With the Justice League trailer already released, the biggest thing to take away from the trailer is it's huge focus on humour. Now, the execs do perceive the dark grim tone of Batman V Superman as to why it failed to grasp with audiences. But i don't see it that way. What i see as a fundamental problem in the whole structure of the DCEU.
The DCEU came out of nowhere and it's been a big bowl of controversy, from Warner Bros' course correction to Suicide Squad's scathing reviews, it seems that the DCEU is a flower that was stepped on once it rose and it doesn't seem likely it will rise again. Stupid comparisons aside, the DCEU had everything going for it, it had the perfect characters, concepts that could change the whole medium and a perfect to accompany all of those.
But what made it such a joke? Now, the universe definitely is bankable and has it's fanbase but what has been done feels more like an exec pipe-dream than a superhero franchise that will grow and grow and earn it' s place in history, like Marvel did.
It just feels like it was given to the wrong man, Zack Snyder. Zack is a great visualist, but that's all he seems to care about. Batman V Superman can be also named 'visual porn' because the visuals are great, but not much else lands on that level. The characters feel bland and not much time is spend on one location, giving the movie an alienatic feel. But what can be said? WB maybe thought Man of Steel was a good start for a universe (which it was) but Batman V Superman is an idea that sounds strange, but can be executed well...sadly, it wasn't.
A real Man of Steel sequel would have given the universe more time to develop, then a Batman film would have expanded the universe, but sadly it was all mashed into one film, which hurt it a lot.
The Flash, Aquaman, Cyborg. They were all mashed into Batman V Superman to promote their solo films. That was it. There was no worthy inclusion. Just a mess. If the main antagonist was someone like Brainiac and Batman and Superman gathered the League at the end? Maybe not, but something along the lines of that, would have been MUCH, MUCH more cohesive than what we got.
In short, the DCEU is nothing more than a money-hungry exec's pipe-dream to be as succesful and influential as the MCU is right now. But considering i do like the DCEU, but this is why i think the DCEU has had such a rocky start.
Be sure to leave your thoughts down below, and are you excited for Justice League?