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I think I'll quote an excerpt from Part III of Moviebob's Really that Bad videos about Batman v Superman. The videos are pretty long but I think he hit the nail on the head with this one:

''It's a dark mirror of the classically understood DC comics universe, that presents the characters therein at their most unlikable for seemingly no other purpose than to show that they CAN be made unlikable. And all that is before it breaks out a full-blown homage to the most iconic deconstruction of Batman and Superman ever published (The Dark Knight Returns) and before its director summed up the negative reaction to all of this by opining "Well, people don't like seeing their heroes deconstructed".''

''But IS this even a deconstruction at all? What does Zack Snyder, who may or may not have spent an enormous amount of time, energy and attention to detail bringing Watchmen to the screen without recognizing the satiric purpose behind that story's deconstructionism, think deconstruction means in this case? What is the point being made? What inner truth is being exposed by deconstructing everything? What new foundation is being built on the rubble of the temple that's been demolished?''

''Batman v Superman writes itself a licence to climb to the highest point in town with enough spray paint to write whatever it wants for the entire world to see, but it has nothing to actually say and all of it comes out as gibberish. Vandalism without purpose and without meaning, but still carried out on a scale that may be impossible to repair in a reasonable timeframe. What a pointless, senseless, mindless waste.''

You don't have to agree with this, but I think it's a good point. Zack Snyder read Watchmen and saw an instruction manual instead of a warning.