The Villains Problem

[hafizbat]

Yeah so far DCEU movies are 4/4 when it comes to making a dreadful gray final battle that I have no desire to ever sit through again. I'll be pretty surprised if JL is any different. In fact, it looks like the dreadful gray is through the whole movie rather than just the finale.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

Yeah so far DCEU movies are 4/4 when it comes to making a dreadful gray final battle that I have no desire to ever sit through again. I'll be pretty surprised if JL is any different. In fact, it looks like the dreadful gray is through the whole movie rather than just the finale.

Surprisingly, I actually liked the final battle in Man of Steel. Totally agree on the other three though.

 

[InCali]

Surprisingly, I actually liked the final battle in Man of Steel. Totally agree on the other three though.

Do you mean you liked how it looked or did you like the battle? The end of the battle sealed that movie's fate for me.

 

[Grommers]

But you realize that's basically how every DCEU film thus far has been, right?

I understand and agree with your assessment about how a lot of great stories don't revolve around big third act fight scenes, but a team movie sort of demands that kind of spectacle.

I agree - Except in 2/4 movies that was probably the worst part of them (B vs S against a forced Doomsday) & Suicide Squad (What am I watching? as a final scene?)

I actually hope thats the lesson WB learned from it, that they don't need too, even as a team "spectacle" that their needs to be either 1 big bad (whose to say its just not a crap ton of Parademons etc, with steppenwolf leading the way.)

It doesn't necessarily need to be a battle set up within the same context that we see over and over.

It's just more that the option that Ergo had wrote, is that their is alternatives to the current set-up or expectation on the fight.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

Do you mean you liked how it looked or did you like the battle? The end of the battle sealed that movie's fate for me.

Both. Yeah, it was a little video-gamey as usual. But it was in broad daylight for one, and I thought there was a lot more flash and intensity than the others. It reminded me of something out of Dragon Ball Z. Like watching Goku and Vegeta duke it out.

 

[StormC]

It's a good Dragon Ball fight but a lousy Superman one.

Probably a good argument that those sort of things are better in animation.

 

[2kt09]

It's a good Dragon Ball fight but a lousy Superman one.

Probably a good argument that those sort of things are better in animation.

Superheroes in general are made for animation.
Stop trying to pay cosplayers to reenact picture books.

 

[Osiris-Rex]

Live action tends to make a lot more money.