Everything I have read in connection with the DC universe movies indicates that the fundamental problem is with the people in charge at the studio. The one that most stands out to me is how they evidently added Batman to Batman vs. Superman *two days before announcing the movie*. The right people are not in charge, and so I really don't think we'll get great DC movies for awhile, if ever.Blackhawk wrote:The word on the DC street is that roughly the following occurred:
1. They shot BvS and expected great things.
2. They shot most of Suicide Squad.
3. BvS was released and panned. They got nervous, Snyder got sidelined.
4. They released the Suicide Squad trailers and everyone got all exciteded.
5. Someone told them that nearly every comic, light-hearted moment in the movie was in the trailers, and the film was nothing like that. It was shot in the era before Snyder was brushed off.
6. They brought in the company that cut the trailers to reshoot millions worth of stuff to make the (finished) film match the trailers.
7. They showed both versions (the director's original intent and the funny re-shoot, re-cut) to test audiences to see which one to go with.
8. They compromised with a new cut that is a bastardized mix of the two.
And audiences ended up confused. I know very little about making movies, but even to me the above sounds like an insane way to go about it.
The real hope is for the films actually made AFTER the BvS kerphluffle, starting with Justice League.
The Wonder Woman trailer looks sweet, though.
), but the idea of something designed for pleasure being good because it fits the criteria of being good rather than because it brings pleasure has always seemed silly to me.
