Look at the fallout of BvS. The overtly negative critical reaction, the record-setting box office drop, the restructuring of WB's DC film division, the complete radio silence from the studio, the soured fanbase, I could keep going.
"Getting it right" isn't a matter of opinion when nothing appears to be going WB's way. It's fine if you loved BvS, but don't pretend that you're not in the minority.
Just to keep things in perspective WB is doing fine - in 2015 it had a number of commercially and critically successful films (e.g. Mad Max Fury Road) .
The problem is that it's last two DC comic based films have been disappointing from a critical standpoint (and in B v S 's case commerical underperformers).
However, this comes on the heels of arguably the best superhero trilogy ever ( sorry folks, while TWS and CW are amazing films we can hardly say Cap's films are a trilogy - but there's a whole thread to fight that out in, so we'll leave it there).
I'm glad to hear there's a shake-up going on. At the end of the day these are movies we're talking about and movies are entertainment.....which means that they should be entertaining, I mean hell they're not making documentaries here.
IMO the problem is that B v S wasn't entertaining- and that's what we want with out cbms, we want to be entertained. Don't get me wrong there there were some good bits to it, but it wasn't sufficiently entertaining to draw in the repeat viewers.
I mean, sure maybe Guardians of the Galaxy is light and fluffy in comparison
(not that I think B v S was a particularly deep movie, and anyone who says it was, well .... I disagree) BUT these are comic book movies we're talking about, so really it's not incredibly deep material to start off with. It's not an adaptation of Tolstoy or Hemingway or great works of literature, it's freakin' comic books on the big screen. As such, cbm's taking themselves too seriously is a huge mistake, if they sacrifice entertainment value.
Sure the Dark Knight was a gritty, dark movie but it was incredibly entertaining too !
So it's fine for GOTG to be a bit light and fluffy (although there's some pretty dark stuff in that film, like genocide !) because of the very subject material and sub-genre, as long as it's entertaining.
Why can't DC get it right ? Well, to build on that rambling mess I typed above someone at WB/DC has forgotten that they need to make their films entertaining - via good storytelling.
I mean a film with Batman and Superman in it should be incredibly easy to make, because all you need is a decent story (it doesn't even have to be deep or complicated) told via reasonable (not even good) storytelling.
Do I want DC films to be the same as Marvel's. No, not really (although CW was amazing, DC could learn a thing or two there about making what should be an overstuffed film feel smooth and effortless.
Sadly, I think they need to move on from Snyder. He's given it a good go (and I chalk his relative success with Watchmen up to closely following the source material - although I did like the changed ending, it made more sense than the giant space squid) but when he went off source material (and besides taking visual inspiration from DKR, plus some lines and some neat homages to famous images/panels, other than that he really did go waaayyy far away from what DKR was all about).
But now it's time to put the storytelling in someone else's hands, once they do that, maybe things will start to look up for DC films.
