IMHO the best ones from DC were the first two Bale Batman movies and the first Cavill Superman movie. The rest had… issues. The problem was trying to pack in too much and making them too complicated. The “everything and the kitchen sink” problem diluted the movies until they became galloping messes. Even the Bale Batman movies should have had two more after the second to raise the stakes with Batman’s physical decline; a multi-year gap with no backstory was too cheap of a shortcut. If anything, two more could have ratcheted up the stakes, with ever more dire circumstances to really highlight Bane’s eventual entrance against Bruce’s desperation.
Marvel got things (mostly) right with their MCU, letting each character have one or more movies that adequately fleshed them out and gave them nuance and complexity with the screen time needed to make the character development “land” well.
IMHO the best ones from DC were the first two Bale Batman movies and the first Cavill Superman movie. The rest had… issues. The problem was trying to pack in too much and making them too complicated. The “everything and the kitchen sink” problem diluted the movies until they became galloping messes. Even the Bale Batman movies should have had two more after the second to raise the stakes with Batman’s physical decline; a multi-year gap with no backstory was too cheap of a shortcut. If anything, two more could have ratcheted up the stakes, with ever more dire circumstances to really highlight Bane’s eventual entrance against Bruce’s desperation.
Marvel got things (mostly) right with their MCU, letting each character have one or more movies that adequately fleshed them out and gave them nuance and complexity with the screen time needed to make the character development “land” well.
... but inflation didn't ;)