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5. The Stories it’s Trying to Adapt are Completely Wrongheaded

This movie draws its plot from two comics that I am quite honestly done with: The Dark Knight Returns and The Death of Superman. And let’s be perfectly honest here, neither one holds up especially well.

DKR was a story that could only have ever worked in the 1980s, or when the reader is between 13 and 17 years of age.  Provided that those conditions are met, it’s pretty darn good. I like DKR, but I’m sooooooooo sick of it being the only Batman story anyone wants adapted into live action cinema.

Batman: Year One is better. Batman: Strange Apparitions is better Batman: Mad Love is better. Court of Owls is better. I’d personally call Long Halloween better.

Plus, Snyder directly cited DKR as why Batman kills and uses guns in BVS. Ummmmmm, has he actually READ DKR?

                                        Source: wired.com

Also, Doomsday and some late plot points come from the Death of Superman, which I won’t give the courtesy of being called good. Because it isn’t. DoS was made as a way to waste a year of time until Superman was allowed to get married. That’s true!

There’s a great documentary on the Superman: Doomsday DVD about the history of the project that acknowledges how mediocre it is. Doomsday is a plot device, not a character, the story is all action and no development, and it is ridiculously overlong.

I don’t get why everyone is obsessed with these two stories, but hopefully this terrible amalgamation of the two means we’ll never have to see any aspect of DKR or DoS onscreen ever again. Thank Christ.