I don't know about that. I think a tighter and simpler script would've been better. Having a 2 part movie so early in the franchise is questionable.
Idk, I think Man Of Steel and BvS could have been combined, lengthened, and made into a trilogy to get the characters from where they started to where they wound up in the end of BvS.
I love the story both movies are trying to tell, but there are so many aspects, plot lines, themes, character development, etc. that could have been expanded upon by the time we get to the finale of BvS. I think the first movie should have focused fully on Clark, still.
As opposed to Clark being a wanderer doing odd jobs, I would have preferred for him to be a journalist, fresh out of school, working for some underground magazine/news source that covers stories worldwide like HBO Vice, so that he's exploring the world, seeing the horrors and beauty of human nature, as an observer, while contemplating his role in this world. That would have made his transition to the Daily Planet make much more sense.
And, I would have liked more influence from Loeb's Superman For All Seasons, with the love story in the first movie focusing on Lana Lang and his friends with Pete, portraying Smallville as this idyllic idea we have of The Good Old Days, the wholesome ideals of the 50's, Norman Rockwell, classic Americana imagery, Clark has this option of staying in Smallville, marrying his childhood sweetheart, living out the American Dream in it's purest form. But he chooses to go out into the harsh realities of the world because he has this dream that he can make things better, he feels this responsibility to his powers. He breaks Lana's heart, and returns to find she has married somebody else, which breaks his heart.
I feel like that tragic romance story would have more resonance with the audience than shoehorning in the Lois romance to the first movie. Granted, MoS did portray that ideallic American imagery juxtaposed with the real world that Clark ventures out into, but it really didn't give it enough focus to make that choice have a real emotional impact on the audience, in my opinion, as it could have. Also, I think, had they focused a bit more on that aspect and that choice, it would have been symbolic of Superman's role, as a character, in comics and stories in our modern age, as opposed to the Andy Griffeth world of the old Superman comics, and comics in general.
I do love the story they tell in both movies, but it often felt like the story was in Fast Forward, a trilogy could have allowed them to develop the emotional aspects, develop the characters, while still being able to give us a lot of action to appease the Blockbuster fans, and maybe not left as many people scratching their heads, or indifferent towards the story they are trying to tell.
And, had they planned it out from the beginning, and shot the movies relatively quickly, they could have given us the second film a year and a half ago, so that they'd still be on close to the same track with their movie schedule that they have right now.
In my personal critique of the movies, there's nothing I'd want to see cut, I just want more to really flesh out the story leading into the formation of the JL, and where the Superman character is at, both physically, and in terms of public perception, at the end of BvS.