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Skye Reynolds posted...

_MorningStar posted...

People don't want dark and gritty super hero movies.

People are tired of them. The Dark Knight was 10 years ago. It's time for DC to move on already.

Eh, I wouldn't quite say THAT. There's a huge difference between the Nolan Batman trilogy and anything DC has put out since. The most fundamental being that Nolan Bat was its own thing in its own universe, the films, even at their worst, were all-around competent(and, at their best, were amazing), and Batman lends himself to that kind of thing. Lastly, it was a closed story, and even though Batman Begins was an origin story, it both was an origin that hadn't appeared in film in like 20 years and diverged significantly from the usual.

Then you have Zack Snyder do a dark-and-gritty Superman film that was mediocre at best, and instead of exploring this Superman more or(as Marvel did) exploring some other hero's story, you jump right into a film called Batman vs. Superman which barely features Superman and is also establishing most of the rest of the Justice League, you start getting into train-wreck territory. It shouldn't be surprising the most successful DC film so far was Wonder Woman, which struck a positive, feminist note(positive and feminist is basically WW in a nutshell) and focused almost exclusively on the title character, as opposed to focusing primarily on, say, Aquaman being mad at Wonder Woman for <reason> and, say, The Flash trying to get them to stop fighting for <reason>, only to have them stop fighting because they realize their pet goldfish had the same name.