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Originally Posted by polak
God reading that makes me hope the movie bombs hard. Maybe then Warners will figure out that letting directors run show.
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I don't think it is that simple.
First and foremost the writers, directors, studio and even the actors have to be willing to do the characters justice. This isn't always true - see GOTG fans upset that movie bastardized their portrayals or any Alan Moore adaptation - but generally speaking DC movies suffer from either the studio, writer or director not giving a crap about what made the comic book character so popular in the first place. Don't even worry about a good movie, worry about whether or not the movie even has anything to do with the source material. Then worry about making sure it is good.
Where Marvel has hired people who love these characters and want to do them justice, DC has gone with a flavor of the week choice and seem more interested in establishing tentpoles than making good movies. Although let's not kid ourselves Marvel does both.
Of course when I say Marvel I (mostly) mean Disney and when I say DC I mean Warner.
Second, DC needs to learn that sometimes less is more. Batman Begins was a fairly simple movie, TDK got bigger and TDKR was huge scale. Get people interested in your universe and build from there.