Why Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice Is Becoming A Cult Classic

Although they’ve been around for almost a century, superheroes never quite managed to be taken seriously anywhere outside their birthplace medium, comic books. Save for a few shiny exceptions, all film and television adaptations were handled with poor cinematic value and an often jarring and campy attitude, targeted mostly towards kids. It’s only in the early 2000s that superheroes started to break into mainstream Hollywood, with a handful of remarkable films that concerned children and adults alike.

Theo Prasidis

Published: Jul 20, 2016 02:27 pm

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Juxtaposed to Cult Film Reader’s definition, BvS was followed by an active and lively support by an extremely committed community who outgrew the dominant reception of the film and fought for it as though enlistees. It transgressed genre conventions and coherent storytelling and made good use of its cultural background with many intertextual references. Its riotous reception resulted major studio rearrangements simply indicated the power of the current fandom.

Initially blasted from general direction, Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice is constantly being re-evaluated and can be safely labeled as cult. It managed to be highly noted and kept concerning audiences, devotees and polemicists, who after repeated viewings, seconds reading, analytical breakdowns and endless arguments, opened an extended and extremely useful discussion on the values of modern Hollywood filmmaking.

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