The Problem With Batman versus Superman and the DCEU

Hello and welcome to my modest little blog where I will be discussing my what I love, what I hate, and the vast space between it, that fills my general opinion on things. Now I know by this point everyone and their grandma discussed Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice. I can only add my opinion to the mix. I believe that the problem with BvS started with the Man of Steel movie. Which is an ok movie, but I feel that if you removed what superhero elements the movie has you wouldn't lose much in terms of story.  It would become the story of a semi-interesting immigrant or a slightly different version of the 1970's Hulk TV show where he doesn't turn into a green Lou Ferrigno.

The problem with Man of Seel is that it has story elements that don't make sense when you look at it from a story perspective. The father teaches him that he's special and will be important someday, but neglects to tell him when that someday might be. He goes into a tornado to save the family dog and then won't allow Clark to save him, why? Pets are great, but not worth being literally ripped apart over. I also have issues with Lois Lane finding Clark as fast as she does(especially for someone who is traveling all over the USA with fake names and working odd jobs). We even have issues with the villains. They have space travel, why terraform just earth. Why take all of your ships there(because there is no space faring ships in BvS)?It makes no sense for battle hardened soldiers. How do the bad guys have such an easy time acclimating to their new powers? My point is the story raises far too many questions and doesn't give you enough to latch onto to fill in those gaps.

I also feel that Zack Snyder was a poor choice of director to helm these films. He is great with visuals. 300, Watchmen, and Sucker Punch are great visual movies, but they have major issues linking scenes together. I'll admit I even believed the hype that Snyder was the greatest comic book director ever. 300 and Watchmen didn't have as many issues because the story was translated from an already existing work. He's better at translating someone else's story that coming up with his own.

The movie Man of Steel never really felt like a jumping off point the same way Iron Man did. Those movies were already somewhat planned out before Iron Man even came out. We don't even know if there are any other superheroes in the first one, Marvel at least established there was a bigger world outside the millionaire playboy philanthropist(and now PTSD sufferer divorcee). BvS then became the jumping off point and established its world through a poorly thought out video slide show shoe-horned into the middle of the movie. It literally magnifies all the problems of Man of Steel with inconsistent characters, weak villains, and even weaker story.

All those issues infected Suicide squad as Warner Brothers scrambled to make a movie that wasn't as dark as the critical failure that was BvS. It's almost ironic that the movie has a neon-lit-city-at-night gangster aesthetic because the movie tries to juggle a fun happy story with the same dark subject matter. It tries so hard to be DC's answer to Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy. While I personally still enjoyed the film, and it does give me hope for Wonder Woman(because I am a sucker for superhero movies and have been wanting a Wonder woman movie since superhero movies became the obsession of Hollywood), It still is the weaker movie. It still has issues shoving its own universe into the Movie and it almost seems to be dragging it down instead of making it soar to greater heights like the avengers did.

Stay nerdy my beautiful friends.