Thoughts on the Batman v Superman/Turkish Airlines ads

I wanted to talk about this on Sunday, but when I started looking through the 2 TV spots (they're more of ads than trailers imo), I didn't really find much to talk about. However, someone just told me that he'd like to know my opinion about them so here you go!

Gonna start with the Fly to Gotham ad first

So the ad starts with a Turkish Airlines plane flying over Gotham, because it's technically their ad. but it's a beneficial and mutual partnership between them and DC/WB, meaning that they both get something from it. After that, we get to see a couple of buildings during daylight, and then every other scene after than except for just one happens during the night.

One of the buildings we see in the night is Ace Chemicals. Briefly, AC is the building in which the Joker as we know him today is born. This is where his skin was bleached, his lips turned red, and his hair turned green. There are also two buildings on the left that have the 2 colors green and purple glowing up. If you haven't ever noticed, the most famous Joker attire always somehow contains green and purple, so it's not just a cool shot of the building, it's a pretty good homage and an Easter egg. 

Immediately the next shot, we see Bruce Wayne talking about how Gotham is not better than before and "restored to its former glory", which begs the question, what happened to it that it lost this glory? Wayne is old now, and he has been in Gotham as both Wayne and Batman for a long time, so it can't be the crime. Zack Snyder said before that Gotham and Metropolis were sister cities, meaning that they're only a couple or a few miles away from each other. Also, earlier in the trailer, we also see a bunch of buildings being constructed/fixed. The only thing I can gather from this (if this actually means anything and isn't just a coincidence) is that Superman destroyed a few buildings from Gotham as well when he was fighting Zod in Man of Steel.

We see, after that, the old opera house, next to which Bruce's parents were murdered. Then there are a couple of scenes of the nightlife in Gotham City which include a shot of Bruce looking at the skyline of the city and its lit buildings.

Ace Chemicals makes another appearance, interesting.

We get our first look at how the bat signal actually looks on the clouds when it's turned on. From how it moves and integrates with the clouds, it looks pretty cool!

In your face, Supes! The Bat is not dead!

That's pretty much what I noticed about the Fly to Gotham ad. Now, let's get into Fly to Metropolis!

Again, the ad starts with a shot of a Turkish Airlines plane (shocking). Then we get a look of how Metropolis now looks after all the destruction that happened in Man of Steel.

Nothing really worth mentioning about this shot, except that this tall building on the right is LexCorp

Then we see a few shots of how the lifestyle in Metropolis is going now. The voice over mentions that the city is now "reborn, rebuilt", which makes complete sense considering how great it looks now that the buildings are going upwards and each one is in one piece. We see the rebuilt Daily Planet building, which is unlike the destroyed one in Man of Steel does not have the globe on top of it for some reason.

After that, we see Superman's statue, and a very cool shot from the point of view of someone in the street seeing him fly.

We get to see Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor saying more than one sentence finally, and here's my problem with it. Eisenberg is probably my most feared feature about this movie, because he doesn't really look like the traditional Lex Luthor that we know and love (not sure really if love is right word, but at least we love to hate him). And unlike all his appearances in the trailers and his lines, he appears here like a confident and know-it-all Lex, which is what Lex is all about, so I'm really confused and still not really sure about his performance, but I'm hoping he'll prove me wrong.

That's pretty much everything that is there to be said about these two ads, except that one badass wide shot that was in the end of both ads. While it's not really much of anything, it's just eye candy for every Batman and Superman fan to finally see them in the same movie and facing each other.

Two quick things I had to add just for the sake of telling you everything I know. In trailer 4, which is just an exact copy of trailer 2 except one scene. In that one scene, you see Diana Prince aka Wonder Woman riding a plane, and it's a Turkish Airlines plane (again, shocking).

The other thing that I have to add is that on the website of Turkish Airlines, they added 2 specific pages, one for each city. In these pages, you can see the maps for both Gotham City and Metropolis. I'll insert the maps and put the websites in their caption.

Gotham City as it is in the DCEU

Metropolis as it is in the DCEU

What about you? Did you like these ads? Did I miss something? And here's a cool question for you; if you can live in either Gotham City or Metropolis, which one would you choose? Let me know in the comments below, and if you like this, share it with your friends! ☺