Quote:IMHO this is where they are screwing up the most and why poor decisions are being made. That, and rewriting character personalities. I liked Superman in MoS other than the city-destroying hot mess at the end. I liked how he really didn't want to kill Zod but realized he would have to or Zod would kill everyone he could get his hands on. In BvS he was fit to be tied and there wasn't a real explanation as to why. Or if there was it was subtle and I'm on pain meds due to shoulder surgery so I missed it. 

 

Overall there was way too much going on in this movie trying to cram into it 2 new superheroes, several plotlines and who knows what else, and the story and characters suffered for it. I'm not a DC vs Marvel kind of person. Give me a good movie and I don't care where it comes from, but Marvel is winning this. Other than the Dark Knight Trilogy, which I love, and MoS which had it's issues but I liked it anyway, DC has done little to impress. I hope someone gets a clue and the following movies are better executed.

 

Well put, my dear.

 

I think the one thing everyone can agree on is that Marvel is curb-stomping DC on the big screen but that's DC's own fault.

 

For one, they have proven themselves utterly incapable of giving us a quality movie that isn't centered on Batman. They're falling into the same trap Marvel did in the 90s with Wolverine. Part of that is the massive appeal of Batman as a character and icon, but an equally massive part is they seem to get people writing these other characters that don't have a clue what they're doing. Take Green Lantern, for example, that movie was a travesty and single-handedly slaughtered the reputation of one of DCs most iconic heroes outside of the Big Three. Who green lit this? What kind of dirt did they have on Geoff Johns to get him to sign off on that hot mess? Like you, I liked Man of Steel, but I have a huge man-crush on Henry Cavill and he's definitely made as much as he could out of what he was given.

 

DC's single biggest failing is not trusting in their (other) characters to hold up...so they keep tinkering with who they are fundamentally and that almost never works as we've seen. Honestly, I was infinitely more excited about the rumored Justice League Dark movie than I was BvS. DC punishes Marvel when it comes to telling a good supernaturally-inclined story in the comics and it isn't even remotely close (see Vertigo) but I think that's been tabled (again) since Guillermo del Toro backed out of directing it.

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