Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice

[The Dark Knight]

It seems the critics aren't stopping this money train.

[The Joker]

Had to right click save that one. haha

[BatmAngelus]

Hans Zimmer announces that he has "retired" from the superhero genre. Hopefully they'll still use his Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman themes for Justice League and their future appearances.

[The Dark Knight]

Had to right click save that one. haha

More good news:

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice has taken the Tuesday record in March with $12.2M, beating The Hunger Games previous record of $10.3M. Total domestic cume now stands at $193.27M, and at this pace BvS will cross the two century mark today.

[Edd Grayson]

Just came back from seeing the film. And I loved it. 

[johnnygobbs]

Just came back from seeing the film. And I loved it. 

Even Lex? 

[The Dark Knight]

Just came back from seeing the film. And I loved it. 

I'm seeing a good number of people now saying they enjoyed the film. Most bizarre for a film with a 29% Tomato Meter. You would think there would be hardly anything positive to say about a film with that kind of ranking. That score just can't be taken seriously. I can accept BvS is divisive, but a train wreck of a film it is not.

[Edd Grayson]

Eisenberg didn't play Lex the way I would've liked the character to be, but I think he did well with what he had.

The best part for me was Affleck, who plays an awesome Batman, I loved every second of him onscreen, the fight with Superman especially.  And Jeremy Irons is a very good Alfred. I definitely want a solo Batman movie.

Henry Cavill and Gal Gadot were also very good at portraying Superman and Wonder Woman. You could say that the heroes didn't interact as much as the title suggests, but the scenes that they did share were great. And the film was altogether beautifully shot and it really drew me in from the start. It was a very pleasing experience.

I didn't feel that the story was confusing or that it dragged on as the critics seemed to say, in fact I don't think BvS wastes any of its running time. So I think they're dead wrong on this film. Everyone should make up his/her own mind.

[johnnygobbs]

Just came back from seeing the film. And I loved it. 

I'm seeing a good number of people now saying they enjoyed the film. Most bizarre for a film with a 29% Tomato Meter. You would think there would be hardly anything positive to say about a film with that kind of ranking. That score just can't be taken seriously. I can accept BvS is divisive, but a train wreck of a film it is not.

Perhaps a score closer to what MOS got (i.e. 56%) would be more fair/reflective then?

The thing with RT, is that it's clearly not a precise science.  It measures the number of critics who liked and didn't like a film, but it doesn't measure the extent to which they liked or didn't like it.  Thus a film with say a 50% 'rotten' rating might in fact be more divisive than one with say a 25% 'rotten' rating because the 50% of people who disliked the former film may be stronger in their distaste than the 75% of people who disliked the latter film. 

Thus, it's entirely possible that the 71% who dislike BvS don't truly hate the film, but just simply didn't much like it/felt it fell short of its ambitions/potential.

[johnnygobbs]

Eisenberg didn't play Lex the way I would've liked the character to be, but I think he did well with what he had.

The best part for me was Affleck, who plays an awesome Batman, I loved every second of him onscreen, the fight one with Superman especially.  And Jeremy Irons is a very good Alfred. I definitely want a solo Batman movie.

Henry Cavill and Gal Gadot were also very good at portraying Superman and Wonder Woman. You could say that the heroes didn't interact as much as the title suggests, but the scenes that they did share were great. And the film was altogether beautifully shot and it really drew me in from the start. It was a very pleasing experience.

I didn't feel that the story was confusing or that it dragged on as the critics seemed to say, in fact I don't think BvS wastes any of its running time. So I think they're dead wrong on this film. Everyone should make up his/her own mind.

The problem is, Lex is such a massive sticking point for me, mostly because he has never been done right in live-action before.  Superman has had Reeve and Cavill (with MOS), Batman has had West, Keaton and Bale (and Kilmer if you like) and even Wonder Woman has Linda Carter, but the best Lex we've had in terms of live-action is John Shea in the otherwise average "The Adventures of Lois and Clark".

From what I've read, Eisenberg's Lex is the exact opposite of the Lex I could have wished for, almost as if Snyder read my thoughts and said "I'm going to make a Lex that 'Johnny Gobbs' will totally hate".  A weedy, whiny, effeminate spoiled rich kid who acts more like The Joker than a serious, cool, calm and ruthless businessman is as far from what I wanted for Lex as possible, and what's worse is that Zack Snyder originally told us that his Lex was going to be a 'cross between Richard Branson and Brad Pitt'.  What happened to that, or did he choose, as another poster has pointed out, to base his Lex on Max Landis as a means of petty point-scoring against the guy who trashed MOS?