>>113357932I wanted it to be good. But I kept hearing that Superman wasn’t getting many likes, that it was just going to be DKR, etc.
Then either Vanity Fair or Empire posted some pics and it was Batman with his foot on Superman.
I was just done trying to defend Zack Snyder, saying that he really cared about Superman and that he wasn’t going to pull a Frank Miller on us, too.
So that was a disappointment. The fact that he “shit up” Batman himself wasn’t really at the forefront of my mind. Because this really was Batman’s movie. The movie concentrated on the World’s Reactions to Superman, the meaning of Superman being here, and of Batman’s justified fear of Superman transforming him into the man that killed his parents. However, the movie has little actual lines for Superman himself. Clark never really distinguished himself in the movie as an active character, and he’s never actually with any character arc, like Batman or even Wonder Woman (if you can call that a character arc).
The slightest hint of Superman’s character arc is one that we already saw in Man of Steel, and it ends the same kind of resolution than before. Superman ends up being a hero that tries his best to save people despite being insecure about his place in the world. That literally Man of Steel’s character arc. There clearly isn’t any love for the character here. Zack Snyder promised that Superman would establish his no kill rule due to regret for killing Zod (and I’m fine with Superman killing) yet he kills some terrorist at the start. Zack said Superman was gonna act like Superman now, and that Man of Steelnwas a prolonged origin story, but he’s even LESS like Superman now, and much more dour and unhappy at the face of it.
I’m not being a Superman purist here. I’m going solely by Man of Steel’s standards. Superman is supposed to be “Hope”, he’s supposed to be a driving force for good. Yet he’s no different than Batman. contrast is key
