>>93331011What is good about BvS? There's quite a bit of fanservice, but fanservice won't salvage a bad story.
You think its good because you're a fan, so the fact that absolutely NOONE has any characterization is not a problem to you - after all, you do know what Lex Luthor, Batman, Superman are like, so in our heads we substitute lack of characterization with our 'iconic' idea of the character. Of course, this approach works in comics, in a previously established universe - but we don't see any of that in DCEU which is a NEW universe, and none of the previous characterization applies.
In fact, that's why so many fans vehemently claim Batman doesn't kill in BvS, even though he obviously kills several people - because with no characterization, we're forced to substitute our own, so we substitute "iconic" Batman who doesn't kill, even though DCEU Batman pretty blatantly is fine with killing. Movie makes us GUESS what this Batman is like.
That's of course a prime example of flaws of the movie - I'm using Batman as an example here, because Batman who's fine with killing is perfectly a fine character idea - Tim Burton made two great movies about such Batman - but we need an character exploration of how such a person came to be, what drives them, why they do that - did Batman always kill? Did he start killing after Robin died? We will never know.
But hey, have a scene of Batman driving Batmobile through a truck!
BvS is bunch of flashy, special effects bombastic bullshit that doesn't actually work as a continuous story that has a plot and subplots - things just come in and out of the focus at random. Storywise, it's an incoherent mess.
And even spectacle wise, it doesn't really deliver it's entire promise - there are movies like Mad Max: Fury Road that are basically one giant prolonged action scene - and I'm supposed to believe Snyder was only able to cram like 5 minutes of Batman fighting Superman in a movie ABOUT Batman fighting Superman? Fuck off.
