Avengers React to Justice League Trailer [SLYT 3min 28 sec]
March 27, 2017 4:34 AM   Subscribe

How might the Avengers react to seeing the Jusitice League trailer?? Exactly what it says in the title. A short fan video/mashup.

Mefite's who want to discuss the actual Justice League trailer - there is already a post for that over here

Enjoy!
posted by Faintdreams (20 comments total) 2 users marked this as a favorite
 
JLA lacks a big rage Green monster that gets stronger the more nuclear weapons you drop on it.
posted by Nanukthedog at 4:42 AM on March 27, 2017 [2 favorites]


Perplexed, yet vaguely irritated?

Well, I guess that's how I reacted to it, too.
posted by kyrademon at 4:53 AM on March 27, 2017 [10 favorites]


JLA lacks a big rage Green monster that gets stronger the more nuclear weapons you drop on it.

Yeah, they had that for the last movie, but he wasn't green*. He kinda looked like an angry poop.

*or possessing a scintilla of the charm or charisma of RuffaHulk
posted by leotrotsky at 5:45 AM on March 27, 2017


angry poop.

Which would also be a good description of the DC Snyderverse films in general, actually.
posted by leotrotsky at 5:46 AM on March 27, 2017 [16 favorites]


I just imagined this would be a supercut of the Avengers laughing.
posted by thivaia at 6:05 AM on March 27, 2017 [13 favorites]


Watching it again, and Momoa is channeling more than a little Brave and the Bold animated Aquaman, in that he's taking a character no-one has a real grasp on and putting a charming, human twist on it.

The colors and lighting are so bleah, tho. Compare with the Airport fight in Civil War, which was on a sunny day, with blues and whites and greens everywhere.
posted by Slap*Happy at 6:12 AM on March 27, 2017 [9 favorites]


Okay, just theoretically, how would I go about mashing up the Justice League trailer with the bad heavy metal covers thread?

asking for a friend...
posted by Naberius at 6:21 AM on March 27, 2017 [3 favorites]


Aquaman's last "Yeah!" as he jumps off the Batmobile just sounds exactly like this, I can't get over it
posted by a car full of lions at 6:22 AM on March 27, 2017 [6 favorites]


This is basically the new Hank and Marie reaction meme.
posted by Halloween Jack at 6:32 AM on March 27, 2017 [2 favorites]


The best moment in this is when Bruce Wayne says "I'm rich" and Tony Stark reacts.
posted by jacquilynne at 8:36 AM on March 27, 2017 [5 favorites]


It's weird that something can be so much less colorful but so much more cartoonish, and not in a good way - the way everyone just floats above CGI backgrounds (or inside CGI costumes) is just bad.
posted by Artw at 8:43 AM on March 27, 2017 [3 favorites]


I think they inserted Paul Rudd just to nail home the contrast between the DC movies dourness and Marvels' goofy charm. Putting Rudd alongside that Justice League trailer is like trying to push the north ends of two pole magnets together.
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 9:01 AM on March 27, 2017 [2 favorites]


Mamoa is having fun. They need to reaquire Fantastic Four so they can counter him with sexy Namor.
posted by Artw at 9:06 AM on March 27, 2017 [2 favorites]


I'm having a hard time seeing where the Avengers should be taking any of this seriously at all.

The MCU gave DC/WB a long and lengthy run of films that could be analyzed, criticized, and improved upon. I say that as someone who wholeheartedly loves the MCU. Love it or not, the next guy to come along has a great opportunity to do it better.

Instead, DC/WB said, "Imma rub Zack Snyder all over it!"
posted by scaryblackdeath at 9:38 AM on March 27, 2017 [8 favorites]


I the main problem with the DC/WB movies is that the threat in every single one is "super-powered demi-god that will end life on the planet"

Look at the MCU
Iron Man- Obadiah Stane seeks to take over Stark Industries and make more/better weapons
Iron Man 2- Russian dude with a vendetta against Tony Stark in particular
Thor- Loki has a problem with Thor in particular
Captain America- Uber-cultish high-tech nazis with long-range nuclear bombers

We don't get to "Aliens trying to enslave humanity" until the Avengers and then they go back to smaller-scale threats after that. It's not until Avengers 2 that we finally get to an actual threat to life on the planet.

vs.

