I haven't seen Suicide Squad, but I know for sure that MoS and BvS get exactly what they deserve because DC, foolishly, markets their movies as "films" that are supposed to be a cut above the typical box office flair, and it bites them in the ass everytime because the schlock they put out lacks exactly what the Marvel movies have in spade: heart and soul.
Marvel movies follow a pretty general formula, and it has largely run its course, but what keeps the movies still on top is that they're so damn entertaining AND they have characters the audience can care about and are willing to go back for time after time.
Look at Steve Rogers in these Marvel pictures. We know what he is about, and we know that even in the face of overwhelming odds he rarely, if ever, compromises. He's all about preserving people's personal freedom and protecting the little guy. He has done things he's not proud of and will admit that he did it because he had no other choice. Even in Civil War, when everything around him is falling apart, he never leaves his fellow soldiers behind and will not surrender his personal freedom. Great character, and the backbone of most of these movies.
They don't really shove this in your face, it's weaved in naturally. Make no mistake, these are popcorn flicks that happen to double as entertaining stuff on a character level.
In contrast, DC wants to make "films," or movies that appeal to a different, more "mature" crowd with "darker" themes. It's all BS because they don't bother establishing characters as much as they appear to be.
Look at MoS. We have Clark Kent, a character traditionally defined as an Alien who got a sense of good put in him by loving parents who cared for him despite his Alien status and put him on the right path. Now if you want to deviate from that, that's totally cool; it's not really the Superman I particularly want to see but I'm willing to ignore that if they can portray it in an interesting way. Instead, they went absolutely batty (pun intended).
Clark Kent in these new movies is now told from a young age to NOT HELP PEOPLE because the world "couldn't handle it" by Pa Kent. Okay...cool, I guess. Pa Kent then stupidly dies protecting people because he told his son not to. Urge to kill...rising. Then his long dead real father shows up and tells him "Look man, bring some help to the little people," and now it's cool? Clark has no values; he spent 33 years confused about his role in life because his villainous dad wouldn't let him use his powers, and now his ghost dad says the very obvious opposite and now it's cool? And then in the next movie they double down by having his mom say screw the world "you owe them nothing"? Screw that. He's an all powerful dummy.
To go along with this absurd notion, we have an abundance of Christ imagery that is supposed to make the movie feel "mature" but is eye rolling. Whether it be Clark pointing out he's 33 or him standing in a stained glass window with his head where Jesus' is, or falling out of an open spaceship with his arms out evoking the imagery of the Lord in his usual pose. Its cliche and false, doing little for the movie other than to provide yet another reason to be mature.
I'll give it props in that it does action right. The big fight scenes between the Kryptonians are splendid and look like DBZ fights come to life, which is very cool. Unfortunately I feel that's the only good part of a movie masquerading as a mature "dark film" that instead is as pedestrian and safe as any other superhero movie, only minus the charm and good characters. DC needs to go back to the drawing board, bad.
