8 Classic Problems With Batman And Superman Movies Warner Bros. Are Repeating With The DCEU

Batman Unchained, the doomed fifth movie in the Burton-Schumacher run, was greenlit before Batman And Robin was released (and was swiftly canned after that bombed). Nowadays sequels commissioned before the movie’s out is a matter of course (it’s still a gamble, but as it keeps the gap between films shorter has a sizeable pay-off), but then, even for the biggest superhero franchise around, it was a bold choice. So why do it?

Why, Batman And Robin looked so good. Based on the dallies and early cuts Warner Bros. thought a movie widely regarded as the nadir (and there’s still competition) of what is now the biggest genre in cinema was a winner.

Fast forward nineteen years and the story was very much the same. In fact, it's even more extreme; the DCEU plans were already in place before cameras started rolling on Dawn Of Justice, and the reaction by executives to the film was very much the same; stories of rounds of applause at the end of a studio screening were the talk of the internet in the months before release. Once again they mistook schlock for quality (or simply didn’t care because the dollar signs had blinded them).

Wait, that means people saw Mr Freeze and Lex Luthor and thought they were genuinely good...