Originally Posted by
sunofdarkchild
Man of Steel had really great ideas that it couldn't adequately explore and wasn't well edited. I can admire certain individual scenes as well as what the film was overall trying to do, but the execution was lacking much of the time. I think with a few edits and maybe a couple of scenes added to flesh out some of those great ideas the movie could have been the best superhero film of the decade, but whether it was because Snyder just can't manage ideas as well as Nolan or because the project was too ambitious for its own good, it didn't live up to its potential.
BvS was even worse, but not because of how it handled Superman other than by killing him at the end. It totally messed up its Lex, should never have had Doomsday, and had a horrendous depiction of Batman. Someone made an argument about how the movie would have been miles better if Batman had his no-kill rule intact and was trying to justify breaking it for the first time with Superman since he wasn't 'human,' and that the Martha line would have had its intended impact under those circumstances, and I have to agree. It still wouldn't have solved the villain problems, but it would make the title conflict much more meaningful.