Wegg’s Blog

I’m all alone while Jen is visiting her family for Thanksgiving so I thought I’d rent some movies that I thought I’d enjoy but knew she wouldn’t want to see.  I went right for the geek stuff.  How can you go wrong with Superman AND Batman in a movie called Public Enemies.  I was ready to geek out and enjoy them duke it out.

Didn’t. . . work out like that.  Turns out they were PUBLIC enemies as in. . . the public didn’t like them.  Not them fighting each other.  <sigh>  You know those episodes of TV shows that are just a montage of a whole bunch of older episodes in a “remember when?” kind of thing?  Mash used to do it a lot.  Its one of those “You lazy buggers!  This isn’t a real episode. . . this is a highlight reel!” kinds of things.

Thats how I kind of felt watching this.  Its like DC had a list of about 500 characters that they had to incorporate into a single story so they came up with this wacky massive crazy rushed mess that I’m sure would appeal to die hard DC fans but for me. . . I didn’t know what the heck was going on.  All these people Superman and Batman were fighting had all these crazy names and powers that all seemed FAR superior to both Superman and Batman but they would all goof up in some way that would allow the “heroes” to just squeak by just in time to be thrown into the next fight.  I mean. . . Batman is pretty dang cool but is he faster than LIGHT!?!  He must have dodged about a thousand laser blasts and projectiles during the course of the movie.  One. . . two I could understand but over and over and over.  Its supposed to be a regular guy right!?!  He must have thrown about 80 pounds of explosive “thingies” and “bat-a-rangs” and grappling hooks and smoke bombs etc etc.  I know its a cartoon but. . . bloody hell.

And why does EVERYONE seem to have Kryptonite!?!  Bad guys would inject it into themselves, use it as a power source, die their hair with it, use it as bullets etc.  I know its because Superman is so powerful that its the only way to even the playing field but it seems just a little bit too convenient.  Oh and the meteor thats going to crash into the earth at any moment?  Guess what its made out of?  You guessed it.  Kryptonite!  <palm to face>.

The other DC movie I just recently saw was really good.  Wonder Woman.  Jen actually watched that with me and it was a blast.  There was an actual story!  We got to see her origin story, understand why she is so important and powerful and the baddies were pretty cool without any stupid beams of energy shooting out of their belly buttons.

So Wonder Woman was super cool.  This movie?  Not so much.  Actually not at all.

DC really flubbed this one.  Big thumbs down for me.