WB eyeing Ben Affleck to direct 'Justice League'

[CashMan]

What is GR?

Give me a moment to figure that out....




Ghost Rider

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

I think we are talking about more recent, I think starting with X-men, and you have to throw in the GR movies which sucked, Watchmen?, and the stand alone SM(which I liked).

Blade movies as well.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

I have always felt that Marvel was better overall but especially in the area of super hero GROUPS.

In the comic book world The Avengers were cool, The X Men were cool and the Fantastic four were cool...I always thought the Justice League was cheesy if any one of the groups that DC had that I liked back in the day it was the New Teen Titans...but even those were not as good as marvel and in some ways even tried to take from the Xmen from what I recall.

I personally think the Justice League movie would be a disaster.

Most modern kids don't really care much for superman, heck I knew many back in my teens that did not care for Superman. Wonder woman was killer eye candy when Lynda Carter played her but other than that I don't remember too many guys thinking she was cool. Aqua man was cheesy. The only two main characters in the Justice League that most guys thought were cool back in the day was Batman and Green Lantern.

 

[Reality]

Most modern kids don't really care much for superman, heck I knew many back in my teens that did not care for Superman. Wonder woman was killer eye candy when Lynda Carter played her but other than that I don't remember too many guys thinking she was cool. Aqua man was cheesy. The only two main characters in the Justice League that most guys thought were cool back in the day was Batman and Green Lantern.

I was not really into super heroes when I grew up mainly because my only exposure to them were with Saturday morning Justice League cartoons and 1960s/1970s TV show reruns like Batman and Wonder Woman. All of them had a "goody two-shoes" feel to them and while I did watch them from time to time, they really weren't exciting to me.

The recent Batman movies and the even the Spiderman movies with Tobey McGuire were great movies and really piqued my interest in superheroes. Unfortunately, the new Twilight'ed Amazing Spiderman and I am sure similar upcoming Twilight'ed superhero movies are a step backward at least to me personally.

#reality

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

I was not really into super heroes when I grew up mainly because my only exposure to them were with Saturday morning Justice League cartoons and 1960s/1970s TV show reruns like Batman and Wonder Woman. All of them had a "goody two-shoes" feel to them and while I did watch them from time to time, they really weren't exciting to me.

The recent Batman movies and the even the Spiderman movies with Tobey McGuire were great movies and really piqued my interest in superheroes. Unfortunately, the new Twilight'ed Amazing Spiderman and I am sure similar upcoming Twilight'ed superhero movies are a step backward at least to me personally.

#reality

I hated the earlier Batman movies via Burton...over the top cartoonish similar to the old TV show.

The Nolan versions I have enjoyed.

Honestly did not care that much for the Spiderman movies at all. Also hate the idea that they have to do a reboot every few spiderman movies. As much as I have love for the marvel comics...spiderman was never one of the ones I cared for so it is hard for me to get into the spiderman movies to start with.

The Hulk movies were kind of bad except for the one with Norton.

Funny about the Capt America and Thor movies.

When there were coming out I had it in my mind I would like the Thor one but not the Capt America one as Capt America is one of those heroes that I normally found Cheesy. Thor on the other hand was a warrior. Turns out the thor movie sucked and the Capt America one was much better.

I think the Avengers has done the best so far as a group movie with The last xmen one. The Fantastic four movies were meh but I still liked the second one just because of the Silver Surfer.

Personally think it would be cool if marvel eventually did a Secret Wars style movie where all of the marvel heroes and villains wind up fighting in a neutral area.

Ok...my old school comic book geekdom is coming out. Thankfully I quit buying them as a youth or I would be poorer than I already am. :laugh2:

 

[CowboyMike]

I think we are talking about more recent, I think starting with X-men, and you have to throw in the GR movies which sucked, Watchmen?, and the stand alone SM(which I liked).

What was wrong with Watchmen? Aside from two alterations, it was pretty much word for word to the novel. It's probably the truest to origin 'superhero' movie out there at the moment, imo.

 

[CashMan]

What was wrong with Watchmen? Aside from two alterations, it was pretty much word for word to the novel. It's probably the truest to origin 'superhero' movie out there at the moment, imo.

Didn't say anything negative about it.

 

[CowboyMike]

Didn't say anything negative about it.

Ah. I misunderstood your post. My apologies.

 

[Manwiththeplan]

No!

But I feel they would have to use either of the actors from the Nolan trilogy.

I disagree, the audience wouldn't be able to connect to a non bruce wayne batman without that character being fully explored. doesn't have to be Bale, but cannot be joeseph gordon levitt.

 

[Stash]

I disagree, the audience wouldn't be able to connect to a non bruce wayne batman without that character being fully explored. doesn't have to be Bale, but cannot be joeseph gordon levitt.

Then the momentum gained by Nolan's trilogy is essentially squandered.

All of the coolness and affection for the series will be erased and the 'new guy' will be starting from square one and fans will have a 'show me' stance about it.