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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
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I find both Marvel and DC movies fall into the generic popcorn flick category. Even the "best" ones aren't some artistic or intellectual achievement. They're movies for the sake of big budget flashy entertainment.
And Marvel just does it miles better than DC.
Marvel can trot out a movie like Ant Man that wipes the floor with even the AAA superhero offerings from DC. DC hasn't done anything worthwhile since the Nolan trilogy. DC seems to suffer from terrible directing, terrible writing, and a weird inability to pull off whatever they're going for. Whether it's a "fun" movie, or a "dark/gritty" one, or an "artistic" one, they've almost been uniformly bad. Complete messes. Joker was as close as they got, and as a comic movie it tried so hard it became silly, as a serious movie it was poorly done.
Even Sony's Venom was leaps ahead of almost everything DC has put out.
Maybe DC should drop the need to have some gimmick in every movie and learn how to make a good movie first. It probably doesn't help that every big DC draw outside of Batman is boring and devoid of personality.
But yeah, as someone who is most definitely not a Marvel fanboy, it's not controversial at all to me to suggest DC is just far worse on every level. I think the Dark Knight trilogy are the best comic book movies ever made, better than anything Marvel put out since, but that ended almost a decade ago.
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Well said, I agree wholeheartedly with one notable exception:
Infinity War.
I dont know if you want to make an exception for the fact that it had nearly a decade of buildup to it, but that movie is an experience. That was an event. It was something else.
I could watch that movie and then immediately start it from the beginning and watch it again.
But yeah, its not 'Marvel vs DC' and some fanboy nonsense in the vein of 'Star Trek vs. Star Wars' or any nonsense like that.
We're consumers of a product, its a natural reaction of a consumer to be disappointed and upset when someone has released a product and charged you money for it and it turns out to be garbage.
Meanwhile their direct competitor has released a similar and potentially substitute product for the same price that has consistently been of higher quality.