Came here looking to see if anyone had made this comment yet: “It seems to me that if you’re going to collate a bunch of these pictures into an article, you should really put a little bit of effort into naming each character...”

I am not too keen on the “teen” titan over there.

The NRA does this all the time. They’re just a blanket right-wing organization, meaning it’s laughable that they claim to represent all gun owners.

It’s absolutely crazy that his shitty comics have been so consistently turned into good movies that are unrecognizable as Millar’s comics. Like, why him? Why choose his garbage to polish into diamonds by rewriting damn near everything?

Yes, “zero character development before beginning to deconstruct the characters” was (one of) the things that disappointed me most in MoS. But I tend to think that problem is actually just one off shoot of the larger problem, that could be described as either bad luck, or bad timing.

I would absolutely pay to see a movie with just Bruce and Tony inventing stuff and shit talking for two hours.

I think I understand what Millar meant but may have articulated poorly. The movie characters may not have “secret” identities, but they do have dual identities. Millar is, I believe, asserting that DCEU puts the hero first and the human second, whereas MCU either puts the human first, or shoves the conflict between…

The secret identity argument is really baffling. Thor was declaring himself God of Thunder from the beginning, everyone always knew Steve Rogers was Captain America, Bruce Banner is so removed from Hulk that it’s not really a cover identity and Tony Stark revealed he was Iron Man in the very first MCU film. The only…

Fair, but Logan is an exception to the rule when compared to DC comics.

What a dumb reason, I mean, a really dumb, idiotic reason.

Adding my two cents to this: the reason modern DC movies don’t work is because there’s been zero character development before beginning to deconstruct the characters. Snyder had an idea of what Superman and Batman are to him without recognizing that every audience member has had a different introduction to the…

So agree on that last sentence. I really disliked GotG 2 for this very reason. Star-Lord does NOTHING to drive that story, everything comes to him. Plus, too many moments that were supposed to be emotional that had zero impact because not enough set up was done to build up to them.

The idea that every character could be just like Batman really hurt the DCEU. Instead of the characters with drastically different tones having to find a way to work together it’s let’s drown everything in grim dark grim.

People want to go see movies where they can enjoy themselves and have a good time, not oddly color-graded deconstructions of heroism bogged down with unnecessary CGI.

Alternate theory:

People want to go see movies where they can enjoy themselves and have a good time, not oddly color-graded deconstructions of heroism bogged down with unnecessary CGI.

Modern storytelling tends to be more character-driven (which the MCU understands). DC has struggled with this because they’ve always been more about the adventures and hijinks and wow factor of a universe with these powerful beings.

Although I love those movies and have them in VHS, DVD and Blu...

And don’t be afraid to make Superman a square- that’s his charm- it’s what makes him human.

They don’t even have to look far for the solution:

DC: Quit making your characters assholes and they’ll be more cinematic.