>>7988395Being honest with you, I think you're right about a lot of that. Showing him struggle is a good idea. The cinematography and action scenes were really cool and expertly put together. But I think the thing that really damages it is that Snyder doesn't really like Superman as he appears in any of the comics, so he's not interested in telling us the story of how he became that guy. All throughout, you can see him playing out the idea that shows through in his interpretation of Watchmen. He thinks Dr. Manhattan is an example of superheroes the way they should be, aloof and more interested in fulfilling their distant desires than in serving humanity. You can see this in BvS especially, when Martha Kent, the woman who's meant to teach Clark that everyone matters and his powers are a gift meant to be shared with the weak and downtrodden "You don't owe this world a damn thing." For all the good parts of MoS, the version of Superman he was building to was shaping up to be Objectivist drivel at worst and an angry, reluctant helper at best.
Don't worry, we understood the movie just fine. It just didn't really stick the landing.
As for video essays, I used to know a guy who said 'you can't argue someone into believing you communicated with them. If they didn't get the message, you didn't make them understand it.'
So if you were trying to send a message in your movie and most people who saw it didn't catch what you meant without having it painstakingly explained in a video essay and not through the information on screen... Maybe the message isn't as clear as you thought.
