I'm a fan of all of them and the XMU (Is that a thing?) in no particular order.
The Mu-MU?? (Mutant Movie Universe)
Now does Fox also work with Universal? Then it could be the F.U. F.U. (Fox-Universal Film Universe)
Please. Its no conspiracy theory when certain "fans" while on an on about how "dark" DC films are and specifically point to Guardians and the Avengers movies (among others) as the preferred contrast...which happen to be the most lightweight, jokey films in the MCU. Moreover, this faction has also criticized the Cap films (Winter Soldier a bit more than others) for being "too serious" or essentially charging them with being Bond/Bourne movies with superhero trappings.
The percentage of fans who feel the way to described I think correlates with the percentage of Muslims who wholeheartedly agree with the 9/11 terrorists.
If that group criticized the Captain AMerica films, then it's got to be a small percentage of those who also criticized the DC Film Universe.
No sale. WW is anything but the stand-up/Power Rangers show that is so much of the MCU. In the WW review thread, I recall some trying to pick at the film for its increasingly dark themes leading to the final battle and Steve's death...in between the by-the-minute whining about Zach Snyder.
No one was expecting or even wanting something with the feel Power Rangers or the old WW TV show. They just wanted a hero they could believe in (and also feel like their origin made sense in terms of being a hero).
I've heard many who love the DC movies and feel the DC TV series are silly, misguided, and not at all a film version of the source, etc.
Uh, how many exactly, and in what forum? Surely not here on TrekBBS... We're not expecting a complete and straight translation from the comics -- just some thing that has a general "comic book feel". DC TV has proven time and again how they actually respect the history of the characters (i.e. previous media & stories)...so with that obvious respect , we're pretty cool with the changes they made for the TV medium. It's kinda like how Raimi made some significant changes for SPider-Man (i.e. Organic webshooters and essentially having Gwen Stacy but calling her MJ - Mary Jane).. yeah, it those who a bit weird & hard to swallow, but the overall movie worked out, and those little snippets (i.e. someone singing the old cartoon theme song, JK SImmons hitting it out of the park with a very comic booky J. Jonah Jameson, etc.) really makes me fond of the movie.
Oh, and something I keep forgetting to say in these threads.... I want a movie/TV show that I can SHARE with my kids. Other heroes...like Logan...it's OK that his last movie was pretty adult. The character technically is supposed to be for kids (despite all the action fires, Halloween costumes, etc.).But Superman, more than just about any of them, should be one you can share with your little kids.
The other thing is that the Snyder movies seems to have sabotaged the good things they set up, or sometimes never even set them up in the first place.
Martha Kent's helping CLark focus and use his powers correctly really felt like she was working with someone with special needs (like autism), which feels very modern and "realistic", but yet actually makes sense for SUperman. What they COULD have done was have Martha then later become a child therapist, and have Clark visit her at the end of a session, and see the child smile, and then Clark say "You'r e my hero, Ma." THAT would have made sense. Instead, we have a bitter waitress in B v S who I feel had this line cut from her speech to CLark "..And Get Off My Lawn!!"
Similarly, Jonathan's talk with young Clark evokes the modern concern about bullying, but totally makes sense in he choices young CLark needs to make now, and the challenge for the future. It's just that later on, Jonathan comes off as paranoid, and his sacrifice for a dog just seems kinda dumb and pointless. It doesn't evoke the selflessness that we feel Superman should have.
Superman having to kill someone...we really needed AT LEAST one movie to show Superman's no killing rule. That way, him having to do it could feel tragic, rather than I think some people's minds jumping him from non-hero to killer in a couple of hours.
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