Who Are CBM Fans?

@Earth2SpecialKa - The veil anonymity allows people to act however they want no matter how disgusting or inhumane. It allows them to act upon their darkest thoughts and wants because since they are not face to face with the person they are talking to anything and everything is fair game. To seriously say someone should shoot up a theater while a Marvel movie is playing is beyond sickening and no less sick if it was in the reverse. I like many on this site are CBM fans and want both sides to succeed because all sides succeed then. Unfortunately there are people who continue this damn war for no reason then to feel some false sense of bravado.

@tonytony - Thanks for making my point!

@tonytony - My point was that these personal attacks on people that disagree with you are what is (in part) fueling the hate toward DC...Hmmm...I wonder if you do anything like that? If you disagree with me go ahead and say so...but instead you have chosen to write personal attacks such as...

"…you are exactly the kind of twisted messed up in the head troll this article is trying to change"
"…trolling i have seen first hand from you"
"…YOu remind me of the sort of person who gets turned down for an autograph by a minder of their favourite celebrity then obsesses and stalks their supposed favourite celebrity before eventually killing them and claims they killed them cos they were fans and the celebrity deserved better than the world they lived in. thats your pattern of action think about it."
"…seriously! go to a shrink"
"…your rationale for trolling seems crazy"
“…go a see a shrink to help you get over this feeling you have because it suggests a very impressionable and unhinged personality
"…Can you not see how illogical and sad that sounds?"
"…that is slightly crazy and obsessive"
"….DO yourself a favour and get off the keyboard and go outside and get some air."

In any event I will respond to your points…and get this… I will do it WITHOUT having to attack you on a personal level!

Ben Affleck was a controversial choice to play Batman and the fact that 94,000 people felt the need to venture to a website to voice that opinion should have prompted Warner Brothers to consider what their fans wanted. As far as if that same thing would happen today…I am not sure it would not. Given the poor reception that the film has garnered I have a hard time seeing how continuing on with the Christian Bale Batman would give you a worse result. FACT: Bale built up a large following and goodwill with his performance. FACT Bale has won an academy award for ACTING (which Affleck has not done) and been nominated many more times for the award than has Affleck. So it is NOT illogical for fans to be confused why Warner Brothers would dispense with a proven actor, who has already built a following and is respected by his peers with their highest award for his ability to act. This question is something Warner Brothers has never addressed other than to say (and I am paraphrasing…Trust us…you were wrong about Heath Ledger.

I agree that people have a different vision of Batman and Superman. But in the case of Batman…what is the fundamental reason to move away from the ONLY DC movies EVER to commercially and critically compete with the very best of ANY superhero film ever made? One of those films (the Dark Knight) regarded as THE best ever. Why not continue with this world and reap the benefits. It does not matter to me if any individual likes it either you or I. If you don’t like those films that is fine. But the majority of people did like it…and that is confirmed by every metric you can think of…box office, critical response, audience response. Even the academy awards was beginning to take the genre seriously and rather than Warner Brothers embracing this and continuing on that path… they go…let’s reboot the whole thing in the HOPE that we can reproduce that success. So far they lost that gamble.

In most cases I don’t really get into casting debates, the problem AGAIN is that you already have a person who has been embraced by general audience. What is the point of changing? Also it was not illogical to be wary of Ben Affleck as Batman because even HE stated "When Zack [Snyder] asked me I didn't think I would be right for the role," (Ben Affleck - The Graham Norton Show).

I don’t think my opinions matter more than most other people. The problem is that when I ask LOGICAL questions like…Why move on from a popular Batman franchise when the current (now previous one) is doing as well as we could ever dream…why not build on that? I get crazy theories about how Nolan is “forcing” the studio not to make another Batman film…they offered Bale $50,000,000 and he refused… or they can’t make offshoot films because the Dark Knight films are too realistic. If Warner Brothers is asking DC fans to embrace their vision they should at least address these LOGICAL questions, instead of their attitude that everyone should just not ask questions and accept what they are given.

“…you see with other movies if you dont like you dont go” Uhh… actually I have not seen Batman v Superman!

“…dont spend half your life attacking everyone else because they like the movie” Uhh … actually I don’t really attack people (unless they attack me). I suppose on rare occasions I have hurled an insult or two but usually I comment on the film or direction of the studio.

Finally! What you call trolling I call making a comment based on my views. If the purpose of a comment section is to just echo what everyone is saying and agree with everything then I would not even participate. In fact I have not posted on or been to Screen Rant in over two years precisely because they seemed to want to be an echo chamber and only want constant agreement. I make my points and have respect for people who disagree with them. I will engage people with my point of view and have had amazing conversations with people who have totally different views from me which I think in the long run is healthy.

Thanks for your comments.

@tonytony - I am not commenting on the movie...I am commenting on the movie's RESULTS! I am very much aware of the critical reception, audience reception and box office performance. It is pretty well known that Warner Brothers is not thrilled with the RESULTS. The point I have been making for three years now is that they would have had better results if they had adopted their ALREADY HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL films and built their universe around those. I don't think I need to see the film to make that case.