'The Flash' Is the Perfect Example of What Went Wrong With the DCEU
https://collider.com/the-flash-dceu-problems/
It's the end of the road for this 10-year journey.
Under the creative vision of Zack Snyder, the DCEU is meaner and more brooding
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I think it is more WB/DC stubbornness on not hearing the long time fans. When people protested and complained about brooding, EMO, crybaby, murderer, dark Superman with the crappy MOS, they decided to ignore us. That's clearly not what people was expecting. Even if the usual defenders come here now to say how magnificent MOS was, the reality is that this debacle started with that movie. What did WB/DC do with fan's opinion? They passed it through their groins and ignored us. Then double down with BvS (AKA The Martha's Chronicles). When they eased the tone (and the color pallet) with WW and Aquaman, it was too late. The Justice League was the last nail in the coffin, everything else after that was just echo...
shareThere are a lot of bad comics too that attract fans. I retain two things from the WB hijinks. a) The fans just happened to be right about what would work in movies this (and tbf most) times b) Comic book fans are in a minority, numbering less than 1 million people. WB should have promoted Bruce Timm to the projects about 2 decades ago.
shareWow, 'hijinks' you almost got me there (thanks for google). While I agree with most of your points, I also want to point out that we are talking about Superman, not some obscure and unknown comic book character. So, in this particular case not only comic book fans were in disagreement with the MOS approach. Many of the general public grew with Reeve's Superman, Luis & Clark and other merrier iterations of the character. It seems WB wanted to appeal the new generation of brooding/Emo teens, however, these teens weren't interested in super heroes, just until the MCU entered the scene with their goofy/serious approach, they were. That's what I believe, at least...
shareSuperman is the most well known superhero character, but if his story is undertook by people who don't know the real Clark Kent, and the real Superman, then that defeats his immense popularity. There are two ways of knowing how a superhero movie will be like in quality, the credits for producers, and that of the writers. The latter have all been marginalised by the movie moghuls and as long as that is the reality, many DC superhero movies will not succeed. It seems like a case of how the hierarchy is structured in WB in general. They keep on hiring either nobodies or out of touch people for their projects.
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