Finally had the time and motivation to check up on that BvS review thread ....... and oh boy! as the place of origin of the Sad Affleck meme and those surprisingly high-quality Chris Evans laughing gif which traveled around the interwebz, i could only imagine how many tickets that thread cost WB.
And as a bruised Supes fan, for me that thread would have been the worst place to go through the 5 stages of grief. I mean, i absolutely loathe BvS especially now but the fanboy in me would probably be compelled to defend it during the time when it was released.
Eh I've stated with pretty much every post that it's not a great movie, full of flaws but not without merits too. I tend to be into constructive criticism, i.e. armchair screenwriting, more than I am into writing a criticism striving for new heights (depths) in snark.
People polarize and tribalize, attack Marvel movies in response as if they are also without both flaws and merits. And in truth absolutely none of them are Shakespeare, and regardless of what Rotten Tomatoes says they probably land in a similar place taken on the range of every possible experience you could have in cinema.
The thing that can't really be argued is that all the extra weight and scrutiny, and skepticism, about WB's plans for the DC's properties began when they announced their upcoming slate and Justice League was listed on it way sooner than expected. And all the skepticism and advance disappointment for BvS tripled as soon as that second trailer revealed Doomsday.
The irony is that most disappointed DC fans actually wanted
more of what they were making. Another Superman movie to set up Lex Sr/Jr better, and to cement the perception of Kal El as a hero outside of the Battle of Metropolis and some montage sequences. A Doomsday story arc/Death of Superman story arc that isn't an abbreviated third act hail mary. A Flash movie first maybe. One of the biggest gripes about Suicide Squad was the roll call introduction, rushed, stylish, devoid of actual character...
People seem more excited about the GL Corps movie. More concerned about how the Batman will be produced and by whom. More interested to see if Wonder Woman is solid. The rush for "superhero team up" money to me-too Avengers revenue created too wide a stride for BvS to bridge us into Justice League and also be a great movie. Anticipation for the Justice League movie is not where it could have been if the lead up had been longer, allowing for more individual lead-up movies, crafted with more care.
This is the real reason why the constant comparison to Marvel Studios' work comes up. Because each of the studios came up with contrasting plans to launch their superhero team-up movies, but one of them is clearly accellerated to play catch-up and the movies are suffering for it.
You clearly have the cart before the horse in a cinematic world where the first person to use Kryptonite on Superman, is, in fact, Batman.