Fuck him for using my favorite game, music, and voice actor to compare a political opponent to a giant machine race that wipes out humanity. It’s like using the Empire music from star wars over Hillary’s face in a political ad. It’s asinine. ALSO I’m SURE EA didn’t give him permission to use it. *Edit: apparently it’s…

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Yeah I didn’t understand that about this review at all. It seemed to want to say that Batman was good because it was different from Marvel superhero movies. But it was no different from DC superhero movies. It’s like arguing the new Apple iphone is good because it’s different from any andriod that has come before. It…

Also this part: This Superman is not a noble, selfless alien who cannot help but do good in the nick of time. He’s a selfish narcissist whose major failings are all caused by his inability to see himself in relation to the world (which, as the future-telling dream sequence shows, might come to a very destructive head).

The criticism of Marvel’s house style is more or less on point. But it seems absurd to level the criticism that everything is too funny when Christopher Nolan’s Batman movies brooded their way to a giant haul of cash at around the same time that the Marvel approach came together. BvS is not daring to be different;…

If you keep repeating it’s good, maybe you’ll believe yourself.

Batman killing people in defense of others would not be a problem. Batman hunting the poor for sport, branding them, torturing them, and murdering them for fun is.

You mean he killed people for like 4 months after he was created and then it was retconned that he doesn’t kill. Apparently idiots like you seem to think that 4 months of stories outweigh 75 years of the characters; mythology.

The problem is really with the corporate culture. Warner Bros. is run by people who don’t get superheroes, but who have seen Disney earn a bazillion dollars with the Marvel characters and have decided they want their own shared/expanded universe, stat. (Much in the way that the Hobbit films and the Harry Potter…

I saw Zootopia after BvS to get rid of that awful aftertaste. My wife and kid had more fun with Zootopia. It’s too bad the latter is barely doing any promotion (here in Hong Kong).

The bigger point is that Batman’s “no killing” rule isn’t even a fundamental character aspect. He kills people ALL THE DAMN TIME.

I really hope Warners does have serious internal debate about the future of the DC universe. They need to decide why they’re so cynical about Superman and Batman. It’s not just Snyder that’s cynical, but all those who let him take the creative lead on these characters.

Well, for one thing, Batman nonlethally incapacitating bad guys who do kill and have weapons with which to do it is part of the badassry of the character. Yes, some of his foes, like the Joker, he should straight up kill, because there’s never going to be redemption for them. But the cannon fodder that he mows through…

I preface this by saying that I have not seen the movie, but knowing how Snyder handled MoS and having read his comments, I think I can pretty safely comment on it.

One could, in fact, argue that Batman’s failure to kill is a character flaw. Plenty of people have done so over the years. Snyder is not, however, “making…

1 - Have fun in court after pushing the guy in front of the train. It still will require tons of legal hopscotch to be declared justified, Batman never does this.

The funny thing is, Batman is shown aiming to capture the Joker in the Suicide Squad trailers as opposed to killing him - no idea where it is in the timeline, but it sort of shows how different writers may be in the DCCU. Whiplash ahoy!

And lo, you’ve now exposed the slippery slope that causes Batman to draw that line in the first place: maybe, maybe you can see the temptation to kill the Joker - he kill so many. But now Batman has license to kill people for their association with bad guys just on the guess that they may eventually do something more…

For one, he does the exact thing he’s mad at Superman for: confronts a super-powered villain in the middle of a city leading to incalculable collateral death and destruction.

This is more or less the driving conflict underlying Batman productions of all kinds since at least the 70's (when it became less goofy kid stuff).