All the "anything short of a billion is a failure" stuff really seems like kabuki theater.
How about possibly making substantially less money than
the third Hobbit ($956m worldwide), a movie that was made almost by
accident? Or perhaps less than the last
Twilight half-movie ($829)? Not joining
Alice in Hot Topic-land in the billionaire's club? You can't tell me that doesn't sting. I imagine the movie will make a
tolerable profit, enough for the WB to soldier on for the time being, but to say it isn't at least something of a disappointment... come on, now.
Anyhow, I give it a
D+. Affleck was good, and it held my interest, but boy howdy, it was not a good film, and, like
MoS, much worse than any MCU flick to date. Makes
Thor: The Dark World (a movie I really like, mind) look as polished as
Zodiac.
I confess I haven't read the entire thread, but I do have one burning question: what was with those "experimental" bullets Lois was investigating? Were they meant to frame Superman... who doesn't need guns? Were they just coincidentally being used in an incident Superman became involved with? And what
was experimental about them? Aren't bad old-fashioned bullets effective enough as is? (Of course, I have many
more questions, ranging from why Clark knew Lois had been shoved off a building to just why Zuckerberg wanted Supes to kill Bats in the first place, to why a spaceship carrying the genetic code for banned monsters speaks to a human stranger in his alien English, and happily does whatever he says for no apparent reason.
So many questions... 
)
I've always thought that mixing Batman and Superman just because the rights situtation permitted was a bad idea, and this rubbish did not change my mind. With an h/t to
io9, I leave
my last word (well, for tonight, anyway) to
BvS co-writer Goyer, c.2005:
"'Batman Vs. Superman' is where you go when you admit to yourself that you've exhausted all possibilities. It's like 'Frankenstein meets Wolfman' or 'Freddy Vs. Jason.' It's somewhat of an admission that this franchise is on its last gasp."
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