And people said BvS put too much in it. Not only do we have the other heroes, we have Lex Luthor (if Jesse Eisenburg was a miscast, then so is Nicholas Hoult), and a fucking dragon?!
For wanting to distance itself from the Snyder movies, WB had no issues with replicating Superman crashing into the snow.
When he whistled and Krypto showed up, I was genuinely thrilled and charmed and completely onboard. That dog was really cute. I know it's a bit of a goofy, Silver Age relic and you don't tend to see it in the more serious movies, but I really like the idea of Superman having a dog. That's a fun, cute, wholesome thing and it feels very Superman. So I was thinking, "Oh, maybe they really are going in a new direction with this..." I was optimistic. I was even prepared to take a chance of a seemingly completely miscast Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor.
But then they showed all the other heroes, seemingly shoehorned in completely arbitrarily for fanboys to soyface over, putting the cart before the horse yet again and reassuring all the mongs in the audience, "Oh, don't worry, we're totally going to do an MCU style shared universe thing with a whole lot more of these movies! You bet your ass! Whether you
want them or not, fuck it, you're getting them!" And then the dragon or whatever it was.
And that little, newly kindled flame of enthusiasm was just completely snuffed out, totally abruptly, because Warner Bros. and DC Comics have clearly learned LITERALLY. FUCKING. NOTHING.