>what if we ended our best animated project in years with torture porn
>>155985666nice numbers for a very relevant thread
>>155985666Batman turning into darth vader was random
This whole universe was bad already but ending with the DC equivalent to Ultimatum was a bizarre decision.
>>155985666Don't worry, they learned their lesson on that one!The next time they just full on erased and destroyed every other universe you liked. All of them. Wiped from existence. Not even killed in some struggle you can relate to, they're just wiped the fuck out. Batman the Animated Series? Wiped out. Teen Titans? Blasted away in a wall of white. Even Superfriends for those old people with nostalgia just fucking eradicated without even a body to bury or a world to bury in. Even the new universe they tried with Superman? Gone, and nothing remains. All you knew and all you loved from your youth or that you just discovered you liked is fucking dead and now we have Creature Commandos and fat asian Harley Quinn. That's it. That's what remains.And now DC is dead!
>>155986046This is such an infantile way of seeing things. Why would I care if Batman died in some movie I'll never see? He wasn't real to begin with. And I can still go back and see the series if I want to. Not like this shit would be canon if they ever decided to bring it back. Victim complex is working overtime.
>>155985666>Make multiple animated movies across 2010s>Don't play them on cartoon network >Don't play them on HBO >Don't release them cinematically for a few millie boxoffice like the old days >During the death of physical media before brand streaming apps kicked off just shunt them to the Walmart dvd aisle. >Eventually dump them on hbomax to no fanfare>DC IP cut in half by cartoon network and HBOs separate streaming environments for no reason >Centralize streaming platforms and... vault most of DC animation library >For SOMEREASON DC animation is dead now Why has DC been so historically retarded about media distribution? Even Justice league, stas, and btas ran on kidsWB for the brokies. kids who drove advertising revenue never saw them until JL Unlimited came to cable. There is a whole era of DC media like justice league dark that just never played anywhere. >Inb4 u saw it somewhere No one else did. It's like mask of the phantasm raped them so bad they never could distribute a movie properly ever again, even though for it's 6 million budget it was supposed to be a TV movie that'd never have gotten 5.8mil in direct revenue just being played on TV to begin with. The DCAU since just makes movies for millions and releases them nowhere, then the dvd bargain bins of the 201Xs.
>>155986090>. Why would I care if Batman died in some movie I'll never see? Hey anyone else ever notice nobody says stuff like this for Ultimatum? People just accept that was shit. Notice nobody tried this with the last Indiana Jones movie? Korra? Star Wars?Yeah "Hey someone did something really stupid and now we're making fun of it" doesn't stop happening because you want to defend it. It was a stupid as fuck choice from a shitty writer who did a terrible job and now it's only reason for existence is an example of "What the fuck were they thinking" before bringing up the actual literal canon they imposed on other series is "Instant annihilation". May the deserved layoffs be brutal.
>>155985666Luckily it wasn't good, let alone the best.
>>155986046I don't understand the kind of decision making that goes into that. If anything it turns people against whatever iteration they're trying to push
>>155985666Sometimes I think about the fact that this is technically a sequel to Justice League Dark and not Justice league itself and that this universe only got 2 justice league movies with the last one being the Atlantis one. I wonder if the whole botched synderverse that they were still trying to peddle at the time is why we only got 2? Probably the same reason Billy only shows for the first 2 movies and this one too
>>155986469>>Don't play them on cartoon networkYes they did.>Don't release them cinematically for a few millie boxoffice like the old days Those were all flops and lost money due to advertising and distribution, including Mask of the Phantasm.> just shunt them to the Walmart dvd aisle. Where else would they go?>Eventually dump them on hbomax to no fanfareMost of them were over a decade old and weren't very popular even when they were new.>>DC IP cut in half by cartoon network and HBOs separate streaming environments for no reason They were simulates releases though>>Centralize streaming platforms and... vault most of DC animation library Which ones? The only ones I can see got locked off were those who's distribution rights had already been sold off, which is why stuff like Star Wars The Last Jedi didn't come to Disney Plus for like 2 years to give an example.>For SOMEREASON DC animation is dead now Animation in general is dead. They can't even get decent numbers for a Spider-Man cartoon >There is a whole era of DC media like justice league dark that just never played anywhereIt was on cartoon network, all of them were.>even though for it's 6 million budget it was supposed to be a TV movie that'd never have gotten 5.8mil in direct revenue just being played on TV to begin with.It actually might've, and they wouldn't have been 10 mil in the hole on advertising and distribution.
