Fifty Shades of Crud

With half the population supposedly fantasising about being seriously ravaged by an eccentric billionaire, can we start to imagine what the film industry would be like in a world of equal gender relations?

Like, something along the lines of twenty-eight year old virgin meets rich heiress. Rich heiress convinces no-longer virgin to nail his scrotum to a tree and then drink heiresses urine if they are to remain an item.

Doesn't sound too much like the average mainstream offering, does it? Perhaps the plot to some dark and disturbing independent film, intended unwittingly to offend Middle Class sensibilities. Presumably, because men are supposed to be doing the punishing, perhaps as a way of creating the perpetual female virgin if we see sadomasochism alongside the breaking of the hymen? And men are supposed to fantasise about being Batman.

Just A Question.....

...just asking, but I can think of two very highly anticipated geek-related films which were released in the last year or so, both of which featured a great deal of flashbacks as part of their narratives...

So, why is it OK for Star Wars: Episode 7 "The Force Awakens" to contain flashbacks and not Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice? Both made use of flashbacks, dreams and visions in their narratives. In the case of Star Wars... these referred to events in previous instalments and Batman v. etc.  contained similar with reference to characters and scenarios only seen in DC comics.

In other words, both really ought to be bit confusing for newbies and familiar to fans, somewhat anyway.

But (the) Batman film was considered by "experts" be too full of "dream sequences" that "made no sense". Except, I'm pretty sure I could understand them, while the visions in The Force Awakens were very "blink and you'll miss it" and only really understandable on repeat home viewing. So, are film reviewers stupid or do they just assume that EVERYONE has seen ALL the previous Star Wars instalments a hundred times and know every single obscure reference, while not understanding the concept of a dystopian future, the result of unconditional (hero) worship of The Man of Steel (not Joseph Stalin, the other one)?