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Man of Steel/BvS issues aren't that they are grimdark, the problem has always been Snyder and how visually he can make something similar to a source material but loses a lot of actual meaning creating a divisive product. WB wanted their universe to be different from Marvel so bet on making it like the Nolan Batman movies: David S Goyer wrote the thing, Hans Zimmer did the music and Nolan came back as a producer all in an effort to do this. Man of Steel didn't do the numbers the Executives wanted as they were comparing it to the Avengers hence why they went towards BvS team up rather than a slow build up. Originally they tried to get Nolan to be their Kevin Feige and even tried to get Christian Bale back as Batman to retroactively make the Nolan films the DCEU but Nolan and Bale said no. Nolan is a blockbuster director whose skill is making people feel clever even when he has to spell out the meaning, like in TDK the several exposition scenes expressing the Joker's philosophy. Snyder's problem is that he is simply not as good as Nolan at expressing meaning. Snyder is to Nolan how Roland Emmerich is to Steven Spielberg. Roland Emmerich has tried to make blockbusters with the same sort of schmaltzy feeling as Spielberg but something always gets lost in translation and his films always come across worse. Snyder simply failed at getting across the meaning but a lot of people latched on to the feeling that his films had a deep meaning and made this a big part of their identity. If you don't understand what I mean, look at Watchmen. Snyder completely changes many scenes, not even talking about the Squid, but stuff involving Rorschach feels completely changed. So visually and acting wise it can hit many notes and make you feel like it is in keeping with the comic, but meaning wise it loses a lot in translation. And the problem is the audience fill in the blanks because they want to feel intelligent.