>>155986543Literally they said they wanted to "Start fresh" and begin a whole new era of dc shows without the baggage.The first movie they released after this "New mandate" was Batman Aztec where the Aztec batman chides the evil for some reason white guy named Cortez for killing women and children, and the not-Joker wears white face paint for, well, you probably already guessed the reason.
>>155985666>best animated project in yearsThat universe was trash and deserved what it got.
>>155986601The teen titans go channel era of cartoon network wasn't playing justice league dark movie reruns. The first consistent time they were actively playing(playable) was hbomax. They all were direct to dvd movies when dvd was dead, barely clearing a few mil a pop from home dvd sales while young justice was still doing ok on actual television. Before that ended up streaming only too.
>>155986481That isn't what >>155986046is doing, though. They aren't ripping on something because it was bad, they're complaining that adaptations are somehow "invalidated" by other adaptations existing or whatever.
>>155985970I actually liked the Death and Rebirth movies.
>>155986046I honestly can't get over just how boring the Tomorrowverse was. Everything about it just feels so drab and dull. The animation is boring. the acting is boring. the direction is boring. the scene staging is boring. It was flat and dull and I hated it.
>>155985666This was literally the only good DCAMU movie. Who cares.
>>155986891>is doing, though. TIt absolutely is. >hey aren't ripping on something because it was badI cannot imagine being so oblivious you can't see them pointing out the escalation from OP unless you're thicker than rocks, but you've decided to inexplicably give the dumbest defense to that shitshow, so here we are.> they're complaining that adaptations are somehow "invalidated" by other adaptations existing or whatever.Buddy they showed that shit onscreen, Mark Hamil and Kevin Conroy reprised their roles to monologue as they were wiped out, they're as invalidated as all the examples I gave. You can't even undo that last one, Kevin Conroy is dead.
>>155987017The VA for Batman sounded like a robot, just a fucking monotone and dull voice.
>>155987040You sound like someone who ate lead paint chips as a child.
>>155987068Can't say the same for you, sounds like you needed everything spoonfed, else you would make a mess trying to talk.
>>155986967The death of Superman movie was fine, I actually thought it improved in a lot of ways on the previous Superman:Doomsday, if only because they cut out that weird as fuck homo lex subplot.Return was awful in every regard though, just a total mess of a screenplay.
>>155987082>OOOOOH MY GOD, THEY KILLED A VERSION OF THE FICTIONAL CHARACTER I LIKE IN A MOVIE, THAT MEANS I CANNOT ENJOY THAT CHARACTER ANYMORE! THIS COMPLETELY INVALIDATES THE THING I LIKE, THAT I COULD STILL WATCH AND ENJOY! WAAAAAH! WAAAAAAH!
>>155987154Told you so, opened up and everything just spewed out.What even is the point of this? It can only be read as a defense, but who would honestly try to defend the "Everything you remember is getting wiped out worse than the last time, because we want to push our shitty new movies!" choice? Who's team fuck up those shows here besides the absolute dope that wrote it and is going to get clowned on when they're part of the layoffs? Ya' lost me on whatever point you were hoping for, dipshit.
>>155986046It was wild watching them tie it into that too. It’s like >Just to watch us kill all your much more liked shows you also need homework where we killed them the first timeIt is genuinely stunning how badly they fucked it up, and continued to fuck it up so badly they got sold… again. Just a conga line of bad ideas, shitty writers, worse execs and incompetence. And now the company is dead. I don’t want AI taking over but I can’t imagine AI coming up with this shit.
i would rant about comic slop and india and drone bait and nissian z in here but it seems like DC killed their own slop lol no point in me putting in effort
