>>81273987>>81274073I really hope the critical disaster of BvS (and, realistically, commercial under-performance) will make DC rethink their "tone". A movie doesn't have to be funny and quippy like the MCU to be inspiring and optimistic - qualities Superman absolutely needs to have.
Snyder is right that these are almost mythic characters, and he shows them visually as such, but why does he insist on giving them exaggerated human flaws?
Superman is the ideal hero. We've had decades of deconstructions, parodies and anti-heroes, to the point where I'm sure a genuinely heroic, idealistic, larger-than-life Superman would do really well.
Rename Man of Steel 2 into Man of Tomorrow. Go full ASS-level inspiring. Differentiate yourself from the MCU not by being needlessly grim, because that approach is clearly not working, but by playing to the strengths of the DCU - that its heroes are heroic, that they're beloved and legendary and stand for the best of us. They're metaphors and archetypes and modern deities, not quipmachines who spend more time fighting each other than actual villains.
The MCU focuses on telling safe stories with very human and fallible protagonists. Go the other way. Give us a modern epic of gods and monsters, of the struggle of good against evil and the fight for humanity's future. You've already established that this Superman is not as attuned to his human side - go all the way with emphasizing the effect and importance of his heroic side.
"You'll believe a man can fly," said the tagline for Reeve's Superman in the 1970s. I think we need to go back to that.
