Batman Vs. Superman: Five Potential Pitfalls

Had you told me before San Diego Comic Con International last week that Warner Bros. would announce a movie starring Batman and Superman together on the big screen in live action, I’d have been incredibly excited.Of course, some of that enthusiasm has been tempered as the film’s presentation came in the form of a dramatic reading from The Dark Knight Returns and David S. Goyer told fans that the film would be called Superman vs. Batman or Batman vs. Superman. Frankly, I have serious concerns about the filmmakers’ ability to take the tired old tropes of the meet-fight-team-up syndrome and translate them to the screen in a way that doesn’t reduce the characters to the lowest common denominators of superhero fiction.Don’t get me wrong; I loved Man of Steel and will be the first guy in line for tickets to this film when it comes in two years. Still, I’m not without reservations. For instance…