The Superman stuff is fine. Not sure we'll ever get another scene as perfect as Supes returning to take that plane out of the sky.
For some reason they seem intent on making Superman movies really long. Just tighten it up to.90ish minutes.
I liked the story Snyder was trying to tell (everyone would hate Superman if he appeared today, because it's absolutely true) and his journey across MOS and BVS is really well done. But it's all just so long.
Nah man, these are garbage Snyder films under the Syncopy banner. They tried to get Snyder to do a Nolan's jon (Batman), and ended up with a 2-2 Moyes draw.
They're god awful and look like a beat-em up. The stories aren't much cop, but are a different spin on the whole alien thing.
It was a shit experiment that now only looks good in retrospect because it was probably the best it was going to be. Henry Cavill is a step up from Brandon Routh, but if they had any sense about them they'd have cast Ben Affleck as Superman and Henry Cavill as Batman. Now, I realise Affleck isn't really befitting of Superman, and it'd be a strange casting given he's essentially 'played' Superman before...
But given how bad it was, perhaps Affleck could've added some of the goofiness that Clarke Kent required, while Cavil may have given Bruce Wayne the pomp required. Before folk cast that off, I'm not necessarily saying Affleck would've made a much better Superman, but Cavill would have made a far better Batman/Bruce Wayne.
Quite frankly... it may not work... but Christopher Reeve's physical performance and posture as Superman is very understated. The quirky elements of Donner's Superman were tried in MOS, but the casting was way off and Kevin Spacey was laughably bad... quite literally. Brandon Routh looked like he was trying to impersonate Reeve, and Cavill is a little too wooden for me.
Which swings back around to Affleck. I dunno... he's a better actor than Cavill man and he's actually quite decent as a hero-like character when he isn't smirking his way through the scene. Either way, Ben Affleck as Bruce Wayne (and I guess by extension, Batman) was just bad casting. With the upcoming talent, and jesus, why they are looking at Robert Twilight for Batman (and not the Joker, or Eddie Redmayne) and not John Hamm for Batman is beyond me. He's a bit old now is Hamm, but CGI and make-up do wonderful things - he's probably not 'fit' enough given his age and I assume he's a 20 a day man.
A bit younger, Jake Gyllenhaal would be interesting, but I can't see him being taken seriously with the eyes he produced in Velvet Buzzsaw - he'd make a good Riddler if anything. Michael Shannon would be interesting as I think he'd give it a proper ominous and dark spin... but he wouldn't get the teenagers through the door, if they used their brains, with Robert Twilight for Batman, Shannon would make a boss two-face.
But they need to just do one trilogy of good Batman films and not look to interweave it like DCU. Focus on Gotham, good actors and a good contained story that doesn't suck Bob Kane's ghostcock. Nolan has more or less set the standards, but I'm sure there'll be some shit angle in the Pattison Batman with a shit love story in there for the girls.
The problem with these films has been the casting. It's just been fucking poor. Heath Ledger and Christian Bale more or less were the only decent castings of late.
