If people want to discuss the morality of heroes killing that's fine, but don't turn it into an MCU vs. DCU thing. Especially those of you with a long history of doing that.
If people want to discuss the morality of heroes killing that's fine, but don't turn it into an MCU vs. DCU thing. Especially those of you with a long history of doing that.
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Because Batman has appointed himself as an agent of justice and vengeance...?
I'm not absolving the system's role in it, mind you. But it's a fictional setting with a character in the joker who would havelong been executed, imprisoned, or otherwise killed in a real world setting.
But Batman has set himself as the ultimate guardian of Gotham and his "one rule" makes absolutely no sense in that role especially with someone like the Joker who is a mass killer.
It’s a big, big problem even the comics.
The escalation with the Joker has become so severe that simply punching him out and arresting him makes no sense. Heck, we even saw the Riddler kill a child during Tom King’s run (although that really isn’t something new for Riddler, he once shoved down a metal ball into a baby’s throat, Batman had to cut it out to save the child).
Point is, the vlllains are getting more and more extreme and Batman’s no-kill policy is looking very ineffective. Seriously, how many times will these guys be arrested, break out kill hundreds of people only to get punched in the mouth and thrown back into prison? Only for it to happen all over again. The no-kill rule made more sense when the villains weren’t as extreme as they are depicted now. With these guys turning into mass murderers, they need to be put down permanently. Maybe not necessarily by Batman but the villains have to taken out of circulation.
Had to watch it in parts. It's better than the theatrical version, but it's no masterpiece.
The Cyborg material should never have been cut. That's the emotional heart of the entire story. Cutting it was like cutting the red book scene from Batman Forever.
Flash was better, as was Steppenwolf. The threat made more sense and Darkside added to the tension. The story overall was better and had far fewer holes.
That said, the pacing was terrible, as was the editing. Many of these scene could have and should have been cut down. The most obvious is the dream scene with Joker. It was an entirely unnecessary scene, but even if it needed to be included, it should never have gone on for even half as long as it did. At most it should have been 1/4 the length. Most of the slo-mo could have been done away with as well, and the movie did not need or deserve to go all Return of the King with the ending. This could easily have been a 3-hour film without cutting anything important.
The action was better without the weird orange filter and more tense, but again the slo-mo was just unnecessary and it's a step down from the action in both MoS and BvS, which had much more spectacular moments and shots. Best action moment in both versions is Flash vs Superman at super-speed, which was an appropriate use of slo-mo. Slo-mo should only have been used in the super-speed scenes.
There were a few things Whedon added that I missed. Diana's opposition to bringing back Superman and Bruce's pushing her to be more of a leader and a symbol for one. I also preferred the way Lois, Martha Kent, and the whole aftermath of Superman's death were handled in the Whedon cut.
In conclusion, the Snyder cut has a level of heart and coherence that was missing in the theatrical release, but it's not a great movie by any stretch of the imagination and still inferior to the likes of Wonder Woman 2017 and Shazam in the DCEU and to most of the MCU. It's better than the likes of Thor the Dark World and Captain Marvel, but that's scraping the bottom of the barrel, and it has nothing on the 3 good Avengers movies, the Captain America films, Iron Man 1, the Guardians of the Galaxy films ect. If I'm being really generous it is at best around the same level as Age of Ultron.
I think the real reason the 'no killing rule' exists in the comics because these stories intend to run forever. If Batman kills Joker who would he be fighting next? Over time you would be getting into the likes of Condiment King or something. Stories would suck as you would have run out of good villains.
I enjoy that because it indicates that the heroes aren't a bunch of thugs. That they have a sense of morality. But depending on the medium and story its not a big issue for me.
In this particular case, i think killing that terrorist was right. You have to be real cold blooded to kill a bunch of school kids. First by a bomb. On failing, next by bullets. That guy had the audacity to keep trying even after he found she stopped all those bullets. Like if i keep trying i could hit one kid. Disgusting.
If he was surrendering, it would have been uncomfortable. But clearly the guy was remorseless.
I Dont know where you get the idea that Stark has lower morals when it comes to being brutal in combat than Diana.
Diana hasn't been in the same moral realm as Superman or Batman for decades.
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The no kill rule was more about comics still wanting to keep a morality code with their heroes, that was the main reason more than not running out of good villains because let's be honest comics always bring people back to life.
In the movie, for the style Snyder was going for, especially giving the R rating. Diana was not in the wrong for what she did.
Anyone following the Snyder and Geeks and Gamers put down?
Snyder directly called out and distanced himself from some ALT-RIGHT youtubers geeks + gamers by saying Justice League was about love and hate will not be tolerated
https://www.themarysue.com/zack-snyd...room-for-hate/
Zack Snyder Calls Out Bigoted Fans: “There’s No Room for Hate”
Well done Zack.