A terrible mistake has been made here

Rating: 6/10 (26 March 2016)

No one on the DC side of things has seemed to have learned they're lesson. The big problem with DC is that they refuse to adapt a proved comic into a film. I know that the executives were very nervous after Watchmen came out because it was an R-rated adaptation that was as philosophical as it was violent, and unfortunately it didn't do well at the box office. Having said that, fans are rediscovering the film version of Watchmen and they are realizing that it is in fact an amazing movie. The reason the film was so good is that it was not an off-shoot adaptation of the Watchmen graphic novel, in fact, it was nearly an exact replica of it's original source material. The same was done with 300, but how quickly we forget that adapting a comic exactly as it was shown in it's original comic and onto film is a proved method. So instead of taking on a direct adaptation of Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns, Zack Snyder and the writers decided to take elements from a masterpiece and add those elements into something really crappy. So what exactly was so crappy about the film? The story began, and then consistently lost itself in it's own abyss. We know that Batman and Superman must fight, but we also know that they can't kill each other because they must form the justice league together. So we are given a valid reason in the beginning of the film of why Bruce Wayne despises the threat that Superman poses. We are then giving a somewhat lame reason of why Superman disagrees with Batman's methods of fighting crime, even though Superman is partially responsible for destroying half of Metropolis, which resulted in countless deaths. So Superman takes it upon himself to confront Batman and give him a warning that he should stop doing what he's been doing. We should feel a build up to the fight to come. We should feel the hatred within both heroes bones, to the point that we want them to fight so badly, and not only that, but we take sides. None of these things happened. At least not for me. Instead of fighting on their own accord, Superman and Batman fight because Lex Luthor Jr. pulls off the most clichéd kidnapping known to cinema when he hold's Superman's mother hostage, all the while holding an egg timer to emphasize the amount of time Clark has to kill Batman. Let's stop here, and talk about Lex Luthor Jr. played by Jesse Eisenberg. Remember when we first heard the news that Jessie Eisenberg would be playing Lex? Remember when you felt like there was no possible way that it could end up being a good decision.? Well my friends, our greatest fears were realized when Jesse Eisenberg gave us a performance that wouldn't have even been suitable for one of those god forsaken Shumacher movies. It wasn't just bad, it was abysmal. I remember when everyone thought the worst decision in the history of the world was casting Ben Affleck as Batman. That apparently wasn't true, it was giving Zack Snyder the reins to the DC universe. If this didn't happen, Jesse Eisenberg wouldn't have been cast as Lex Luthor and we wouldn't have had to sit through this travesty and lost opportunity of fandom. I know it's a bit contradictory to sight Watchmen as a lost and newly found gem, given that Snyder was the one that directed it. But that was also back in 2009, before Legend of the Guardians, Sucker Punch and Man of Steel, which all sucked. Below is a series of reasons of the good, the bad and the ugly decisions that were made to make this...Abomination. The good: Ben Affleck was fine as Batman. That's pretty much it for the good. The bad: Doomsday is not only an unnecessary character addition to this movie, but he was also an unnecessary cartoon character in a live action film. Not to mention the play station one effects that were created to show zombie Superman recuperating after being blown up by a nuke. How does that happen in a film that's budget is over $250 million? Batman kills people in this movie. I guess the filmmakers decided to neglect the fact that we've been watching the Dark Knight trilogy for over a decade in which Batman made it a unmitigated point not to kill anyone, no matter how evil they are. Batman's decision making skills are on level of being mentally retarded. Batman severely under utilizes a small boulder of kryptonite and turns it into some gas pellets and a spear. Bruce Wayne also couldn't talk himself out of a paper bag when he gets caught trying to hack files from Lex Luthor's hard drives at a party, and not only this, but his hack is a failure after Wonder Woman steals it from him. Not Ben Affleck's fault. That's the fault of the film makers. The ugly: Jesse Eisenberg. Zack Snyder as the director and overseer of the DC cinematic universe.