29th March 2016, 5:41 AM
Batman v Superman is not a super hero movie. It's a disaster movie where the disasters have feelings, and that's the best one can say. You can't look up to these characters, you can only try to get out of their way.
It's not even trying to be uplifting. It's trying to be as grim and bleak as it possibly can. Watchmen did too, but that actually had a point, and human characters. This movie, with every single line, seems to scream at you that "morality is a lie and everyone is just as dark and twisted inside as me, Zack Snyder!". This culminates in a line from Superman, "No one stays good forever". What kind of ethos leads someone to write that? That's quite possibly the worst thing I've ever heard! What does that even MEAN? I've known PLENTY of people who "stayed good forever". I mean, it's not hard, you just don't frickin' hurt people until you die! I mean, I can imagine a line like that in some detective noir movie set in the slums of New York, but can you really imagine, say, a farmer wiping the sweat off his brow, looking out at a field after a hard day's work, waving his son over and telling him in a somber voice: "No one stays good forever."
It's not even trying to be uplifting. It's trying to be as grim and bleak as it possibly can. Watchmen did too, but that actually had a point, and human characters. This movie, with every single line, seems to scream at you that "morality is a lie and everyone is just as dark and twisted inside as me, Zack Snyder!". This culminates in a line from Superman, "No one stays good forever". What kind of ethos leads someone to write that? That's quite possibly the worst thing I've ever heard! What does that even MEAN? I've known PLENTY of people who "stayed good forever". I mean, it's not hard, you just don't frickin' hurt people until you die! I mean, I can imagine a line like that in some detective noir movie set in the slums of New York, but can you really imagine, say, a farmer wiping the sweat off his brow, looking out at a field after a hard day's work, waving his son over and telling him in a somber voice: "No one stays good forever."
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)