{"id":21280,"date":"2016-07-04T16:53:18","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T20:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=21280"},"modified":"2016-08-21T08:10:25","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T12:10:25","slug":"batman-v-superman-extended-cut-or-why-you-cant-pour-perfume-on-a-pig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/04\/batman-v-superman-extended-cut-or-why-you-cant-pour-perfume-on-a-pig\/","title":{"rendered":"Batman v Superman: Extended Cut or Why You Can\u2019t Pour Perfume on a Pig"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"batmanvsuperman1\"<\/a>Pearls. Again. Bruce Wayne\u2019s origin. Again. Joe Chill. I\u2019m presuming. Again. I can still hear the echoes of fan boys rejoicing that \u201cBatman v Superman\u201d wouldn\u2019t be another origin story, and yet director Zack Snyder allows us the thirtieth origin of Bruce Wayne, all for the purpose of squeezing in Bruce muttering \u201cMartha.\u201d Which is his mother. And so a thousand memes were born.<\/p>\n

Director Zack Snyder doesn\u2019t allow us the benefit of young Superman or Clark Kent with his mother, also curiously named Martha, because that would make sense. Plus, Snyder never worked with Diane Lane or Kevin Costner. It would be funny though to see Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan playing John and Martha Kent.<\/p>\n

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This is Batman\u2019s dream sequence, after all. The first of so many that Zack Snyder uses as a means of relaying information that he can\u2019t organically or naturally inject like a talented director could. This is the man behind \u201cSucker Punch,\u201d after all. So Bruce Wayne is almost always sleeping, and his brain is always telegraphing crucial information and being visited by scarlet speedsters from the future. I have no idea why there are so many dream sequences.<\/p>\n

Not even \u201cA Nightmare on Elm Street\u201d had this many dream sequences.<\/p>\n

\"batmanvsuperman2\"<\/a>After their second failed attempt to jump start the DC movie universe, \u201cMan of Steel\u201d is linked in to \u201cBatman v Superman\u201d quite well, I have to admit. Snyder takes time to examine the events of \u201cMan of Steel\u201d from many angles, and while Bruce Wayne was, for some reason, in Metropolis at the time, we do know that Bruce Wayne was there. And he only saw the fight from one angle, and assumed Superman was either a menace, or doing more harm than good. Superman is sadly still an oaf, a moron, and quite smug.<\/p>\n

Even in the Extended Cut. \u201cBatman v Superman\u201d is still wildly inconsistent, painfully stupid, and bloated to the gills. Superman can hear Bruce Wayne sneaking around Lex Corp in an effort to get information about the JL power point presentation, but he\u2019s incapable of hearing his mom\u2019s cries for help when she\u2019s kidnapped, nor can he look for her with his x-ray vision. Batman considers Superman a deadly threat, and yet he\u2019s branding criminals\u2019 skin which (knowingly) allows them to be murdered by other criminals in prison, and is running over armed thugs while trying to claim a piece of stolen kryptonite.<\/p>\n

The Extended Cut still serves a crucial purpose for fans of the original cut though. There are more scenes of Lois unpacking, we get to see a bit more of Jimmy Olsen before Snyder has him executed \u201cfor fun,\u201d Scoot McNairy gets to ask Luthor \u201cWhat the fuck<\/em><\/strong> do you want?\u201d setting the stage for the bombing and indulging us in the obligatory F bomb, and<\/em><\/strong> we get to see Bruce Wayne\u2019s bare ass while he\u2019s showering. The movie is riddled with plot holes, but at least we know what Bruce\u2019s bare bottom looks like therefore putting to rest many fan debates that have raged online for years.<\/p>\n

\"batmanvsuperman3\"<\/a>Aside from the plot holes, \u201cBatman v Superman\u201d is still such an unpleasant, boring, film bereft of any joy, fun, or excitement. There\u2019s so much death, from bloody shoot outs, to Batman running over people, suicide bombings, women being pushed in front of moving trains, and it\u2019s disturbing and uncomfortable. I wouldn\u2019t mind a movie that explores the themes about a man fighting a God, and a God learning to find a place among men, but Snyder rains down so much violence and gratuitous nonsense.<\/p>\n

