6. Dont Sideline The Title Characters
Offending Movie: Freddy Vs Jason, King Kong Vs Godzilla, Alien Vs Predator most of them, really A key problem with a lot of existing crossover showdown movies is that theyve tended to be monster movies, revolving around a confrontation between antagonists. As the tagline for Alien Vs Predator told us, whoever wins, we lose. As a result, most of these vs movies have wound up centred on a bunch of human protagonists who, more often than not, have been nowhere near as interesting as the central conflict. This has certainly been the case in the vast majority of Godzilla movies: while a lot of viewers complained that the 2014 Gareth Edwards film spent a disproportionate amount of time with the people whilst giving the title character a mere eight minutes of screen time, its actually pretty standard that the King of the Monsters and his opponents barely get a fraction of the movie. Likewise Alien Vs Predator and its follow-up, which kept the focus on their human ensembles; although again, this was largely in-keeping with the format of the existing movies in their respective franchises. Surely the worst offender of all in this regard was Freddy Vs Jason. Neither the Nightmare On Elm Street nor the Friday the 13th movies are necessarily renowned for their endearing teen protagonists, but the young cast in this one has to be the most annoying of either series, taking up way too much of the screen time and dragging out way too many tedious subplots, when all we really want to see is the two slasher icons tearing chunks out of one another. Now, wed assume that Batman V Superman wont fall into this same trap; the title characters are the heroes, after all. That said, there is always the danger that leading men Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill may end up spending more time as Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent