I think that’s a fine theory. I’m sure there’s some truth there.

You got what I was going for with that. Just a bit of hyperbole - I didn’t mean literally nobody lol

If you’re going to include Howard the Duck, at least adjust for inflation. I mean shit, movies back then were like, three bucks. Let’s see how that list looks adjusted for inflation...

$785 Global includes domestic. Taking a look at the weekend results from the big overseas markets, BvS has tanked quickly. I’d guess something close to 70% of it’s $488 million overseas was brought in on that country’s opening weekend. It is not doing “gangbusters”.

I think WB really misunderstands what it has on its hands in Superman. The Superman that everyone has in their head is still essentially Christopher Reeves or the 1940s cartoon Superman. That Superman was invented to appeal to kids.

You equate BvS with “adult” the way a nine year old equates rattling off a random string of profanities “adult”. Neither makes any sense, neither is inherently “adult”. You’re confused about what that word means.

It didn’t do those things because it’s extremely difficult to do those things in one movie.

True, but you’re talking about Iron Man and Hawkeye, vs Freaking Batman AND Superman.

Agreed in the main, but... did they really screw over Edgar Wright that much? We know what happened in the end, but man... he had that movie in his control for a long time. It took him five years just to write the script and another two years just to come up with some test footage. I’m not saying he should have rushed…

It was a lack of patience in that they needed either a sequel to Man of Steel to really earn the ending and build his character better, which was non existant in the first movie, or they needed to make a Batman movie first to introduce him first so they could have spent more time developing Supes in BvS.

ok but here’s the thing. the only thing you can argue that BvS “stuck” to was TDKR, which everyone seems to forget was an elseworlds story. it was NOT a part of the main continuity. it was a standalone story, a “what if” kind of deal inspired by the cold war sensibilities and frank miller’s singular, fucked up…

Strollin’ with the troll. BvS is adult because of murder, rain, night-time and angst... nope. These things are actually a juvenile’s concept of ‘adult’. I know where yr coming from. If DC had handled it right they could have pulled off that weighty vibe, but instead... ‘splosions and BOOOM and kill ‘em all, iced with…

you’re confusing “adult” with “dark for the sake of being dark”. which, i’d posit, has borne itself out as a poor choice because the cataclysmic drop-offs from week to week are proof that no one is going out and telling their friends how much fun BvS is. compare that to when the avengers came out, and i had people who…

DC is like a fourteen-year-old’s take on ‘adult.’ Hyper-violent, highly-stylized, and completely incoherent. Basically the complete Sound & Fury package.

No. Sorry. There’s no similarity between the world of Thor and the world of Iron Man. There’s just Phil Coulson. That’s not world building. That’s just a cameo. The important thing is to establish who Thor is, which is why setting it in a secluded desert town works. It doesn’t have to do any world building. It just…

So you’re the person who liked BvS! It’s like finding a Sumatran Rhino!

You sound salty about BvS being awful.

weak casting

Yo—no joke, the logos are what killed me dead in the middle of the movie. But you know, according to Snyder... it fits the “mythology.” (Fucking hack.)

Well... thank goodness that didn’t happen!