Please list some of these "absolute facts" you mention.
DC Movies - To Infinity and Beyond
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I retract my comment, which was based on an erroneous analysis of the DCEU films made to date.
Wouldn't expect anything else.
Which, ironically, is an absolute statement.
Truth is not easy to accept. The DCEU did not need 30 films to craft a tight, coherent comic universe where characters are not reduced to jokes / shells of their source, and come as close to how fantastic beings would operate in the world as opposed to joke-machine cartoon characters.
Still waiting for someone to present these "absolute facts" -and not a bunch of subjective commentary.
You're not going to get sense out of a Snyder fan. The fact that he typed "tight coherent universe" with a straight face should have been a big clue.
Seriously, just put a note on screen at the start reading "In this movie, the part of Bruce Wayne/Batman will be played by Michael Keaton."
Have to completely disagree, I have been consistently impressed with the quality and depth of the MCU's stories, characters and that they've managed to fit those in with some outstanding action and special effects.
No, they failed to make a tight coherent comic universe at all.
Yeah, I think the fact that they have mostly stepped back from making a huge, interconnected universe, and are doing mostly stand alones now is pretty clear evidence of that.
And to be clear, I'm not saying they're stepping away from it completely, but it's not their main focus, the way the MCU is for Marvel.
And to be clear, I'm not saying they're stepping away from it completely, but it's not their main focus, the way the MCU is for Marvel.
And I think that's a wise decision. Other studios' attempts to copy Marvel have not turned out well. Better if DC finds its own voice and approach. I like the balance they've struck, where the films happen to be set in a world where the other films exist, but it's just a bit of background texture and context rather than a driving element of the story.
Nope.
The Man of Steel DCEU Shared Continuity Universe might not be as overtly narratively interwoven as the MCU, but it still forms a whole tapestry of stories that continues to expand even as we're being given other takes on DC properties like the Elseworlds Joker and The Batman IPs.
Its largely cartoonish, suffers from continuity problems and lacking substance, save for a few productions one could count on one hand. That's not even addressing the often painfully obvious EFX.
This is all conveniently ignored by the usual suspects.
Tapestry is the best word to describe it. That is the fun that I come to enjoy with properties is not huge long story, but a shared world that might intersect and add to color of the world.
I don't know of any continuity problems offhand, other than a timeline placement error in one of the Spider-Man films or Loki possibly being inconsistent with things established in the films.
That reminds me of another thing about their connected movies, even when they are connected, they aren't nearly as connected as the MCU movies. Just look at movies like Aquaman and The Suicide Squad, both have only a handful of connections and references to other movies, but they still clearly take place in the shared universe.
First all, as a life long fan of animation, I don't understand why you keep using "cartoonish" as a negative. There are a lot of animated series and movies, that I would right up there with most live action. In general I think the idea that all animation is simple and shallow stopped being true, if it ever was, in the '80s and '90s with the rise of Batman: The Animated Series, and Gargoyles on the TV front, and the beginnings of the Disney Rennaissance and people like Don Bluth on the movie side.