Agreed with you there, except the bolded bit. But then again, I think it's preference for me. I prefer the darker stuff over the light/comic stuff.
I actually think I prefer DC Comics characters over marvel and that might be due to the Batman villains gallery and some of the crossovers.
But the movies is a whole different ball game and the way they built to the infinity stones saga was immense.
In terms of cinema, the only dccu moment that got people crazy when I went was wonder woman's intro in bvs.
But marvel I can think of Avengers lineup in the first, Thor and his 'bring me thanos', moment in IW, Spidey dusting away in IW, captain America and Thor's hammer + his Avengers assemble line and iron man saying 'and I am iron man' before he snapped.
All built up brilliantly which dccu doesn't understand (yet hopefully)
Shazam and Aquaman are two superhero romps that are the very definition of entertaining and fun. Birds of Prey while structurally a mess was also a lot of fun too. Joker was a success by any metric, to say DC films don't work in terms of movies and action superhero flicks is extremely harsh when there have been quite a few examples of audiences and critics digging them - including major Oscar wins, something that Marvel has yet to achieve. The first Wonder Woman film was also critically lauded as well as a box office success. What it boils down to is that not everything Marvel does onscreen is amazing while not all of DC's output is underwhelming.
Shazam wasn't underwhelming but it was a nice surprise. Expectations weren't high on that. Wonder Woman was the only movie that wasn't underwhelming. MoS was mostly good but remember, this was done before the dccu was introduced and planned (IIRC)
Every other movie from dccu has been underwhelming
(Dccu not DC property)
I prefer it much more than 99% of what Marvel puts out. It's all down to preference.
That is why judging movies on Rotten Tomatoes critics score is bollocks, if anything, user ratings are much more representative, and Man of Steel is 75% on RT.
Give me DC stories any time before much more repetitive Marvel formula.
I never go on reviews before making a judgment. I tend to enjoy most of the movies but I can also see when its a disappointment or would be bad for non comic book geeks like me. Superman being broody vs Batman being broody was a huge mistake. It should have been the light/day of superman v dark/night (heh) of Batman IMO (but that movie had bigger issues)
It was fine for MOS, but by the end of that film he was perfectly positioned to be a more positive superman. Instead it felt like the next few set him right back just so they could squeeze in some conflict.
Maybe but again, this is lack of planning leading to underwhelming universe building