Quote Originally Posted by Lord_Zed View Post
I would have said blandness myself.

I find Cavil's Superman and Clark Kent pretty uninspiring.
I suspect that is more how Clark Kent/Supes is written rather than what Cavill brought to the role. I think that ultimately, the writers of MOS and BVS and Zack Snyder just don't understand the character and made him morose, depressed, hopeless, unsympathetic, and conflicted. His motivations are muddled and the bon mots of "wisdom" shared by Jonathan Kent in both films just muddied the character even more.

Think of it this way, the difference between Christopher Reeve's Superman (noble, gentle, kind, heroic) and Cavill's is a bit like the difference between the Optimus Prime we know from various fictions (principled, noble, heroic) and Bay's OP (violent, vengeful, even sadistic). May as well be considered different characters.

Cavill was plenty of fun in Guy Ritchie's The Man From UNCLE, playing a charming and suave action hero, so I'm saying the writing and direction was the issue, rather than the actor.

Quote Originally Posted by Tetsuwan Convoy View Post
I watched Suicide Squad a bit ago. Damyum. I thought BvsS was a crap movie.... Suzie Squad makes it look like a masterpiece. I ended up pushing through the whole thing hoping it would get better. It didn't. I skipped through the credits to see if there was anything at the end, there wasn't. I breathed a sigh of relief.

Apparenltly the DVD version was a better version than the cinema version. It must have sucked watching it at the movies...

I do like grumpy old man bats. As long as he remains grumpy and ends up with an army of monster bat robots who patrol Gotham for him.
I don't think SS was quite as bad as BVS, but yeah, pretty damned close. A baffling and wasted time at the cinema, that's for sure. In a world where Marvel Studios can bring out fun, popular and successful movies, that at the very least are entertaining, using properties as obscure as Guardians of the Galaxy and Dr Strange, it's perplexing that DC/WB with its iconic slate of properties, can't seem to find a way to use them in a way that isn't cringe-worthingly bad (at least since Nolan's The Dark Knight).