I grew up in the 1960s, when virtually every cover of every DC comic featured a beloved superhero doing something wildly out of character (like Superman shunning Jimmy Olsen or Batman being a lazy jerk). And I haven’t read any comic books since then. So when I see that there’s a movie where Batman and Superman are fighting, my first thought is “well, duh, of course they are.”
I never saw either. How does that compare to Green Lantern awful?
I thankfully didn’t see Green Lantern, but Rotten Tomatoes puts it at 26%, closer to Fantastic Four (10%) than Man of Steel (56%). I guess by the time you get down there, it’s not much of a distinction worth making.
Batman and Superman are enemies because a certain subset of Batman fans have a massive inferiority complex and are constantly trying to prove Batman is good enough by having him beat up Superman.
For what it’s worth, I didn’t think that there was any way in which Green Lantern was terrible; it was just remarkably consistent in being sub-par. The acting wasn’t terrible, but it wasn’t very good. The script wasn’t terrible, but it wasn’t very good. Likewise for the effects, the direction, the plot, etc.
Back in the 1980’s the heroes fought each other all the time, at least in Marvel. I didn’t read a lot of DC back then. I remember seeing Spiderman vs. Daredevil, Spiderman vs. Punisher, Punisher vs. Daredevil, Wolverine vs. Hulk, Wolverine vs. Spiderman, Wolverine vs. Punisher, and a bunch of others.
They did make the mistake of** DAY1- the new superhero has to save the galaxy!!!**
Look at* Superman!, the movie*- Supes picked off a few common criminals before he saved America from a nuke.
I’m inclined to agree with DrDeth on this - it was a mistake for Hal Jordan to be the hero. Jordan should have been the everyman new guy, more like Charlie Sheen’s character in Platoon. Sinestro should have been the hero, while other members of the Green Lantern Corps regarding Jordan as the fucking-new-guy, unworthy of filling Abin Sur’s tights. Maybe we see a growing rift between Sinestro and Kilowog (as between Barnes and Elias in Platoon) with Jordan’s decision being the pivotal moment. Jordan being the hero right off the bat is too akin to the new Captain Kirk for my taste - the guy saves the day because he so obviously deserves to and it’s just the universe recognizing his innate awesomeness.
The opposite is why I am tired of Marvel films. Too much focus on snappy repartee and zingers - it gets old.
I guess that month not everybody was the team player the last guy wrote them as.
The movie should be good.
You’re more or less describing the plot of Green Lantern: First Flight.
I hope so, but I’m not nearly as excited to see Batman v. Superman as I am Captain America Civil War after watching both trailers this past week.
Wary, weary, no need to be a pendant. 
I for one would like to see Superman fight a giant mechanical spider.
Heck there is even a Spiderman vs. Superman.
Yeah, and that’s why it was a better film than the live-action one. I observed as much back in 2012.
Yeah, that all seems pretty in character for Superman.
I’ve seen variations on this, and find they’re uniformly biased in favour of Daredevil. At least with the original Superman vs. Spider-Man (their second meeting was an infinitely better story), the latter unknowingly gets a powerboost from Lex Luthor and momentarily overpowers Superman, thinking he must be wildly over-rated. Superman’s response is quite literally to hold back, lest he kill Spider-Man with one punch. The powerboost wears off and Spider-Man almost breaks his hands trying to take on Superman again.
Just FYI for those complaining, that is not Lex Luthor. That is his son.
What is this, freakin’ Austin Powers?
It’s hardly the first time Doomsday’s origin would have been changed, hell, they changed his origin before he even first appeared because some early social justice whiners complained that his original origin of escaping from an intergalactic loony bin was offensive to mentally ill people. (Never mind literally everyone Batman’s ever fought has a timeshare in Arkham.) So then he had no origin for a long time until they made up some crap about Kryptonian scientists making him to be the ultimate killing machine.
The Zod thing makes me thing they’ve been taking notes from Smallville, I don’t rememeber the exact details, but there was some sort of connection there like Zod and his woman made him or something like that.
Not true. Although there were complaints when people mistakenly believed that was going to be its origin, the origin story wasn’t changed because of them.