The Reel Rejects - JUSTICE LEAGUE: CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS - PART 2 (2024) MOVIE REVIEW!!

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Starting point is 00:00:51 Thank you to Huell for sponsoring this video. More on them in just a bit. uncut, unfiltered, and other 90s, edgy, gritty words of un. I think it's time to un to a new planet. We're going to un... To crises? A new crisis? New crises on HBO maximum for animation Monday.

Starting point is 00:01:16 Let's do it in three. Two. Un. Pretty cool. If you were just joining us, we just watched. the second part of Justice League Crisis on Infinite Earths.

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Starting point is 00:01:52 Coitus. We got questions? We got questions, Coy. What do we got? All righty, all right. Crisis on Infinite episode two talking gibberish kicking us off thank you so much john and coy with this being a three-part series and you now just watching the second part do you guys feel that it's starting to get lost in the sauce with all the cameos and other versions and losing sight of the actual story or do you think it's adapting the comics pretty well um i think the story itself is kind of about the overwhelm of the

Starting point is 00:02:28 sauce uh the whole you know what i mean like i can see that the whole point of crises is to like streamline continuity so i think you've got to make it like a big explosion implosion like that's kind of the idea is like wow and in a medium where like outlandish circumstances characters and at all are the norm yeah to imagine that yeah sauceing it up is kind of the play here the only way to go so i think getting lost in the sauce is part of the journey um i i haven't read this comic in years um it was one of those comics that, you know, you kind of have to read to consider yourself a comic fan, like InVicrisis. What is a crazy?

Starting point is 00:03:04 You got to re-up your comic fandom by reading this every five years. Every, without fail. I just reread Superman birthright and, oh, good God. I've been trying to reread one major Superman comic a week leading up to the movie. So my 50 to 70 new comics and then also a Superman iconic run of like 10 to 12. So I'm reading, but Crisis, I remember, you know, is one of those books you read when you, like, discover the scope of comics like it's an event book that is as like formative

Starting point is 00:03:32 and the reason I bring that up that I haven't reread it is I remember thinking it was overwhelming then but I remember thinking what a cool way to make continuity linear and that's kind of what this feels like and that's why I bring it up is like the emotion and feeling of like overwhelm

Starting point is 00:03:49 and then linear is what I'm getting out of this so obviously in a different medium there are a lot of cameos and things but like it doesn't feel like it's heavy handed Like, it doesn't feel like it's doing it for the sake of, you know, pause screens. So I haven't minded. Yeah, I would say I obviously not having read the crisis arc. And actually, after we're done with this, I would be very fascinated to do so.

Starting point is 00:04:14 Yeah, this to me doesn't feel like it's getting too lost in the sauce, partly because from what I do understand about this, you know, event. Yeah, it's supposed to be this sort of big, huge, convoluted, you know, convergence of so many things that I would have to imagine have sort of gotten a bit out of hand if you need to do an event like this in the first place. And I like so far the contrast between the two chapters that we've seen

Starting point is 00:04:41 because the first movie is a lot of sauce and is a lot of like, whoa, now we're over here and now we're over there. And then all of a sudden we're in, you know, the satellite and there's a bunch, a bunch, a bunch of characters to look at and to point at and to be like, who's that? Why is this mummy guy?

Starting point is 00:04:57 Mommy Guy Coy. But yeah, I really like... Look up who that was because it vexes you so much. Like, is it dead man, lady? But yeah, I like the contrast and what this is building to so far, and I like that this chapter is weird. If this felt like the first one,

Starting point is 00:05:16 I might say yes to your question, but since this had a contrasting pace and rhythm to it and did allow for a good amount of breathing room amid all this chaos for my taste. I feel like it's kind of hitting the way I imagine it's intended to. And yeah, I don't feel like so far

Starting point is 00:05:36 it's become overwhelmed or exhausted by the sauce. In fact, I feel like as of this chapter, it's kind of focused that sauce beam just a bit. I mean, while still maintaining, I think you would still want, I still enjoy in this installment, you know, a certain amount of like,

Starting point is 00:05:52 oh, cool, this character who we haven't spent as much time with or, oh, this character who was like, in a few shots in part one is now, you know, like Psycho Pirate is in the first chapter, but isn't like the major player that he is here. And that was really fun and interesting because I'm like, damn, you know, I get to meet this, you know, guy on these terms is pretty wild. So, yeah, so far I can't speak to the adaptation, but as, you know, is a mummy girl in D.C., but she's not credited for being an infinite crisis.

