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Metalsonic66 posted...

I still think MoS could have been a good starting point for a new movie continuity, if literally anyone else had been at the helm of the sequels lol

I feel like it could have been a good starting point for new continuity if it had a different director who had done at least one or two more rewrite passes on the script. Cavill was excellent casting, but the tone was wrong.

The real problem is that the Superman films suffered from WB desperately trying to shoehorn it into whatever thing was trendy at the time. It was hurt badly by the attempt to make it like the Nolan Batman films (in spite of the two characters being radically different), and rushing to push the crossover to try and cash in on Avengers-money (while doing it in precisely the wrong way, because they were in too much of a hurry to do individual movies) meant it couldn't really be salvaged.

Ideally they should have gone more down the route they did with Shazam, where they allowed the character to set the tone of the movie, rather than forcing the movie to fit a preestablished tone it wasn't right for. And keeping crossover BS to a minimum until you establish the characters in a way where the audience WANTS to see them cross over.
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