10 Reasons We've Already Given Up On The DC Cinematic Universe

4. The Embarrassing Fan-Baiting

Batman Begins featured a set of villains that non-comic book fans who'd previously only seen Adam West, Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer (ugh) and George Clooney (ugh!) play the title role knew about. But it worked, because Christopher Nolan and co. saw potential in bringing Scarecrow and Ra's al Ghul to the big screen, and figured they'd be new bad guys for purely screen-addicts to love. Man of Steel and Batman vs. Superman, on the other hand, feature Superman's two most famous cinematic villains, General Zod and Lex Luthor, for probably a no more obvious reason than that they're more likely to bring in fans of the older Supes movies. It's misguided, the hollow attempts to appeal to fans through recycling the same old characters coming across as obsequious with a hidden agenda rather than generous. The logical leaps that DC has been taking, too, seem desperately cynical. Batman vs. Superman? Where's the sense in that when Nolan satisfyingly ended the Batman saga only two years ago? The announcement of the project seemed more like a way of bringing some attention to DC rather than a calculated effort to actually make the cinematic universe work. As for the Justice League movie - with presumably a brand new set of superheroes (for cinema anyway) teaming up with Superman and Batman, expect to find Zack Snyder struggling to fit a bunch of origins tales into a single competent narrative.