>>213300240Mostly contrarianism. When MCU was dominating the world and DC was seen as the Dr. Pibb of superhero movies, a bunch of people latched onto Snyders wanna-be arthouse style of film making as "misunderstood masterful art,". It's sort of like the prequels, where no matter how shit your movie is, as long as you include some vague philosophical themes and cool action people will claim it's high art you just didn't get, except at least most prequel defenders do it because they were kids when they saw it.
Everybody shit on the Snyder movies which made his fanbase more and more defensive, which came to a head when Snyder was fired, and now the DCU is rebooted under Gunn so it's basically console wars now.