I finally got around to watching this movie and I am absolutely baffled as to why (seemingly) everybody hated it. I fucking loved it. It was so fucking cool, I felt like a kid again watching it, I was in awe at Superman using his powers, at Batman's incredibly badass fight choreography, just everything about this movie was so goddamn enjoyable. Not to mention absolutely awesome to look at.

So seriously, why the fuck did everybody hate it? Does anybody else here like it or am I the only one?

to be clear I'm not some comic book fanboy, I've always loved superheroes though, but yeah. maybe if I had been a comic nerd I would have hated it? idk

Crappy story and pacing. It's like they crammed 3 of the the most beloved comic book story lines into one movie. Not saying there isn't anything good about it. The action was pretty good, batman was awesome. It was an "ok" movie, but this was BATMAN VS FUCKING SUPERMAN. It wasn't supposed to be ok it was supposed to be flawless.

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It wasn't supposed to be ok it was supposed to be flawless

You're a retard for expecting any movie to be flawless.
I think you just answered my question, though. People expected it to be the greatest movie of all time, and it wasn't (obviously, it's a fucking comic book movie)

The story being crappy is a matter of opinion, which I disagree with. The pacing is a valid criticism, but I didn't let it ruin the movie for me. And as far as them combining 3 story lines into one movie, I can see why that would frustrate somebody who is passionate about these stories, but as a movie it worked, they combined the stories quite well.

I collected comics in the late 80's including The Dark Knight graphic novel. It changes how comics were perceived and there was an explosion of independent black and white comics then. I really liked this film probably because I've been anticipating for decades and with technology it came to be along with other comic superhero films. CGI should never supersede a good story and I though the story was good.

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Was a great movie man. I enjoyed it very much and excited for the rest. What happens these days with social media is everyone reads bullshit reviews and wants to be part of the in crowd and jump on the social media opinion bandwagon to feel like they fit in. Know what I'm talking about? So large movie companies know this and use this. Disney spent a lot of money having the bad reviews posted everywhere before the movie even came out. Naturally people can't think for themselves so they adopt the same opinion. Even after going to watch the movie. Some people who aren't familiar with these movies had no idea what was going on really but those who are fans like me watched it 7 or 8 times in one week.

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I thought the pacing was fine....and it is a comic book movie, meant for action and visual appeal. It did that very well.

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I know exactly what you're talking about, I was actually just thinking about this recently in regards to social media in general, how certain things become "popular" or "cool" and then fucking everybody is talking about them because they want to be included, even if they didn't give a shit about it yesterday. Everybody just wants to be in the cool/popular group. It's like fucking high school. I mean things have always been that way obviously, but the point is that with social media it has been magnified a LOT. I really think this sort of thing is ruining our society, but that's a whole other topic to rant about.

It's not an awful or even a bad movie, it's just not great. For super / batman standards that wasn't good enough and people were pissed.

One flaw I can think of is that the characters and tone from the comic books were not respected, they're much more dark. I liked it though as it is a change.

The fact so many people diss it is because they jump on the bandwagon, if you look at it from what it actually is, it's not even bad.