ThatKidBlackHippy
thekid
As big as the name recognition thing is with Superman the character had a lot of bad will to overcome from the horrible way the Reeve Superman film franchise ended and then the release of the disappointing Singer movie.
The common thinking had become "Superman didn't connect with people as a character and the movies were too difficult to figure out", now I consider both of those ideas to be bullshyt but that type of thinking was out there.
Yup, plus a lot of people just hopped on the "SUPERMAN IS BORING AND YOU CAN'T TELL GOOD STORIES WITH SOMEONE SO POWERFUL" bandwagon.