If you weren't intending to compare them beat for beat then why have you spent several posts laboring to make that comparison work? You tried but now you're trying to walk your way out of it.
I've said that I never intended to directly compare them. I dont know how much clearer than that I can be. Im not trying to make a comparison that I never made work. You are trying to disprove a comparison that I never actually made, based on your own thoughts about the studios and your own biases, and your desire to use every conversation about the DCEU as a soapbox to complain about its execution.
Tried what? Came up short from what? A basic statement about some films that were once considered, and now arent happening at the moment?
Whats there to walk out of, exactly?
Your original point is an intellectually dishonest attempt to defend the DCEU from valid criticisms.
Except that my original point never addressed valid criticisms. My original point was barely even a point.
Whats going on with the Cyborg movie is not, in any sense, a complete and valid criticism, in any reasonable sense. Even in the context of this discussion, its simply a question.
Their plans aren't sometimes changing, and they aren't sometimes announcing projects that aren't getting made - it's a regular occurence and that is worth criticizing. It's fine if that doesn't bother you, but don't bury your head in the sand and try to tell us that's normal. No one is buying it and I don't think you do either.
I didnt say the DCEUs plans are sometimes changing, or put a value on it. I said Sometimes plans change. It refers to both DC and Marvel, other studios, and as I pointed out before, life in general. If you interpret that as Sometimes DCEUs plans change and me putting some particular quantity on how much their plans have changed, thats on you.
I have been speaking in a general context the entire time. My point has been about the general way that the movie industry tends to work, and the overreaction people have to WB also working that way. Im not interested in quantifying the number of times things have changed, because the issue at hand was that changes have happened, period, not how often. THat's an entirely separate conversation.
But since you insist on dragging this out
You're harping on "sometimes".
The definition of "sometimes" is "occasionally, rather than all of the time."
So actually, by definition, The DCEUs plans would appear to change sometimes, because elements of their universe and its components change in a way that can be defined as occasionally, a word that has varied meanings and interpretations, and which is the criteria used when assessing what sometimes means.
(Cue, I assume, you telling the world what occasionally has to mean so you can continue to whine about the DCEU)
If you want to endlessly criticize, that's fine, but is a reason that every conversation about the DCEU needs to devolve into you moving goalposts until you can complain to someone else about the state of the DCEU? Why does MY conversation about a broad subject have to instantly become about YOUR desire or anyone elses desire to endlessly complain?
I never said that DCEU announcing films with release dates and failing to deliver on that was normal, though I think we all know that things like release dates, directors and scripts changing does happen within the industry fairly often. Nor is that what they have done with most of their projects in development.
You and several others here seem to want to paint everything with a blanket statement of poor execution because you got burned on their original state, and ignore the fact that, aside from their "original slate" and THE BATMAN, WB has operated much the same way as other studios; announcing or letting info about films in development leak, and allowing some info about creators to come out, and directors when one is attached.
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