Snyder seems positively offended that other people are offended by how he handled Batman and Superman in the trio of DCEU movies he made.
Someone says to me: ‘[Ben Affleck’s] Batman killed a guy,’” Snyder said during a Q&A after a Watchmen screening event, as seen in a video posted to Reddit on March 24. “I’m like, ‘Fuck, really? Wake the fuck up.’”
Comic book fans complain to Snyder about the dark tone of his movies, he said, airing frustrations about how those heroes have killed people without any kind of remorse or conscience, especially in Batman v Superman.
Then he explained how Watchmen, his 2009 film, is about the gritty reality of superheroes — in no uncertain, or family-friendly, terms.
“Once you’ve lost your virginity to this fucking movie and then you come and say to me something about, like, ‘My superhero wouldn’t do that,’ I’m like, ‘Are you serious?’ I’m, like, down the fucking road on that,” Snyder said. “It’s a cool point of view to be like, ‘My heroes are still innocent. My heroes didn’t fucking lie to America. My heroes didn’t embezzle money from their corporations. My heroes didn’t commit any atrocities.’ That’s cool. But you’re living in a fucking dream world,” he added.
If Snyder only finds creative joy in writing about heroes that are “gritty,” who find killing to be just a natural part of how they express themselves … that’s certainly his prerogative. I just don’t care to go to any more films he might be asked to make within the genre.
Ironically, I suppose, I actually like Watchmen a lot, as a remarkably faithful adaptation of Alan Moore’s deconstruction of the superhero genre. But I don’t consider its characters heroic, and I don’t need Batman, Superman, or the Justice League to be remade in Watchmen style.* I’m “down the road on that.”
I realize others might have a different aesthetic. More power to them, and I hope Snyder gets to make some other movies along those lines that they will enjoy. But I won’t be spending any money on them, and I hope none of them involve characters that I enjoy.
Do you want to know more? Zack Snyder on superheroes: Batman kills. Superman kills. Get over it. – Vox
* Also, Batman v Superman is a profoundly stupid movie, full of people doing and saying things that are far more improbable than that a man can fly or that a multi-billionaire can make all those wonderful toys. But that’s another topic of discussion.