A movie made for everybody is a movie made for nobody.

That inspires no confidence

No? That's how you get a bland, watered-down movie with no soul that everyone is fine with, but that no one loves...

Because "designed by committee", whilst meaning the same thing, has negative connotations.

I disagree, though I see his point.

The obvious thing is to point to the Evil Dead "trilogy". They worked because they weren't made for everyone. Rocky Horror remains a culture icon for the same reason.

But, you know, superman. We have the example if the Christopher Reeve films of what can be done with the goal of staying friendly to kids and adults across wide age ranges you can absolutely make good movies that appeal to the widest possible audience.

But I disagree that's what needs to be done with DC's characters. Oh, there's some that do need it, and I actually think the newest Superman movie successfully did it. But you can't pull off that same vibe with Wonder Woman, and it would destroy a Batman movie that isn't a reboot of the Adam West version.

The thing about DC' characters is that there's layers. More so than Marvel, DC has a history of keeping their darker stuff apart from their lighter fare. You can't throw Red Hood into the super friends, you dig? Not literally, because that cartoon was a different universe, so Red Hood there was be much less gritty and grim™.

But you could throw him into either of the suicide squad movies. You could maybe make him work in Lanterns.

I think he likely means that he wants to just dump any of the less granny/kid friendly characters from the DCCU. Which is also a bad idea since the current generation of grannies is early genX and late boomers that are superhero accepting. To achieve what he's wanting would mean trying to convince a broader audience to sign up. Not impossible, but you'd water things down so much that established fans of the characters will nope out. Hell, the serious comic geeks already do nope out of a lot of the live action DC stuff.

Is this guy's 110 year old grandma going to the movies very often? He must think he's sitting on some untapped market of centenarians who've been refraining from giving Hollywood their millions.

Sounds like it would be the blandest and shallowest plot full of spetacle, kinda like Marvel movies.

I really hate the amount of resources that boomer slop media is getting from the entertainment industry. It’s a relatively small percentage, but definitely larger than I recall ever seeing in the past.

I understand the logic, but fuck, older people used to just watch media from their youth. I can’t imagine the Hollywood of previous generations ever giving much of a shit about whether or not senior citizens would want to watch their films or TV shows.

Well, guess I'm not seeing another DC movie in theaters.

DC already sucked because of how many times they've rebooted everything. But, this...?...yeah, I'm out.

DC: Dumb Curmudgeons

DC fan boys are about to find jesus.

This will end well.

Fuck this guys grandma

So; boring and without meaningful commentary on anything of substance. Glad to know not to waste my time.

So ... we're never gonna find out what happened to Peacemaker, then.

Like they were ever good to begin with….