Trailer Talk: Justice League

At this point everything I see from Warner Bros. DC universe, minus Wonder Woman, gets a shrug and a begrudging agreement that I'll watch the movie at some point. I know some people are really jazzed for Justice League, but considering that Zack Snyder is still directing and the dogpile of awful that was Batman v Superman. Still there's a new trailer so I should probably try to be optimistic and try to figure out what to expect.

The trailer is relatively standard assembling the team fare, we have an oncoming threat introduce the three remaining team members who don't have movies yet (Aquaman, Cyborg, and The Flash), and then start having people working together to fight said threat. It's a decent setup and I like the idea of Batman doing the recruiting (you'd imagine he'd be good at pushing buttons) and there's a nice emphasis on banter. It also looks like we've got some Mother Boxes so our ultimate big bad has to be Darkseid at some point and I like the look of the Flash's speed powers.

That said, this still looks like everything else Zack Snyder has done for DC. Lots of slow motion or ramped action scenes (slow then fast), muted colors, and orange explosions everywhere. I think the thing that bugs me the most is that the film doesn't even look like a comic book, it looks like a Transformers movie shot at night. Seriously put a screenshot of this next to anything Marvel does and you're gonna notice just how little emphasis there is on color. Also don't let this movie being coy fool you, Superman is absolutely going to show up.

Will this be any good? Really hard to say but it'll certainly be a regular Zack Snyder affair, for better or for worse.