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joanne_c asked for "anything about the MCU" and I've been wanting to post something about where I think DC are going wrong so this fulfills both of those aims.
It's not as though all the Marvel films have been good, I'm thinking of the Fantastic 4 films in particular that were not good, but they seem to understand their target audience a lot better. Quite often, Marvel've gone back to basics, so lots of origin stories and very simple plots. And it works.
DC, meanwhile, seem to want to over-complicate things.
Marvel seem to trust to their characters, obviously changes have been made, I'm thinking of a distinct lack of Donald Blake, but Iron Man is Iron Man, Pepper is Pepper and so on. They've cleared out some of the continuity clutter (no bad thing, IMO) but you can tell who everyone is.
DC meanwhile, seem to be making mish-mashes of their characters. Like with Green Lantern, they've given us a character with Hal Jordan's name and his background, but Kyle Rayner's personality and storyline. And all the Hal Jordan fans I know don't like it, the Kyle Rayner fans are equally miffed, and as a John Stewart fan I was really annoyed that they didn't make my Latern the Lantern.
That's why I'm so very "hmm" about the new Batman vs Superman film, because they'll try to do something clever, and this is not the medium to say clever things about comic book heroes in. Because most of it has already been said by The Incredibles.
I know that this is the film version of the "deconstruction" era but how many of those comics are still held in high esteem, compared to the large number that are now seen as being dark for the sake of being dark (Marvel is just as guilty of this as DC, and, comics-wise, is probably worse. If there's another Crisis-style crossover again within the next 5 years then it'll be way too soon.). You need very good writers to pull it off, and I don't think Zack Synder is that guy and I know David Goyer really isn't it.
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joanne_c asked for "anything about the MCU" and I've been wanting to post something about where I think DC are going wrong so this fulfills both of those aims.It's not as though all the Marvel films have been good, I'm thinking of the Fantastic 4 films in particular that were not good, but they seem to understand their target audience a lot better. Quite often, Marvel've gone back to basics, so lots of origin stories and very simple plots. And it works.
DC, meanwhile, seem to want to over-complicate things.
Marvel seem to trust to their characters, obviously changes have been made, I'm thinking of a distinct lack of Donald Blake, but Iron Man is Iron Man, Pepper is Pepper and so on. They've cleared out some of the continuity clutter (no bad thing, IMO) but you can tell who everyone is.
DC meanwhile, seem to be making mish-mashes of their characters. Like with Green Lantern, they've given us a character with Hal Jordan's name and his background, but Kyle Rayner's personality and storyline. And all the Hal Jordan fans I know don't like it, the Kyle Rayner fans are equally miffed, and as a John Stewart fan I was really annoyed that they didn't make my Latern the Lantern.
That's why I'm so very "hmm" about the new Batman vs Superman film, because they'll try to do something clever, and this is not the medium to say clever things about comic book heroes in. Because most of it has already been said by The Incredibles.
I know that this is the film version of the "deconstruction" era but how many of those comics are still held in high esteem, compared to the large number that are now seen as being dark for the sake of being dark (Marvel is just as guilty of this as DC, and, comics-wise, is probably worse. If there's another Crisis-style crossover again within the next 5 years then it'll be way too soon.). You need very good writers to pull it off, and I don't think Zack Synder is that guy and I know David Goyer really isn't it.
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Date: 2014-06-25 02:38 am (UTC)Though I did like Man Of Steel more than I didn't, but it was definitely not up there with the MCU.
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Date: 2014-06-25 06:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-06-26 01:54 am (UTC)