I re-watched a few videos dealing with all the technical and continuity errors in the Whedon cut, and good Lord what a sloppy mess that was when you stop and pay attention. And it's buried under a million jump cut edits to try and hide it, but there's tons of stuff that once you see it, you can't un-see it.
That thing never should have come out in the state it was in.
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Originally Posted by CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy
Man of Steel, Batman V Superman, and Justice League ARE a trilogy. But except in Leo's opinion  , it's a pretty damn divisive trilogy.
I'd argue it flows pretty well one into another, but at each stage, it makes a lot of questionable choices that alienates it from not only the wider casual audience but a lot of geeks as well.
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Because of nothing but their own expectations.
A lot of people wanted one version of a thing, and they got something different instead, and instead of focusing on "Hey, this isn't what I expected but it's still good," they got hung up on, "Well, what *I* wanted (or worse, "what *I* would have done...") was this instead..." and that just poisoned the well. The criticism towards Snyder's DC movies is by far some of the all-time worst I've ever seen, especially when most/all of it could be thrown at "certain other super-hero movies", and to a far greater degree, other than the fact that nobody ever seems interested in doing that.
Too much went down because the MCU came first and set the tone for what super-hero movies were "supposed" to be in the eyes of the general public: cartoons. And after that, the entire discussion became about "Why isn't so-and-so more populist?" rather than recognizing that what we got on the DC side was also "good" from an entirely different direction. Even if every single thing had been done exactly the same, except MoS and BvS had come out before Captain America, Iron Man, and Avengers, the worst things anyone would have ever said about the DC movies would have been "Kind of long, a little dark and talky for my kids" and that would be the end of it. Instead they got kicked around for being second to market after another franchise had already convinced everyone that "There's only ONE Right Way to make these movies."
A lot of it may have been subliminal, but that is indeed what happened. A complete inability/refusal for people to collectively see the good in what they were given because it wasn't more like their own preconceived notions about what they "should have gotten" instead. The rest is nitpicky sh*t that can be applied to every movie in general, not just these types.