I've read people posting how they took their five-to-ten-year-olds to see this movie and I'm always surprised.
I wouldn't take another person's young kid to see this much less my own.
Way too violent, confusing, and dull IMO.
But hey--kids play GTA at age six and learn to beat up hookers for money so what do I know?
I wouldn't want to take other peoples kids to this movie, either. Not because of the movie, though.
Heh. I'm guessing you don't have any kids. Or, at least, a son. The idea of "shielding" boys from comic book violence is cute, but dumb. Boys are rough. Boys play violently. They have NERF wars -- which my three kids and their cousins did today at a birthday party. They were playing "zombie war" ... even the girls (there were many 'casualties', but no injuries). They slash at each other with toy lightsabers -- which I watched my 4yo and 8yo spend an hour or so doing this evening. They play Call of Duty 4 with friends. Shooting each other. Lobbing grenades. Laughing. Dying. Having a damn good time. It's mostly just high-tech versions of the same crap I did when I was a boy ... war games, cops & robbers, cowboys & Indians.
I won't let my young'uns watch gore. Blood and guts is too much (for now) ... which is why I don't let 'em watch The Walking Dead (try as he might). But, violence doesn't bother me a bit. It's right in his wheelhouse. Especially near-bloodless comic book violence. There wasn't a single fight scene or confrontation in BvS that I found even the least bit inappropriate for an elementary aged boy. Hell, I'd've taken my 4yo son if I though he could sit still for two-and-a-half hours. Both of my sons (including the 4yo) loved Jurassic Park 4, violence and all. Their current favorite movies are Star Wars -- wherein hands and heads get lopped off with some regularity, and a whole hell of a lot of people get shot, blown-up, run through, or just otherwise end-up dead.
Boys need to learn to direct their energy, not to stifle it. You won't raise a useful boy by pretending he's not interested in fight scenes. You'll do so by making sure he watches fight scenes where good stands-up to evil, where the good guy fights for something that's worth fighting for, etc. Y'know ... movies with heroes.
Honestly, the most objectionable scene in the movie was the Lois Lane bathtub scene. Not too many kids are going to screw-up their lives with a gunfight or brawl. Quite a few more will do so with ill-advised, too-young, unmarried sexual encounters. I wasn't too thrilled with having him watch a hero climb into a bathtub with a naked chick not-his-wife (he's young enough that he's still says 'ew' to such things). But, I'm plenty thrilled to have him watch a hero stand in the face of evil and fight back. To the death. There's plenty of good lessons to be taught in that.
You're plenty right about GTA, though. There is a difference between watching good fight evil, and watching/playing amoral mayhem. It's not the violence, it's the message. Also, the hookers ... Lois-in-the-bathtub, times 50.
As for it being "too boring" ... again, you must not have a son. He was on the edge of his seat. Still, quiet, & mezmerized for three consecutive hours -- with only one bathroom break, when he usually asks for three in a half-hour dinner. "Best movie ever!", to quote him. "Too confusing"? Possibly, in parts ... but I like to challenge the boy.
Maybe people are more sophisticated than you give them credit for, and can judge a piece on its creative merits, rather than the fact that it's merely new and shiny?
I doubt it. It's difficult to underestimate the sophistication of people who want to seem sophisticated. People like to seem more discerning than they actually are ... for the same reason people claim to like expensive wine, when most can't really taste the difference. They don't want to be thought unsophisticated, or, for geeks, lacking in geek discernment. If the exact same movie were critically acclaimed, it'd be more popular. Because people are sheep. Even allegedly 'sophisticated' ones.
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