Justice League is out in theatres and although the DCEU film did not have a great opening weekend, Kevin Smith enjoyed the movie and watched it twice.
In the Hollywood Babble-On podcast with Ralph Garman, Smith had revealed that he saw the superhero team-up movie twice and there were moments in the movie that he said made his heart soar.
“I saw Justice League twice already,” Smith said. “I liked it. I liked it. There’s stuff in it that I dug, stuff that I was happy, I mean it’s weird this is like, I’m not going to review the movie and stuff, but these are moments that f*** made my heart soar.”
While Smith had referred to some of the movie’s musical moments, including the point where Danny Elfman’s score paid homage to Elfman’s cinematic scores by playing his 1989 Batman score during a shot of Ben Affleck as Batman, what won Smith over was seeing a few elements from comic books come to life.
“So, they’re telling the story of the last time that Steppenwolf invaded the Earth with parademons and like the Atlanteans and the Amazonians and the armies of men had to bond together to stop Steppenwolf and fight the powers of Apokolips,” Smith explained.
“As the story’s being told, Diana, Wonder Woman is telling the story to Bruce Wayne, so as she’s telling this story. She said even aliens from other planets came to fight.”
“And so, they showed an alien you’ve never seen before, but he had a green energy and a Lantern ring. So, the idea was like f*** lanterns even back in the first age like were defenders of the galaxy, and they came to earth to help. So, there is this one moment in this battle, this throwaway moment, where an f*** lantern is killed and he f*** hits the ground and all of a sudden, the ring shoots off his finger and takes off into space. Oh my god sh** like that, seeing that on the big screen after reading that in comics for so long and watching Ryan Reynolds do it once was wonderful. So, there are moments like that that did it for me.”
Smith’s praise of this movie for the special moments puts him in the same camp as many fans who have rated Justice League on Rotten Tomatoes. Despite the movie having a disappointing 40 percent rating on the Tomatometer, it has fared well with its audience score. The movie has an 85 percent rating with an average rating of 4.2 out of 5, on par with the Thor: Ragnarok.
Justice League is in theaters now.
