>>81068866>IMO, DC works best when you're telling great and interesting stories, that -- in a sort of offhand way -- happen to feature DC characters.Eeh, yes and no. The DC characters CAN be compelling, and great stories CAN be mined from them. The problem isn't the characters as much as the writers behind them in the movies. Superman is the ultimate immigrant, the ultimate outsider, someone who desperately wants to fit in. What did Man of Steel do with that? Jonathan isolated him even more, the species he came from turned out to be giant, unrepentant cockbags, and Superman barely bothers trying to be human. That's not the character sucking, that's the writers being marginally more intelligent than the room full of chimps trying to bang out Shakespeare. Same problems with Superman Returns - Superman starts out 5 years removed from humanity, away from the woman he loves, and oh, yeah, he knocked her up before he left. He even let Luthor go free because he couldn't be bothered to show up for trial. Any decent writer could have figured out that you won't get a good result from such a badly broken main character.
Green Lantern - DC wanted an Iron Man franchise. The studio did the same thing it did with BvS - it tried to use a single movie to be a launching point for the entire universe, and it sacrificed the movie to do it. They HAD a decent script already, and then they threw one of their key writers/producers to another movie and brought in another guy to do a rewrite. And I'll bet all the money in my pockets that the rewrite was aimed squarely at trying to clone Iron Man's popularity. Combine that with the crap CGI, and... yeah. (Ironically, that decent script? Berlanti and Guggenheim - but it's not like they ever did a good translation of comics to live-action or anything.)
The characters can be good, WB just keeps relying on style over substance.
