The New Justice League Image Reminds Us This Movie Might Be Trash

It’s a sad day when the most inspiring thing DC has going, PR wise, is Mark Hamill reading Donald Trump tweets in his Joker voice. The truth is that nobody here at the office thinks the Justice League movie is going to be very good. So, I was sitting here, brainstorming a million ideas for an op-ed to reflect that like, “5 Reasons the Justice League Movie Looks Like Landfill” or “Superhero Cinema in the Trump Era.” You get the picture. As it turns out, instead of five ways to explain how awful this movie is going to be, we were given just one in form of this image.

To be fair, we were all fairly to moderately excited about this when we first saw it. Then again, that was when we thought this was a picture of a line of upcoming action figures to promote the impending addition to DC’s Cinematic Murderverse, Justice League. Alas, that is the actual cast in costume, their dour expressions seeming to mirror the overall buzz, or lack thereof, for the movie (except for Ezra “The Flash” Miller, who looks as though he’s just been told he’s not in the Power Rangers remake). Folks, it’s one thing for Ben Affleck to have bitter beer face. Not only is that part of Batman’s whole thing (his parents are uber dead, mind you), but it’s a recently discovered scientific fact that gazing upon the script to Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice melts all the joy from your face like the Ark of the Covenant. But Gal Gadot looks like she’s daydreaming that she’s back on the set of a Fast and Furious mo…