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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
I watched it this weekend, and thought the same thing.
In fact, if they'd just left Doomsday out completely and given Luthor a reduced role, and used the extra time for character development leading into Batman vs. Superman fight culminating in Batman defeating Superman and letting him live, the whole thing would have been totally fixable, if perhaps not the blockbuster epic that I'm sure the studio insisted it be. And it probably would've been ~20 minutes shorter.
In other words, with some relatively simple changes, you could have made this an actual Batman v Superman movie, instead of Batman v Superman feat. Lex Luthor and Wonder Woman and Doomsday, and it could have been pretty decent. It wasn't a total write off. More like a missed opportunity.
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This is kind of exactly the reasons everyone was disappointed with it, particularly comic fans. They tried to cram some of the most iconic storylines into one film and it came off terribly. The worst part being: they can't do those storylines proper now, not in this universe anyways. They can't make a version of the Dark Knight Returns. They can't do The Death of Superman. Not how they could have been done anyways.
Most comic fans want to see those stories come to life, now we may have to wait a decade or so (or forever) to see something like that done. It's frustrating.
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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
For me, there's fan service and then there's making a movie that functions. The latter has to be the priority, and the former only included where it doesn't detract anything. Most of that stuff can be saved for the directors' cut, which the die-hards are going to buy anyway.
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They could have made 3 movies that functioned beautifully instead of one that barely did. Isn't this your complaint as well? The movie didn't function, it was a mess. The reason comic fans like those stories is because they're GOOD stories. It's not just because they're Superman and Batman stories. There are plenty of those that suck. This is one of them now.