Batman Vs Superman.

Too skeptical of the film to spend the money on it in cinema. Ben Affleck as Batman never filled me with hope or joy before the film was released. A fantastic Daredevil more than ten years ago, the world or Marvel and DC have now gone to be a massive franchise, people want to be a part of it, films are being made and released at a rate of one per year and TV producers and companies are going crazy. The TV series 'Daredevil' has become fantastic, alongside the likes of 'Arrow', 'Grimm', 'Flash' and a few others. Television always played with them, trying to find a combination that worked but until the last 5 years have not been successful. After Brandon Routh starred as Clarke Kent in 'Superman Returns' more attention turned towards the series 'Smallville' and from that they introduced the character of Oliver Queen and a few others but it was far from perfect or decent.
A few years ago they started up 'Daredevil', which made the performance of Ben Affleck (the only good one that I have seen from him) look like one of a A-level drama student. So, if this is the case, why was he cast opposite Henry Cavil if not to be the next Michael Keaton (one of the worst Batman's ever).

Dawn of Justice saw the return of all the normal characters from Superman: Man of Steel such as Lawrence Fishburne and Amy Adams but it also introduced Jesse Eisenberg (he has been away from decent films for too long) as Lex Luther in a very different portrayal of the character to any that I can remember. The first few scenes with him in left me a little confused and unsure of his character but from the guy known to be one of the most frequent villains in anything Superman related this take on the character was widely different yet refreshing.

So, Henry Cavil was fantastic. Like most superheroes he feels no need whatsoever to change his voice. The glasses are apparently all the human race needs to become completely dumbfounded and relatively stupid. Ignoring that, his performance was in perfect sync with the stunning performance we saw in 'Man of Steel'. Ben Affleck however, in a mechanical Batman role was shocking. Just looking at the trailers you could see that they had taken the man out of the hero and turned everything into machine, highlighting the fact far too much that Batman has no powers, he is just Bruce Wayne, billionaire with a world full of machinery at his disposal. Whether they took this approach because they acknowledged that Christian Bale was fantastic in the role I don't know but even if they didn't they should be claiming that angle because there are really no excuses for the poor character that was displayed in this film. In a fight Affleck looks like he would be doing really well to lay a punch on Cavil, who is younger, physically more fit and generally better. Ben Affleck looked like he needed a walking stick for the entire film and was trying to pretend that he was still 27.

So I have a question for all DC/Marvel lovers- why would you have two heroes battling against each other to really not achieve anything? (I know that X-men Vs Avengers graphic novel worked very well but that is because of the character of Scott Summers more than anything else, Batman and Superman don't have that dark side to their characters)