The extended cut makes clear that Snyder wanted Batman v Superman to be a sprawling tableau in which his heroes only gradually took center stage, a version of Nashville in which Keith Carradine, Ned Beatty, and Ronee Blakely team up in the last reel to fight a glowing pile of dog links.
The following post contains SPOILERS for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
“In a democracy,” says Holly Hunter’s Senator Finch in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, “good is a conversation, not a unilateral decision.”
But if the longer cut is flabbier, it’s also grander and more ambitious, not just bigger but broader.