cao:
Your logic is highly flawed. You're trying to play a numbers game, let's remind you why. MCU did individual movies to set up the characters with their origin story, THEN, made the team up movie. DCEU did a Superman film (with obligatory origin story), then a Superman sequel, where they decided to drag everything and the kitchen sink to build a world that wasn't really hinted in the previous film. BvS turned into a mini origin story for Batman, an introduction for WW (not an origin story), a rushed exposition dump (thanks to the world's scrolliest email, when last did you read an email line by line?) and a theatrical cut that removed subplots necessary for the film. After that they did an origin story of sorts for a group of individuals fighting against a dancing villain, which tried to give us glimpse of the current situation without Superman. Then, they finally DID an origin story for a JLer, so that's techically 3 origin stories for the big team up. If they had followed the MCU approach, Flash, Cyborg & Aquaman should have had their own films before their big team up, but no, they got their supposed introductions (I refuse to say origins) in an exposition email.
Look at WW, there's a reason why it's been doing well and it has nothing to do with SJW, they told a coherent story, they chose a good director who was able to pull out some really decent acting out of Gal Gadot, the scriptwriter (I'm tired of fanboys giving Snyder way too much credit for this, I'm too lazy to start talking about the difference in story & script. I'll just say Snyder wasn't the sole credit for story, but Allan Heinberg is the sole credit for the script) actually gave us a rather solid script, not perfect, but certainly tighter than SS & BvS. They told a story that actually stayed true to the character's roots and were rewarded greatly for it. WW is the reason why I'm still watching DCEU, if they had effed that up after over 40 years of waiting, I can bet you they would have lost a lot of fans. It still pains me that my midnight screening of this wasn't even a third full. I watched the first screening of Girls Trip at my cinema yesterday and it was sold out, even after all the technical difficulties with the film, which meant we started almost an hour late and after some folks left, the cinema was still 80% full. Fortunately though, good word of mouth has worked for WW, I still hope it earns more than BvS.
Now, let's remind you of the other aspects of rushing, DCEU in their quest to catch up have released their own set of dates for their upcoming films, but they keep losing directors, writers & general crew like a bad joke. Wasn't Flash originally supposed to be next year? It has lost directors, writers, scripts before they finally settled on the Flashpoint story. DCEU need a producer of the calibre of Kevin Feige, I keep repeating this, they could go into their animated department and ask Bruce Timm for pointers. It's not just setting future dates and looking busy. Say what you want about the MCU's safeness, but Feige has supervised a rather decent shared universe. Plus, we've gotten a rather decent calibre of directors thanks to their willingness to hire interesting and lesser known directors. Snyder isn't a good storyteller, he's a visual director. I know that due to personal family issues, he's no longer the main producer of the DCEU, but hopefully they can get a producer who isn't mostly focused on visuals.
We now live in a rich age of comic book media, it's on the big screen, telly and our games. We are not just reading them anymore. Whether you like it or not, the MCU took a risk and their risk paid off, now everybody wants a piece of that pie. They had an idea and planned accordingly, they didn't rush it. Everybody is trying to build a shared universe sotay Universal has resurrected their Monster verse, complete with one false start and a bomb (I actually liked Dracula Untold, still haven't seen the Mummy reboot, that thing got dragged out of my cinema way too fast, same thing happened with Transformers, I finally dragged myself after stalling only to find they were both gone before a month on release. Oddly enough WW was still airing). Sony tried to set up one with ASM2, that was DOA. They finally let the MCU play with Spidey. Although, they now want to do Venom film, so they might not have learned their lesson, but time will tell. Look, folks are willing to wait for the DCEU to catch up, they just need to stop rushing, it worked for WW. .............. *drops mouth in awe" Where have you been all my life |
TV/Movies › Re: Marvel Cinematic Universe by jonbellion(m): 10:26pm On Jul 27, 2017