Starting point is 00:06:23 So, like, I'm like, I didn't see her. and I'm like, I don't know. Never know. Part three, I'll point around. Let us know if Mummy Girl, because there are two Mummy Girls in D.C., but I didn't see her so. Sorry to interrupt. It was vexing me. No, I was just wrapping that thought up. Yeah, I can't speak to the adaptation itself.

Starting point is 00:06:40 But so far, yeah, I like the amount of, you know, what amount of tempering of all of that we have had thus far. And I think, yeah, this being a more focused installment is helping to earn some of that, you know, mad cap.

Starting point is 00:06:56 sort of like, oh, God, this guy and this guy, and now we're on this earth, and we're on that earth. So, yeah, I'm feeling pretty good. Kev B, if you could, thank you, by the way, for chiming in. If you could pick any one of the alternate Earths to live on, which would it be? And do you think you'd end up being a superhero or just the person who's really good at running away

Starting point is 00:07:16 from all the universe ending disasters? I mean, everywhere we've met is pretty dire. Yes. The voids of space. evil Western universes, various metal universes. None of it looks habitable. Like I think by nature of comics.

Starting point is 00:07:33 We're going to Themistericoi. We're going to be living in an domicile. I don't want to be trapped in my room. We're making sandwiches and opening beers, all right? I'm out. I kind of liked the Atomic Nights world. Not that it looks fun to live there. I need plumbing, John.

Starting point is 00:07:52 I need plumbing. All right. I'm going. And Krypton, and hope that it's one that has a few years left. I was going to say, can I choose Kara's, like, will dream sequence? Kera. Pre-exploded dream sequence, Kara, I'll go with. Is it Kara Kara?

Starting point is 00:08:08 I always say it wrong. Technically. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl. Carl L. Carl L.

Starting point is 00:08:15 But yeah, I'd say. Carl L. Always getting that guy's mail. Damn it. Carl L. Coming at me all the time. It just doesn't change his address. just cut to a guy who looks just like Superman

Starting point is 00:08:26 with even bigger curl. But a mustache. Henry Cavill's mustache, Carl L. Hey, at the top of this, and to speak of how far we came, I almost forgot we got a Joker briefly. We did at first.

Starting point is 00:08:37 With a mustache. At first, I thought it was mustache Joker. And then I was like, oh, no, that's Gordon. That's Jim Gordon. That isn't a play on Batman 66. But yeah, I think Krypton pre-explosion. Okay, okay.

Starting point is 00:08:48 Yeah, if I remember, I mean, we've been to somebody, the gorilla world. I feel like going to guerrilla world would be pretty fun. I'm just so aware of sensations and I feel like it would smell. It was smell. I just, I think that way.

Starting point is 00:09:00 I'm like, I don't want a smelly world. Yeah. I want plumbing. I don't want too much smell. I don't want a dystopian. I don't be in the West. It looks too hot. Let's go to Earth 3 and have no more problems to worry about anymore.

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Starting point is 00:10:59 Even when life's busy, you will not regret it. Thank you, Hewell, for being a part of my fitness journey. Daffmare. Hello, Koi and John. Hello. With watching this movie, hello to you. And thanks for stoking the fires of Convo. With watching this movie, I was wondering,

Starting point is 00:11:15 what alternate versions and universes of characters have you found the funnest to watch and or read so far? I loved the deceased story, and one of my favorite versions of Batman is Terry McGinnis in Batman Beyond. I really enjoyed seeing Batman Beyond, even if he only got to speak literally one day. I'm a big Batman Beyond guy. I always have been. I love that show, and I like him in the comics. I did like Deceased.

Starting point is 00:11:44 I'm a Big Gotham by Gaslight Guy because I like that era of Letricia. Deceased? Deceased a zombie, Deseecheseech. universe. Let's go. I gotta read that shit. Pretty great. Tom Taylor. Um, alternate universes that I enjoy. Um, I liked the dark nights of steel run where they are like knights and medieval and all that. That's one I tried to remind the other day and I just remembered it. Dark Nights of Steel was really cool. Okay. Um, I, yeah, those are the ones that jump out like the medieval and the metal and like the intensity and Batman Beyond. I like futuristic stuff. I was going to say,

Starting point is 00:12:21 the time of this coming out, we will already have posted War World, and I mean, that heavy metal Batman long hair sequence was pretty sick. And on that, and throughout this, this, you know, recent stretch of the

Starting point is 00:12:37 DC movies, we've been talking about some of the, like, yeah, else worlds that we've enjoyed or whatever. I think thrill killer is really fun. I brought that up in another talk that we had, sort of 50s Deco with some cool flips on the characters, or sorry, 30s, 40s, 50s, somewhere in there.

