One of the goals I set for myself this summer was to finally watch the extended edition of Zach Snyder’s Batman v. Superman. I had never watched the extended version and I had heard from lots of people that it helped fix some of the things in B v S that were wrong. SO I had time today before SummerSlam so I pulled up Max and watched the 3 hour + film.

Sadly, there are so many things still wrong with this movie that I just did not find enough new to say that I enjoyed it.

It seemed to me that most of the added pieces gave more time to the secondary stories that helped to build the world around Batman and Superman and that part of this movie was not a problem for me. In fact, I still think the set up of the story worked for the most part. I understood Batman’s desire to stop Superman (maybe not his bloodthirsty desire to kill him).

Luthor’s plan still makes no sense. Superman’s decisions when Lex confronted him still feels forced. And lets not get started on “Martha,” perhaps the worst moment in any major comic book movie.

I wonder what it would have been like had we not known that Wonder Woman and Doomsday were going to be in this movie? Both were spoiled in trailers and both could have been total WTF moments if they hadn’t been.

This movie tried to shove way too much into this film. A film that should have been two at the very minimum wasted the Death of Superman arc by cramming it into a third act explosion-fest. I have to say though the constant explaining that the areas were deserted or uninhabited after the controversy over Man of Steel’s third act was veyr funny.

So much of the dialogue of BvS was forced and did not feel as if real characters would speak that way. In particular the scenes between Superman and Batman just was so wooden and the entire fight could have been solved by one sentence.

I found nothing that was added that made things better. Batman v. Superman remains one of the biggest missteps in comic book movie history and is one of the major reasons why the DCEU could never find continued success.