25 Reasons why Batman vs Superman worked

Everything Right With Batman v Superman
1 Batman is popular. Superman is popular. Batman and Superman are popular
2 It's an expensive movie. The Batman vs Superman fight looks like it was done with many $100,000/year computer people.
3 People generally don't care about philosophical stuff anyway, so when Batman talks about Superman having too much power then goes murdering people, they probably don't observe.
4 Prior to screwing that up, they did do a really good job at establishing those themes.
5 Comic book geeks have become the majority. They don't read about Thomas Pynchon books or do actual academic stuff. They watch this kind of garbage to seem cool and smart and then complain about why people don't agree with them, even if they can't really defend their points or understand theirs well. I'm probably included in some section of this checklist as well.
6 A lot of famous people are in this movie
7 The director of Watchmen directed this movie
8 The director of Watchmen directed this movie, which everyone was assuming was going to be based on the Dark Knight Returns
9 Expensive 4D tickets exist now
10 The economy is back
11 Inequality is back, mental illness isn't getting fixed, education has a lot of problems, where students go to school some hours less, etc..
12 The origin story was kept to a minimum. This is in direct contrast to Man of Steel which was a Christopher Nolan influenced superhero film that was inspired by his Farewell My Concubine-ish biographical take on Batman in 2005.
13 Not everyone thinks Batman shouldn't be allowed to shoot someone
14 Zack Snyder believes that he's doing The Dark Knight Returns Batman so everyone else should too.
15 Lois Lane was done well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI_moaVShMs
16 A DC Movie Universe doesn't have to be innovative, just a trend.
17 Pop culture is big
18 People like bad movies
19 Superman dying sets up Justice League well.
20 Jennifer Lopez and Electra weren't in this movie
21 DC Fanboys
22 As weird as the Wilhelm scream Hot Wheel Toys Batmobile stunts were, it wasn't like a Z-rated movie where a 40 year old man dubs a 4 year old girl. So there is that much good to say about the film.
23 It's enjoyable if you don't think too much about it
24 It's enjoyably bad
25 (Also a con,) you get to see Batman shoot a lot of people
*No one wants to see Batman and Superman fail