Doug doesn't understand movies unless they beat him over the head with the plot. And even then he seems to be confused by the things he's "reviewing".
Which is really ironic considering the end of the review has him and Joe asking to write the next movie. "Oh hey, your movie made no sense to us and did not portray Batman and Superman right. Please let us write one!"
Honestly expecting them to pay that much attention is setting up for disappointment.
Yeah, but I expected more out of Joe because he's supposed to be the Superman fanboy. He's supposed to know about these characters but it almost felt like he only knew simpler versions of them. And again, he defended Man of Steel because to him it was Supes having to go all out to stop a formidable threat yet in this film he seems pissed Kal's hero status is called into question. That's the only way he wants to see the character, this paragon hero who is supposed to be the ideal we aspire to. Joe seems to remove the man part from Superman.
Pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths, Clark Kent was the mask Superman wore.
Post-Crisis, Superman was the mask Clark wore. Alan Moore seems to believe both are masks Kal-El wears. There are many ways to write Superman, not one definitive way. Hell, people could argue against Bill and point out that the Bruce Wayne persona is Batman's mask, with Bruce's spirit dying when mommy and daddy died, so Superman isn't alone in that regard.
Which... really makes his life as Clark Kent sad. He was Clark Kent for years before he was Superman, but he ultimately had to sacrifice who Clark Kent was in order for Clark not to be assosicated with Superman. Superman is really the Clark the Kents raised, but he had to make the public perception of Clark into the anti-Clark. Make him timid and mild-mannered. Kal-El was just who he was born as, not who he was raised to be. Least, that's my take on the whole thing.
