Marvel vs. DC or is it DC vs. Marvel

[pandatrooper]

"Someone at Marvel finally got the bright idea to create a unified plan of attack in developing and creating films and I think it was a genius move to place a group of people that understand comics and movies at the top."

I read somewhere that Avi Arads personal and corporate goal was to take the Marvel character franchises and spin them into multi release movie titles.

 

[micdavis]

People need to quit including Superman 2 on any good list. All the stuff with the baddies is atrocious.

Marvel is winning the adapted to movie race hands down.

 

[Wes R]

The only way I'd include Superman 2 on a good list is if they'd let Donner film it his way. Sadly neither of them has had spectacular success half the time. I go with DC for animated movies though because they're far better than Marvel's stuff.
For live action lately i've had to say marvel's had more that weren't total stinkers. I've always been a marvel person all the way back to when i collected comics so i'm more likely to know their products and go see the films.

 

[Tremas]

I haven't read a Marvel comic in the last 15 years. I have always been a big DC fan. But Marvel is kicking DC's but in the movie department.

I have to agree; I love DC's characters more, but Marvel just seems to take more chances with the ones they have, and give them a chance to shine on screen.

Let's face it, DC needs to open the stable doors and give the rest of the gang a chance. You can't make movies of just Superman and Batman forever...

 

[Tremas]

And, as for the latest Superman...

Please PLEASE, NO LUTHOR this time!

 

[Krull]

DC seems to be the tard who sits in the corner and diddles himself,it's a choice between the right or left hand most times i.e. who is gonna be this time? Batman? maybe Superman? who cares we've restarted them a million times! it's fun!!!
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Okay maybe they'll use a foot (Watchmen,Hex,Constantine)

 

[JD]

Mainstream Superhero comics have mostly lost their charm for me. I still check out a handful... but, with DC's reboot coming up, I can't see me picking up much.

I've always seemed to prefer the DC stuff - yes, I've enjoyed Marvel, but that seems so long ago. The Fantastic Four will probably always rank as my fave book of all time and while I've enjoyed X-Men and some of the spin-offs (the early, early New Mutants, X-Factor), I find it tedious to even look at now with all the lore, spin offs, mired continuity and just been drowned out too death in my eyes.

As far as the movies go, Marvel's won. What they started with Iron Man and have built into a Marvel Movie Universe is just about as perfect as you can get. Yeah, the movies themselves may have been less than perfect at times but, the overall plan is working so amazingly well. I think it's worked in their favor that two of their biggest names have been left out of the big picture due to licensing (Spidey and the X/Wolverine books). I thought the Raimi Spider-Man flicks were fun and did a great job... they just weren't my thing. Outside of X-Men: First Class, the X-movies just bombed for me - they didn't get much right; FC is in a level all its own and barely rates as X-Men to me.

I'm not a fan of the Nolan Bat-flicks. They just don't work for me. Superman Returns was boring and relied too much on a movie series that was 30 years old - Man of Steel, well so far, it looks terrible. Watchmen was watchable, but didn't come close to what that series meant.

 

[ncrRanger]

Marvel for me although i like bale as batman

 

[Rotwang]

At some point the people at Warner Brothers thought they could muscle DC into becoming nothing more than a property pool to make movies with so they insisted that WB run the show and DC would merely publish tie-ins for the movies. DC held their ground and a grudge was born, with WB deciding that superheroes were not hot at all (the same time Batman was sliding into nipplegate ...)

Marvel then got their act together and started pumping out movie after movie and had some major successes and even dared to bring their characters together into a single movie (Avengers)

WB has been slow on the draw, but DC's relaunch isn't really another Crisis, but it's a complete redesign aimed at keeping the continuity the same through the comics, films and other media.

Usually what happens is that people who pick up a comic after seeing the movie don't always understand why Mystique looks like a lizard in the movie, and a smurf in the books, are they the same ?

It's those differences that DC is now erasing. The Superman in the comics is now the same as the new movie one and future games will show the same Supes. So DC is solidifying their property before launching a media blitz to challenge the Marvel success.

They have to because there is not much money left in comics.

 

[spuggins]

DC has better heroes, Marvel does better movies since they started making their own. The obvious exception being the Nolan Batman films.

 

[Jet Beetle]

It used to be that marvel couldn't make a good movie to save their grandmother - DC ruled the box office with an iron fist -- then came CGI and suddenly you could actually do things like have a human torch, create mechanical armor on a man that looks good, have Ghostriders head deliver expression - i remember when I was younger my friends and I used to sit around wondering how they would make Spidey's webbing look halfway descent or have him jump from building to building (not that it looked all that great in the Raimi films), but once that door opened, Marvel went to work.

 

[Thatoneguy]

Just my list....

Marvel Epic Failures:

Elektra - Had potential
Daredevil - Not bad but did not pan out too well
FF4 Rise of the Silver Surfer
First round of Punisher films
Ghost Rider - One of my favorite Marvel characters now forever covered with Nick Cage slim.......
Spidey 3 - EMO Parker
Xmen 3 - Too much on screen!
Hulk - By box office standards but I actually liked the first version by Ange Lee!

DC Epic Failures

Catwoman
Batman 3
Superman Returns.....? Never saw it only by word of mouth and RPF
Was Spawn under the DC label? I know McFarlane used to illustrate for them.....!
Green Lantern....?

no spawn isn't DC nor is it Marvel its Image comics Todd Mc farland and few others banded together to make their own publishing name. I know Todd Mc Farland worked for Marvel but i was unaware that he worked for DC. I hope that clears things up for you Cheers!

 

[Jet Beetle]

You can say what you want about Electra and Daredevil but the Spawn movie makes those two films look like Gone with the Wind. I remember when I first went to see it I couldn't believe what I was watching -- so sooooooo terrible.