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Originally Posted by Kalyx triaD
I mean, they gotta do it sometime. And you can't reasonably expect them to emulate the multi-year movie by movie set-up, the first JL movie would come out by Avengers 5.
It was clearly gonna be fast tracked, reversing Marvel's plan with movies spinning off after the fact rather than a build up. They had no choice and I'm sympathetic to that.
Unless you had a better plan in mind.
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"They gotta do it sometime" doesn't mean they have to do it now. Who gives a shit how many Avengers movies come out by the time JL is done with characters who had their own well written, well produced films? It's not like superheroes are a dying breed.
By rushing, Warner is taking a huge risk that general audiences are going to give a shit about the characters they're stuffing into a MOS sequel, without giving those characters a few hours of their own to develop personalities.
The reason Avengers worked is due the fact that most people had a pretty good idea of each character, and taking those characters and pitting them at odds in a film was interesting and ultimately incredibly entertaining.
That doesn't work if they tried doing Avengers first and then spinning off. There wouldn't be enough time in a 3 hour film to give potential new comers Flash, WW, Lantern and Aquaman time to develop enough character and personality to actually make people care about them.
Look at Green Lantern. You see Sinestro and the rest of the corps for all of, what, 10 minutes, if that? I didn't give a shit about any of those characters and they literally have no memorable moments in the film and were there soley to get into the film and progress the plot.
That's what I can see happening if WB doesn't just accept that Marvel is miles ahead of them and gives in to making singular films for their heroes before making a JL film. Hell, I can see it as an advantage for them doing that. At that point, Marvel will have been around so long, with some characters possibly losing steam, that general audiences may be even more inclined to give different characters under different styles a try.