Snyder isn’t saying “look how much awesomer i’m making them”, if he were saying that the movie would probably have more “fun” in it and “not take itself so seriously”. he’s actively trying to break them. he knows why you like them so much, and he’s trying to rip your security blankets from your hands. a movie where you’re, from the start, basically forcing heroes to fight eachother would have to be “fuck superheroes movie ” or the “take superheroes to court movie”so actually you don’t fucking understand snyder and you don’t know what he’s thinking. you’re not fucking smarter than the guy making the next generation of nolanesque DC movies.

Lois Lane being a plot device that’s constantly imperiled IS the point(although she’s not a plot device, the movie uses her to reveal already known information(also a point) and she does everything she does out of bullshit-reporter guilt, it’s character driven and it reveals her character). the absurdity of the martha scene IS the point. when people say think deeply, they don’t necessarily mean try harder to see the movie the way that you want to see it, or the way you think a conventionally good movie should play out, they mean reconsider what you think the movie’s trying to do. take a few steps back, THEN a few steps forward. cause batman v superman ISN’T a conventionally good naturalistic film, it’s ironic and absurdist as fuck.

“tries too hard to do too much”. if you mean it’s dense as fuck with subtext, it is. if you mean that four main characters, visually contrasting vistas, and experimental editing somehow made the film inherently bad, they didn’t. superman and batman don’t feel one-dimensional because they didn’t give either of them enough screen time, they both have like 30 or so minutes of screen time. they feel one-dimensional because all of their character development is visual. superman only has 21 lines in the movie or some shit: this isn’t a mistake, it’s another biblical reference. you have to actually think about the movie to understand why characters do what they do, this ambiguity is deliberate as the movie is afterall about media spin and the existential confusion that it creates. and if you walk into the movie thinking “superman’s above shit like psychological defense mechanisms and slowly losing his fucking mind as a result of being gaslit by the entire human race” you’re priming yourself to never be able to see how stuff fits together the way that it does.

They whole you have to think deeper into his world to get it is cop-out bull. BVS is horrible, there is no defense. I can pick the entire movie apart in no time. The absurd Martha scene. The Lois Lane being nothing but a plot device to push the lack of plot along. The casting, nothing in it is good. The absolute cherry on top of how bad this movie was, Batman telling Superman, “I thought she was with you.” Either an attempt of Snyder to throw in one joke in his EMO Fanboy fantasy, or he seriously forgot that Bruce and Diana had already shared significant scene time together. He can’t even say he didn’t recognize the Wonder Woman outfit cause he saw the WW1 picture.

I think that Snyder’s flaw is that he assumed two things

1. Viewers would be familiar with the comic books
2. Viewers would bother to think a little more deeply about the world these heroes live in, and how it affects their psychology, especially Batman’s.

Look, understand that Batfleck, as we are first introduced to him, has been at this for 20 years. It’s already confirmed that in this series (so far), the Joker has killed Robin (or one of them…if they’re following the comics), and most likely Harvey Dent has become Two-Face, etc etc, Batman’s tragedies go on and on. The world has just been introduced to a superhero (Superman) whose heroic battle against one of his fellow species has just destroyed half a city. People are scared, and so is Batman. He has just come to know of a non-human who is literally indestructible without the help of a substance that can’t be found on Earth.

Batman is quite literally a one-man army against some of the most resourceful, determined, deadly, and brutal criminals in comic book history. He is a one-man army barely holding Gotham together against a helpless and distrusting (and in many cases, untrustworthy) police force. And he has lost so much in his war against crime. And now, Batman sees Superman, an indestructible God who cannot be taken down by anything Batman can do naturally. Why wouldn’t he allow himself to be influenced by the natural fear of people who find out Superman?

Come on people. Do you honestly think everything would be hunky dory, if not only we were introduced to someone who is basically a walking god, but was also introduced to us because of an (understandable) disagreement between he and fellow members of his species which destroys one of America’s largest cities?