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It doesn't actually fit. They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot is about a plotline introduced but not really explored popularly. A fight is not a plotline and, even if it was, it is explored but just not the way fans wanted which is not the trope. As written, it seems more like Fight Scene Failure.
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Fight Scene Failure doesn't fit either, that's to do with believable effects and choreographing, not the tactics used.
Stories don't tell us monsters exist; we knew that already. They show us that monsters can be trademarked and milked for years.
It could work as Narm.
Nothing in this entry implies people thought that the final fight was funny, which is what Narm is about.
Thanks for the input. I guess I still tend towards thinking of it as They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot (as opposed to Fight Scene Failure) since the decisions with the fight's staging were most likely based on how it was written in the script. As I understand it, stunt and fight coordinators still have to work with scenes as they're written and conceived. And since the issues with that scene are tied to its writing and conception, I think of them as plot issues.
But it's definitely not a big deal.
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Its just not what TWAPGP is for and should remain cut.
Hi all. This definitely isn't a huge deal—but if it's alright, I was hoping to get a second opinion on an entry that I added to the YMMV page for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice a few months back.
In June of last year, I added an entry for They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot that reads as follows:
Shortly afterward, my entry was removed by another user with the following justification:
With respect to the other user: I wasn't pointing out a plot hole, I was pointing out a potential criticism of the filmmakers' creative decisions. My point wasn't that the fight between Batman and Superman doesn't make sense from an in-universe perspective; my point was that the filmmakers chose to stage the fight in a way that made it less interesting and entertaining for the audience than it could have been, which is why I think it was a fitting example of They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot. And I briefly cited a professional film critic (who also made that criticism of the film) to show that I wasn't the only person who felt that way.
Normally, I'd take this up with the person who deleted that entry, but they're evidently no longer active on the site. Does anyone else have any input on whether that was an appropriate contribution?
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