Films Outside The DCEU Is Just Creative Laziness

Aug 24, 2017 16:59:54 GMT ArArArchStanton said:

Aug 24, 2017 16:53:56 GMT Tristan's Journal said:

I know you are trolling, but that is silly even for you. Creative laziness? A multiverse with different takes on worlds and characters is just the contrary.

I am happy if not every new movie is part of an all-consuming shared universe approach, but that there are alternative universes with differnet takes on tone, worldbuilding and character development.

And the great thing is that DC has so many nuanced characters: I want to see Detective Bats, Miller-killer Bats, TDK Bats and goofy Bats too, same with all types of Jokers not just the Leto Joker for the next decade. I vote for a Bat family universe with a different tone and storyline.

Marvel characters always stay the same, there is little artistic variation and reinterpretation, so the mono-universe approach is just fine for those. DC is simply too big and varied to be stuffed in just one stale, stagnant and slow universe.

I'm actually dead serious.

The "multiverse" is just a term to get you to buy into the fact that they are too lazy to maintain continuity. It's an excuse. They don't give a shit about making an effort to creatively build on a single continuity, so they give up, do their own then, and then tell you they have "creative freedom" and it's a "multiverse", when the fact of the matter is they just aren't making an effort.

it's not about continuity but about creative freedom and artistic interpretation. It is pretty simple to keep continuity with only 4 DCEU movies, so that argument is moot. Reeves probably wants to establish his own design, look and tone and create the big bang for a seperate Bat family universe (which was planned since decades btw).

Now if their take on this is artistically different, sound and interesting I am more than intrigued.

But look, I do not expect you to understand this approach, you are hooked to an monoverse approach that saw the same arcs and formula repeated ad nauseam with 16+ movies and did not progress any main storyline except a few takes on the main villain grinning in post credit scenes. You just love that. I really don't. So in the end it's about individual taste.

I liked that monoverse approach in the Star Trek shows btw (IMO ST is by far the biggest shared universe, now multiverse), but it got really stale with time too.