When discussing DC's cinematic output, people always bring up DC's animated movies catalogue, stating that they are infinitely better than what we actually get in cinemas.
You fellas must seen it, a lot of people actually ask the DC movies to be similar to the animated ones.
There was indeed a time when DC animated movies were excellent. Movies like Under the Red Hood, Dark Knight Returns Part 1-2 were excellent.
But here's the thing. For the last couple of years, the animated movies have been completely shit, besides a few outliers.
It all began when they started basing off their stories from New 52 comics, and starting to act like these are movies for "ADULTS" with meaningless gore, sex scenes out of nowhere and swearing.
Gladly, they seem to move away from the god awful N52 era movies, go with a more consistent tone and prefer a much better art style with movies like Superman Man of Tomorrow , Justice Society WW2 and Batman The Long Haloween.
Seriously, the newer art style is infinitely better than the ones came before it. Also, based on Man of Tomorrow, the movies maybe now have less edgy bullcrap, hopefully.
Yet, it doesn't change the fact that the movies for the past 5 years have been mediocre to terrible. So, let's see the recent movies DC put out:
-Superman: Man of Tomorrow : preety okay, definitely a step in the right direction
-Justice League: Apokalips War: Wanna see your beloved heroes ripped into pieces by "Paradoomsdays". Everything wrong with newer DC movies wrapped around in one single package. What a terrible film.
-Superman: Red Son: A very mediocre adaptation of a beloved comic. Personally not a huge fan of Millar's work but movie is infinitely worse than the source material with ommiting some very cool story beats from the comic. Particularly the ending.
-Wonder Woman Bloodlines: Not as bad as other newer movies, Rosaria Dawson is okay as WW, but this one is especially forgettable.
-Batman Hush: One of the best Batman stories in the modern era, another awful adaptation that completely butchers the story and makes it generic as fuck.
- Justice League Vs Fatal Five: This one is cool because it has the old DCAU art style. However, it is kind of a generic ass story which adds nothing to the DCAU. Wasted potential IMO.
- Reign of Superman / Death of Superman: These two movies are adapting the Death and Return of Superman from the 90's. Here's the problem. The 2004 DCAU animated movie did it infinitely better. At that one had a good art style.
- Suicide Squad: Hell To Pay: People like this movie because there is that "King Shark is a shark" line. Other than that, it is another one of those movies that try so hard to be MATURE. It is unintentionally funny.
-Batman: Gotham By Gaslight: Probably best movie of DC animated movies of that era. Gotham By Gaslight is a cool story and movie is actually fine. Isn't it weird the best movie of the era is an Elseworld story with a completely different art style?
- Batman and Harley Quinn: Another DCAU homage where Harley Quinn fucks Nightwing. Yeah, that happened.
- Teen Titans: Judas Contract: Beloved storyline ruined by god awful dialogue, bad characterization and a shit ton of screentime with that godawful take on Damian Wayne.
-Justice League: Dark: This one is fine. Constant jerking off to Batman is annoying but at least it's FUN where most of these movies are certainly not.
- Batman: The Killing Joke: LOL.
- Justice League vs Teen Titans: I hope you guys like the annoying ass Damian Wayne these screenwriters created. If not, this is just torture.
- Batman: Bad Blood: One of the worst ones. Awful movie which ruins everyone.
Just look at this scene from Batman: Bad Blood. Is this the way you want to see Bruce and Richard Grayson interact, Batman completely disrespecting Richard's time as Batman? What an awful interaction that completely misses the mark of relationship between Dick and Bruce.
There are more mediocre and bad movies: Batman vs Robin, Son of Batman (Man, this N52 Batman movies are something aren't they?), Throne of Atlantis etc.
The movies after the Flashpoint Paradox were usually really bad and tainted the legacy of a once excellent line up of movies. Art style of the movies became dogshit. Animation became lifeless and boring. Just, look at this shot:
Long story short, DC animated movies for the past few years has been terrible to just okay. Far cry from once a great line up. Good to see they're moving further away from the NEW 52 era, i hope both the Long Haloween and new Justice Society movies are winners because recently, they fucked up countless times.
