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Some of the changes I remembered, some I've read. You'll note, for example, that Bruce does not seem to worship Superman's memory in this version or speak about how Clark was the best of them. Then the missing stuff with Cyborg and how Flash was completely retooled for the Whedon version. They're not changes that don't, for me, feel stylistic in a sense, but weird choices in telling a story. Seeing this, there's a sense of spitefullness in the theatre, which isn't Whedon, not at least not all of it, but it is baffling. There's also been really interesting social media threads how they changed shot ratios and angles for the Whedon version which almost always reduced the scene.

Little bit surprised that there's been a turn on Ragnarok as it very well received when it came out. I actually even liked the film, but something that did annoy me was the constant undercutting emotional moments. To compare it to Jojo Rabbit, when Jojo sees his mother hanged, the movie doesn't within seconds make it in to a joke, which something Ragnarok does and which is why I couldn't really connect with any of the character arcs as the movie constantly told you it doesn't matter. To be fair, though, the most infuriating part of the film wasn't on Waikiki as it was the removal of the small scene that established Valkyrie's bisexuality. I knew of it going in to the film, but it had been downplayed as not really mattering, but when watching the film I realized it was actually a crucial detail as it contextualized why that one woman had sacrificed herself to save Valkyrie from Hela and really provided a lot of additional depth to the whole Valkyrie character's current emotional situation.

On the Justice League movie, I actually meant that in ten years they will be in a situation where they need to reboot the franchise because a lot of actors will be aged out and I'm betting they are going to do what they tried to do here again by having Justice League be the launching pad to introduce the new iterations of the characters. Something I think got lost in the conversation overall about the Snyder approach was that there wasn't anything fundamentally bad at using the Justice League to introduce new characters. For all the blame, deservedly so, the WB execs get, it needs to be admitted there was a vocal critical and fanbase voice pushing the idea that it should be Marvel-lite and that dark superhero movies are inherently bad as they need to be light and fun. So it's no wonder if being bombarded by that message WB execs reacted to it, they just also managed to do it increasingly stupid ways.