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#-3 · 03-25-2021, 11:37 PM

I honestly don't think the DCEU problem has anything to do with the order they introduced the movies. They've had a bunch of problems and none of them were people having trouble connecting to the characters back stories.

Again I a dismissing the earlier Batman and Superman movies... from this conversation, the way I would dismiss the earlier Spiderman movies and the X-men movies from the MCU.

First and foremost has been cinematic quality. The Plot pacing and the CGI in pretty much all of their movies are a complete mess. It's not a-typical that they shove 50% of the entire plot into a 10 minute action sequence that is barely watchable in terms of visuals. A lot here have complained about marvel movies being predictable, but that is a feature not a bug. They have a complete story that builds to a climax fitting the story. It feels cohesive. These movies aren't suspense thrillers or mysteries, the hero's are going face near failure and barely pull through every time (if they take the bold step of letting the villain win, they will undo it in the next movie), that's the genre, if it's not what you're looking for watch some Shyamalan movies.

I also think they have a small problem of their hero's being less relatable, it's something Marvel has to be careful about as they get into hero's like Captain Marvel... who basically has Superman's powers, you really need to ground these characters in a real sense of danger to make sure the audience is invested. Superman has traditionally use the damsel in distress model of build the sense of danger, but as a theme is a little culturally spent right now.

03-25-2021, 11:37 PM	#3374
#-3 #1 Goaltender Join Date: Mar 2008 Exp:	I honestly don't think the DCEU problem has anything to do with the order they introduced the movies. They've had a bunch of problems and none of them were people having trouble connecting to the characters back stories. Again I a dismissing the earlier Batman and Superman movies... from this conversation, the way I would dismiss the earlier Spiderman movies and the X-men movies from the MCU. First and foremost has been cinematic quality. The Plot pacing and the CGI in pretty much all of their movies are a complete mess. It's not a-typical that they shove 50% of the entire plot into a 10 minute action sequence that is barely watchable in terms of visuals. A lot here have complained about marvel movies being predictable, but that is a feature not a bug. They have a complete story that builds to a climax fitting the story. It feels cohesive. These movies aren't suspense thrillers or mysteries, the hero's are going face near failure and barely pull through every time (if they take the bold step of letting the villain win, they will undo it in the next movie), that's the genre, if it's not what you're looking for watch some Shyamalan movies. I also think they have a small problem of their hero's being less relatable, it's something Marvel has to be careful about as they get into hero's like Captain Marvel... who basically has Superman's powers, you really need to ground these characters in a real sense of danger to make sure the audience is invested. Superman has traditionally use the damsel in distress model of build the sense of danger, but as a theme is a little culturally spent right now.