Liking something doesn't mean its good (and vice versa)

Rating: 4/10 (24 March 2016)

I like super hero movies. I really don't care the brand behind. Marvel, DC, Legendary, Warner Bros, Disney, Sony, etc. All I care is to be entertained while I spend a couple hours at the theatre. Even more so if they go a step further in telling compelling stories in interesting ways. Zack Snyder is a film maker for the spectacle. His entire career has been built in bringing to life stories in the most shiny ways, and that's not a bad thing, but isn't necessarily what every movie needs. I went to see BvS knowing what I was getting into. I enjoyed MoS, I didn't care that much about the usual complaints the movie had and I thought that if BvS were more of that I wouldn't have much of an issue. The problem is that this movie is not. The screen writers of this movie went far into stuffing as much content as they could on a 2 and a half hour movie and the result is a puffy and shiny mess that can be entertaining at times but that fails to fulfill the promise behind the premise. For a movie that puts together on screen (for the first time) DC's holy trinity, it feels mostly bland and uninspired. I found myself, more times that I'd like to admit, rolling my eyes at some of the nonsense happening on screen and failing to enjoy at full 3 of the most iconic superheroes in pop-culture-lore kicking ass on screen, doing more fan-service than telling a good story for us to engage with. And to do so Snyder took almost 20 years worth of comics, threw them to a blender and arranged the pieces to get as many gasps from die-hard fans as he could. If the DC's cinematic universe it's gonna be all about shine and no substance, it's OK, this movie is exactly what they want and need. It's OK if you liked it, it's OK if you felt thrilled watching it, but I whole heartedly disagree that this is what all these years of great DC characters deserve to be portrayed on the big-screen.