Yup, it's really dumb. DF got much much better about it after the first few books, but in the beginning the cop-sidekick was idiotic.
That was a prime example, but it's practically a trope by this point. There's the TV adaptation of "Limitless" with a wild, loosey, goosey free spirit guy, teamed up with a serious, by the book female FBI agent. There's also a version of Minority Report, in which I understand they have a male psychic working with a female cop in what I assume is the same dynamic. I never watched The Mentalist except seeing it on when my sister was watching it, and it seemed like they had that going on as well. There was Angel & Kate Lockley on "Angel", there's Castle & Beckett on "Castle", there's some show out now called "Lucifer" in which I know the female lead is a cop. I'm pretty sure "The X-Files" had a similar division of roles, even if they were both agents. I know that Scully was the skeptic of the pair.
What was Superman's dream again, in the movie? I remember Batman's two things, but forget Superman's.
It was his conversation with his human father. Not exactly supernatural knowledge, like Batman's encounter with the Flash, and the apparent significance of the Road Warrior episode, which I did not get, but I still think the Superman's dream was not supposed to be the workings of his subconscious, putting words in Jonathan's mouth. The sorts of things Jonathan was saying really seemed like we were supposed to take it as a genuine manifestation of his post-mortal self.
The movie was... ok. I didn't hate any of it. I thought the concept of the new Lex fits very well in 2016- the superCEOs of today are young, charismatic, a little sinister, and let's just cut to the chase and say Zuckerbergian.
That said, while I liked the concept, I thought the actual execution was kind of lame. Lex's plan was... not great.
It is if you accept the notion that he was not out for actual gain, and that iconoclasm and the obliteration of Superman & the superhumans was the entirety of his objective. He never expressed any sort of ulterior motive for wanting Superman dead aside from the death itself, and since he actually died...
I thought the portrayal of Luthor fit that agenda very well. He's a guy with power and authority issues, who wants the greatest power he can see humbled and cast down. In case the divine references & allusions re: Superman weren't enough to make it clear to everyone where they were going, they actually had Luthor's whole bit with the inverted painting to point out that he's the devil in this story, whose classical motivation was simply the refusal to accept his subordinate role in the grand scheme of things.
