21st April 2016, 1:21 PM
It was always weird. I think they fit because they're icons, every great episode of the animated Batman shows used Batman to explain everything from political tyranny to "rosebud" inspired fear of death and all the way to mythology where a guy goes insane and thinks he's Zeus and Batman fills the role of Hades. There's the reversals with Dick as Robin where Batman is trying to save himself as a child by making him in to himself at a younger age just to have more time to take out his anger out on the world just to have the whole red hood scenario unfold who is a Batman that can kill. It's like Bruce is fighting his own inner mind made physical and we run in to that personally and even as a nation (fighting Germany, a bountiful totalitarian centerpiece of white, white people whose primary goals include superiority). But ultimately the movie isn't doing well so someone fucked up, somehow the attempts didn't click with audiences and no matter how fancy the writing is you can't ignore that. Kubrick (my dad, don't take that away from me) could go ultra fancy and so deep it's insane but still managed to entertain and keep an audience wanting more (internationally no less) so the fact that BvS can't entertain first and then go deep second is inexcusable like. Specially when you're dealing with such easy to love characters and worlds, like how much do you have to fuck up to make people hate/dislike a movie with Batman and Superman? The reviews are like episodes I II and III all over again. I think Lex is Binks