Starting point is 00:12:54 And then, as we've brought up here, I definitely did enjoy at least peering in on the Atomic Knights universe. And I also, too, we didn't actually see it, but I just very much got a kick out of psycho pirate being like, I came up with this silly-ass name for your silly-ass universe. It's just very tickled by that. Earth 8, I think is the name of it. Like, they tried to, they made effectively the Marvel universe and the D.C. universe, and that was fun and cheeky.

Starting point is 00:13:27 Kingdom Come is, like, classic for a reason. Kingdom Come is so good. There's so many. Yeah, I was going to say, you're an embarrassment of riches. And I mean, Absolutely, it's great. Harketing. I want to read those after hearing you describe them. So good. Like that, that sounds right up my alley and that plays off of, again, what we saw in the, in the Warworld movie. Like, I actually really liked all three of those, you know, flips, you know, Western Wonder Woman and

Starting point is 00:13:52 Yeah, Western Wonder Woman, yeah, the heavy metal Batman story and then like Superman 50s diner Twilight Zone thing. Injustice also got huge. Injustice, the video game is also like a four, like huge omnibus volume size, DC alternate universe. And how could we forget? Because I guess it would be an alternate version or universe.

Starting point is 00:14:14 Batman Ninja Turtles. Batman Ninja Turtles. Maybe the greatest DC animated film ever made. Absolutely. And Malik B. What do we got? Thank you very much. Since D.C. has adapted this event across two mediums now, two media,

Starting point is 00:14:29 the CW's Averse and the WB animation. Do you think this is something that we could see in live action within the next 10, 15, maybe even 20 years? I'd say 1520. I think you want to lean into the nostalgia of the current Snyder universe when it's not the main universe. Like you need to give the DCU time to thrive and then like a nostalgia wave has to come after. Like the point of these is to like clean up universes So it has to get big enough to be weighted down So I'd say like 1520

Starting point is 00:14:55 But I think we get a DC Marvel before that That would be wild That's my big new Hail Mary I think in our lifetime We get a DC Marvel crossover And this isn't me knowing anything I'm not like I have not seen a schematic At DC Studios but I do think that's

Starting point is 00:15:10 I think the writing's on the wall for that Because I think Marvel needs it Absolutely that would be Unprecedented And yeah to imagine that we could even reach a point at which the movies are justifiable in doing an event like this is pretty well. I'll make you go after Secret Wars. You got to go DC Marvel. That's what I'm thinking. I'm doing the

Starting point is 00:15:27 trajectory. I can't even imagine. Maurice Gray Jr. wants to know for Koi. Do you like the versions of Pariah and Harbinger used in this adaptation? I do, but they're definitely not the characters I know, so it's a little distracting. I think they work, but Harbinger's kind of just like a DSX Machina

Starting point is 00:15:50 she's out of here and something's gonna have it got to go like and that doesn't feel like a character as much as a tool for the story so yeah it works but you know I like comics a little more alright all right all right just making sure we don't have any

Starting point is 00:16:03 more here um do do do shib it to be we're our good coitus thank you guys for chiming in for stoking the fires with your questions just going to give some stray thoughts

Starting point is 00:16:19 before we boogie on out of here how you feel in two chapters in I liked this one more than the last one this one felt more like the comic to me because it was like a bit more somber it also felt like it had a bit more control over its narrative as much as the comic and this is like big big narrow

Starting point is 00:16:34 there still needs to feel like it's got a rhythm and I did feel like the last one felt like it was a little like weighted by the volume of what it had to do in one arc so this one felt like it had more of a pulse and I liked that I liked the tone of this I liked the dread and foreboding and atmosphere. It was a very good second act just in general in structure.

