http://www.superherohype.com/news/34577 … n#/slide/1
Once again, it's not the fact that Metropolis was almost destroyed. That was fine. If Superman and Zod fought, the destruction was realistic (or, hell, might've been toned down). These are gods fighting in a restricted space, and I think Clark did about as well as he could minimizing the damage. That's not the problem.
The problem is that the scenes immediately after the movie are light-hearted and fun. They're from a different movie that doesn't care that millions just died. That's the problem. And I'm *thrilled* that there will be consequences in the next movie because there should be. But I'm also one of the people that loves connected movies/universes, and it bothers me less that the consequences are delivered outside of the movie that incited the incident.
But people complain that Captain America and Iron Man 2 were meaningless because they were just setting up Avengers. But in this current model, the entire 3rd act of Man of Steel is going to be paid off in Batman v Superman. That, to get the entire story, you have to watch both movies. Which is fine with me....but I think that's the reason why people are upset about the ending. I don't think they're upset that people died or that there weren't consequences. I think they're upset that the movie basically forgot it happened after it happened. Which was just really....really weird.