I don't remember it trying to kill Lex.

Hey, every act is a political act.

It's worth the price of admission to see a cynical rehash of the Days Of Future Past sequence?

I feel that if X-men were so much better, people would be citing it as an example against me. But no one is doing that.

Movie critics do. Just look at the ratings.

I've already addressed people's actual criticisms, many of which boiled down to lack of comprehension.

Yeah, but compare the hulabaloo lobbed at Batman V Superman versus the indifference shown to X-Men. Surely one can't possibly look at Jennifer Lawrence's wretched performance (and wretched hair) as Mystique and say "So much better than DC, man". There's no way one can look at the dialogue of Batman V Superman and say…

Yes, he's killing/ruining Superman to assuage his bruised ego…and gain power.

My theory is that people are offended by anything resembling real visual style. Which sounds mean, but whatever. I mean, why prefer the TV stylings of Marvel or whatever the hell X-Men is at this point to the distinctive vision of Zack Snyder (with help from Chris Nolan)?

X-men wasn't even worth discussing, that's how bad it was.

Two key lines lay out his ambition: "*the cruelest thing in the world* is knowledge without power…because that is paradoxical (insert tics)".

It's as valid an explanation as any for the question I was answering. Not that it affects the plot or anything else, for that matter.

The film very much supports that interpretation. I mean, if you think the NSA spying on citizens is heroic, or that lying to the public is cool, then I can see how one would view Batman and Gordon as heroes.

Yeah, but he's best known for playing…fairly dumb guys. He's mostly heart, not brains.

So incorruptible that he spied on people's phones and resorted to vigilante justice?

The dreams sequences are a symptom, not the cause, of his fear of aliens. They illustrate how deep-seated his fear is.

If he's such a shitty writer, why are there so many good lines throughout the movie?

Is it a mistake? Affleck laid out a pretty good case in the movie: "How many people in Gotham are good anymore? And how many stayed that way?"

I blame Nolan entirely for giving the Joker so many monologues and giving Gordon and Batman so few. The Joker wins the ideological war: as soon as Batman says that, the Joker cites Harvey Dent, and Batman rushes away, panicked.

Finally, a brother of mine.