Why Bvs Sucks, By Aurora

-barely any character growth or development: other films that focus on less central characters provide plenty of background for growth to occur. Here, the movie is trying to develop Superman from MOS (and ultimately fails to do so), introduce Batman and Wonder Woman to the universe, as well as establish Lex as a villain.

-we see Batman in action, but aside from the death of his parents, barely anything that shows how he got there. The fact that he's an older, retired Batman adds nothing to the story, instead only muddling it up further purely for the sake of contrarianism in the face of Marvel. For instance, we have a roughly 3-second shot of Robin's suit that implies that his partner died sometime in the past, but without actually seeing that happen in the context of a story, that death has absolutely zero emotional effect, let alone any connection to the story. The rest of the film follows that pattern, handwaving what should be important elements of plot and mythos with three second shots that, even if understood by the audience, are entirely void of any relevance, emotion, or any kind of significance.

-when Wonder Woman first appears, she is equally void of characterization. Before we see her in costume, she could easily be mistaken for any other female supporting character in the DCU, and only Bruce calling her by name lets us know who she is. Likewise, her appearance in costume is entirely abrupt and serves as a deus ex machina and a flashy advertisement for the upcoming (equally-rushed) Justice League film. Again, with the amount of characterization and lines she ends up given, she could just as well be any random girl in a wonder woman constume and no one would notice the difference.

-Lex Luthor's characterization is completely botched; it's almost as if the producers saw the success the Joker had in TDK and decided they'd make every single villain a poor man's Joker. A character normally defined by charisma, intelligence, and a deep-seated hatred of anything beyond his scope of power, here he is reduced to a blabbering adolescent whose ultimate plan makes about as much sense as the jar of piss he left on a congresswoman's desk. From the way he attempted to frame Superman for killing - with guns - a camp of African terrorists (hey, with the amount of bullets Bats tossed around in the film, wouldn't it make more sense to frame Batman for that?) to his final objective of orchestrating a fight between Batman and Superman, instead of, you know, trying to subdue Supes through a less convoluted plan that has a snowball's chance in hell of actually working, to randomly deciding to release a Kryptonian monstrosity that he can't even control, nothing about this Lex looks remotely like anything like the character we all love to hate.
Even in the end, when he finally loses his hair (via prison shaving procedures, no less!) he still can't muster up a line more intelligent or coherent than the cringeworthy "ding ding ding". Extremely disappointing especially from a villain who was so amazingly portrayed in live action by Michael Rosenbaum a decade prior.

-going off of Lex's sloppily-executed evil plot, the entire plot point of Batman fighting Superman was entirely wasted. For three years, the confrontation between the two heroes has been advertised as being no less than the "greatest gladiator match", and for characters as alike and yet as different as Bruce and Clark, the potential for such a match was there! Here we have two heroes, both dedicated to saving humanity, and yet often polar opposites in their methods and ideology, and yet, instead of giving us a natural, ideological reason for their confrontation, the producers have instead gave us a Clark who, coerced by Lex's laughably clownish scheme, was forced to confront Batman. Of all the motivations they could've given Clark and Bruce to fight, they went with the weakest one possible. If that wasn't enough of a disappointment, the overhyped fight itself was one of the weakest points of the film. Only in the mind of Zack Snyder can a "greatest gladiator match" be called satisfactory about four minutes and four kryptonite gas explosions later.

-almost everything concerning the Justice League was poorly shoehorned into the film in such a way that it had no relevance at all to the main plot. When you pay to see a film in a theater as opposed to on the small screen, you have certain expectations, and one of these expectations is not having the flow of the film be interrupted by commercials. The notorious Knightmare sequence for instance (what a godawful name) had no purpose to the main plot and was, for all intents and purposes, a commercial for the JL film slated for a release late next year. Not only is it completely irrelevant to the plot of the film, but it is nonsensical even contextually. Why is Batman - easily the most grounded, realistic member of the Justice League - suddenly having fever dreams about parademons and alien invasions? Why should a character like Batman even treat such a dream as anything more than a regular nightmare is beyond me, but perhaps I'm simply not intelligent enough to grasp the fine art of capekino. Why does the Flash randomly show up only to blurt out an incoherent mess that would make Eisenberg's Luthor jealous? And, for that matter, why does the Flash, a character primarily known for two things - superhuman speed and time travel - appear at the end of a dream sequence anyway? And why doesn't he look anything like any established version of the Flash anyway? Maybe in capekino-land, such butchering of an established character can be considered a fine art, but for most audiences, that oddball appearance raised only two questions: what was Zack Snyder smoking for the past three years and can I have ten of it?
Of course, the rest of the Justice League cameos are equally nonsensical: apparently Lex Luthor, sometime between coming up with idiotic plans to have Superman fight Batman and gratuitously filling up jars with his own urine, has decided to design cute little logos for every single member of the Justice League, that Diana conveniently looks at in the middle of the film. Four little logos for Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Cyborg and the Flash all tidily gathered up years before the four heroes had anything to do with each other, let alone even meeting. You heard it here: in Snyder's bizarroworld, Lex Luthor is the one who initially forms the Justice League. For what purpose? Who knows. Maybe it's another convoluted plot that I'm simply too stupid to understand. What I do know is that if I wanted my Batman v Superman watching experience interrupted by obnoxious commercials of a wholly unrelated movie, I would've waited two years and just watched it on the small screen instead of paying actual money to see it.

There are much more things wrong with this movie but I'll leave it at that for now.