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10 Reasons Why Batman V Superman Can’t Top The Dark Knight Trilogy

There are a lot of problems with Zack Snyder's Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice. A lot a lot. That doesn't mean it's completely without its merits, however: Ben Affleck's new Batman - the Batfleck, if you will - is a far cry from Christian Bale's wounded street fighter, and while this version of the character might hardly be faithful to the comics, the Batfleck is still one of the few aces that Batman V Superman has up its sleeve.

10) Snyder Doesn’t Know When To Limit His CGI

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You get the impression that Zack Snyder is very much a “we’ll fix it in post” kind of guy. Ever since 300, which used copious green-screen to stylish effect, Snyder’s live-action films have looked sterile at best, and like overly-slick, quasi-cartoons at worst. His latest, Batman V Superman, is lousy with CGI, its backgrounds so awash with pixels that it’s rare you actually feel like the characters are living in a physical place.

Where Snyder paints his movies with CGI in broad strokes, Christopher Nolan prefers to keep his films grounded – i.e. shot in real locations or on physical sets – where possible. The Dark Knight trilogy features giant props and model ‘bigatures’ in the place of CGI, lending a weight to his films that’s sorely lacking in BvS.

If Nolan’s trilogy did use computer imagery, it was used sparingly. And there’s a sense that “sparingly” isn’t in Zack Snyder’s vocabulary.