Man of Steel: General Zod/Terra-forming
Dawn of Justice: Doomsday
Suicide Squad: Humanity enslaving Witch
Wonder Woman: WWI soldiers/facists I guess (and I hope not much more than that)

Justice League is totally the movie to bring out your humanity ending threat but it'll really be a challenge to make that threat feel like a step up from the other movies.

I'm holding out hope that Wonder Woman will actually be decent since it looks like a much lower level threat.

Marvel is the company that understands what foreplay is.
posted by VTX at 11:12 AM on March 27, 2017 [4 favorites]


We don't get to "Aliens trying to enslave humanity" until the Avengers and then they go back to smaller-scale threats after that.

I'm actually all for alien threats primarily because they're actually more believable.

Iron Man: two dudes punch instead of taking or doing some sort of socially acceptable way of competing
Iron Man 2: some dude that should have gone to a therapist instead builds super weapons
Age of Ultron: Tony really should have listened to Bruce
Civil War: Tony and Cap really just need to talk. But instead they punch each other for hours and convince other people to punch each other as well. for Bucky needs some weapons-grade therapy.

The thing that kills me is that 95% of the punching in Civil War is gratuitous. It's not even an ideological conflict. It's just people who would rather punch than discuss their feelings.

Compared to that the magic alien poop monster from Bats Vs Supes seems so straightforward and easy to understand.
posted by GuyZero at 11:23 AM on March 27, 2017 [1 favorite]


Punching IS feelings in superhero land. It's like singing in opera.
posted by Artw at 11:36 AM on March 27, 2017 [19 favorites]


The thing that kills me is that 95% of the punching in Civil War is gratuitous. It's not even an ideological conflict. It's just people who would rather punch than discuss their feelings.

I'm actually impressed at how much that is not the case. Leaving aside the punches thrown to stop Crossbones and Hydra from stealing bioweapons, to prevent German special forces from shooting Bucky, T'Challa trying to apprehend the man he thinks killed his father, or the Avengers trying to prevent a dangerous mind-controlled Bucky from escaping custody.

And leave aside for the moment the fact that Stark is a guilt-ridden narcissistic billionaire who is just as charming to the people in his world as RDJ is to the audience, who thinks he's smarter than everyone else even though he makes lots of terrible decisions, and who has been roped into siding with the government powers that are desperate to do something to get control of this crazy superhero thing. (That alone is more than most movies give us to drive an action-movie plot.)

When we get the the airport, Stark just wants to apprehend Bucky and has less than a day to do it before the military mobilizes and starts shooting at his friends. He's happy to talk about feelings as soon as Bucky is in custody. Steve is in a hurry to stop Zemo from activating the super-soldiers and has plenty of reason to think Bucky will not be given fair treatment if he's taken into custody (Ross laughed in his face when Steve asked about Bucky getting a lawyer). Stark shows up planning to have Spider-Man harmlessly capture Steve and Bucky with webs.

Jim Rhodes is a military guy following orders and is also pretty firmly caught up in Tony's charisma. T'Challa wants to apprehend his father's killer. Natasha is a former double agent "with red in her ledger" who recently took a pretty public stand for transparency and accountability by dumping all the Shield/Hydra files on the internet and who has plenty of first-hand experience with how dangerous Bucky can be. Vision is trying to be lawful good and take care of Wanda and doesn't necessarily know how and is based largely on Tony's loyal AI Jarvis. Spider-Man is just a kid in awe of Tony Stark. All those people have plenty of character justification to use their powers to apprehend Bucky if he won't come quietly, and Bucky and Steve have plenty of reason not to come quietly.

Then at the end Tony gets pushed over the edge to homicidal super-villain status in a way that's at least as plausible as most super-villain heel turns. And Steve punches him for the same reason he always punches villains, to stop them from killing people.
posted by straight at 1:39 PM on March 27, 2017 [12 favorites]


I'm sorry to tell you that the point of conflict in nearly every movie is "characters do X instead of talking to each other".

Not just superhero movies, every damn movie.
posted by VTX at 2:08 PM on March 27, 2017 [3 favorites]


And quite a lot of books. I used to belong to a group of aspiring romance writers and we used to call the plot driver the "Central Stupid Misunderstanding".
posted by jacquilynne at 2:28 PM on March 27, 2017 [3 favorites]


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