Ooooh.

Are they meeting the JSA?!

I showed my youngest son (who is a nut for any Marvel movie) Aquabro. His response was "He looks like someone who'd crash on your couch for a couple of weeks and eat all your food."

I just came back from it and I thought it was pretty good. I didn't have the highest expectations going in, hence why I went to a matinee showing, but I felt it did a good job of keeping me entertained and the ending had me feeling like Warner/DC was going in the right direction with the tone.

Most of the complaints I've seen are unfavorable comparisons to past superhero movies like Iron Man or Captain America and to that my response is that these are two different animals. In a solo picture you have one hero and one villain which makes for a meatier, more character driven story where as team movies like Justice League or the Avengers you have multiple heroes all coming together and and either a slew of villains or a giant threat worthy of bringing them together which necessitates less character building and more of a focus on straight action, excitement and fun visuals. On that level Justice League was successful in my mind; the action was top notch(especially the fight scenes) the chase scene with Batman and the rebirth of Superman were definitely exciting and with visuals that made you just want to stop and soak it all in. So if you're going to compare it to other Superhero films I think you need to look to the big team up films and in that regard I feel it's just as good as the Avengers, and way better than Age of Ultron.

Sure, Steppen Wolf was two dimensional and the motivation for why he came to Earth to conquer it were never really clear or compelling...but then again I can't even remember what the bad guy's name in Avengers was and his reasons for tearing up New York were just as shallow, and Ultron in the second one wasn't much better so it's not as if a thinly defined villain is a unique weakness in these team up films. Even a film like Captain America: Civil War(which I feel is the best Superhero team up film) although the threat was more fully actualized and personal it was definitely still rushed and a little thin in places so I think the element of threat level and villains is always going to be an issue in these types of films because there's only so much time you can devote them in a movie where as in comics you don't have that handicap and can spend a whole year developing a threat if you want to.

On a another positive element, I loved Danny Elfman's score, especially the piece that played in the background during the early scene where the terrorists broke into the museum.

Just got back from seeing it. I thought it was pretty good. The chemistry between the cast was great, and I thought it actually had a good balance between jokes and serious moments. I thought it was pretty obvious some scenes were missing and the villain was underwhelming, but for a bug budget popcorn flick I was satisfied.

Reading this thread, it looks like only 9 of us have seen it - is that right? That in itself seems a pretty damning reaction to it, as I would class this website as a pretty solidly pro-DC community for the most part

Agreed, the response here and everywhere seems pretty polarised - people either like it a lot or really hate it. Actually that seems to be the case with most of the DC movies (except Wonder Woman, which has wildly positive response, despite being IMHO a very poor film), whereas the Marvel films seem to get more of a spread of response. There's a school of thought that some of the fan reviews (particularly on RT) are overly-positive just because the DC-fans are desperate for some success and for WB to keep making the DCEU films; I dunno if that's true, but if it is I think it's ultimately a self-defeating attitude - why overrate bad films, surely all that does is to give WB the impression that they can keep churning out sub-par films and they'll just get adoration?

Regardless of personal opinion of the film (and I realise we're far apart on that) I'm more interested at this point why so few people from here are seeing it (or at least talking about it), when I would expect this community to be absolutely chomping at the bit to see a JLA film

When it comes to superhero movies I'm really starting to get tired of the Marvel formula, especially as it moves into a parody of itself. I saw Jusice League very soon after Thor Ragnarok, which really left a bad taste in my mouth. Ragnarok was so filled with jokes that it felt less like a superhero movie and more like a Mel Brooks movie. Sure, I laughed at a lot of them, but I had zero investment, and any moment that should have had any drama, tension, or resonance was badly undercut by the need to make jokes every few seconds. Justice League was a breath of fresh air after Marvel's moving to making spoofs of the super-hero genre, It had plenty of jokes and one-liners, but when it needed to be serious it dialed them back enough. I'm not against jokes in superhero movies. I think they're necessary and a big part of the problem with MoS and BvS is the lack of them, but when the movie is nothing but jokes it's just grating.