Speak4yourself

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@gandoff2169

I understand your appreciation for movies. I love going to the movies and my favorite part of the movie is when the lights go down and the green preview screen goes up. Nothing quite like it.
Sadly, movies these days feel cut from the same cloth in terms of genre and story telling. As much hope as I have for this upcoming revival of the Turtles, I have this feeling that it will be nothing special, just another hype movie that will make profit namely for it's title and people's expectations.

My hope is that he treats the Ninja Turtles with more respect and care than he did with the Transformers Franchise. Tone down the obnoxious humor and characters and keep out most of the dirty innuendos and you might just have a half decent start.

@rudy

With what you stated, do you mean what Marvel did with the avengers line up, or the overall decade of films Marvel produced?
I think maybe their advantage against DC was that they appealed to a broader audience. If you think about it, the best target audience is children. Characters like the Hulk and Spider-man are going to bring in more children and families than say the Dark Knight films which were darker and more adult; and bottomline, Marvel just out produced DC in the number of films within the past decade. Marvel has become a household brand in a sense.

This may be coming from an ignorant stand point, but the Hollywood industry seems to be making all the wrong moves. I understand that it's about the money, it's about the money they get back from what they put in. To me it seems like the pictures that do better are those with less Special effects and more dramatic storytelling. If I were to handle any of these decisions for what gets made, I wouldn't go big but start small with these characters and then build on their stories with each picture. Less is more in some cases, and Hollywood must think going big is the answer but they're wrong. Then again, if a Special effects extravaganza with no regard for serious story telling is what sells at the box office then the suits of Hollywood know what they're doing

To speak on the Green Lantern Franchise; I think it has potential. Hopefully they can improve on the first one with a damn good sequel and finish off with making the franchise a great trilogy.

@youngrizo

I agree with you completely. My hope to see bale in the team was just wishful thinking. I loved Nolan's vision of Batman. Granted I think if you take a comic world and paint it with too much realism it can make a man who where's a bat suit look kind of goofy, not to mention the bat voice. Nonetheless I loved the trilogy and to be honest it's part of the reason I am such a fan of the Batman character. But just to keep my hopes alive, it would be interesting to see the DC universe as a place where the Government covers up any supernatural or extraterrestrial activity. Therefore the reason we have no mention of any super human activity in Nolan's series is because it's being kept under wraps at the behest of political forces.

The thing that makes these team up stories fun to watch is our relationship to each character. I think each main character of the Justice League should each get a trilogy like Batman before uniting these icons. The more we invest in each character on their own, the greater the team up would be. Also it would be interesting to see Nolan's Batman become involved with the Justice League.
Gotham is taken care of so maybe Bruce is discovered to be alive by the League who also discovers that he in fact was Batman, and find him to be a valuable asset to their cause. That's just the way I see it.