10 Years Ago Did Dawn Of Justice, Illinois See ‘Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice’?
Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice is ten years old now, somehow. A movie that, at the same time, seems more recent and are we sure it didn’t come out in 2013?
The 10-years-later reappraisal of Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice seems to be about what it was when the film was first released: It’s just not very good. And that title is still clunky. So clunky that, in 2016, I thought it would be funny to find someone named Dawn, who lived in a city called Justice, and ask if she’d be seeing Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, a movie named after her. This is a piece that is no longer online, so here it is, again.
A few years before this I had called someone named John Carter in every state asking if they were going to see the movie John Carter, which dropped the “of Mars” for reasons I still don’t understand (another piece no longer online that I’ll need to find an excuse to bring back). Anyway, comparatively, finding Dawn of Justice seemed easier. It really wasn’t.
It’s weird to cold call someone for an “internet bit.” Though, in no way was the humor directed at the person, it was directed at the circumstances of a clunky title for a movie in which Batman and Superman fight. But there’s really no good way to introduce yourself or explain what this even is without being annoying. Oh, and I certainly annoyed Dawn of Justice, Illinois. (Even though she was a good sport about it all, and in this case agreeing to participate at all is the definition of “good sport.”)
(I did, momentarily, consider following up with Dawn for this piece. Then realized that’s a terrible idea and she’d already given enough. And no normal person is going to remember their feelings about Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice a decade later. I might as well be asking, “What were your thoughts on Kung Fu Panda 3?,” or, “Did you like the first season of Designated Survivor?”)
This originally published at Uproxx on March 25, 2016 and, as mentioned, had been wiped from the internet. Today, Dawn of Justice, Illinois, lives again. Here is the piece as originally presented:
