![]() turning Batman against Superman, smuggling kryptonite into the country, and manipulating public opinion against Superman. For sheer confusion, bizarreness, and improbability, it’s up there with the contraptions villains would use to try to kill Batman and Robin in the 1960s series, i.e. ![]() Lenny, er, Lex concocts the most complicated plan in the history of villainy. Oh, there’s also a subplot about the construction of Doomsday because, you know, the enemy of my enemy is my friend, and what better way to reconcile Superman and Batman’s relationship? Jesse Eisenberg makes his debut as Lex Luthor, but plays it more like Lenny Luthor from Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987). Supes is still trying to find out where he belongs. Batman is all paranoid about Superman being an alien and the threat he poses to Earth, after all the destruction that occurred in Man of Steel (2013). Superman vs Batman: Dawn of Justice (2016) As the title suggests, the story pits two of DC’s heavyweights against one another. Three generations of Superman: Christopher Reeve, Brandon Routh, and Henry Cavill. Here’s a rating of his movies from worst to best. That has become as problematic as anything, with different directors and writers determining just how much of the archetypal Superman we’ll see, and how much they’ll reinterpret to build him in their own image. That’s Superman’s cinematic kryptonite – how he’s being interpreted for the screen. I think they’re excuses to take the character in directions he doesn’t belong, and once that happens the incarnations are fraught with peril. Or because he’s such a boy scout, it’s impossible to make him interesting. Some suggest being so powerful, he’s too difficult to write. ![]() Introduction Superman is one of the most beloved superheroes in the pantheon of superheroes, but his existence on screen has been problematic. ![]()
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