I really appreciated the movie. I didn't know everything had to be all "joy," "glee" and "unfiltered light." (Since when was Batman anything but a Tragedy aside from 66 and B&R). BvS shouldn't be, not with the events it depicts and responds to. I thought the moment that made the title fight halt short of a death match was brilliant, simple and absolutely fitting to both characters.
If you didn't like Luthor (or his psycho reasoning didn't make logical sense), wanted more of Wonder Woman's backstory, thought Batman was too brutal, etc... isn't that exactly what the movie was going for? It accomplishes almost everything the story is trying to do, and we as viewers are sharing the in-world experience.
After MoS, people "didn't like that Superman had to break Zod's neck" and the "destruction was too much." Well, uh, yeah. That's right. Isn't that the point? Everyone in the movie thought the same exact thing. There were seeds of hope, moments of future promise (wasn't that the point? and the primary theme?) Batman's responses are different at the end of BvS, because SARCASTIC SPOILER Superman is good, and that impacted Batman.
Nothing I've seen bashing the movie has much to do with it as a movie, but that it isn't a happy-go-lucky, all jokes and no impact, feel-good movie. Snyder set out very publicly, way before MoS to make movies where there was real, tangible impact from these super-powered beings. Not only do they succeed in doing that, but the viewers almost universally share the attitudes, criticisms and reactions to events and characters in the story.
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