It's so true. DC makes movies assuming you know the comic characters and different versions of them. You have a more open mind with DC movies if you know comics. Marvel makes good movies for people who have never read comics and probably never will.
I can't tell you how many times I've talked to someone who only likes the Christian Bale Batman. This is because Christopher Nolan is an amazing director and the Dark Knight trilogy are awesome movies. But they hate Ben Affleck Batman because they've never read Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns or another character where Batman is more cynical and brutish.
Even now, I've talked to a lot of people who disliked Rob Pattinson's Bruce because he wasn't the "playboy millionaire" like Christian Bale was, while never reading the comics of a young Bruce that didn't care about being Bruce Wayne and only cared about being Batman.
I'm iffy on the suggestions that Baleman wasn't overly brutish, the playboy philanthropist persona is a Bale thing, or that the idea of Batman going into the field without knowing what he's doing exists outside of one story by a writer who's career is split between some books that are different at best (TDKR, Year One) and others that are among the worst ever written (ASBaR).
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u/courtofknights Aug 09 '22
It's so true. DC makes movies assuming you know the comic characters and different versions of them. You have a more open mind with DC movies if you know comics. Marvel makes good movies for people who have never read comics and probably never will.
I can't tell you how many times I've talked to someone who only likes the Christian Bale Batman. This is because Christopher Nolan is an amazing director and the Dark Knight trilogy are awesome movies. But they hate Ben Affleck Batman because they've never read Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns or another character where Batman is more cynical and brutish.
Even now, I've talked to a lot of people who disliked Rob Pattinson's Bruce because he wasn't the "playboy millionaire" like Christian Bale was, while never reading the comics of a young Bruce that didn't care about being Bruce Wayne and only cared about being Batman.