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Analyst Says Netflix/WBD Asset Merger Has 'Zero Chance' of Closing - Media Play News Discussion (www.mediaplaynews.com)
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[–] 2 points 11 months ago (6 children)

As shit as mergers often are, getting the fingers of warner brothers execs out of DC comics would make a lot of people very happy

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

    I mean, they did put gun in charge. Whether or not you are a fan of the man in general. You cannot deny he generally does right by the source materials. The Suicide Squad vs Suicide Squad movies, or any Superman movie from the 2000s. Gun Superman hit the ground running and never really stopped. It held the hand of those just joining us long enough not to be patronizing. But was deep enough and aware enough to acknowledge stuff that only some of the deepest fans would catch. At this point, I worry we have as much to worry about Netflix starting to meddle in DC.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Guardians of the Galaxy is pretty comic inaccurate. A lot of that is because the comics are based in a great deal of backstory they can't really get into without doing some boring deep dive into every character possible, though.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Unfortunately, the MCU is definitely its own beast in many ways. All that multiverse jazz, which DC is toying around with too. Yondu was a time traveler and the founder of the Guardians in the books. But in the movie, yeah, he was just a marauder. They definitely made some changes there for the sake of the story. But overall the characterization of the characters was generally what you'd expect from someone that understood how to write for them.

    But yeah, without dead pool at the time. There definitely was no way of getting book accurate infinity war etc.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    I wasn't even talking about supporting cast, mainly the main one. Most of the characters have a ton of baggage that is just not present in the movies. Many of them have moral principles (Gamora being the prime example) that is just plainly not there at all in the comics. I wouldn't necessarily say it's bad, it's what works best for a more publicly palatable movie, but I wouldn't call it "doing it right by the source material".

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    My main worry for netflix is a bunch of one season shows. My main worry with WB is/was completely fucking over a story for the sake of appealing to the masses, toning things down to be extremely "family friendly" or humor where it doesn't belong

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