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<blockquote data-quote="Ryujin" data-source="post: 7126560" data-attributes="member: 27897"><p>Where the Captain America movies are concerned, in my experience, most people seem to have a preference opposite to your own. Not that it means anything, though, as we all have our preferences.</p><p></p><p>The big difference between the MCU and the DCCU seems to be one of tone. Tone appropriate, or not appropriate, to the source material. The MCU is full-on three colour comic in tone. The DCCU is grim-dark graphic novel in tone and that would be fine, if they were making movies about different properties. It could have worked for "Suicide Squad" but that movie had other failings (making it the Harley Quinn and Will Smith in Deadshot's costume show; the abortion that was Leto's Joker...). If they hold that tone with a property like "Justice League Dark" they might be onto something. Or if they used the same tone in some of the "Dark Horse Presents" products, then maybe that would work. </p><p></p><p>What they need to do, is somehow capture the spirit of the comics. The hopefulness that they engender. They don't have to mimic Marvel's roadmap to do this, nor should they, but they need to find a more appropriate FEEL to their movies. As you said, they're kicking arse in the animated realm. How do they do it? The way that I just said.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ryujin, post: 7126560, member: 27897"] Where the Captain America movies are concerned, in my experience, most people seem to have a preference opposite to your own. Not that it means anything, though, as we all have our preferences. The big difference between the MCU and the DCCU seems to be one of tone. Tone appropriate, or not appropriate, to the source material. The MCU is full-on three colour comic in tone. The DCCU is grim-dark graphic novel in tone and that would be fine, if they were making movies about different properties. It could have worked for "Suicide Squad" but that movie had other failings (making it the Harley Quinn and Will Smith in Deadshot's costume show; the abortion that was Leto's Joker...). If they hold that tone with a property like "Justice League Dark" they might be onto something. Or if they used the same tone in some of the "Dark Horse Presents" products, then maybe that would work. What they need to do, is somehow capture the spirit of the comics. The hopefulness that they engender. They don't have to mimic Marvel's roadmap to do this, nor should they, but they need to find a more appropriate FEEL to their movies. As you said, they're kicking arse in the animated realm. How do they do it? The way that I just said. [/QUOTE]
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