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A Deadly Business (1986)
Worked for Chuck
Not a good movie at all but I ran 2 restaurants in San Diego for Chuck, or Mr. Mac, as we called him! This was in the late 80s/early 90s and he was a good guy! Funny thing he always came in wearing a velour sweatsuit and tinted shades! His nephew would tell us some great stories of 'back in the day'!
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
Not the best movie ever
Grew up as fan of Batman & Superman as DC characters but couldn't tell you Spider-Man & the Hulk were Marvel characters so I have no pre-conceived biases, just enjoy a good movie and this one was not.
It seems the DC universe wants to be the darker version of superhero/comic book movies and that is fine as long as it's a good movie, again this one was not. It is worth watching, though I had to split it into two nights as I started falling asleep during both airings, but to say it's the best comic book movie ever is ridiculous.
I grew up working in the movie theater business so I pretty much enjoy movies from every genre from dramas to westerns to romcoms to horror movies and of course comedies and action movies so when I take my time to write a review for maybe that's not up to par, that means something, maybe not to others but since I don't usually do this I felt compelled.
Just a few thoughts:
1- The aspect ratio was a little offputting considering we all have flat panels these days but it wasn't terrible.
2- The long drawn out slow motion scenes with The Flash were offputting, and not sure if it's true comic book self but he was too annoying and not likable. He is supposed to be faster than the speed of light but almost every scene with him was slow motion whereas they should've been fast to be more realistic, especially with so many of the other fight scenes in slow motion, it was too much.
3- The fight scenes, especially the beginning with the terrorists and Wonder Woman were terrible, same thing for the fight scenes and WW84, not sure why DC technology is not up to par but looked like a bad B movie from the 80s or a bad video game and it took away from how bad ass she really is!
4- Way too many over the top scenes trying to establish some of the background stories, especially the Aquaman introduction and the town folk singing when he went back into the water, it was like a Hallmark movie bad.
5- With all Bruce's money and technology do you think he would've had a better device then some thing that has to crawl up a wall like a crab, nothing that can fly or hover or was that part of the later introduction of the ship that Cyborg needed to repair?
6- And this one may be just me but why did Batman continue to use his fake deep voice so people wouldn't know he's Bruce Wayne when all of the JL team members already knew, just very odd!
7- Another one that might just be me but if they are going to try to have an expanded DC universe and try to tie all these movies together with some continuity why do they have 10 versions of the Joker over the past couple years? Of course I'm exaggerating with 10 but still Jared Leto playing the Joker in separate movies looking completely different may be explained away but where does Joaquin Phoenix's version fit in or do we just forget about it and look at them all as separate movies with another different Batman coming soon too?
Again not a terrible movie, it was watchable but not overly enjoyable and these reviews with nine or tens are way over the top and appear to be from diehard DC comic book fans rather than actual movie fans IMO!