10 Genuine Lessons Batman V Superman Can Learn From Batman & Robin

1. Don't Be Trying To Sell Something Else

The Mistake Batman And Robin Made: To call Batman & Robin a movie is a disservice to quote unquote movies such as Birdemic and The Room. Those three feature-length exercises may all deservedly be labelled as some of the worst films of all time, but at least the latter two were made with a vague sense of cinematic purpose. Joel Schumacher's second Batman exercise existed to sell toys, pure and simple, with no case for anything else. At least Michael Bay had the decency to throw in racial stereotypes and military fetishism to jazz up the Transformers films. Will Dawn Of Justice Learn The Lesson? Obviously with its darker tone Batman V Superman isn't aimed directly at toy-buying-age children, but one of its key production points is still to sell something else; more movies. Ever since Marvel started their Cinematic Universe, with each new movie doubling as a tease for later adventures, every studio with a superhero property has been trying to replicate it. Sony failed miserably with Spider-Man, forgetting they needed an interesting grounding to throw all the sequel set-up on, to the point they've just given up and joined the genre leaders. Interesting, Man Of Steel, for its many, many faults, was at least happy to tell its own story, with any hints at universe-building snuck so deep in the background only super-fans have a hope of picking up on them. But Warner Bros. really risk repeated Sony's error on the sequel by chucking in so much that's only there to enable the other nine movies coming afterwards. They really should just chill it on the overt universe building. Chill. Geddit? Are there any other lessons from earlier Batman movies Dawn Of Justice can learn from? Share your picks down in the comments.