How could anyone take their kids to see this movie? Superman barely cracks a smile and comes off as terrifying at times, while Batman is never above murdering people, and feels more like \u201cDark Man,\u201d rather than a Dark Knight. As a Superman fan I take such great issue with the depiction of Superman in both cuts. In the original cut he has no role, and feels so sanctimonious and bored. The extended cut does however show Superman saving some people during the big bombing rather than simply flying away, but the movie has very little of him being Superman that it feels tacked on.<\/p>\n

As is the revelation that he can\u2019t see through lead since \u201cMan of Steel\u201d never actually mentions or establishes such a concept. Sure, we Superman fans know it, but it\u2019s never mentioned in the movies, so we\u2019re never sure until this extended cut, if Snyder\u2019s Superman can\u2019t use X-Ray vision on lead. Or if he even has X-Ray vision, for that matter.<\/p>\n

\"batmanvsuperman4\"<\/a>In the Extended Cut, Superman an alien burdened by powers, burdened by the obligation of saving people, and eventually burdened with the role of staying Superman. Once Lex begins winning the upper hand, Superman openly questions his suit and role, pinning the blame on his father. Rather than Superman using his powers and suit to honor his memory as we\u2019ve seen in past incarnations, he instead moans to Lois \u201cThis is my dad\u2019s fault! This was my dad\u2019s dream! This wouldn\u2019t have happened if he didn\u2019t push this on me!”<\/p>\n

So by the end when he battles Doomsday, he\u2019s purposely sacrificing himself, because he\u2019s taking on the role of Superman just to kill the idea of Superman once and for all. This will inevitably lead us in to the Justice League movie where Superman will be anything but the character we know and love, and be even more of a departure from the Last Son of Krypton. With rumors of Superman donning long hair, we can either expect another Superman facsimile that further dismisses the character\u2019s importance and relevance, or Superman becoming a full fledged villain who will likely change his mind and become a hero in the finale of \u201cJustice League.\u201d<\/p>\n

If the movie fails to spawn a sequel like \u201cGreen Lantern,\u201d and \u201cMan of Steel\u201d has, we\u2019re going to be given yet another DC movie where Superman\u2019s role is irrelevant. This cut does<\/em><\/strong> beef up Superman\u2019s role, but it still doesn\u2019t hide the notion that this is a Batman movie through and through. Batman meets Wonder Woman, learns about the Justice League, and will establish the Justice League while Superman is Superman. He\u2019s a character DC forced Snyder to include, thus he\u2019s an obligation. With \u201cBatman v Superman: Extended Cut,\u201d it only serves to confirm that DC and Warner don\u2019t get it, and the future of the DC movie universe isn\u2019t too bright at the moment.<\/p>\n

\"batmanvsuperman5\"<\/a>\u201cBatman v Superman\u201d didn\u2019t need to be longer. Nor did it need to be more violent. It needed to be shorter. Two and a half hours is absurd. Three hours is absolutely ridiculous. \u201cBatman v Superman\u201d should have been reduced to two hours, with cutting out the crap and nonsense, and injecting the deleted and extended scenes as a means of giving the narrative some punch and excitement. I didn\u2019t want to hate \u201cBatman v Superman,\u201d and I was hoping the Extended Cut would change my mind. And it didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

I think somewhere deep, hidden beneath the violence, and darkness and awful writing there is a great movie screaming to get out. I hope it does, someday, with someone who understands both Batman and Superman, and what they bring to the table as heroes, and icons of pop culture. \u201cBatman v Superman\u201d in both iterations is still an awful, derivative, clumsy, badly written mess.<\/p>\n

Except, you know, its much longer, this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pearls. Again. Bruce Wayne\u2019s origin. Again. Joe Chill. I\u2019m presuming. Again. I can still hear the echoes of fan boys rejoicing that \u201cBatman v Superman\u201d wouldn\u2019t be another origin story, and yet director Zack Snyder allows us the thirtieth origin of Bruce Wayne, all for the purpose of squeezing in Bruce muttering \u201cMartha.\u201d Which is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[58,64,71,120,125,240,268,391,631,678,865,906,922,1007,1087],"class_list":["post-21280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pcthugs","tag-action","tag-adaptation","tag-adventure","tag-b","tag-batman","tag-crime","tag-dc-comics","tag-gangster","tag-martial-arts","tag-monsters","tag-robots","tag-science-fiction","tag-sequel","tag-superman","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21280"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22044,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21280\/revisions\/22044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}