A True Analysis of Batman V Superman

 Batman versus Superman thoroughly explained

The movie doesn't present itself as Batman versus Superman so much as Bruce Wayne becoming obsessed about Superman and the journalist Clark Kent being increasingly concerned over the Bat Vigilante in Gotham. In thier human lives they become concerned with the other's costumed persona. Superman doesn't have a reason to hate Batman but Clark Kent does, and it is actually pretty thoroughly, if subtly established why Superman fears/mistrusts Batman. If you look at it that way, or if people even bother to notice it instead of focusing on the Batman V Superman this film is "supposed" to be -- the entire film makes a lot more sense.

In the video “why you're wrong about the Martha controversy” that details and then addresses-disproves some of the more common shreds people have for this movie one fo them that this battle of ideologues provides no motivation for Superman to fight Batman. And weirdly that 'one' criticism actually contains 3 ..completely separate reasons people shred the movie that have never made sense to me. Superman has every reason to be suspicious of Batman. As mentioned in the previous section, Clark Kent the reporter has reasons to be concerned about the bat vigilante in Gotham. And Superman goes into the battle to save his mom's life. And there usually is a battle of ideologies between these two, for the sake of the fans. But that doesn't exist here. When I first heard of this movie I wondered how it was supposed to work. As you say, If Superman's heart is actually in the battle, the battle will be over in 2 seconds. If you look at it from the Perspective of BRUCE hating Superman and CLARK fearing Batman the entire movie makes a lot more sense.

I've been watching some detailed analysis of Batman V Superman. And then I went back to Everything Great about Man of Steel and I came to a conclusion.

This is not Batman anymore. THIS is not Superman...yet. Most of the time we see Superman and Batman meet when they are both in the middle of thier Superhero journeys. We don't get that here. And that more than anything else led to swarms of people either hating or just not understanding this masterpiece fo a movie.

This is not Superman yet. He is not only a newborn superhero but a lot of the things we know him as are still in his future. Most especially the final reason the film gets so much hate. When he ends Zod's life to save civilians Zod was about to incinerate with his heat vision. "Superman doesn't kill" being so firmly ingrained into our understanding of who Superman even is. Superman probably developed the 'no killing' rule he's known for BECAUSE of how heavily it weighed on him when he was forced to end Zod's life. Everyone complains that this is not the Superman we know. It's not supposed to be. This is how Clark Kent *becomes* the Superman we know and love. And it's a freaking masterpiece.

Saw something last night, that definitely belongs on my blog about missed treasures and maligned masterpieces of movies and TV Shows. There is something about Batman Versus Superman Dawn fo Justice that I don't think literally anyone has mentioned yet. The movie does not present itself as Batman versus Superman so much as Bruce Wayne becoming obsessed about Superman and the journalist Clark Kent being concerned over the Bat Vigilante in Gotham. In other words, thier Human identities feelings and fears about the others costumed persona. If you look at it that way, or if people even bother to notice it instead of focusing on the Batman V Superman battle of ideologies this film is "supposed" to be -- the entire film makes a lot more sense.

Referring to the 'epic fight scene we were promised in the title':

This is one of the deepest scenes the movie. In any movie. And one of my favorites.

Showing in a beautiful, visually and thematically pleasing way that it was Superman's humanity which stopped Batman. Seeing this 'evil alien' care more for a human life than his own life and not the silly name coincidence seemed self-evident to me.

As well as why Bruce's flashback having nothing to do with his 'Martha' but with him now being the one holding the gun. Something even I didn't consider until recently is that Clark not only accepted 'Save Martha' as his dying breath, but was giving his final wishes to his murderer. 'After you kill me, at least do this for me'. Anything Superman said would have been heard through Superman's lips, not Clark's because as with any other version of the story Superman's armor as far as his secret identity is that people don't expect an alien to have a human life. So why would this evil god like alien Bruce sees when he looks at Superman have a human mother?

"How many Good guys are left how many stayed that way" not only spells his motivations out perfectly but also explains why he didn't go through with killing Superman later. He finally realized that Superman was a good guy. And that he probably should have been asking that question about himself, not the strange visitor from another planet. Also Superman said 'Martha' not 'mom' because Batman had made it abundantly clear he didn't care about Superman's parents. And as he obviously wasn't Clark Kent at the time, Batman would have heard 'Save Jor-el's wife, a Kryptonian woman who has been dead for years' not "Save a human woman who is in danger now and is the only reason I'm here to fight you.".

With potentially his last breath Superman asks his killer to save someone else. And people calling that sloppy writing and the biggest plot convenience ever, made zero sense. Various commentors ask why Superman asking Batman to save his mother would be surprising to Batman or would make any difference. 'what else would you do, any one would ask for thier mothers life that doesn't make him special'. When the entire point of the scene is that Batman does not see Superman as a person at all until that one humanizing moment. He never considered the evil alien had a human mother, would be willing to die for her, or anyone. Also it matters to Bruce. Saving Martha matters to Bruce.

Originally titled “Why Movie Critics Make Me Laugh (and Weep)”.

I don't actually mean professional movie critics. I mean swarms of people being blindly critical of a given movie to the point where they cannot understand why anyone could like this movie. And don't pay enough attention to anything in the movie that spells out literally every criticism they have.

Batman V Superman is the best example of this. When I finally saw the movie for myself it made me sad how much people would be so completely ignorant and what they would complain about. Literally everything that I have ever heard against this movie is spelled out in the movie itself. And it really must have been in front of thier eyes but gone in one of their ears and out the other without ever making contact with thier brain. It was an awesome movie that I couldn't enjoy watching, because only someone paying as much attention as I do -- something I have gotten made fun of and talked down to for doing. I have literally been insulted and shredded for paying this much attention to a movie as often as I am recognized and appreciated for noticing (recognizing) things about the movie others miss.

But in this case most of these are just breezing past what they see because it doesn't line up with what they come into the theater EXPECTING to see. What they see in this movie that's actually there and what they see in when they watch the movie are too wildly different things...mostly because people are not paying enough attention to see anything they don't' already know is there.

So I get kind of proud at my own strength. Not so much analytical abilities but my observant abilities. Strangely enough this was the first time__ this is the messed up confusion in which I learned I actually have an Above par not a Sub-par attention span, like I was always told. So this is me agreeing with everyone who ever laughs at people who shred Batman V. Superman Dawn of Justice.

To quote Christopher Reeve in Smallville "Humanity is not only about biology." Batman Vs Superman is best way and possibly the only way Superman fans who are not Smallville fans to learn that. I think the biggest theme of this movie is this: humanity is a choice. Batman in this version seems to have given up his humanity years ago, but Superman, despite not being a human in his DNA, is the most human of this movie’s big three.