In terms of recent movies...
Star Wars: Rogue One: I honestly didn't attached to any of the characters emotionally (except for K-2S0, who was pretty fun). The lead felt like a clone of Rey from Force Awakens, and if you've watched the original movies, you know how this one ends from the get-go. Also the CGI for the dead actors is really unsettling. I heard about how bad it was online before seeing it, but ACTUALLY seeing it is just... *shudders*. All in all a pretty underwhelming Star Wars movie.
Batman V. Superman: This one, to me, is just bad. The amount of poor choices DC made on this is ludicrous. I know that a good number of people didn't like Man of Steel, but I thought this was way worse. It makes so many mistakes both as an adaption of two DC stories and as a movie on it's own. The plot feels like a retread of a lot of Man of Steel's ideas, there's a decent number of plot points that amount to nothing, and the movie tries way to hard to act important rather than feel important. It's actually really pretentious at times, which makes it a lot less fun. Jesse Eisenburg was an abysmal choice to play Lex Luthor (seriously: EVERY PART of his performance was horrible), Batman goes from being a deep character defined by fiercely sticking to his morals to a psychopath going out of his way to slaughter dozens of people, and Superman has no reason to want to stop Batman other than that he's a vigilante... like him. It has some pretty good acting from Ben Affleck and Jeremy Irons, Wonder Woman is pretty cool (for the small amount of screen time she gets), and some of the special effects are nice. But it's clear DC just wanted to rush into a cinematic universe in order to compete with Marvel, cramming so many plot points and characters into this movie that I barely felt invested in anything going on. This train wreck is not the movie that huge characters like Superman or Batman deserve.
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