Starting point is 00:16:52 I'm really curious with the climax and like the build because obviously we're at that point now getting into the third act. So I thought they did a really good job with these cast of characters. I thought they also picked characters well to be excited about like to see the bat family plus Batman beyond to see like certain characters fighting. Do you use Kara that way? Kara. All that.

Starting point is 00:17:10 It really worked for me. So I dug it. And monitor, I actually knew of the anti-monitor before the monitor. Like I remember reading. anti-monitor in a comic and then discovering monitor and I was like, oh, so this was fun. Oh, you got the inverse experience. Yeah, I discovered a monitor.

Starting point is 00:17:24 Yeah, this one had a different vibe to the sensation of being like, I gotta go back and rewatch this again and like get all of the details because when it's hitting you the first time, obviously, it's a bit overwhelming. But I would absolutely agree. Like, I liked the first one in the first

Starting point is 00:17:40 part does a lot of stuff. I enjoy and I have fun with, especially in the moment. But, you Yeah, I would have to say that this one, it's like the first one, I think, to that question that we got earlier, does, in hindsight feel like kind of a whole bunch of stuff and a whole bunch of the sauce? And like, it's a good setup because it gets you, like, the stuff that really sticks is all the major stuff you need to know going into this. But yeah, the adjustment in pace and tone, I thought was really nice. And I really liked the sort of centerpiece of monitor and Karakara at all pronunciation. And yeah, this deceit, this sort of like, I rescued you, but I also didn't stop your world from being obliterated and I've been out here for so long observing, what is the cost of that? And now that I've finally grown a conscience and taken a direct active interest, is it too late? Is that part of the dooming of all of this? Was that like a secret final ingredient or something? Yeah, I like as far as those kinds of, like, you know, obviously like an omnipresent observing character can be.

Starting point is 00:18:46 I would imagine perhaps dry if you don't write it the right way and you know you got to have them be sort of like detached and stoic but I really like the characterization here I liked him you know doing the energy intakes with Kara you know eating food for the first time and forever that was just a neat earnest moments yeah and then to pull in yeah character like psychopirate

Starting point is 00:19:09 and to you really hone in on his ability and see why they would be like this situation is so desperate we need your power in particular but also like the treachery and watching, you know, that crucial error as, you know, monitor takes that leap of faith that doesn't pay off, you know, that backfires in that, yeah, uh, uh, psycho pirate goes full psycho pirate. Uh, yeah, like, I really like the air and the atmosphere that this managed to bring whilst also having a whole bunch of worlds to cut to. And I too appreciate that, yeah, there are a lot of characters. Yes, they're like, oh,

Starting point is 00:19:42 Batman Beyond and, and they're peacemaker in the background and all sorts of stuff. But I feel like this could be way more confusing and overwhelming if they brought in like a whole bunch of Wonderwomen and a whole bunch of Batman or a whole bunch of Superman. It works having Hippolyta and then Wonder Woman and that sort of thing. Yeah, to be like that's not your hippolita, you know, and you still get the fun of like each universe's

Starting point is 00:20:00 crossover and variations, but keeping the core characters that we are focusing on regardless of universe, you know, kind of keeping those sort of constant and not convoluting them too heavily with variance, I think is a

Starting point is 00:20:15 nice choice here that they easily could have indulged in for the worse. Sure. And yeah, yeah, yeah, I like the way the story is unfolding. It really does feel like there's some massive, unstoppable phenomenon at play. Things feel desperate. And, yeah, I'm just, I'm fascinated to see where it ends because I don't know. I mean, I assume they all have to band together and punch the big guy. Got to punch a big guy.

Starting point is 00:20:39 But, you know, I am hoping, I would imagine that there's got to be some more, you know, wibbly wobbly timey whimey superhero to bring in for sure There's an iconic moment that occurs One of the biggest moment in comics Of the era Okay And you'll reckon

Starting point is 00:20:54 What I'm saying now I'd be like that was it That's what he's teasing So that'll be next week On Monday we'll be back for The Big Moment of Crisis Coming up next week And also like the timeline

Starting point is 00:21:05 narrowing which I think is very interesting considering in our timeline The DC animated stuff You know obviously everything is becoming DCU So is this the end of the tomorrow verse? Is this a big shift that's about to happen? So we'll find out next Monday, you lovelies. Thank you for joining us for this.

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The Reel Rejects - JUSTICE LEAGUE: CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS - PART 2 (2024) MOVIE REVIEW!!

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