so they could ham-fist in a storyline for Natalie Portman.
Gunn's DC universe should be much more interesting because of how script-centric he is.