DC characters you’d like to see have a film?

[Det. Bullock]

The Golden Age Sandman, the original one with the gas mask and the suit not the one in tights.
Though a TV series might be more appropriate.

[cynatnite]

I really would like to see Zatanna or Vixen. I loved them in the comics.

[Det. Bullock]

Originally Posted by AmrlKJaneway

DC rules TV.

No they don't, their TV stuff is just more "ordinary" but from what I've seen is mostly CW-style crap, they don't hold a candle to the Marvel Netflix shows (apart from Iron Fist, which coincidentally has a lot of similarities with the standard DC TV show), Agent Carter and Agents of SHIELD.

Hell, after what they did to Constantine (I mean, they can't even use the correct pronunciation of his name it seems) I surely wouldn't trust them with Weasley Dodds (they already ****ed up his costume in his Smallville cameo).

[Rich65]

A good Jonah Hex movie
The Warlord
Legion of Super Heroes
The Spectre
Batman Beyond (with either Michael Keaton or Val Kilmer as Bruce Wayne). Kilmer did a good job as Batman, he was stuck in a bad movie, give him a good script and director and he would nail this.

[cynatnite]

Originally Posted by Det. Bullock

No they don't, their TV stuff is just more "ordinary" but from what I've seen is mostly CW-style crap, they don't hold a candle to the Marvel Netflix shows (apart from Iron Fist, which coincidentally has a lot of similarities with the standard DC TV show), Agent Carter and Agents of SHIELD.

Hell, after what they did to Constantine (I mean, they can't even use the correct pronunciation of his name it seems) I surely wouldn't trust them with Weasley Dodds (they already ****ed up his costume in his Smallville cameo).

I don't know if I would compare DC tv shows with Marvel's on Netflix.

Supergirl has been the biggest disappointment and I stopped watching it. The same with Arrow. I got flashbacked to death.

The best one, IMO, is Gotham. I do like that one. Flash, I do enjoy, despite too many heart-to-heart talks that nearly puts me in sugar overload.

They changed a lot of things in Smallville so that's just not a comparison I'd make. The Darkseid season was a travesty.

[Det. Bullock]

Originally Posted by cynatnite

I don't know if I would compare DC tv shows with Marvel's on Netflix.

Supergirl has been the biggest disappointment and I stopped watching it. The same with Arrow. I got flashbacked to death.

The best one, IMO, is Gotham. I do like that one. Flash, I do enjoy, despite too many heart-to-heart talks that nearly puts me in sugar overload.

They changed a lot of things in Smallville so that's just not a comparison I'd make. The Darkseid season was a travesty.

Yes, they tend not to be as bad as Smallville in that regard but the same issues with casting, plots, costume design are still there, and even the adaptations still have some of that trademark glaring idiocy in it (like turning Oliver Queen in a brooding arse like Bruce Wayne).

I find that the basic concept of Gotham is basically Smallville applied to the batverse, which is such a BS concept it boggles my mind.

[Batmon77]

Sandman on tv would be cool, but it cannot be on the CW.

The CW has run its course.

[Det. Bullock]

Originally Posted by AmrlKJaneway

To each his own. Except for the first season of Daredevil, Marvel's TV shows bore the crap out of me with their edgy, serialized, same as everything else approach. Shows like The Flash are super-fun, well written story of the week type shows that me and my family can enjoy.

Punisher and Jessica Jones aren't exactly fun personified in the comics either.

[Alexandros]

I like to see the Olympians Gods just like they appeared in Justice league and Egyptian gods like Isis.

[Det. Bullock]

Originally Posted by AmrlKJaneway

Which is why I don't read them either...

This is a reductive idea of comics that leaves me baffled to no end.
Alias is a great comic series and one of the best deconstruction of the c-list fodder trope.
Yes, it gets dark and often deals with very mundane plots compared to the classic "punching the superpowered bad guy until he stays down" but that's the frigging point of the comic.
Hell, one of the best story arc was one in which Jessica simply had to search for a disappeared presumed teenager mutant in a country town, there was nothing superheroic about it: just a drama about coutry-town pettyness and prejudices (hell, apart from the preacher being openly racist which the catholic church here would never condone it reminded me of my town a bit).

[Det. Bullock]

Originally Posted by AmrlKJaneway

I'm sure it's great, just not my cup of tea. Spidey's the only Marvel I've ever enjoyed a lot. Once again, fun factor.

And I'll still take my Phantom, Mandrake and Flash Gordon any day over anything that DC or Marvel pumps out.

There's Carl Barks and Don Rosa too, but also Hugo Pratt, Goscinny & Uderzo, Tiziano Sclavi, etc.
There's plenty of good stuff, it's only the US in which either you do superheroes/stay inside a Superhero universe or yoy might as well not exist.

Originally Posted by AmrlKJaneway

DC still rules TV, and always has. Marvel had that one good Hulk show once, and whatever the hell they're doing now. They might be winning the film race, but Gotham, Flash, Arrow etc. are all very popular and good entertainment, and this is how DC had always been. I never even like L&C or Smallville, but after every episode I'd hear folks in the workplace talking about it and anticipating what comes next, etc. Adam West Batman rules too.

Arrow is SHIT, they take a FUN character and turn him into Batman surrogate but somehow people are fine with it even if they lament how Batman is dark in movies.
Gotham premise is simply stupid, the point of Gotham City is Batman, full stop, it's even worse than Smallville in that even the supposed main hero character of that part of DC universe doesn't do much.

[ben6543]

Originally Posted by Det. Bullock

Arrow is SHIT, they take a FUN character and turn him into Batman surrogate but somehow people are fine with it even if they lament how Batman is dark in movies.
Gotham premise is simply stupid, the point of Gotham City is Batman, full stop, it's even worse than Smallville in that even the supposed main hero character of that part of DC universe doesn't do much.

Totally agree I love Green Arrow from Justice League Unlimited but Arrow ruined him terribly. Don't get me started how they royally ****ed black canary on that show.

[Wernski]

Just film this:

[spanky87]

The DC movie universe could use a bad ***** like this: