10 Films That Suffered In The Editing Room

As promised, we arrive now at one of the biggest cases of dreadful editing completely tarnishing what could have been an excellent entry into the superhero genre.

Fans find it hard to agree on most things, but Ben Affleck's performance as Bruce Wayne/Batman and the promised showdown between The Dark Knight and Superman - brief as it was - both rank as two moments which prove just how incredible this Zack Snyder feature could have actually been.

Yet, the studio seemed to have had their hearts set on presenting a film that was too obsessed with feeling dark and gritty than actually being a logically told story.

The first example of this was evident in the desaturated look of the film, which completely extinguished any nuances of hope and light in Henry Cavill's performance of Kal El. This could have been easily rectified in editing, yet it proved to be a conscious choice to keep the depressing colour scheme in spite of what the character represented.

Another editing issue also led to the film being cut to a still quite lofty two-and-a-half hours long. With that amount of time to play with, you'd have thought that Snyder would have had plenty of room to cram believable character motivations into the project. But, somehow the film managed to feel half-empty, whilst incredibly still containing a lot of fatty scenes that could've been trimmed down on.

The director's cut of the epic superhero clash went some way in addressing some of these missing character motivations/plot holes, yet the sombre tone of the flick still remained and proved to be a defining editing choice which didn't please the majority of those who endured the movie.