9 Ways The Batman V Superman Trailer Proves The Movie Will Suck

8. The Murky CGI/Live-Action Mesh-Up Is Back

Remember in 300 when Zack Snyder presented this very unique visual style, with live-action actors in mostly CGI locations, all overlaid with a well-thought-out Instagram filter? Snyder sure does - he's turned it into his own personal directorial calling card. But remember also that 300 (and Sucker Punch, although Snyder doesn't like to talk about that one) was a purposely stylised film. It wasn't in any way trying to be an accurate depiction of history (in terms of fact or feel), but that was fine because it was based on the Frank Miller comic book that boasted similarly offbeat visuals. Taken out of that context, the look doesn't work; instead of being intentional, it looks like they just didn't have time to fully composit the actors into the background. That was one of the underlying problems with Man Of Steel; the entire Decimation of Metropolis was a tension-less sequence, party due to the heroes' indestructibility removing any threat, but also because at not one point did it look real. The CGI was consistent, but there was such a gulf between Henry Cavill moping at a bus and being thrown into a truck it might as well have been two different movies. While you can't judge a movie's CGI off its trailer, the design of the various shots in the film indicate Snyder's repeating the trick here; does Superman look like he's a) lifting a silo or b) in a smoking location? Of course not. And instead of Batman fighting Superman in Gotham, it'll be Ben Affleck attacking Cavill on a greenscreen.