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NOT AN EPISODE
See MOSAIC Brief 0 for explanation.
Recorded 11/14/17.
Not intended for publication.
The views expressed are unrefined and subject to amendment.
Edited solely for length, no additions or alterations.
Intro and outro music performed by The Mad Mass Revolution.
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It’s funny Doc, but we landed on exactly the same descriptions; plastic with no soul. I’ve not been able to let this go unfortunately. Why we love MoS so much is it just has this soul to it. Clark’s story is so beautifully told and presented that you can’t help but be drawn into his life.
Everything about this abomination looks terrible, just a green screen mess because lighting, camera, and VFX aren’t working together and it’s obvious why. The soul is ripped out of the film for tropes and, dare I say, superficial comic expressions very reminiscent of Geoff Johns writing style, something you can tell already infected parts (particularly around the last 30 minutes) of the Wonder Woman movie.
I’m not ready to finger point (though I do feel Whedon’s sensibilities are obviously different) because we don’t know how much Snyder [begrudgingly] went along with and/or how much Terrio amended his script when it was initially cut down. And when facts are this muddy, it’s easy to shoot yourself in the foot….
Visually / viscerally, I just don’t like the look of the film as a whole making it hard to champion.
I will say, that I always expected JL to “come full circle” (Heroes’ Journey) back to more conventional territory, but I think it would have been handled with much more subtlety in the original cut (speculating, of course). I still think we enter a more trope-driven world in the end… but it was perhaps “accelerated” to unnaturally.