Ohhh, Batman v Superman...
Okay, let's jump right into this. I felt the need to share a few quick thoughts on the film's first trailer this morning. First of all, I freely admit that no one has been more... let's call it "skeptical"... than I have about the impending garbage fire this movie seems guaranteed to be.
Now, that being said, the trailer is outstanding. The more I think about it, the more I like it. Zack Snyder, STOP RIGHT NOW. Burn all the film stock and hard drives and let everyone believe this is the movie you made.
The trailer tells us this is a Batman movie with a tight, contained story. It's a high-stakes fight between an aging but indomitable hero - as human as he can possibly be - and an unstoppable demigod who may have lost his ethical compass. Superman is the only villain in this movie and he is a great one; the very best kind - one who believes he's doing the right thing. He could be one of the most compelling and complex villains of the last 30 years. And what is more dangerous than a corrupted Superman? We need 120 minutes of this story and nothing else. That could be truly fantastic.
The problem is, we all know this is not the movie Warner Bros. is making. There is a whole giant mess of a cast that this teaser completely ignores. So, imagine taking the movie you saw in that trailer and figuring out how to shove Aquaman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, and Lex Luthor into it. Could there possibly be a good way to do that? Uh, no. The greatest minds in film history couldn't figure out a way to make that work.
So, it looks like we may have one of the great what-ifs of geek cinema coming next year. What could have (surprisingly) been an incredible superhero film, possibly one of the best, will be ruined by impatience and overreaching greed. Superman can't be a villain (at least not for more than 15 or 20 minutes), not when you have the DC cinematic universe to build. And you can't take the time to build it organically either. No, you're too far behind the Marvel locomotive. You have to create the entire Justice League in one film. Well, let's see how well that works out...
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