The Reel Rejects - JUSTICE LEAGUE: WARWORLD (2023) IS A WILD RIDE!! MOVIE REACTION!! First Time Watching

Starting point is 00:00:00 Thank you to Huell for sponsoring this video. More on them in just a bit. And now, let's dive in to Justice League War War. Interesting. So we've got a crisis. I think a crisis is a ruin. About to be infinite, perhaps. Oh, many arts.

Starting point is 00:00:25 Wow. Interesting, they got a Superman from like another than, like those were different. like not each other's as they're gathering all of these disparate parts uh if you're joining us we just watched if you're listening we just watched uh the justice league war world film uh first time for both of us also wasn't sure going into this what it would adapt so this is a first time experience before we get into it i do want to thank the lovelies over at prepper for making this video possible it is an r rated animated film making that uh you know youtube palatable very much appreciate that also thank you dear viewer for liking and commenting and then

Starting point is 00:01:03 subscribe it and all the buttons on the YouTube want to know what you think of war world found out very last minute that this proceeds uh like this is where we are in time in the tomorrow verse so we we dove into this one today uh knowing nothing but uh john what do you think I was pretty well enthralled by this one sorry I'm pulling up our patron cues here oh yes please please um but yeah I mean goodness I do like a left turn I do like a stylistic shift. You know, I like being in the world of DC, you know, as, as usual, but, you know, like whatever sort of prime timeline that we've come to, you know, know, know, know, know, and be familiar with as like the status quo. So for this to be in a position where, yeah, we're in multiple time periods and multiple aesthetics was very fun.

Starting point is 00:01:55 And I like the way that this sort of built the ensemble as well. we went, you know, you get one vignette about Diane. It's kind of reminded me of the Predator Killer of Killers movie in a way, because yeah, you go from Diana in Old West Time to then what was that Bruce

Starting point is 00:02:13 in like, you know, a crazy heavy metal 2000 warrior world and then, you know, the 50s Superman kind of thing, which is two, like I think the 50s diner, you know, Twilight Zone aesthetic makes the most sense as like a

Starting point is 00:02:30 twist for Superman and for an alien like a Superman but also Martian man hunter like the alien paranoia plays both of them yeah exactly and so you know it's 23 and then you know I think the other two are just really cool contrasts for the two characters they get to inhabit them diana in the west and then Bruce and heavy metal um so I thought this is pretty cool what did you think sir I like that Diana was in like the old west because it's usually such like the westerns i think of such a masculine uh movie trope like you know the clenny's wood the the old manly movies so to see the warrior side of diana in that environment was cool and then um juxtaposing that like bruce wayne whose gadgets and and all the things that's very city to see him

Starting point is 00:03:15 in you know the viking time and then that was interesting um my exposure to mongol is interesting because i've always loved the idea of like the the planet he's from one he can get reincarnated and like that's an interesting evolution of the character but also like he convinces um his peoples that the chains they have around them are a benefit and like the longer your chain the higher ranking you are so there's like this interesting hierarchy of enslavement like mongol's a very interesting character and i was kind of open they'd touch on that and go into that but um it did it dabbled a little with that and john johns is one of those characters i think is very slept on um like the john johns needs more time like a lot of people need to know john

Starting point is 00:03:57 johns he's a really cool and interesting character but i think i went the opposite where i didn't connect as much um because i was waiting for those things and because um i i generally like the what if type ideas and and those things unless i'm anchored to the character it doesn't quite connect me in animation like i i struggle with that in marvel's what if as well as else worlds um so i think it's more interesting in in live action maybe because then I connect to the actor um there's just something about like an alternate universe in animation that I have a hard time going like I'm in it uh and I don't know what that is but um this was that until it got to world world then I was like wait I know the story some of it uh so that was interesting absolutely uh got a quick question here

Starting point is 00:04:47 from liminal stressed to kick uh this is our main this is our patron question for this for this one We got the one. All rides on you, liminal. Of the stories, and thank you for chiming in. Featured, featuring DC or Marvel characters transported into different eras and genres, which has been your favorite? For example, this movie, Gotham by Gaslight, 1920s Hollywood, and what if, et cetera. And which would you like to see? For example, mine would be Justice League Dark in a medieval fantasy setting.

Starting point is 00:05:16 I think 80s sword and sorcery movies like Conan, Excalibur, et cetera. Love you guys and have a nice day. Great question. Absolutely. You know, as much as they're not my usual Kappa, I do, I like 1602 quite a bit. 602 is really cool. And House of N kind of plays around with like alternate reality stuff in a fun way. What else is my jam?

