I think the reason for the trailer looking like that was to appeal to people who liked mindless action, saving the story explanation for the next trailer. Disney's clever with their marketing. I mean, they got Pirates 3 to make tons of money. Hell, even Cars 2 made 550 mil, and it's considered Pixar's worst movie.
Totally agree with you here. The reason it doesn't appeal to me is because I'm not that kind of viewer. Story trumps all for me, so when I saw the trailer I thought: "Wow...Scarlett Johanssen AGAIN looks like she's farting flames"
I lean towards Marvel myself, for films. Outside of Batman, DC hasn't really done honestly anything good in the past decade that the public actually took notice of. Catwoman, Jonah Hex, Green Lantern, etc, or particularly financially successful besides arguably Superman Returns.
Agreed again. I liked Superman Returns though; I get the issues with it but, I liked it still, I did think it had heart.
Yeah, Nolan's Batman films are good, but that's not because of DC, that's because A: Great actors. B: Great visual style. and C: Batman's already massive popularity. Batman was a popular superhero long before the film came out. The thing is, though, DC has only made two superheroes into good films: Superman and Batman. They then proceeded to run BOTH of those franchises straight into the ground after a popular, well-received sequel.
Half agreeing now. I mean saying it's not D.C. that makes the movies good but the actors...well yeah that's true of any story. It's not the characters necessarily that make Marvel's films good.
For Example X2 Vs. X3 nearly all the same characters two totally different results.
I'm also not one for franchises, I like individual films and if that becomes a franchise ok. I'm STILL intrigued by BB and TDK, which is not something I can say for most of the Marvel films. Not that Marvel isn't better but for me there movies are not in general focused on story.
I don't mean to sound like I'm trolling, but Marvel just seems to have better control of what they're doing. Sure they can play it safe a lot, but that's because the whole concept of building up to the Avengers is completely ruined if even one of the films fails financially.
The thing is, Batman can support himself because he's Batman, save the few cases where someone screws him up to the point of almost TRYING to make it suck (1997 WB, I'm looking at you). But they keep pulling him out over and over again to the point where even after TDK, I can't get really hyped for TDKR because even though it's a drastically different take on the characters, because I know that as long as the Batman films keep making big hits the rest of the DC characters suffer as a result. Hell, the only reason the Batfilms are good was because WB didn't try to interfere with Nolan like they did with Schumacher.
Batman is cool, I admit that but when you put that with a story like we've been getting you get something else. BB and TDK could have been mediocre films.
They could have been like X2 or Spiderman 2, two films I absolutely love but for me BB and TDK really went above and beyond that but that's not (to me) only because its dealing with Batman.
I mean, sure it's Batman and he's awesome, but it's like 'Oh. DC's making another Batman film. AGAIN.'
Sadly I have that feeling when I see new Marvel films. I feel like they get it right every once in a while and then try to milk it as best as they can with as little effort as possible.
I thought Iron Man was a fine movie. fun, nothing amazing. Iron Man 2? Not at all.
I also don't understand the praises for First Class. again A good movie but in no way an amazing film. i feel sometimes when a Marvel film does well people are so amazed because lurking in their minds is The Fantastic Four.
I remember when TDK came out some were saying Iron Man was just as good if not better.
I couldn't understand it...I still don't.
With Marvel, there's an actual shot for these characters. Iron Fist, Guardians of the Galaxy, even the ****ing Inhumans have been rumored to get a film. Hell, it's heavily rumored Doc Strange will get the first slot for the 2014 schedule. DC has great heroes, so why aren't characters like Wonder Woman or Aquaman (attitude from JL/JLU + Gold/orange Atlantean armor= ****ing GOLD!), or hell, even Wonder Woman, one of DC's big three and the most recognizable female superhero!
Wonder Woman (My favorite DC character) has a lot of issues with it and I'll give credit to DC for it. It's a hard character to get done for various reasons.
I was excited for Green Lantern for a long while, because I thought it meant finally WB/DC were getting their **** together and trying something new for once, finally making a Supehero film that isn't related to Superman or Batman.
Green Lantern was like a Marvel flick to me. Not amazing, not super terrible. It and Thor were interchangeable to me.
And then I heard a Hawkman film was being written, I was even happier, because it meant they were actively exploring other heroes for films, which they hadn't done before...really ever.
Aaaand then GL failed and Hawkman was never heard about again.
I hear you.
I just can't feel that it'll justify DC just not giving a **** about it's other heroes. It certainly doesn't seem Batman is going to help bring smaller heroes to the screen like Iron Man did.
Maybe not but we have to see how Marvel's smaller characters work out.
I do hope D.C. gets their act together though.
