DC Goes to the Movies (or Doesn’t)

It wasnt the greatest film but GHOST RIDER was a fun film and it did have a better story then SPIDERPIG 3 and it had a huge box office as well.

And i know CONSTANTINE wasnt very true to the comics but it was still a good film and it flowed better then Superman Returns.

Warner Bros are idiots. I understand what they are doing, with the JL movie and using it as a launching pad for the rest of the heroes but they should've gone the Marvel route.
They are going to establish the heroes first before having an Avengers movie, and they probably will use the same cast. Not like Warner that is replacing Bale and Routh.

They are also idiots for not taking a look at Millar just cause he's a Marvel guy. He seemed passionate about the project and an epic Superman trilogy sounds interesting. It's can't be worse than SR and that made it to film. They should look then for Jeph Loeb, Grant Morrisson or Geoff Johns if they want DC people or just hire a good writer. What they should do though is get rid of Brian Singer now that they got rid of his writing team. It's obvious SR wasn't the hit Warner wanted so a new direction wouldn't hurt Superman.
As far as the JL movie goes, it's being rushed but the couple of pages that leaked awhile back don't make it sound that bad. The OMACs, Brother Eye. Just like Infinite Crisis. The problem is with the casting, they seem to be casting to young. Late 20's early 30's is the way to go, not early 20's.
I think a Green Lantern film will be better than a Flash film but they needed to go with Hal Jordan instead of Jon Stewat in the JL movie. Unless Warner is planning on doing what they did with Batman and Superman franchises where they run separate of the JL universe. That way they can have Jon Stewart as the Green Lantern in JL and Hal Jordan in the Green Lantern movie. Jordan would've been better for the JL film cause then on one of the inevitable sequels he could've gone crazy and become Parallax and try to kill the JL.
Oh well, at least Warner is getting The Dark Knight right. That movie is going to own all the DC films plus the Marvel ones.

Sony,

any movie flowed better than SR.

Hanso I liked SR for obvious and weird reasons. It reminded me of when I was 4 watching the original. I like Brandon and he made me laugh alot. I hated the kid and hoped he was James Marsdens but got some kryptonite that he found that Lois had and that made him strong. Spacey was great and when he got stabbed and rescued I thought it gave him more of a this sucks but I have to do it cause without the sun I am really a pussy angle, this made him less brawn than you see in cartoons. I thought the growing kryptonite was cool in a crazy comic book way. However Parker Posey should have been Lois Lane and Kitty was not a needed character.

But all in all I really liked it cause it tried harder than SpiderPIGS.

Well we'll agree to disagree. I personally never got over the fact that Superman had a piece of Kryptonite in his body and still was able to lift a continent of kryptonite. I'll agree with you that Parker Posey would've been a million times better Lois Lane, I also hated the kid and thought Routh was a good Superman.
Guess I had more expectation out of the film, I'm hoping they can meet them for the Man of STeel film.

Isn't WB doing a movie about Green Arrow in a prison fighting villians? I think the movie was named after the prison and Green Arrow will not be in costume.

Help me out here.

That's it...I have to make a confession....I've never seen Superman Returns....it's funny because after everything I heard, read or fro the clips I've seen, I'm still not sure if it's worth seeing it just to see if people exaterated or if most people were right.

I do hope DC makes a better effort with their movies because once again, Marvel is kicking DC butts not only in comics but also in movies (yes not all Marvel comics are great).

Not a big fan of Superman or WW anyway so, maybe the GL or Flash movie will be interesting to see.

Hanso, he didnt have the kryptonite shiv in him when he lifted it and it went from city block to continent to city block size a couple of times. After Lois and hubby rescued him they got the green, no not that kind of green gauley boy420 out of him. He healed in the plane, rather quickly and then tossed the kryptonite mass into space before passing out.

I had high expectations as well and what helped me get over it was listening to a bunch of dullard middle school hoochie mamas applaud the SPIDERPIG 3 preview and talk during the whole movie. I had to explain stuff out loud cause a bunch of idiots claiming to be Kal El fans were to busy talking to pay attention to the dialogue. So Superman returns trumped everything Marvel except Blade & Blade 2 and the Directors cut of BENDEVIL.

Constantine was boring and had a miscast Keanu Reeves. The one DC comic I would like to see is Green Lantern. I think it will make a great movie if done right.

Much like the dotcom boom and bust, Marvel is rushing all their properties to the screen before interest wanes. DC in taking a slow approach might get caught with several commercial bombs if comic movie interest wanes, nevermind the narrowing window between theatrical and DVD releases.