Blog: Batman VS Superman VS Deadpool

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Over the long Easter Weekend (VERY long in my case as we got an EXTRA extra day to go with the two USUAL extra days University employees always get at Easter - for leap year maybe? - meaning I had a WEEK off work!) I went to see TWO superhero movies. My reactions to each were SOMEWHAT DIFFERENT.

The first movie was "Deadpool", which I saw in the Odeon on Tottenham Court Road i.e. the place where I have historically seen nearly ALL the superhero movies. I don't really have any knowledge or affection for the character Deadpool as he was invented in the 1990s when I wasn't reading comics at all - I stopped then because of a lack of CA$H at the time, but I'd like to imagine that subconciously I knew that the 1990s were going to be a decade of comics being mostly RUBBISH. I'd heard some good things about the film though and liked the idea of someone doing something a bit different with THE GENRE, so thought I'd give it a go.

I am SO glad I did because it was BRILLIANT! I knew people had SAID it was rude, sweary, violent and silly but I wasn't quite prepared for HOW rude, sweary, violent and silly it was going to be. CRUMBS! Some sections made me embarrassed even though I was there on my OWN, while other bits made me properly LARF OUT LOUD. I loved the fact that it committed UTTERLY to the character and carried on being the way it was throughout, with even the obligatory ROMANCE being a) in keeping b) actually quite moving. I spent the next day thinking about it because it was so ACE!

This also happened the day after the OTHER superhero film I went to see, but for entirely opposite reasons. For LO! it was "Batman VS Superman" which was not only TERRIBLE but ANNOYING. I should have known - I hated "Man Of Steel", thought the Christopher Nolan Batman films were BORING and had read many reviews - but then I'd seen SOME people on twitter saying it wasn't THAT bad so, once again, thought I'd give it a go.

I'm KIND OF glad I did because it should save me the trouble of bothering with the rest of the DC Universe, but CRIKEY I did not expect it to be QUITE as STUPID as it was. Whole chunks of it made NO SENSE WHATSOEVER e.g. hopefully not a spoiler but instead of Superman saying "Hey Batman! Lex Luther has let's team up for entirely sensible reasons" he says "No time to talk" and then spends AGES having a POINTLESS FITE. Superman! More time telling Batman WHY you should team-up and less time hitting each other in the face for no reason! ARGH! And then the REASON that particular fight ends... NYARGH! It is SO IDIOTIC it makes me want to fly around punching things through buildings EVEN THOUGH I have said out loud that THAT IS A BAD THING.

Many of the annoyances were the same as with "Man Of Steel", like the way the whole film goes "HOORAH for the Military Industrial State!" or that NOBODY says anything funny EVER (there is a SINGLE mild joke in the ENTIRE FILM and that is in the TRAILER anyway) and instead prefer to speak in hugely ponderous STUPID statements that make no sense. IT IS AWFUL!

Having said that, I do think Ben Affleck makes a good Batman and Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman is MEGA BRILL (even though she seems to spend most of her time EITHER being mysterious OR looking at trailers on YouTube). That, however, doesn't make up for how RUDDY THICK Superman is throughout - it's like Zack Snyder read "Dark Knight Returns" and said "Yes, THIS is the way Superman SHOULD behave, i see no problem with it whatsoever."

ALSO they detonate an ATOM BOMB above A CITY and that is apparently fine. Sod off, "Batman VS Superman", you are RUBBISH!

"Deadpool" is dead good though, go and see that instead!

posted 5/4/2016 by MJ Hibbett

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