Putting The DCU Under "Popular Movies" Is Out Of Line

Feb 24, 2017 4:07:42 GMT fritzelly said:

Feb 24, 2017 3:45:05 GMT ArArArchStanton said:

That clearly has not been a benefit to it when BVS came up over $300 million short of Civil War. You can't make the case that it's made DC popular when that kind of poor box office result happens. A great BVS film could have and perhaps should have exceeded Civil War, so you can make a reasonable estimate that the crap quality lost them $400 million. There is no way to call that good.

Civil War had a nice storyline behind it, BvS was a naff storyline - worst kinda storyline to reintroduce everyone's worst candidate for Batman and following on from Nolans's trilogy which set a high standard

I'm maybe biased as I think the Dark Knight trilogy is the best thing ever (well maybe not the last film)

Batman Begins and The Dark Knight were incredible, no doubt.  Rises was pretty lazy and missed a ton of opportunities.

Regardless, I would argue that Civil War is better than any of those.  It is just as well executed, but beyond that it does three major things that TDK had no chance at doing.  It successfully weaves in two origins for new major characters.  It sets new ground for how to handle a large cast flawlessly where everybody is perfectly utilized, and it expertly capitalizes on the momentum and threads of the entire series while simultaneously laying new ground for everything to come.

It is crossroads film of the MCU.  And I don't even think it is a debate that it is the best comic book film there has ever been.  I don't see any film that even has a case to make.