The DC Cinematic Universe

[mr.negativity]

[MouthForWar]

[king_ghidorah]

I really have to say once again that I just don't think DC's comic stable can be adapted as easily to film as Marvel's. I know a lot of DC fans think of the DC heroes as more realistic but to me...DC has always seemed much more fantastical and goofier to be honest.

I agree with this interview actually

http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/daaamn- ... 00-million

[MekaGojira3k]

[lhb412]

I'm sure the solution will be to make all these former children's characters sufficiently grim and moody to deal with this.

If I was in charge of a film like this (lets say a Captain Marvel film) I'd open with a disclaimer - James Whale's Frankenstein or La Belle et la Bete style!.

In front of a lowered theater someone sets up and addresses the audience with a speech along the lines of...

"The film you are seeing is based off stories written many years ago, when children had to decide whether their ten cents would buy them candy or a comic book story featuring their favorite hero. They were written by men who were largely underpaid and almost wholly unappreciated - many weren't even credited with their work. But on those often blurry pages of newsprint they turned out stories of unequaled imagination and entertainment. The story you're about to see is outlandish, and bears only a cursory resemblance with the real world. It features men and women who say things real people would never say, do things that real people would never dare to do, and experience adventures that real people would never imagine themselves experiencing. I beg of you to turn back the clock and become a child, and accept the child-like simplicity, embrace the logic of a dream and always remember the magic word - Shazam!"




.... hmmmm, wrote that in five minutes.

[The Real McCoy]

I guess I'd have to read some DC stuff to get a better idea, but I feel like they could make good movies about their characters with some work.

I recently watched both the Green Lantern and Wonder Woman animated movies. Both were really good, to me. Wonder Woman, out of the five or six of those movies I've seen, remains my favorite. I would love to see something like that live-action.

[king_ghidorah]

Most of DC's characters just seem a lot more fantastical to me.

Marvel's are almost all based in pseduo science and almost all of Marvel's characters have very human, flaws and quirks. What's Wonder Woman's flaw...the fact that she's a woman? Superman's is kryptonite...and if you want to go futher than that...feeling like an outsider in society (though a lot of people cry "EMO!!!" each time this take on Superman is done)...Flash's flaw is...um??? Green Lantern's is the color yellow. Even Batman's flaw is anger, which is very human, but it's over the fact that his parents were murdered.

On Marvel's side, you have Spider-man...who has to give up the things he wants in order to do good. He juggles with trying to have a normal life, while still trying to be a hero. Hulk, has to keep his rage in check because it hurts the people he cares about. Thor...tons of family issues and dynamics. X-Men are full of issues and flaws. Capt. America...feels more like a DC character in someways (he's from the same era at least).

This is all a long way of saying "Make Mine Marvel." Unless we're talking about Swamp Thing than Swamp Thing all the way.

[MekaGojira3k]

I think Cap feeling like a D.C. character works mostly because he's in the midst of all of the very marvel-esque characters. Everybody gets to play off of him, so it works.

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