Weird Concessions to "Realism" There's a whole layer of tinkering that basically amounts to "wanting to make a movie set in a fictional place feel like it's not set in a fictional place." In Batman v Superman, Gotham and Metropolis feel like generic city-scapes instead of specific places.
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice's reported lack of test screenings likely contributed to its poor reception and negative criticism from critics. Test screenings could have helped catch mistakes and inconsistencies in the movie's editing and storytelling, improving its overall quality.
Is Batman vs Superman Dawn of Justice a good movie?
Action-packed and epic, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice delivers an unmissable fight between its title characters, and successfully deepens the mythology of the DC Universe as only Zack Snyder can.
Why was Batman mad at Superman in Dawn of Justice?
Batman feared Superman's unchecked power, and Superman (Henry Cavill) hated Batman's brutal methods, but the real reason why Batman and Superman fight is manipulation by Lex Luthor (Jesse Eisenberg). Batman emerges victorious, and from a narrative perspective, Batman v Superman could go no other route.
Most films live or die by the strength of their plot, and striking the right balance of simplicity and complexity is a coveted art that few superhero movies get exactly right, but Batman V Superman's story is an over-complicated and incoherent tangle of coincidence, convenience and assumption.
Batman v Superman - People hate what they don’t understand
Why did Lex Luthor hate Superman so much?
In the 1960s it was revealed that his hatred was rooted in a childhood accident caused by the young Superman (then Superboy), which made Luthor go prematurely bald. From that period through the 1980s he was presented as a mad scientist bent on conquering the world.
Batman v Superman producer Michael Uslan confirms that Bruce is in his mid-forties by the events of the film, with Zack Snyder confirming on Vero back in 2017 that Bruce became Batman when he turned 25 in 1995. Working backwards, we can see that this makes his birth date sometime in 1970.
The Murder of Thomas and Martha Wayne was a homicide perpetrated by mugger Joe Chill in Gotham City on the night of April 26, 1981. The incident was the main catalyst of Bruce Wayne becoming the Batman.
In the canon comic Luthor: Man of Steel, Batman with Kryptonite, with prep time, was defeated easily by Superman which is the the most believable and grounded portrayal of a fight between the two.
Bruce tells Diana that he regrets failing Superman and asks for her help in forming a team of metahumans to protect Earth in Superman's absence. As they leave, the dirt atop Clark's coffin levitates.
Of the four Superman films starring Reeve, The Quest for Peace fared the worst at the box office, and the series went dormant for the following 19 years. Reeve regretted his decision to be involved in the film, saying, "Superman IV was a catastrophe from start to finish.
That includes the Joker, whose endless cycle of committing crimes, killing innocent people, being captured, and breaking out of Arkham Asylum has caused severe problems in Batman's life and Gotham City.
Later, Arthur goes to Arkham State Hospital and steals his mother's records, and finds out that he was in fact adopted, and that Thomas Wayne is not his father and that Penny is not his true mother.
Keaton explained in an interview he thought it was necessary for batman to disguise his voice, saying “people know his voice. So I came up with dropping his voice down, as Batman it comes from a lower thing that he drops down into, a place he has to reach to become a quasi-vigilante.”
Bruce Wayne, also known by his vigilante persona Batman, is a fictional character who is the main protagonist in Christopher Nolan's trilogy of superhero films, based on the DC Comics character of the same name, created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane.
Bruce being older than Clark in the DCU makes perfect sense. The new DC Universe will see its Batman debut in The Brave and the Bold, a movie that will introduce audiences — and Bruce himself — to the future Robin Damian Wayne.
Gunn further explained what the age difference between both superheroes would be tweeting, “People are speculating about both ages. All I ever said was Superman was younger than in his forties and Batman MIGHT be a couple years older than Superman.”
Bruce Wayne's full name was revealed a couple of weeks ago, in Batman #20 under the Rebirth banner. This is the first in-canon confirmation we have for Bruce's middle name, and it's Thomas. After his father.
