I love this Narrative, where criticism of DC is deflected by edgy water carriers insisting that Marvel is for kids and by extension only serious adults get dark, cool DC
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The scuttlebutt is that it was made only because they promised Perlmutter they would. Indeed, when Kevin Feigue built the slate, Perlmutter didn’t want to greenlight a Captain Marvel movie, so Feigue made a deal - he would add Inhumans to the slate, Perlmutter pet property hecause he thinks he can replace the mutants…
For some reason I keep hearing the Warner Brothers executives in the voice of Baldrick from Blackadder.
Marvel’s current slate of movies are, yes, relatively kid-friendly. But as a general rule, so are the comics they’re drawn from. Sure, Marvel can do some more serious and dark storylines in their comics, but they are still for the most part (like both of the mainstream companies and their big characters) kid-friendly.
Oh, I know...I mean, I agree with you. I think it’s just an attempt to appear as if they have things under control. I probably shouldn’t bash WB/DC’s attempt - I think they tried, but the writing’s been on the wall for some time now - the Shazam/Black Adam separate films, the Affleck rumors, Snyder is done - Joss is…
It was groundbreaking in terms of superhero comedy. Stellar cast too.
Yes, because that monster in Supes Vs Bats is SUPER SERIOUS BUSINESS. Very serious and dark, very adult.
This is true with the current DC/Marvel industry, but the difference to me is it wasn’t true when those characters were first introduced. They gained their audience by telling individual stories which occasionally crossed over but were usually self contained. It took many decades of these stories before big…
It’s ironic (or perhaps not) that Wonder Woman was also the DC film that VERY closely followed Marvels formula of filmmaking. So much so that it’s biggest weakness is also Marvels; an unmemorable villain and a third act that devolves into a big CGI punchfest.
Do me a favor, and please read this. I’m not trying to insult anyones taste in stories, I’m just want to let you know what us “older fans” are going on about.
You do understand that these movies are based upon the same stories that have people like Kite Man and Toyman... and that people love these stories because they…
What alternate reality are you living in?
The whole attitude toward DC is amusing, if only for this idea that they’re going to change anything based on prior performance. If capitalism drove artistic novelty, we wouldn’t be waist deep in the MCU’s nearly unbroken (so far, Winter Soldier excluded) string of formulaic and at best passable white bourgie…
Agreed, but the people consuming comic books are kind of aware of the rules and discontinuities, whereas the movie audiences (which aren’t so genre savvy) aren’t expected to.
You mean the most comedic and thematically closest to the Marvel movies? I agree, WW was fantastic. Too bad the other 3 were mediocre to shit-show in level of quality.
Nothing about Batman Superman can be taken seriously.
So essentially they want to rake in the big bucks that Marvel is, while at the same time doing something different so that they’re not accused of following the Marvel model, with the advantage that that will allow them to do out-of-continuity, more auteur-focused movies.
Until there’s a single sign that the movies won’t be juggernauts in terms of financial profitability, I doubt WB/DC will do much, if anything, to seriously turn the boat around.