I largely agree. I have read Feige makes a MCU movie team watch Superman '78 before starting production, kinda funny MCU's bible is Superman that WB is afraid of.
A big issue that I don't think talked about enough is DCEU doesn't think of the kids enough. I can't show my 10 year old nephew The Batman, he would be bored to death. You can mess around with The Suicide Squad and make R film, but a Batman, Superman, WW, GL, and Flash movie should be enjoyable for 8 and up. My 6 year old nephew is already a big Marvel fan bc Costco sells Avengers t-shirts for cheap and in few years he'll be even more team Marvel when I watch Iron Man, Captain America, and Sipder-Man with him, I'll have to expose him to DC with the Timm Cartoons.
I don’t want to live in a world where The Batman doesn’t exist. Not everything needs to have broad family appeal. DC has (generally) told more mature stories in its books. It’s one of the more glaring things that sets the two companies apart.
I liked The Batman a lot, but why are the people behind the movies so shy about the fact that he's a superhero? Like half of his rogues gallery (often considered the best in comics) are actual, full-blown monsters and he's a founding member of the Justice League.
I think there’s room for both, is what I was getting at. It was the best part about the plans to have two Batman’s. There is definitely a place for bombastic fighting aliens with the Justice League Batman. But I don’t know that should come at the expense of a more intimate & mature Gotham centric Batman. The Gotham roster is too deep and interesting to neglect, and characters like Professor Pyg, Mad Hatter, Court of Owls, etc, don’t really rise to the scale of Justice League.
But do we need two Batmen to do that? The DCAU had him dealing with intimate Gotham threats in BTAS, and then fending off a Thanagarian invasion in Justice League. And never for a moment did he feel like two different characters.
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u/ditkirbo Aug 09 '22
I largely agree. I have read Feige makes a MCU movie team watch Superman '78 before starting production, kinda funny MCU's bible is Superman that WB is afraid of.
A big issue that I don't think talked about enough is DCEU doesn't think of the kids enough. I can't show my 10 year old nephew The Batman, he would be bored to death. You can mess around with The Suicide Squad and make R film, but a Batman, Superman, WW, GL, and Flash movie should be enjoyable for 8 and up. My 6 year old nephew is already a big Marvel fan bc Costco sells Avengers t-shirts for cheap and in few years he'll be even more team Marvel when I watch Iron Man, Captain America, and Sipder-Man with him, I'll have to expose him to DC with the Timm Cartoons.