While Batman V Superman celebrates its 7th anniversary get to know what lead to its decline
To all superhero movie fans, today is a special day because 7 years from now “Batman V Superman” movie was released in theatres. DiscussingFilm name the Twitter account has shared the post writing “7 years ago today, “BATMAN V SUPERMAN” released in the theatres.
This movie was based on the DC Comics characters Batman and Superman. It was directed by Zack Snyder, and written by Chris Terrio and David S Goyer. This movie was earlier scheduled to release in 2015 but got delayed and was finally released in 2016.
This movie grossed 166$ million in the US and Canada on its opening day which was the biggest opening of all time. But in the second week, the box office collection dropped to 81.2% which was one of the biggest Friday-to-Friday drops for the weekend.
It did not have any big competitor at that time but despite it, the movie saw the second-largest decline for a marquee superhero title. The third week saw a decline of 54.3% and by then everyone was aware of its fate.
Though there are a number of reasons out there that justifies the reason behind the decline in the box office collection of this movie here we have got some of the responses of viewers.
One of the Quora user name Darryl wrote in response to the question “What went wrong with Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice” that “there are a number of reasons but one of the most glaring in my eyes is that Zack Snyder seems not to understand or particularly like Superman”.
Another user Vatsal Prakash wrote, “people failed to understand the characterization of batman in the movie which was mainly due to poor narration”.