Starting point is 00:05:41 Those two like immediately come to mind. I like those two quite a bit. You got any elseworld alternate timeline reality polls? In moving form? I don't know It's best I guess like we watched and that's great I'm a fan of that one as well I guess light is yeah and the art and the comic

Starting point is 00:06:00 is a Magnola who did Hellboy Oh okay so it's real pretty Yeah I mean I definitely enjoyed that aesthetic And I definitely enjoyed Did we watch we watched Batman Ninja right? Yes that's always a fun sort of twist I think on anything is like what would this look like in a ninja samurai setting

Starting point is 00:06:16 One that comes to mind that we have talked about in Q&As before At least as a comic I really like thrill killer, which is like a Batman story that's also in like an Art Deco 30s or 40s time period or somewhere in there, 50s maybe. Yeah, I think it was like 40s 50s. There's a recent Batman comic

Starting point is 00:06:34 that's Golden Age Hollywood that's really cool. I forget what it's called, but it's like a painted look and it's very golden age, Starlit Hollywood, Batman Bruce Wayne, which is red. That's cool. I'm trying to, yeah, I'm trying to think beyond that because I think yeah, it's like something in the sort of like Victorian era is fun.

Starting point is 00:06:50 Something in yeah like old 20s 30s style is always charming to me and you know as such it's funny this movie kind of covered a few that I would be I'm always interested in a western twist I feel like the heavy metal 2000 twist and one of those um you were mentioning during the last podcast I think or something there's a line of I forget what the adjective is that that heralds it there's a line of DC comics where like Wonder Woman is like a Viking warrior woman. So absolute Wonder Woman instead of being from Paradise Island, she's from hell. So it's so metal.

Starting point is 00:07:28 It's crazy. So what the absolute line does is it takes a key element that has been true to the character forever and subverts that element. And so like it is really interesting because it's not just another universe. It's like let's invert something and see how true to the character they can still be. So Bruce Wayne is blue collar. Bruce Wayne without billions so they take away his money and then Clark isn't like he's more of a defender of like refugees all around the world he's not just one area like he defends everyone in a very different way more like a rebel as opposed to being like the American icon sure so like those elements are fascinating the absolute line is really cool and absolute Martian Manhunter actually one of my favorite ones of those and it's a Martian Manhunter is an abstraction like it's an alien that's from so far away we can't even consider. receive the distance and it is kind of like a noxious hallucinogenic gas that informs how he can see

Starting point is 00:08:23 reality so it's like the super psychedelic comic about like perception nice uh which hard to describe but it's fascinating so yeah the absolute line is awesome yeah i think stuff like that uh you know and you mentioned here like medieval fantasy sword and sorcery movies like that's a really cool aesthetic i would like to see and it's funny because you know zach snyder really loves john Borman and Excalibur. So I feel like some of those at least stylistic flourishes were attempted to be, you know, integrated into this world, this genre. There's a comic like DC metal, which is like very that.

Starting point is 00:08:56 Is that where the Batman who laughs comes from? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So that world, that's a whole thing. There's also a run that just ended. Tom Taylor did where it's like the, the sword and sandal kind of fantasy, like very like a fantasy book, Batman, Superman, DC characters.

Starting point is 00:09:11 That was cool. neat yeah i was gonna say uh off the dome i'm thinking like a renaissance kind of era story could be cool with any number of these characters probably more of the grounded characters but you know do something that's like assassins creed too or something like that um but yeah like it generally i i liked the medley that these presented and i'm sure if there's another like comic book arc or you know take that comes to mind you know uh i'll throw it out there but but yeah like i do personally find it's weird like because i think i have less of the broad lexicon for something like you know if you see war world you're going to know what that means versus me seeing the words

Starting point is 00:09:53 war world i'm like what is this i'll learn about war world yeah and so uh i i inversely kind of get drawn in more because there's like a certain sense of discovery for me in a setting like this where i'm like oh i know that i'm to expect some kind of familiar dc characters to pop up but because we're not any place that I'm normally accustomed to. Now I'm at least more intrigued and I'm more curious and stuff like that. And yeah, to go through these different time periods. I mean, I think personally, like I would love more stuff in that second story's style. Just because, again, it feels like it fell out of some kind of 80s heavy metal album cover or something like that.

Starting point is 00:10:34 And just that world, that sort of, I haven't seen actually Conan the Barbarian, the movie. But, you know, like that. He's the Arnold one. Yeah. I've never seen it. Oh, maybe one day we shouldn't do it. I know Greg and someone did it, but yeah. What's called?

Starting point is 00:10:49 Last action here did pretty well. Last action. Considering the movie bomb, that reaction did pretty well. So maybe we do a little Conan. Absolutely. But yeah, like I think that, you know, that aesthetic is really fun. And two, I mean, like, yeah, I liked the assembly of like our core trio team through these illusion experiences.

Starting point is 00:11:07 I like that we added one each. Yeah. That was fun. I like that Marcia. Manhunter looked like his, there's his comic counterpart when he's not disguising himself. Reject Nation. I've been following a specific macro plan all year. Well, at the end of January.

