Oct 15, 2020

DC Universe and the inability of getting it right on the silver screen

 Let's be honest here: DC hasn't been able to get their characters right on the silver screen since Adam West... 

I know, truth hurts, and even the beloved Superman movies with Christopher Reeve managed to get things horribly wrong. No I'm not counting III and IV.  I'm talking about the good ones. Even Burton managed to screw up a few things. Not going to talk much about Schumacher out of respect to the dead. So, this isn't simply a Zack Snyder sucks rant. He royally does, but that's not the point. Even the Nolan trilogy sucks monkey dick...  there I said it Christopher Nolan may have made three great movies will technically two great movies and the third was a load of crap; but they all suck donkey dick as Batman movies!

Most of the blame lies on DC themselves. I may have mentioned it before. In the older times, superhero movies were not treated as a serious genre: see everything before the early 2000s and ironically DC movies were the proto-leaders on taking the brands a bit more seriously with the Burton movies. They dropped the ball when they allowed WB to  cave to McDonald's's pressure into making more Happy Meal toy friendly movies with Schumacher. Then it wasn't until Marvel Properties began showing that Superhero movies CAN work, starting with the somewhat corny, yet R-rated Blade followed by Bryan Singer's Biker Fetish X-Men and Sam Raimi's Tobey-Man. This era was flawed, but it paved the way for the MCU who showed that you CAN TELL OVERARCHING STORIES AND BE COMIC BOOK-ISH WHILE DELIVERING MOSTLY A GOOD PRODUCT... There were a few duds (IM3, Thor2, Super brie...) Even Nolan's James Bond  I mean "Batman" movies helped pave the way... by showing what NOT TO DO.

The problem with DC was that they had very little input on the movies. mostly they simply let the Studio's do whatever they wanted.

The next big guilty party is the Studio, in this case WB. They flip-flop way too much. They give directors "free range" only to become hyper-controlling in a flash. Not to mention the odd choices they make for directors.

Then we have the directors: Most of the time, the directors chosen have no respect or reverence towards the source material. Despite my criticisms of the Schumacher Bat films, he had more respect towards Batman than Nolan, Snyder, or even Burton.

DC NEEDS to be more involved with the movies. WB NEEDS to have some parameters for directors to follow, preferably with DC's approval. As long as the directors and writers follow those parameters, they have nearly dree range with the movies.

This would be the most basic explanation on how DC could fix their next iteration of movies. It's flabbergasting that the animation division from Warner can get DC so right yet the live-action division gets it so wrong.

It saddens me that DC can't be at the level they deserve in cinema... and the Snyder in hindsight cut brings me zero hope for DC...

Speaking of the Snyder Cut: Where is Ray Cryborg Fisher? Haven't heard "Whedon man Bad, or Johns man Bad" recently...

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