Based on what we’ve seen so far, Superman and Batman could well be vampires based on their evident aversion to daylight. Zach Snyder apparently believes that scenes taking place during regular business hours would compromise his vision of a dark, bleak world where only the bad guys are allowed to smile, and everyone else is always grim and miserable.
No, I haven’t seen the movie itself, but some people now have, and the advance word is not great. Drew McWeeny, a reviewer and columnist for the hitfix.com website, made some remarks earlier this month that suggest that Warner Brothers is starting to panic, too. The advance screenings have underwhelmed preview audiences, and some studio execs think they may have a bona fide flop on their hands. The central problem, from my point of view, is that Snyder seems to have no idea who Superman is supposed to be. Yes, Batman is dark and brooding and borderline vampiric, but Superman is all primary colors — bright, bold and drenched in sunlight. He’s also been known to smile every once in a while, too. Nobody wants to see the Last Son of Krypton in the kind of gloomfest this movie is shaping up to be.--------------(I said this a year ago.
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