Vanity Fair: Of course, then the rest of the movie happens and things get messy, Watchmen clunking down the well of cultural memory and disappearing into the dark. Zack Snyder’s new superhero film, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, seems, unfortunately, destined for the same fate.
Like in Watchmen’s beginning moments, this new film-as-brand-extension has a stretch, arriving somewhere in the middle this time, that is captivating, persuasive, resonant. In those scenes, we watch a society (American society, in particular) grapple with the realities, and surrealities, of this newly arrived alien called Superman. He’s just defended Metropolis, and the world, from General Zod and his army, but Metropolis has been ravaged in the process, at the cost of thousands of lives. The opening of Batman v Superman brings us back to that city-destroying battle, seen at the end of Snyder’s Man of Steel, and shows us the perspective of a man on the ground, racing through dust and rubble while two extraterrestrial beings, gods come to Earth, duke it out above.
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