Ok... then I don't understand how there wasn't any sense of danger in The Avengers. There were many times where if I didn't already know they would survive I would've thought they were going to die. Iron Man at the end, Hulk vs. Black Widow, the part where Hawkeye blows up the helicarrier, the part where Nick Fury gets shot at the beginning, the part where Thor gets dropped in the cage, the part where Coulson dies... oh wait... he actually did die. It's going to be the exact same types of scenarios in the JL movie. If anybody's expecting a TDK level sense of danger they're kidding themselves, those movies were a set trilogy and not a continuous universe so they could take liberties with the sense of danger.
I guess it doesn't help when they spoil key shots in the trailers and announce more solo films for Iron Man, Thor and Captain America ahead of time.
Like the whole thing with Iron Man and whether he was gonna die or not. We all knew Hulk was going to catch Iron Man from the sky at one point and it didn't happen yet so it was a give-away. Maybe that was marketing that screwed up the sense of danger in that scene. But everything else was different.
Coulsons death was the safest and most ridiculous thing. I've had this convo with quite a few people in person and online and we usually agree. It was such a safe move. Even though we expected that character to go on for more movies (and he was entertaining) he was a minor character. He never had much screen-time, nobody in the team cared about this guy. He was just some idiot or he was ignored. And it's supposed to be believable when Tony Stark and others are taking 10 minutes to be all upset? They tried making it all dramatic and it wasn't even a big deal. He even died with a one-liner if my memory is still good.
It was as if Joss Whedon went
"we can't kill off any of the superheroes cuz that's who the Avengers are and we need them for sequels so who can we kill off? Let's just kill the minor character since we have to kill SOMEBODY to make it a little dramatic". It's supposed to be this war like invasion in New York City and we dont really see any casualties either. That's another thing.
JL could be safe too im not arguing that. I might even hate the movie. But the way they're jumping right into it is far more risky. Rebooting Batman so soon for this is also a big risk. If they stay away from alien invasions and try to go a little more grounded than Avengers, that's ALSO a risk since you're dealing with characters who are just as over the top as Marvels Avengers.
We'll see.
Oh and Thor getting dropped in the cage, Hulk chasing after Black Widow, Hawkeye and the hellicarrier? I never felt the danger in any of those scenes. I always knew nothing would happen to Black Widow, etc.
Again..it was a fun movie but i didn't feel like it was a seperate case from the other Marvel flicks.