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FortuneCookie posted...

I appreciate you trying to defend the movie, but don't pour water into a shallow pool. It's just going to spill over. For all the depth that movie has, you could jump in and your knees wouldn't get wet.

I mean... all of these factors are stated in the movie itself. Bruce is a bitter, jaded vigilante who spent 20 years fighting crime for almost no significant reward. Society is still crumbling, people still die, good men turn bad.

"20 years in Gotham... how many good guys are left? How many stayed that way?"

This is a Bruce crushed by the weight of a cruel world. We know he lost his Robin; seemingly his only Robin in this universe. We also see as an audience what Bruce doesn't. We see the human side of Clark, we see what drives him, the lengths he goes to in order to protect the earth and the people he loves.

It's very well made if you really put yourself into the positions of the characters and see things from their point of view. It requires more investment from the audience than an average comic book film, so a lot of people miss out on just how thoroughly the characters are explored.

Memes turned a rewarding comic book movie into "bloodthirsty Batman and mopey Superman have mothers with the same name," but it deserves way more credit than that.

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