Batman vs. Superman vs. Lex Luthor vs. Doomsday vs. Popular Opinion

Some random ass quick thought.

SPOILER ALERT!!!!

Although the movie went old school with reintroducing Doomsday, I thought it was a clever bit of business to have Luthor, in the antsy, twitchy, nervy but diabolical method by Heisenberg, be its creator, plying his blood with the DNA of General Zod. A concoction of "bad genes" and a half breed to boot, if you hit it was energy it just gets stronger and  obliterates everything in its path with a dome burst of laser lightning and shock waves.

Gotham and Metropolis don't seem to be far apart, or it didn't feel like it to me. The DC Universe affords Bruce Wayne the chance to own a building/business that is decimated by Zod and Superman's battle in Metropolis. He loses a good friend and employee in that devastated building. Dodge commercials have exploited the big Wayne SUV drive through Metropolis, and his employee's losing his legs provides some storyline incentive to question whether or not Superman is actually helping or hurting the planet.

What bothered me most was how Superman gets shit on so consistently. Luthor capitalizes on Zod's handiwork, manipulating the legless cripple who blamed Supe for his miserable state and setting in motion a horrible terrorist act which blows the Capitol to smithereens. The desert setup which indicts Supe for supposedly killing folks being interviewed by Lois Lane. Standing trial for the Metropolis disaster, politicians like Holly Hunter's Kentucky Democrat challenge Superman's credibility. It just keeps piling on. The cynical, tribunal-politics that drag Supe down was as much a bummer as director Snyder and company's decision to bump him off. Or that's how they proceed although the camera holds on his coffin for a spell and it appears dirt dropped on the box by a grieving Lane levitates slightly. So who knows?

As for Affleck, he should rest easy. As a weathered, emotionally  crippled, tormented, solemn, but inevitably a "team player" when he finally realizes Supe isn't the potentially dangerous monster he suspected, Affleck gets the brooding, lonely, agonizing Batman/Bruce character, psychologically hampered by twenty years fight the crime in Gotham, right. His concern about how critical the film might have failed should be pushed aside. I think he's made Bruce his own.

Batman getting in a lot of offense on Supe thanks to "Kryptonite gas" is quite a smart strategy, allowing him to gain at least one advantage. They go through plenty of walls and windows before finding common ground. Supe having to appeal to Bruce for help finding his kidnapped Earth mother (Diane Lane), and Batman rescuing her by kicking mercenary ass, ruining Luthor's plans for the two superheroes tearing each other apart bring the League together (well Wonder Woman (Gadot) anyway).

Lois was introspective and brave, wise and level-headed. This isn't Margot Kidder, here. Different time and comic character. Supe questioned and under attack was a bummer to me. Just takes a lot of flack.

Doomsday emerging took me back. I remember the outcry and shock of killing Supe. The number of alternate Supe comics, showing him in various forms, with quite the story arcs for each one of them. It was interesting seeing that brought back for dramatic purposes.