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Justice League "Endgame"?

Would you like this type of story line for a Justice League movie saga?

  • Yes

    Votes: 4 28.6%

  • No

    Votes: 4 28.6%

  • Maybe a Animated one

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Marvel done it!

    Votes: 3 21.4%

  • There's a justice league movie?

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Nuke the site from orbit, Only way to be sure!

    Votes: 4 28.6%
  • Total voters
    14
Might have been good, might have sucked. Thing with Snyder is, quite a few of his ideas are good, but he's not able to communicate these ideas in his movies.

That, plus doing it now, it would just seem too similar to Endgame. Another thought I had years ago was that, to differentiate themselves from the MCU, the DC movies should use that which Marvel hasn't had employed as traditionally as DC, the Multiverse, and adapt CoIE, but even that time has come and gone (thanks to SpiderVerse, the Arrowverse adaptation, and even the upcoming MCU productions).

At this point, I'd say just do good, self-contained movies. I think they still could do a proper Justice League movie. Just don't make too much of a fuzz about it, don't use other movies to build up to it, don't tease something even bigger at the end. Don't bother with introductions of characters, even casual audience have at least some awareness of the main heroes (and even if their movies sucked, like Green Lantern, what counts is the awareness, people know what that character is).Just do a good movie. Adapt one of the many fantastic stories from the comics, like "Justice". Use concepts like Mongul and Warworld, Despero, the White Martians, the Crime Syndicate of Amerika,

We are at a point when people even not familiar with all the characters are ready to accept that they are just there, and have fun with it. Tap into that.
 
You do that sort of story after the team's come together and grown close, not right when they're just starting out.
 
Considering the TV DC shows just beat the movie people to it more or less...no. I mean why just copy what someone else did well? That's always a loose-loose proposition.
 
All this movie talk, but I am sitting here wondering... will we ever go to a movie theater again...
 
Takeru said:
No, it would have sucked. He did three movies and they all had massive problems, he was an awful choice and this wouldn't have changed with a fourth or fifth movie.
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Maybe read my post beyond the first sentence?!

Seriously, though, at this time, the Snyder Cut would be interesting only in an acadamic sense. In any event, Snyder is too much of an Ayn Randian to be a good fit for the Justice League.
 
I enjoyed Man of Steel and BvS, but those two were enough of Snyder's style for the DC. His style just really isn't appropriate for these characters, so I think at this point the best thing DC/WB can do is continue to pull away from his movies the way have been since Justice League came out.
 
JD said:
I enjoyed Man of Steel and BvS, but those two were enough of Snyder's style for the DC. His style just really isn't appropriate for these characters, so I think at this point the best thing DC/WB can do is continue to pull away from his movies the way have been since Justice League came out.
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Snyder has high concept ideas but his style is too clinical and detached/cool. Marvel has success with its movies because they're always warm and have a sense of fun and family/friendship about them. You watch every Snyder movie and it's almost a chore just to get through them because of how heavy and gloomy they feel.

Part of the problem is that the main DC heroes are, by nature, very much the detached, solo type. Batman and Superman (and WW) all prefer to go it alone, for the most part. Although I think Snyder went about Superman the absolute wrong way; the guy is all about hope and morals, and instead he does three movies where Superman is conflicted and fighting the wrong side at some point in all three. I realize Supes has always had to fight society's fear of him being an alien, but come on, you already have Batman as the dark, brooding outsider. You don't need two of them in the same movie.
 
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valkyrie013 said:
So aparently Zack's plan was to do his own Endgame type of story, as in they battle Darksied, and LOSE in the first movie, then in a sequel movie, the Flash takes a spin in his cosmic treadmill and goes back and warns Batman to save Lois.. thus altering the timeline and they win against darksied..
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The idea sounds good but any vague story idea can sound great on paper. It depends on the execution.
 
valkyrie013 said:
the Flash takes a spin in his cosmic treadmill and goes back and warns Batman to save Lois.. thus altering the timeline and they win against darksied..
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One of Endgame's genius moves was to not rewrite the timeline and prevent the Snap. Dramatically speaking, fixing/presenting a dark future works great if said future is ahead of us/our characters (Terminator 2, Days of Future Past), represents a perversion of the established timeline (Back to the Future Part II, First Contact), or is presented as a one-off in a much larger sweep of time (just about every time Trek has done this within an episode). But for a mere five-movie cycle to heavily rely on rewriting time because whoops, we shouldn't have let Clark's girlfriend die, sounds unpromising in the extreme.
 
Have we all forgotten that the Fash did come back to the present already in the first Justice League movie?
 
It would have been a spectacle for sure but I doubt it would have satisfied me even the slightest. The time travel aspect is pretty simple too. Endgame tried to change the idea of what a time travel movie could be and we were deeply invested in the characters from when the first Iron Man movie came out. Man of Steel though didn't capture people's hearts. I didn't care about the DC characters.
 
crookeddy said:
All this movie talk, but I am sitting here wondering... will we ever go to a movie theater again...
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Of course we will! We're not all going to die. Film production will start again. Movie theaters will open again. It might be a rough road for awhile, but humanity will endure.
 
I would have loved to see ZS version of JL and it's sequel. He gets epic in a way that's kind of overwhelming but I love it.
 
Under Zack Snyder, it wouldn't have worked. He has proven time and again that he doesn't get the characters. He was the wrong person to lead DC. You have to get the individual characters right before you can team them up, and he only managed to get Wonder Woman right.
 
The DCFU version of Endgame should be "Challenge of the Superfriends" as they are establishing a Legion of Doom (Lex and Deathstroke... Black Manta available... maybe Cheetah?)

Though Marverl should get on it... they can include Fantastic 4 by having their legion organized by Victor ...
 
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