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DC Movies - To Infinity and Beyond

TREK_GOD_1 said:
Perhaps they reconsidered the wisdom in making a Wonder Twins anything. Despite other version of the characters appearing in more recent times, its still heavily associated with a 1970s cartoon and whatever part of that generation who watched it. Of all DC properties one could adapt from that deep catalog, one has to question the sense behind choosing the Wonder Twins.
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They've managed to redeem a lot of characters with a less than great history plenty of times, so I don't see why The Wonder Twins couldn't have been any different.
And if they can turn a character most non-comic book fans saw as a joke like Aquaman, or unknowns like The Guardians of the Galaxy into huge successes, I don't see why they couldn't have done the same for The Wonder Twins.

Or they might see the light with the kind of adaptations and talent involved, since LoT and BW were never examples of DC adaptations at their finest.
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Batwoman was one of the weaker Arrowverse shows, but Legends was amazing.

Christopher said:
I don't agree. After all, Aquaman has a long history in the comics, but the WT were invented for Super Friends. Their association is pretty much exclusively with the cartoon. And let's face it, it wasn't a great cartoon. I grew up watching Super Friends in first run, and I definitely think the Wonder Twins are lame.

My point, which I should've made clearer, is not that Super Friends' Aquaman wasn't lame. My point is that everyone in Super Friends was lame. Even Batman was lame there. With other DC heroes, you can refer to their comics adventures and find better portrayals. Hell, Aquaman in the '40s was such a badass he literally threw polar bears at bad guys. But the Twins are nearly exclusive to the cartoon, aside from homages in things like Smallville.
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They also had a comic series back in 2019 that seemed to get a pretty good response. Not sure how popular it was though.
 
M'rk son of Mogh said:
Aquaman was stained by his cartoon appearances and reputation that resulted from that but seems to be doing just fine.
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But Aquaman as adapted property did not start out that way. One of the reasons Filmation adapted him for 1967's The Superman / Aquaman hour of Adventure was due to his popularity and status among DC's top characters, so there was another view of the character being serious (the 1st comic series) and played straight (Filmation) before the Cartoon Network spots made a joke out of his Super Friends incarnation.

Mr. Adventure said:
The earliest pop culture mention of Aquaman being lame that I'm aware of was the superfriends sketch on The State from 1994.
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Ah, and once again, parodies took their inspiration not from the comics which predated it all, or Filmation's cartoon, but Hanna-Barbera's Super Friends, which was never presented a good representation of any of the core DC characters.
 
Probably is then. With the trial going on right now, if it was true it would probably be the big entertainment news going around everywhere.
 
News about the current state of the DCEU (and housecleaning), and Jay Oliva's concept art for what would have been the Batman vs. Deathstroke film--

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JD said:
They've managed to redeem a lot of characters with a less than great history plenty of times, so I don't see why The Wonder Twins couldn't have been any different.
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Frankly I would rather see D.C get their act together and release another Superman movie and do a proper Justice League relaunch before trying to make stars out of characters that only fans of 70s cartoons know about.
 
I'm the other way around, we've gotten plenty of Superman and Justice League over the years, so I'm happy to see some new characters get some attention. They've got a ton of great characters, so let's spread the love a bit.
 
JD said:
I'm the other way around, we've gotten plenty of Superman and Justice League over the years, so I'm happy to see some new characters get some attention. They've got a ton of great characters, so let's spread the love a bit.
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We've had one Justice League movie and only two Superman movies in the past twenty years. Really the only D.C character that has gotten "lots of love" is Batman. How many Iron Man, Spiderman, Thor, Captain America, and Xmen movies have we had in that same time frame? And how many times have they crossed over into each other's films. The fact that Thor is getting a fourth stand alone film while we we're still waiting on the first Flash movie to release is pathetic. There are far bigger D.C characters that need their own movies before we even start thinking of the Wonder Twins.
 
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They might not have gotten movies, but they've been in numerous TV series and animated movies.
 
JD said:
They might not have gotten movies, but they've been in numerous TV series and animated movies.
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No Superman movie has made a billion dollars. The movies are where the money's at.

Three Superman series
Two movies in the past 30 years



Batman

1989
1992
1995
1997
2005
2008- Billion dollars
2012- Billion dollars

Batman VS Superman
The Batman

And that weird Batman movie in 1966 ;)
 
JD said:
They might not have gotten movies, but they've been in numerous TV series and animated movies.
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I'm talking about live action movies., If they want to make cartoons and TV shows with the Wonder Twins then more power to them.
 
Anwar said:
No one asked for a movie about the Guardians of the Galaxy or Peacemaker either. How's that go?
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You took the words right out of my mouth, or about half of them since I was only going to mention the Guardians.
And I understand why other people want a new Superman movie, I just always prefer to see characters who have never been on screen get a chance to shine.

TREK_GOD_1 said:
The fact so many other examples in film history did not need actors to be pals off-screen, yet deliver great performances / believable on-screen relationships means it was not necessary. You may like the idea of some of the MCU actors having some sort of friendship off-set, but that has no bearing on whether or not their performances worked. They were actors long before the MCU, and if any were known to deliver the believability goods in earlier perfomances, you can bet it was not dependent on their off-screen relationships to other performers.
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Sorry to go back to such an old conversation, but this got kind of overrun by other stuff, and I also came up with an analogy to help explain my position. You can throw some boots on a person, throw them in the saddle, and teach them to ride in a few days, and they can ride onscreen, but it's still not going to be the same as someone who has spent half their time on a horse since they were 5 years old. With actors playing friends, you can put people together and they can convincingly play friends, but there's still not going to be the same as people who are really friends off screen. It's the difference between being convincing, and being authentic.
 
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