Why Can't DC Characters Get A Good Film Off The Ground? Warner Bros.

I agree but it was Singer's idea for the sequel to Superman 2.

The [frick] did I just read?!

Lmfao. To be honest I really didn't think anyone would read it. So I am pretty damn pleased with myself. Thank you very much.

Happy Birthday Hush2010.

This is kind of a false to a point. You bring up the past flaws of WB without noticing the current successes and improvement to their films. HP, The DK Trilogy, Man of Steel, and future successes.

You forgot WATCHMEN...

One of the best cbm's ever made... was not for kids, may not have been a huge success but damn, a totally amazing mind blowing film and mae up 4 it in dvd and blu-ray sales.

^ This could've took WB back years and thinking time to do kiddie DC movies again, shame...

MARVEL movies have had total shitters too, maybe not Marvel Studios but its still Marvels fault we got crappy ass Fox ones etc.

RED a DC movie might not be WB but a huge success with a sequel coming out!

WB always been top of the game on all their live-action series.. toons, animated movies beating Marvel, though Marvel now with Disney are starting to care for live action series thank god, in the past practically nothing and didn't.

I, like you can see DC bringing out the gold again at the Box Office, [frick] they've been sitting on gold for many years and it takes Avengers to kick 'em up the ass an take notice... JUSTICE LEAGUE will blow everything away, biggest superheroes ever and worldwide known by Joe public, even grandmothers know a lot of these characters!

AVENGERS was the best movie by far last year and we can all see why, hell, so far the best cbm this decade!

Nice read and I hope they do a sequel to Green Lantern, just take it more seriously and much more space epic and no hovering space clouds like in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer! :P

P.S. Tattoo's... ^5

You seem to make some fair points, but a lot of this info is wrong too. For one thing, WB haven't 'consistently failed at the box office' with their DC properties - the box office means ticket sales and profits - Batman Begins made a decent profit, Superman Returns made a small profit too (although not enough to get a sequel), The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises are two of WB's most profitable movies and were huge box office successes. Green Lantern just about broke even, as did The Losers, and the only film to make a loss (and a big one at that) was Jonah Hex.

Talking from a critical point of view, only The Dark Knight Trilogy have been almost universally praised by critics and audiences (I still think Rises isn't very good, but most other people seemed to like it). Superman Returns recieved mixed reviews. Green Lantern, The Losers, and Jonah Hex were critically panned.

Also, as LEEE777 already said, you forgot about Watchmen, which did well critically and made a small profit, and RED (not a WB film, but it's a DC adaptation) which did pretty well critically and made quite a big profit, and is getting a sequel.

And Bryan Singer purposely made Superman Returns a sequel to Superman II - it was his choice, not the studio's. WB had planned to reboot with Superman: Flyby (to be directed by McG and star Henry Cavill), until McG walked out. They hired Bryan Singer to replace him, and he decided to make the film a sequel to Superman II instead of a reboot, and he replaced Cavill with Brandon Routh because Routh looked like Christopher Reeve.

So it's not that they consistently fail, it's that they're very hit and miss, and they obviously find it easier nowadays to use Batman, and to an extent Superman, over their other characters.

Having kind of defended them there, I still have no faith in Justice League. They're clearly rushing it to capitalize on Avengers, they were bragging about the script being written by the guy who wrote Gangster Squad and that movie was shit, and the only person who's actually praised the script so far is Mark Miller, and in terms of his film knowledge he tends to like everything unless he knows that everyone else hates it.

Did we forget all the movies based on Marvel characters that were bad till someone did Blade? It took about a good decade before a movie on a Marvel character was good. There are still duds out there being made.

WB has made some good ones and bad ones too. Watchmen is a great movie on a cb character. I also liked V for Vendetta. They made 4 bad DC films outside of Bats & Supes(Steel, Catwoman, Green Lantern, Jonah Hex).

WB will make good cb movies and make bad ones in the future. They would do better if they would just let DC do it on their own.

Levitikuz

Marvel is owned by Disney....

@Levitikuz

All movies leading up to Avengers were basically build up titles that needed to get out in time before Avengers and in my opinion lessened the overall quality. They were good but could have been much better. Avengers was a lot of explosions and jokes. Yeah it was a good film, but after that much build up I guess it would have been cooler to see better story writing IMO. People are saying Justice league will suck because it's being rushed. I say Just run the JL movie then do the character origins later when you have time to give them justice. Very much like what they did in the comics.

@Spiderguy

Where did I mention Avenging or Uncanny Avengers suck? I merely stated almost all marvel titles are about the exact same group with the same names just tweaked a little. As for me, I don't care for the new Venom series, Ultimate Spider-Man, Scarlet Spider, FF, Fantastic Four, or Indestructible Hulk. Hawkeye I haven't really heard anything about, Thor I have heard good things about, Wolverine and the X-Men disinterests me because of the TV show and the fact that All New and Uncanny (which is coming up this month) interest me much more. Daredevil I haven't picked up in Years. Loved Classic devil, but didn't care for new age. Also, one that doesn't entirely suck for Marvel is Superior Spider-Man. Issue 1 infuriated me... but issue 2 brought me back and got me interested in 3 if it continues with this and allows it to grow Peter as both a person and a superhero I think it could end up doing really well, but if it stays Ock: TOILET.


Now DC, has several others you failed to mention. Nightwing, Flash, Wonder Woman, Hawkman, and Superman are all popular titles as well. I have heard good things about Talon, Birds of Prey, and Suicide Squad. Though I have yet to read any of them because I am already buying so many titles as is.

@DARKTOWERGUNSLINGER
Wrong...
Batman
Green Arrow
Superman
Lobo
Green Lantern
Aquaman
The Flash
Wonder Woman
Martian Manhunter
Deathstroke
Nightwing
Red Hood
Catwoman
Supergirl
The Comedian
Dr. Manhattan
Ozymandias
Rorschach
Nite Owl
Silk Spectre.....

There's MORE than just a few.

@LEVITIKUZ actually, Marvel is a subsidiary of Disney just like DC is a subsidiary of WB. The differences are: 1) WB own the rights to almost all of DC's properties, while Disney only has the rights to about half of Marvel's, and 2) Marvel were smart enough to set up their own movie studio to focus on their movie properties, while WB don't seem to trust DC enough to set up their own studio (either that, or DC just aren't that smart).

Because Warner Bros are a bunch of idiots.
DC has the best superheros of all time and Warner treats them like shit. Some people don't like DC because they are unrelatable. I say that is the cool part about them. They are Gods among men, here to save the world. DC heroes have biblical and mythological references to them. That gives them character.

Christopher Nolan got it right even pro magazines say that Bale is a great Bruce Wayne & Batman.DC characters are very interesting when it comes to the movies it is best to consult with DC Comics writers and editors themselves & have visionary directors like Donner, Burton & Nolan.

It is time to stop saying DC characters aren't interesting because they are do not get it twisted because the way some of there films have been made.

its simple why dc fails at the box office cause....

DC = FAIL

Nuff Said!

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