Films Outside The DCEU Is Just Creative Laziness

Aug 26, 2017 19:38:59 GMT faustus5 said:

Aug 26, 2017 15:03:59 GMT ArArArchStanton said:

Yep, and that's ignoring any sense of continuity, like I said.

So fucking what? No artist has any obligation to follow or give the slightest shit about a corporate plan for a shared universe. Comic book artists create stand alone, original stories unconnected to official continuities all the time. You have no rational case for this pathetic whining.

You're acting like independent vision is more creative, and it isn't.

Yes, it is. Anyone with any sort of artistic IQ knows this.

Also, it's not a corporate plan, it's a collective vision that is still artistic and creative.

There is no evidence whatsoever that the scheme for a DC shared universe in film was ever anything but the dream of studio executives with one plan and one plan only: making money.

That's fine. I've enjoyed the results more than most so far, faults and all. I'm just not going to throw an absurd tantrum over the idea that the movies are doing what the comics have always done: creating stand alone content unconnected to the shared universe.

So they aren't trying, that's what.  They aren't making an effort to have independent films, they just aren't making effort to maintain continuity.  It's decision by indecision so stop giving them credit for it.

And no, independent efforts are not more artistic by default, ask any architect who makes a career out of adding to or refurbishing older buildings, ask any musical artist who their inspirations were.  Anybody with a design IQ knows this. For some reason you have this idea that creativity can only be maximized independently and that just isn't true.  Creativity is fundamental to referencing our experience around us.

I agree that the DC shared universe is nothing but a corporate scheme.  That's why it sucks.  The MCU vision is the opposite, a truly creative endeavor made by artists, and DC has the opportunity to get the creative input of it's talent writers on all of the aspects of the DCU to put together a strong collective vision.  But they are wasting the opportunity.