It's one of those recent corp cookie-cutters filled with pompous celebs [Margot Robbie in general regarding her work surrounding 'so quirky psychopath Harley Quinn, and Cena's pro-China/anti-Taiwan groveling] that piles on senseless action and tries to grab fans' attention with nostalgia more than anything by including topical/popular/"popular" characters forced into a shit plot.
Even the 2016 movie was almost 'Assault on Arkham' and really speaking frankly they really should have just made a live-action Assault on Arkham as the only things missing from the animated movie and the live-action impersonation were The Riddler and some other randoms nobody cares about [minus possibly Tarantula who would get Spider-Man flak]. Both ended up including Batman and Joker so those casting cheques were already paid. The completely nonsense story with Enchantress and the utterly unneeded romance plotline with Flagg would have been avoided. Waller would have been just a bit more competent although still thoroughly lawful-evil [not that she's stayed that in recent comics]
Instead just like how Justice League should have been a live action Justice League: War [literally the same overall plot involving finding Mother boxes and Darkseid coming to Earth] every live action DC movie ends up being a pale imitation of a previously created animated works and also remains far worse in terms of quality compared to Marvel. Although Marvel itself does seem to now be at the post peak stage where it's sabotaging it's own brand in favor of more obvious woke agendas.
DC has such great animated properties under their belt, I still don't understand how they fail to live up to them every single time.
I mean, I know that it's mostly the ego's involved in the director and writer wanting to "do their own thing" with it, but just once they couldn't say: "take this extremely popular animated film we have and make it with people and CGI." Just once?
For the number of times they might be "trying their own thing" only for it to end up as almost a copy of an existing piece, just objectively worse, there must be next to no creative inspiration left there.
On top of the aforementioned Assault on Arkham and Justice League War the Star Wars sequels first movie is practically a reboot of A New Hope. Just with little in the way of character development/consistency/interest, zero potential for suspense, and overall very little world building for what was meant to be a new era.
More on topic there are also still a lot of other DC Comics animated features that would work as stand alone ish ensemble movies like the Avengers movies were. Crisis on Two Earths not only had an incredible opening theme track that really should have ended up as the live action JL track, but a viable plot that opens up the multiverse by bringing in the Crime Syndicate from Earth 3. Even the doppelgangers are different enough in looks it wouldn't need something like Cavil being greenscreened to fight himself because Ultraman doesn't look identical to Superman.
But no, DC continue to shit the bed when it comes to movies and then can their successes despite vocal fans asking for more [Snyderverse].
Could... but won't.
It's one of those recent corp cookie-cutters filled with pompous celebs [Margot Robbie in general regarding her work surrounding 'so quirky psychopath Harley Quinn, and Cena's pro-China/anti-Taiwan groveling] that piles on senseless action and tries to grab fans' attention with nostalgia more than anything by including topical/popular/"popular" characters forced into a shit plot.
Even the 2016 movie was almost 'Assault on Arkham' and really speaking frankly they really should have just made a live-action Assault on Arkham as the only things missing from the animated movie and the live-action impersonation were The Riddler and some other randoms nobody cares about [minus possibly Tarantula who would get Spider-Man flak]. Both ended up including Batman and Joker so those casting cheques were already paid. The completely nonsense story with Enchantress and the utterly unneeded romance plotline with Flagg would have been avoided. Waller would have been just a bit more competent although still thoroughly lawful-evil [not that she's stayed that in recent comics]
Instead just like how Justice League should have been a live action Justice League: War [literally the same overall plot involving finding Mother boxes and Darkseid coming to Earth] every live action DC movie ends up being a pale imitation of a previously created animated works and also remains far worse in terms of quality compared to Marvel. Although Marvel itself does seem to now be at the post peak stage where it's sabotaging it's own brand in favor of more obvious woke agendas.
DC has such great animated properties under their belt, I still don't understand how they fail to live up to them every single time.
I mean, I know that it's mostly the ego's involved in the director and writer wanting to "do their own thing" with it, but just once they couldn't say: "take this extremely popular animated film we have and make it with people and CGI." Just once?
Maybe thats because the people being chosen to direct are less literate than the people who are hired to animate all the other films.
For the number of times they might be "trying their own thing" only for it to end up as almost a copy of an existing piece, just objectively worse, there must be next to no creative inspiration left there.
On top of the aforementioned Assault on Arkham and Justice League War the Star Wars sequels first movie is practically a reboot of A New Hope. Just with little in the way of character development/consistency/interest, zero potential for suspense, and overall very little world building for what was meant to be a new era.
More on topic there are also still a lot of other DC Comics animated features that would work as stand alone ish ensemble movies like the Avengers movies were. Crisis on Two Earths not only had an incredible opening theme track that really should have ended up as the live action JL track, but a viable plot that opens up the multiverse by bringing in the Crime Syndicate from Earth 3. Even the doppelgangers are different enough in looks it wouldn't need something like Cavil being greenscreened to fight himself because Ultraman doesn't look identical to Superman.
But no, DC continue to shit the bed when it comes to movies and then can their successes despite vocal fans asking for more [Snyderverse].
It's because they gave Zack Snyder creative control.