![]() ![]() Maybe the characters shouldn’t have kept referring to Superman’s adoptive mother by her Christian name. ![]() I admit that the dialogue could have been more elegant. And nothing about it was as derided as the Martha scene. All too soon, Snyder’s film became a symbol of the way that Warner was mishandling DC’s superheroes, as opposed to the way that Disney was handling Marvel’s. Even viewers with a high tolerance for masks and capes were unimpressed. Most critics slated Batman v Superman as a miserable mess with a headache-inducing score by Hans Zimmer and Junkie XL, and a colour palette so dingy that it looked as if Superman had washed his blue and red jumpsuit along with his black jeans. Genius! This is a film, I thought, that my fellow nerds were going to adore. ![]() As different as the two superheroes were, Batman v Superman showed that they were linked by the trauma of their parents’ horrific deaths. And yet Zack Snyder, the director of Batman v Superman, or one of the writers, Chris Terrio and David S Goyer, hadn’t just spotted the coincidence, they had imagined the impact it might have on the characters in question, given that Batman’s parents were murdered when he was a boy, and that Superman was adopted by Martha Kent after his own biological parents were vaporised in a planetary cataclysm. I’d been a superhero geek for decades, but I’d never noticed that the mothers of DC Comics’ two most iconic characters had the same name. I remember, on seeing the film, being almost as staggered as Batman was. ![]()
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