I saw it with the fam this past Monday. I felt that the last half of the film was really good, in spite of the weak villain. The first half could have been better with less exposition—yet another scene with Barry and his dad?!? For instance, without the individual films to set up everything, a la MCU, the first part of the movie felt pretty clunky to me. Like MoS and BvS before it, JL could have been so much more and I feel that once the inevitable extended edition comes out, there will be plenty of fodder for fan editors to create a better overall film.

I liked the color pallet of the film as well. I also like the team chemistry between the actors and felt that Whedon’s influence was fairly obvious in some spots, but not negatively so. I still don’t like Cyborg’s inclusion on the team; he has always been a Teen Titan, so for me as a long time DC fan, his role on the JL does not do it for me. I thought the actor did a great job, but I would have preferred John Stewart’s GL, by far.

My last point is about Warner’s consistent and incessant micro managing of its properties. The powers that be at WB, like most big studios, have ruined property after property and for some reason, still refuse to allow creators to create so instead of seeing a creator’s true vision, we are left with muddled, boring and/or poorly edited ‘could have been better’ movies that consistently fall short of the competition. Fox, Sony and others have been guilty of the same thing, but WB has taken this practice to a new art form. Which is tragic when you consider the depth of talent out there and the toy box of comic properties they could potentially be hitting home runs with…