Zack Snyder's DC Trilogy is a juicy steak. Three juicy steaks, each bigger and juicier than the last. James Gunn's DC franchise is a bowl of sugary cereal. Sweet, empty, leaves you hungry 30 minutes later. Also makes you diabetic.

Snyder:
>Now, let me speak to you from my heart. Not as a scientist, as a father. Huh, your father twice over. I brought you into the world and back to it. You can't imagine how proud I am, of who you are, have always been. So many years with you I've wasted, so many wrongs I've left un-righted.
>Everything breaks, Victor. Everything changes. The world is hurt, broken, unexchageable. The world's not fixed in the past, only the future. The not yet. The now. The now is you. Now, now is your time, Victor. To rise. Do this, be this, the man I never was, the hero that you are. Take your place among the brave ones. The ones that were, that are, that have yet to be.
Gunn:
>I'm as human as anyone. I love, I get scared. I wake up every morning and despite not knowing what to do, I put one foot in front of the other and I try to make the best choices I can. I screw up all the time, but that is being human. And that's my greatest strength.
What is this glib, hollow, meaningless shit? Why does it sound like a shitty kid's show with a moral lesson at the end? We had comic book movies that were like nothing else. They were genuinely epic, they were serious and mature and introspective. Films about men and their relationships with their children. Films that used these superheroes as allegories for wider existential and religious challenges. Films with passion, films with the joy of love and the agony of sorrow. And we traded it away for James Gunn and his cheap bag of glib, generic, sentimental bullshit. And there are people eating this up. Claiming this is the way Superman movies should be.

God, kill me.