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Justice for the DCEU

 The original Justice league was not a bad movie. Also the Zac Snyder cut is not really an amazing movie. It is pretty simple, the original was rushed out to compete with the Infinity War and that was just a bad idea... As I have said before. So let me quickly fix DC

Man of Steel was awesome. If you wanted to make a DCEU MoS was a great start. It sets the darker tone than Marvel making it clear it isn't just going to be a clone of the MCU. The original Wonder Woman was also SO GOOD! Full disclosure I am a Marvel guy. DC never really did it for me. Superman was never a big thing and I honestly don't think to this day I own a Wonder Woman comic. These 2 movies actually made me care about DC. But right there you already screwed up DC! It went MoS, Bats V Supes (DoJ) then WW. Nope, WRONG if anything it should have been MoS, WW, a Batman movie then DoJ and DoJ should be considered the first Justice League movie. You got impatient, likely to keep up with Marvel and that screwed everything up. WW comes second to give her some story and then a Bats movie. First I don't hate Batfleck. As an older angry Bats he is okay. Also IF you want, having him older does open it up he can do a few movies and move on. A nightwing or something can take his place. That is thinking ahead and franchising. Everyone knows Bats origin so you don't have to make that movie, however if your making the oldest on screen Batman maybe work up to that. In JL they say he has been fighting crime in Gotham for 20 years, this has to put him AT LEAST 45. You need something before you try a DoJ movie. All you have to do is lay out the big 3 and then you can do DoJ. So that's some timeline shifts right there

Next still kill Supes. Make your Suicide Squad, then make a Flash & an Aquaman. Pepper them both with some cameos and backstory for Cyborg, maybe the lantern corps. Set the fucking stage! Maybe you like Marvel movies, maybe you don't. Maybe you are one of the guys who likes DC movies, I dunno. The one thing Marvel does way better than DC and IMO the biggest difference is Marvel built worlds. Before Loki attacked NY we knew all the Avengers. Maybe not well but we had an idea. DC just threw everyone out saying here they are! Had there been more build up JL would have been a much better movie. Off track there but at least 3 movies between DoJ and JL. You could put more even. Supes dead opens up a great big world to explore. So in my DCEU we are sitting at 7 movies before JL. 7! At least, could make more even. Not 4! If you want to create an epic franchise then do it. Take the time.

So on to JL and my opening statement. The first cut wasn't bad, in fact the only reason the Snyder cut is any better is more story is told and that could have all been done with having more movies leading up to it! There are little details that I don't know why they were left out of the original. Martian Man Hunter could have been there. An explanation for Darksied could have been there. I have no idea why that shit was cut. Another random thought, the motherboxes could easily have come up in prior movies had more been made. WW and an earlier Aquaman could easily have explained this. That's all you will get out of me Snyder cut wasn't amazing, it was what should have been done with more movies and less rush. There is so much potential that was set up, after JL they could go so many different ways with their cinematic universe. I just hope they don't rush it.

My last couple thoughts are A) you don't get a do over. That's just cheesy. I would have taken the lumps, learned and tried to move forward in a positive direction. But I guess since WW84 so was bad they wanted a win?? Which JL counts now, is canon the first or the new one?  B) Leto is a terrible Joker. Literally almost as bad as "Gotham" TV Joker was.  There are only 2 ways he is good.  First if him and Harley ACTUALLY become big parts of the DCEU he could be okay. Heath and Joaquim well they could never have a Harley and they are AMAZING Jokers. If they are going to make these two a big part of the franchise then I guess he is okay. OR is he Jason Todd? I heard fan boys rant he was, then I could get behind him. Then his scene in Snyder JL is actually amazing. I can forgive some of how annoying he is in Suicide Squad if he is Jason. Then I kind of get his fucked up rambling. His not being a crazy genius but simply a gangster makes more sense. I mean I prefer the dark scary joker but if that isn't what DC wants to run with that's fine. I mean I am writing this to save DC and I think they should run a scary Joker. Leto couldnt cause Injustice IMO. So to make it work I would roll dark Joker or have a Joker before Leto. 

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