The fact that this thread even exists shows you how poor the standard for BvS has fallen. Sorry but everyone knew Trank-4-stick was going to suck. Fans were screaming at the top of their lungs that it was going to bomb.
With BvS, people had hoped they would get a movie better than Man of Steel. They saw the art and costume design and they were impressed. They saw the first promo still for Wonder Woman and they were impressed. Everything looked like this could be a worthy rival to the MCU. Then we got the first trailer and people were scratching their heads. The first hints were made about Batman flat out murdering people. The second trailer came out and we were scratching our heads more. Something wasn't adding up, but the trailers for Suicide Squad looked terrific. Maybe this wasn't as bad as it appeared. The final trailer came out and it looked kick a$$! Maybe our concerns were unfounded.
The early twitter feed came out and it looked good. People were getting excited, but then....what's this? WB embargoed the film critics, but gave early fan screenings and encouraged them to go on twitter? That doesn't sound like a studio confident in it's film.
Then the reviews came out! Zero to s*** in 60 sec!
Then as if the reviews weren't enough of a warning, we went in and were blown away at how horrible the film was. It wasn't just worse than Man of Steel, it was a freaking night mare!
Then if that weren't bad enough, the studio fudged the estimates for positive media buzz only to find out they fudged by 6M dollars on opening weekend and the Sunday hold was absolute ****!
I'm sorry but is this how low the standards have become for WB?? That we are comparing a film that was made by Fox only because they were in a pissing match with Marvel and upset at losing the rights to Daredevil so they shoehorned a project that no one believed in desperate hope that Marvel would pay money for the rights back to the characters of a franchise that already fizzled out with the Tim Story movies?
A film that the rumors of a director who was quite frankly bat **** crazy (no pun intended), in Trank that he actually disowned his own movie on the day of release? The same guy who was fired from the Star Wars franchise?
You know what, I'm voting for BvS, simply because with Fan-****-stick, people got exactly what they expected, which was a crappy film that spat in the face of the fan base and killed off any hope of sequels, despite the fact that Fox was advertising the release date of the sequels. Where with BvS, the fanbase was sold one thing and given another. They were sold a film that would be a unique variant on the shared universe theme, only to receive a steaming pile of **** that didn't make any logical sense and made you lose any interest in any future DCEU films.