[quote=@Morden Man]
[@Lord Wraith] I'll err on the side of caution and put this in spoilers:

[hider=Even more BvS spoilers!]Neither Keaton nor Bale took anywhere near as much glee in breaking the rules as Dawn of Justice's Batman. Branding people? [i]Branding[/i] people? There's literally nothing less Batman than that. Affleck's Batman is cruel and sadistic, he searches Clark out to combat him without so much as conducting a proper conversation with him, and he seems to [i]enjoy[/i] brutalising people in a way other interpretations have not up to this point. I felt like I was watching Rorschach or Deathstroke instead of Batman.[/hider]

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[hider] If we were dealing with a young Batman who hadn't been under the cowl for twenty years and lost Robin and somehow the Manor I'd be inclined to agree with you.  But the fact that we're dealing with Frank Miller's "He'll walk again but he'll remember" Dark Knight it doesn't phase me. He's cruel, he's brutal and he's angry. Note that even after Wonder Woman crosses him he doesn't do the same. Plus I'd argue Superman is just as guilty since he made it a personal vendetta to take down the Bat. What we watched was two very stubborn men who are the most powerful beings in their lives decide to butt heads. Superman literally comes to Gotham to tell Bruce to pack it in because Bruce's brand (heh) of Justice doesn't align with his own. But Superman is hardly better since he dances around international issues and meddles in foreign affairs like they're open debates. He doesn't use tact at all. 

So while I agree Batman is more brutal and almost sadistic, I think I understand Snyder's vision and reasoning behind it. Furthermore his Superman was pretty dark from the get go so you have to make Batman really dark in order to properly contrast the two. [/hider]