8 Reasons Splitting Batman V Superman In Two Would Ruin The Movie

5. A Split Never Works

Name a two-parter movie that's ever worked. Oh, you can't? What does that tell you about Hollywood's new way to cynically drag ever dollar it can from the public? Looking at the list of movies unnecessarily split in two makes for some depressing reading. Harry Potter's triumphant final book became a dark road movie and two hour explosion fest with all the subtlety of a mallet, Twilight somehow became even more pandering and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay looks set to undo all the hard work of the first two movies. And let's not even touch of the three-part version of The Hobbit. Now while Batman V Superman wouldn't have the same constraint as those in that it's not directly adapted from a pre-determined narrative, it's hard to imagine it'd be helped by having filmmakers forced to make two movies at once (see The Matrix or Pirates Of The Caribbean sequels). The Dark Knight Trilogy may have wound up with an over-arching narrative, but each movie worked in its own regard - there was no story stretched over multiple parts. Even if a definite split is achieved, it's hard to think Enter The Knight wouldn't feel like half a story.