You fellas must seen it, a lot of people actually ask the DC movies to be similar to the animated ones.
There was indeed a time when DC animated movies were excellent. Movies like Under the Red Hood, Dark Knight Returns Part 1-2 were excellent.
But here's the thing. For the last couple of years, the animated movies have been completely shit, besides a few outliers.
It all began when they started basing off their stories from New 52 comics, and starting to act like these are movies for "ADULTS" with meaningless gore, sex scenes out of nowhere and swearing.
Gladly, they seem to move away from the god awful N52 era movies, go with a more consistent tone and prefer a much better art style with movies like Superman Man of Tomorrow , Justice Society WW2 and Batman The Long Haloween.
Seriously, the newer art style is infinitely better than the ones came before it. Also, based on Man of Tomorrow, the movies maybe now have less edgy bullcrap, hopefully.
Yet, it doesn't change the fact that the movies for the past 5 years have been mediocre to terrible. So, let's see the recent movies DC put out:
-Superman: Man of Tomorrow : preety okay, definitely a step in the right direction
-Justice League: Apokalips War: Wanna see your beloved heroes ripped into pieces by "Paradoomsdays". Everything wrong with newer DC movies wrapped around in one single package. What a terrible film.
-Superman: Red Son: A very mediocre adaptation of a beloved comic. Personally not a huge fan of Millar's work but movie is infinitely worse than the source material with ommiting some very cool story beats from the comic. Particularly the ending.
-Wonder Woman Bloodlines: Not as bad as other newer movies, Rosaria Dawson is okay as WW, but this one is especially forgettable.
-Batman Hush: One of the best Batman stories in the modern era, another awful adaptation that completely butchers the story and makes it generic as fuck.
- Justice League Vs Fatal Five: This one is cool because it has the old DCAU art style. However, it is kind of a generic ass story which adds nothing to the DCAU. Wasted potential IMO.
- Reign of Superman / Death of Superman: These two movies are adapting the Death and Return of Superman from the 90's. Here's the problem. The 2004 DCAU animated movie did it infinitely better. At that one had a good art style.
- Suicide Squad: Hell To Pay: People like this movie because there is that "King Shark is a shark" line. Other than that, it is another one of those movies that try so hard to be MATURE. It is unintentionally funny.
-Batman: Gotham By Gaslight: Probably best movie of DC animated movies of that era. Gotham By Gaslight is a cool story and movie is actually fine. Isn't it weird the best movie of the era is an Elseworld story with a completely different art style?
- Batman and Harley Quinn: Another DCAU homage where Harley Quinn fucks Nightwing. Yeah, that happened.
- Teen Titans: Judas Contract: Beloved storyline ruined by god awful dialogue, bad characterization and a shit ton of screentime with that godawful take on Damian Wayne.
-Justice League: Dark: This one is fine. Constant jerking off to Batman is annoying but at least it's FUN where most of these movies are certainly not.
- Batman: The Killing Joke: LOL.
- Justice League vs Teen Titans: I hope you guys like the annoying ass Damian Wayne these screenwriters created. If not, this is just torture.
- Batman: Bad Blood: One of the worst ones. Awful movie which ruins everyone.
Just look at this scene from Batman: Bad Blood. Is this the way you want to see Bruce and Richard Grayson interact, Batman completely disrespecting Richard's time as Batman? What an awful interaction that completely misses the mark of relationship between Dick and Bruce.
There are more mediocre and bad movies: Batman vs Robin, Son of Batman (Man, this N52 Batman movies are something aren't they?), Throne of Atlantis etc.
The movies after the Flashpoint Paradox were usually really bad and tainted the legacy of a once excellent line up of movies. Art style of the movies became dogshit. Animation became lifeless and boring. Just, look at this shot:
Long story short, DC animated movies for the past few years has been terrible to just okay. Far cry from once a great line up. Good to see they're moving further away from the NEW 52 era, i hope both the Long Haloween and new Justice Society movies are winners because recently, they fucked up countless times.
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