First article so please be nice....ah forget it. "imitates Joker from Arkham Asylum" DO YOUR WORST!!!" :D
Let me state this at first: I am a Marvel Movie Maniac. I can recite the 2002 Spider-Man trailer by heart; The Iron Man movie cemented him as my second favorite hero ever, and i considered Avengers movie to be not only the greatest CBM ever, but the best movie i've ever seen. Add that to the fact i've always thought DC's characters were kinda weird, and outside of Aaron Eckhart's strong showing, and Heath Ledger brilliant performance, i thought TDK wasn't that impressive, and you could say DC isn't exactly my cup of tea.
Wait, don't click away! Before you start typing angry "WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU?!?!?!?" let me explain. Even though i'm a more of Marvel guy, i loved, repeat: LOVED the JL animated series. And i believe that if they followed a model like that, then Justice League could be even bigger then Avengers. These are reasons DC needs to put JL on the front-burner. So put down the pitchforks and torches for two seconds, k? Cool....
Their In A League Of Their Own (Pun Intended)
I'd wager before Iron Man came out, Spider-Man, Hulk, Wolverine, Fantastic Four were the Marvel characters people thought of. Up until recently, the big name guys like Spidey, and Wolvie weren't on the Avengers. The Avengers were a collection a b-list heroes, who came together to become something even bigger. Now flip to DC. Their biggest heroes? Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern? Those guys (and girl) are core members of the League And they are already ridiculously successful standalone. Anyone of those members could have their own successful franchise. Throw them in a movie all together? Green Lantern wouldn't be the only green thing Justice League would have
Six In One Hand, Half A Dozen In The Other
There are two models they could go through to make a good movie. They've got the the animated JL approach (though theirs was more incidental). Introduce Superman and Batman, have them team up in a "World's Finest", then go full out into a Justice League movie. Then you can delve into the solo movies. Kind of a Reverse Marvel. Or they could go with it how Marvel did. Now some would call out "Hey, their just copying!" So? Superhero movies as a genre are basically the same, and all movie genre have similar traits. Line up the solo movies, and boom, JL movie. How to connect them all together? Little easter eggs here and there. Use the Daily Planet as a way to let everyone know what new Leaguer has popped up, and have some characters from each film mention someone else from another one. Since their's no S.H.I.E.L.D., i'd use Batman. You know if random people with unbelievable abilities started coming out of the woodworls, the Bat would want to keep tabs on everyone. Here's how i imagined it going
Superman and Batman break J'onn out of millitary custody, and he informs them of the coming doom. And Batman, (who's been watching GL, Flash and the rest) has J'onn telepathically call all of them together. Something like that. Either way, their are a few options DC has that they could effectively go with.
They've Already Made A Connected Universe: It's Called The DCAU
Bruce Timnn and Paul DIni have already proven they can created a complex, fascinating universe. Replace the A in DCAU with a C, and you've got yourself one successful cinematic universe. They know the characters, know their audience, and i think would be brilliant directors/producers/what ever the heck they want to be. DO THIS DC!!! DO IT!!
The One Time I'd Pay To See 3D
Transformers proved to us that guys will go see movies with hot girls (though Meagan Fox looks more like Gollum to me...), lots of explosions, and sick special effects. Well Wonder Woman covers the first aspect, and anything with superheroes is going to have a crazy number of sh*t blowing up. And SFX? Can you imagine that?? Green Lantern's constructs, Flash's speed, J'onn's phasing abilities? That would look sick.
So those are my reasons for why the Justice League movie would blow Avengers out of the water. True, it seems to take Warner Bros half a century just to have exploratory talks about looking into the possibility of what it would concievably cost to make a Justice League movie, but i think if they get their act together, it would be a spectacle.
Plus, if they gave Batman the costume David Araya created, i would watch it just for that. That suit is my all-time favorite costume. EVER.
