DC Movies - To Infinity and Beyond
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Well obviously in WB's eyes they weren't a 'hit' enough for WB to keep to its initial; plans of all their 'stand alone' films (IE their shelving of the "Cyborg" stand alone for now); changing the Justice league film to NOT have Darkseid in it - or set it up for that sequel; and the fact they seem to be shelving Superman too in favor of Supergirl.
If WB was happy with the ROI on all this, they'd be forging ahead in the same way Marvel Studios did to build up the MCU to the point it's at today. But they're not - they're constantly trying to find their 'safe formula' and are not willing to gamble and they obviously feel that their BO on the DCEU films should have equaled or exceeded their MCU counterpart films (IE Justice League should have at least topped the 1 Billion mark worldwide like the original MCU Avengers - except it didn't so WB execs are scambling to try and find out why <--- (Hint: maybe if they built up the individual characters in stand alone films beforehand...)
Where did I say I was pissed? Again, I do consider it a plothole that Superman had to use the weapon that emits radiation that would kill him - when Wonder Woman could have done it - and they BOTH would have lived.
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At this point I would like a 1970s Batman period piece movie. Blue and grey Batman, true detective type story, very Neal Adams inspired...pure pipe dream, but if done well would be cool.
Hey now, they've done some pretty interesting Superhero based porn parodies over the last few years...don't knock it.Is that the porn parody?
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I don't think Affleck really put it all in with Justice League.. an experienced actor knows a good script when he reads it and for some reason i'm convinced that Affleck knew JL would bomb critically. However he was under contract and he would be paid very well so why rock the boat.
Affleck's Batman was great and in a different way as good as Bale's Batman. Bale just had the fortune to star in movies that were extremely well written storywise and had great villains to play off on, chief amongst them the legendary Joker performance by Ledger.
Affleck's Batman took a cue from an older version that's been hardened and possibly disillusioned by years on the streets, not unlike Bale in Dark Knight Returns but Affleck didn't have the fortune to capitalize on that further as his character was constrained by DC to work as a team up movie (and a badly written one).
I would have loved to see an Affleck Batman solo movie that expanded on that and get it right much like Wonder Woman got it right casting AND story wise. Unfortunately DC still hasn't understood that huge CGI fights are not nearly enough to keep an audience nowadays, the movies have to respect the characters and make them believable (as much as Superheroes can be believable) before they throw them into huge fights.
However given the recent news i think DC is panicking and yanking hard on the rudder in hopes to be both critically AND financially successful (none of their DCU movies breaking the billion barrier whereas Marvel has 6). I hope DC can relaunch it well but i am pessimistic, their movies just don't have that right mix of story, character and humor that Marvel has perfected and i hope they will find that soon.
It certainly is not the fault of their property.. many more people around the world know who Superman or Batman are than they knew about Captain America or Iron Man before the movies came out so fingers crossed that DC gets it's house in order, finds some decent writers and directors who like Patty Jenkins can knock it out of the park with Wonder Woman.
You're sort of half-right there. Bale was in The Dark Knight Rises -- but Snyder's version of Batman in BvS was definitely based on The Dark Knight Returns, i.e. the 1986 Frank Miller graphic-novel miniseries.
Michael B Jordan now being touted. Black Superman? Fuck yeah.
That's probably a misunderstanding. https://www.cbr.com/michael-b-jordan-superman-rumor-analysis/
Ooops.. well, there's been so many Dark Knights, who can keep track of all of them?
A+ would read again.
Wow, you are sooooo coool!
No one has ever been as bad at anything as the WB execs are at making DC movies. Vanilla Ice is better at being African-American than anyone at WB is at making DCEU-related decisions.
And then after that Warner Bros. released the following statement which, rather pointedly, is not a denial.
And then Cavill himself released this on his Instagram with the caption "Today was exciting. #Superman".
https://www.instagram.com/p/BnpPIrmFN9n/?taken-by=henrycavill
He's done. Too much smoke, probably means wildfire. Michael b. Jordan is Superman confirmed by Henry Cavill.
Michael b Jordon? It’s not April Fools.