It took the wife and I three days to get through this.
Possible spoilers below.
I'm so torn on this one. My knee jerk reaction was that it was a steaming pile of shit. How else can you describe a movie that makes the Whedon version appealing? The first three hours were sooooo slow. There's probably an hour of footage that needed to be cut due to being completely useless. There's probably another hour of footage that was only relevant to setting up future movies. Do you need to make a 3 hour movie into a 4 hour movie by setting up stories that you 100% know will not be told? The mid-movie scene with Martian Manhunter was useless. The Epilogue scene with Martian Manhunter was useless AND stupid. The evil Superman setup was useless. Barry's job interview was useless. The Unlife Equation was useless. The Aquaman singing was useless. So much wasted screen time.
People complained that the Whedon version didn't make sense. But you're going to tell me the Snyder intro made sense? The cuts from Themyscira to Bruce Wayne back to Themyscira apparently were supposed to happen weeks (months?) apart but they were edited to seem almost instantaneous.
The Snyder Steppenwolf was a little bitch compared to the Whedon version and his armor CGI was bad.
Speaking of bad CGI the effects in Themyscira were HORRIBLE.
The soundtrack was bad and often didn't match the visual tone.
Am I supposed to believe that a civilization that exists underwater for millennia hasn't developed the ability to speak underwater and has to create air bubbles all the time?
The football game "action" was so bad.
I could go on and on.
And despite all that I appreciate all the extra footage that makes everything make sense. The Whedon version did such a terrible job explaining so many things. It lowered my opinion of that version because now I know what I was missing.
Before, having watched only the Whedon version, I was pretty 'meh' about it; maybe 4 or 5 out of 10. Now I'd give it a 3/10. But at the same time the Snyder version really isn't any better. Also a 3/10.
Let's face it: Superman makes the DC universe impossible to put into film. He's a Mary Sue, and not a good one at that. If either Justice League movie had just said "Fuck it, let's stop wasting the audience's time and bring back Superman in the first 5 minutes so he can single-handedly beat the unstoppable bad guy" it would have been a better movie. At least then the Director would have respected the audience. Nope, we get quasi deus ex machina time travel instead.
Finally, related to both versions and neither, who the hell cast Ezra Miller as the Flash? You'd think that for the character who's sole purpose is "runs really fast" you'd want an actor who had run a quarter mile at some point in their life. Instead you get a goon flailing his arms and legs all over the place like someone playing QWOP or Octodad. He showed more athleticism when he assaulted that woman than he did at any point in the movies.
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