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

9) World-Building

Partly thanks to Snyder’s insistence on crafting his movie in post-production, there is a real lack of competent world-building in the director’s work. Without physical structures for Snyder and his cast to work off of, there’s an absence of personality in the environment they’re playing in.  In Batman V Superman, we don’t really know what the make-up of Gotham and Metropolis is, other than that they’re dark, grey and dense with skyscrapers.

The Dark Knight trilogy doesn’t have this problem. Christopher Nolan’s Gotham has a recognizable, coherent aesthetic, because Nolan and his team chose to shoot in real cities like Chicago, London and Pittsburgh, lending Gotham an urban industrial vibe in-camera before embellishing in post. BvS‘s locations lack a sense of character in comparison, with Snyder seemingly never settling on what his world looks like.