MOVIE MUSINGS - The Superhero Movie Genre

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• MOVIE MUSINGS™ - An Analogy for the Superhero Movie Genre -

- And the bitter-but-silly debate between the faithful Marvel fans and loyal DC fans rages on. I love BOTH superhero factories, and I rejoice at this bountiful era of super cinematic splendor. So, I AM NOT TAKING SIDES here!
But I would sum it all up with this playful analogy...

For one thing, the Marvel superhero movies broke down a whole new wall for the genre. Where DC's films knocked out a few bricks here and there over the decades, mainly using their Superman and Batman hammers, Marvel contributed by loaning out their Blade chisel, X-Men jackhammer, and Spider-Man wrecking ball.

The next wall was an even tougher one, reinforced with double-layered brick, and iron support struts. But Marvel used their lesser-known Iron Man battering ram to smash through that first layer. Then they broke out Thor's hammer, and their Captain America shield-drill, doing all the heavy lifting and the hard work while DC simply relied on their Batarang sledge.

Finally, Marvel united their tools to form some MCU demolition explosives, Avengers Plastique, and they blasted that last wall to bits! BOOM!!! The last wall was breached, and the superhero movie genre was now ready for big and small screen domination. Marvel did that. They came up with the right strategy, and they had the guts to do it. Plain and simple.

AFTER the fact, DC at last decided to mold their primary charges into Superman/Batman C4, and detonate their DCEU blaster pack. But because the last wall had already been blown, their DCEU blast did far less damage than it woulda-coulda-SHOULD have done.

In the end, the Superman/Batman C4 was expected to be powerful enough not only to obliterate the rest of the shattered wall, but to also put a huge crater in the whole Hollywood construction site. After all, that was the biggest super-combo of them ALL! EVERYBODY knew about the power of S/B C4!!! Come on, son!

It's far more impressive how Marvel snatched the "DC" from DC in their Demolition & Construction, doing a much more effective job of it by using less powerful, less popular tools, and less conventional methods in order to win the primary building contract franchise! Haha!

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E-Ocasio's avatar
I like your colorful construction metaphor. :aww:
That said, I still believe that Warner Brothers falls behind because is not the creative people that are given full and complete control of these projects, but the executives are taking creative decisions of things they know nothing about. Hence past grand failures like Batman & Robin and later Catwoman, and the new would be Wonder Woman TV series.
To me if they gave a chance to Paul Dini and some of the other people who made the DC animation dept. a success with the same super hero stories, is a sure bet they can transition to live action with some help and come with a product appealing to all the fans and the general public.
WB seems to only care about how more movie tickets they can sell instead of putting out the best possible product. I do believe they're capable, but something or someone is holding them back.
I didn't like Suicide Squad at all, they thought adding the Joker and a known star like Will Smith (playing a completely different Deadshot from the comics in so many ways!) would make this movie their Guardians Of The Galaxy, but it was so dark and so wrong in almost everything! Then having Batman actually kill goons in BvS during the Batmovile chase and before rescuing Clark's mother was way too much over the top.

I love DC because those were the comics I grew up reading, Marvel came second, but Warner brothers seems to lack a certain passion or love for their own stories and characters when it comes to making them live and yet Marvel does it almost effortlessly.

I hope the new Wonder Woman movie becomes the success they're craving, otherwise I don't think the studio will keep poring more money into projects that do not make any profit for them. I very much disagree with Wonder Woman not wearing her lifetime star spangled look and fighting nazis, but lets hope the movie does well anyway.