It’s certainly grim: Clark Kent constantly grapples with the burden of his powers and feeling lost in a world not quite his own. That fandom, that feeling that you’re watching someone finally get a chance to play with the toys they’ve always wanted, is what fuels Batman v Superman in its best moments.īeyond surface level homage, Snyder’s fandom is evident in what’s largely considered to be the film’s biggest detriment: a dour tone that detractors call cynical. Hell, his now-shelved grand plans for the DCEU were once moving in the direction of adapting another largely obscure graphic novel, Superman: The Dark Side. For starters, anyone who includes a visual homage to the long out-of-print Batman: Shaman in their film must be a dork. Much of the criticism of Snyder’s work across the DC Comics franchise has accused him of either not understanding characters like Batman and Superman or, in a particularly bad-faith read, harboring disdain for them, but don’t get it even a little bit twisted: Zack Snyder loves the DC Comics Universe. His much-maligned Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice may not be great IP management, but it is the result of a director using a nine-digit budget to make a film that nobody else would have made, and in that sense it’s fascinating.
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