DC More Like MARVEL?

got so distracted by the pacman ghost's sunglasses reflection

I dont think they should be more like marvel. Its just the main movies so far have been the superman movies and now batman v superman, and all in all they just havnt been very good to watch.

I still patiently await the director's cut.

No. Definitely not. DC Animated is so on point, they're wrecking Marvel's animated content. Marvel movies respected the comics, DC has paid heavy homage to the comics but they've decided to create characters that are the opposite from their comic version so that they can learn and move towards that goal, which is fine but on top of poor conveyance people just walked away confused.

They don't need to be light and fun, there's a reason why Batman remains the most popular super hero, just do him justice and get that solo film out as quick as possible. But yeah Suicide Squad should be more fun while being dark because you have Joker and Harley. "Fun" should follow the relevant characters, Flash, Green Lantern, Robin, Joker, etc.

Honestly I'm getting bored with Marvel movies, I'm really hoping Civil War will breath some new life into them. I have not seen BVS so I can't comment on it, but I am currently re watching the Dark Knight Trilogy, as well as arrow Flash and Legends of Tomorrow and playing Arkham knight, so right now DC is really doing it for me.

In the Wonder Woman movie are they going to show the part where Hades fucks Diana's mom? I would watch that. Also everyone's talking about a dropoff, but Batman vs Superman has made over $720 million. It's close to triple it's budget which is a huge financial success.

My problem is not with the movies being too dark. It is with them not following the comics. That being said I very much liked Ben Affleck's Batman and thought it was appropriate for the film. I did feel like he was not the great detective he is suppose to be, which made me mad. I also felt like other character development in the film was too forced and not respective of the comics.

I'm a huge DC fan, so I enjoyed the movie more than the majority of people I talked to just because it was really cool to see Batman done the way I always imagined him on-screen. However, my two gripes with the movie are as follows:
1) It was cut/edited horribly. It was like a series of trailers for a bunch of different movies, or at least that's what it felt like.
2) They threw a ton of shit in there without explaining it in the movie. I got most if not all of it because I have that outside knowledge of the universe, but for people who've never touched a comic before, it must have just been confusing as hell. And it's not just easter egg stuff like Marvel does, it's all the big stuff they dedicate roughly half the movie to. Wonder Woman is hardly explained at all, everything involved with Darkseid was just kind of tossed in without a word. The whole nightmare vision bit makes no sense whatsoever if you don't know about Apokolips, Parademons, Darkseid's ability to control minds, his symbol being Omega, etc.

Marvel shows stuff like that, and they have some stuff that is involved with the main plot but isn't directly spoonfed to you. For example, in Iron Man, Obediah's villain name is Iron Monger. He never explicitly says "Call me Iron Monger muahahaha!", but he *does* say to Stark, "We're Iron Mongers."

In conclusion, a movie has to be able to stand on its own in my opinion, and BvS failed at doing that by relying on the assumption that its entire audience has outside knowledge of the comic book universe.

I like the darker tone. It was a 2.5 hr movie where it felt like the first hour nothing happened. Every 10 minutes a slow motion shot and the story was all over the place... It was just boring to watch. Nothing was a surprise. Well eccept "Martha" that was surprisingly stupid...

All that talk only makes me curious about Man of Steel and Batman v Superman to the point I might give them a watch. When I hear they aren't Marvel movies, that sounds like praise to me.
To be fair, I've never really liked the Marvel/Avengers thing. It doesn't appeal to me. I liked Guardians of the Galaxy and Deadpool, but man did I think Captain America was utterly stupid.

I feel that DC is trying to be more like Marvel with it's movies, but has unfortunately mixed up Marvel's realistic qualities with being darker. I'd absolutely *hate* DC actually being more like them, but I also feel these movies are too dark now - cool action scenes, yeah, but when I read DC comics I go to them for the stories! Their comics read so much better issue to issue, in comparison to Marvel's need for multiple issues for the story.
I do enjoy a good smash-em-up, but we're already getting that from the MCU; good stories and writing would get DC to earn my dollar over Marvel's for sure

yea the world is being destroyed lets have a laugh