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The Golden Guardian
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WB have made a lot of mistakes along the way so far in their DCEU.
I think fundamentally, these boil down to one thing : greed.
They've seen the box office Marvel has been making, but were too hesitant for too long in building their own universe. Thus when they eventually got round to it - via MOS in 2013 (with Marvel already ahead by 5yrs and 7 films) they fast-tracked the whole thing to Batman and Superman facing off, Superman's death and the formation of the Justice League. These should have been major milestones in the DC universe, but instead it feels like they're only starting out and have already peaked (if you can call it peaking!).
Marvel's approach has been shown to be the right one. Build the characters individually, let the films shine on their own, then assemble them - no pun intended. By that stage, we know the characters, we care about the characters, and we're invested in the characters.
By the time Avengers : Infinity War comes out, Marvel will have surpassed 18 films. We know there are going to be deaths in that film, and those deaths will matter and resonate because we have followed these characters along their long journey to this point.
WB tried to reach this point much sooner, to cash in on the superhero movie genre before it implodes, and that lack of patience has directly affected the quality of their output and their characterisation of DC's greatest heroes.
I agree that they tried to rush out of greed, but I also think that if they'd had a skilled enough mastermind over it and directors working in sync under that person it still could have been done really well. But they were morons and chose Snyder, and for that they deserve every million they lose on JL and then some.
The problem is now even though they've finally gotten rid of him and will hopefully have somebody better in charge (Whedon if they had any brains), they've blown all their good will and it will make it twice as hard for them to have successes further on with these characters.