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Starting point is 00:13:35 curious how they portray Lobo in the DCU because of that like is he going to be like this wild card because he's kind of like DC's Deadpool to be honest so is it going to be like a wild card that is good and bad at different times depending on the story they tell I think it'd be really fun to make Lobo a villain in some stories in live action and a hero and others because then you're like just have them as an actual wild card so it's cool to see that that conveyed here and and I you know we got something clipped out like I as of filming this one of our most recent social clips i was talking about how i like superman more and more the older i get um and i and i really think this was a cool example of being drawn to the um altruism of clark

Starting point is 00:14:15 and and i liked that it was a younger clerk even to diana and bruce and how there's just like a pure wholesomeness yeah and uh i think a lot of people that have a nostalgia for a bygone era whether it's you know the era they grew up in or the 50s or any of those things uh and i think that's really common in times of strife. Like, I think when things are bad, we look to the past as like rose-colored glasses more than it was. Like, you know, we, we think an era was better than it was. But we weren't dealing with these problems.

Starting point is 00:14:47 So it was better. So it was idyllic. Yeah. Like, we had a lot of other problems at certain times. But I think Superman's this really cool character that's from almost 100 years ago now, like eight years ago. So, right? So Superman being something that we always idolize, no matter the decade, there's

Starting point is 00:15:03 there's this this great unifying force and the 50s feels like kind of what we've landed on for like americana and idealism like even machine gun kelly's new uh most most recent announced album is uh about americana and and this lost idea of american exceptionalism but the freedom and naivete of it and the way i'm interpreting the album off of one single is he's making pop music there's going to be other stuff too but it's that uh escapism concept of americana but that there's more underneath that, that it's not just like this, you know, freedom of consequence idea. And Superman

Starting point is 00:15:37 is this really cool idea to me of what it is when you actually have an entity that is as good as we perceive a time. And so the 50s one was really interesting to me because of how we've idealized the 50s. You know what I just realized?

Starting point is 00:15:53 I would love to see a superhero thing to go back to the liminal question that's like a 70s style movie where it's like that really like fly on the wall doc you style like the plot is just a thing that's happening continuously and it's not overly doesn't feel overly structured and you can just feel the heat and the sweat on everything and yeah it's kind of just like a a road to somewhere and you know along the way shocking things happen I think that's it would be hard to do because it's more

Starting point is 00:16:24 of a vibe than like a specific set of aesthetics minus like mutton chops and bell bottoms but like I think that would be a very interesting thing to do I like that I wonder what character that would suit like that'd be an interesting like curve ball for a character yeah I'm thinking I'm thinking uh you said New York so I'm thinking like Harlem Luke Cade

Starting point is 00:16:43 oh I like that'd be cool like slice of life but yeah I had a good time with this overall I'm excited by the last five minutes and what that sets up I'm excited to see what we launch into next accordingly it was good to see like a Legion moment like that was we both like had a little pop you know seeing Harbinger pop

Starting point is 00:16:59 up and it's cool to rediscover characters in animation that I don't see as much in comics and for you to get to discover them. Sure. So that's what's been fun about these. Yeah, absolutely. I would say the just overall in final. I really enjoy the anthological nature and the way that that built up slowly. You know, you start with Diana just solo and you get to be like, is this person, this person?

Starting point is 00:17:25 Oh, you got Jonah Hex. Oh, okay. So interesting. This is an isolated thing. and then you go into the Batman one and Batman is the one who's sort of starting to go, wait a minute. Yeah, something's not right here.

Starting point is 00:17:34 I'm having these memories and then you get them all three together and then they are all able to kind of unlock this. And I thought that was a very conscientious way to do a through line through what feels like in anthology and then to have not a wraparound, you know, like the Predator Badland, sorry, Killer of Killers movie does like acquaint you

Starting point is 00:17:52 to its wraparound throughout, whereas this, it takes until the reveal at the end getting into the ship. but I really like the way this worked as like a four-act scenario all things considered and a way to have an else worlds kind of without having an else world

Starting point is 00:18:07 it seems like that fits into a greater continuity and I'm excited to see where this I assume that you know the crisis the infinite earths that's where we're going next they said all the words practically it feels like there there's a lot of that right there and of the fact that they directly acknowledge like this multiversal

Starting point is 00:18:22 everything is planet killing weapon thing I'm like okay well this seems like a mass opportunity for a crossover event so uh so yeah i thought this one i don't know where i would rank this one but this is something that appeals directly to a lot of things that are well within my kind of taste and purview um so yeah i got a big kick out of this yeah i'm excited to see the next one because of where i think it goes and we're going to be tuning into that probably next week so please leave a comment below let us know what you thought of this experience of war war world it's hard to say uh and if you've read that awesome mongle comic i was talking about with all comics in the comments below

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The Reel Rejects - JUSTICE LEAGUE: WARWORLD (2023) IS A WILD RIDE!! MOVIE REACTION!! First Time Watching

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