The RISE and FALL of the DCEU

The complete history of the DCEU, explaining why it failed despite having potential to surpass the MCU.

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[thedude]

Fucking Marvel treated Henry Cavil with more respect than Warner Bros. DC, and those hacks writing for The Witcher

[BrmRayan]

The reason DCEU is bad is because they wanted to have the same success as Marvel and compete with them in something Marvel started five years before them. Marvel They introduced their most important heroes and then introduced the Avengers. DC was in a hurry to compete. In their belief, using their big names will attract viewers rather than the logical story structure and presentation of characters

[DionDamaris]

WB should learn from The Dark Knight's success. What the fans want:
- character development
- good storytelling
- connections between DCEU movies
- mature themes but no nudity and gore... 😎 🎥

[BrickfilmPictures]

wb in 1980: hey we made superman 1978 and it was a hit (proceeds to mess up the sequels, derailing the entire thing)
wb in 1992: hey we made batman 89 and returns and they where a hit (proceeds to mess up the sequels, derailing the entire thing)
wb in 2002: hey we made the dcau and it was a hit (proceeds to cancel all the shows for no reason)
wb in 2013: hey we made the dceu and it was a hit so far (proceeds to interfer and mess it up for no reason)
wb in 2015: hey we made the arkham series and the coolest superhero games ever (proceeds to make two live service games nobody wanted)
wb in 2019: hey we made doom patrol and people loved it (makes it go under the radar for no reason)
wb in 2021: hey we made the best superman show in years, superman and lois (proceeds to cancel it after 4 seasons)
wb in 2022: hey wen brought back henry cavill and ben affleck and we are turning things around (proceeds to fire both for no reason)
wb in 2023: hey we rebooted the dcamu with the tomorrowverse (proceeds to mees it up and end it before it could get going)
warner bros has to be the dumbest studio in all of media, even marvel is trying to do better.

[alwf]

WB’s biggest failure was rushing into a justice league movie with most of their characters being mischaracterized and still in the middle of their origin. The biggest thing James Gunn’s DCU has going for it is that most of their heroes have gone through their origins and we’re just gonna jump into their stories. They also put like three of their biggest storylines into BvS and failed.

[katheebmuzammil]

Black adam is 39% on rotten tomatoes. It was purly created to satisfy the Rock's ego. Every creative decision was taken with his directive

[noobgamer_]

DC stole James Gunn from Marvel, and Marvel stole Henry Cavil from DC

"Perfectly balanced, as all things should be" -Thanos

[DictionaryMath]

Imagine firing Henry Cavill while retaining Ezra Miller. what a joke!

[SWyrick]

"Rise and Fall of DCEU."
Dude, THERE WAS NEVER A RISE.

[BrianRivera]

DCEU never even got off the ground, it never had a chance with Zach Snyder starting the universe. He was a horrible choice, he's just a director who can make stuff look cool. His writing choices were always bad, he never understood these complex characters, hell he didn't even respect the characters. While Man of Steel looked cool, his superman shared zero characteristics the true superman. Zach Snyder makes movies for teenage boys who like cinematic action and nothing deeper than that. You can't build a cinematic universe with that.

[theloniousMac]

One big mistake is thinking that Harley's fans are female.

[studiofilms]

It was clear neither WB or Snyder thought about the longevity of the universe. Snyder’s plan was a saga not different from Harry Potter. It wasn’t a cinematic universe.

[SC-CEO]

I have never understood why people hate 'Man of Steel'.

It looked brilliant and had a good story.

[yami]

DC CGI IS LIKE UR IN A VIDEO GAME WHILE MARVEL FEELS LIKE YOUR IN ANOTHER UNIVERSE

[LostSoulSilver]

- Not using the Nolanverse
- Fumbling Green Lantern
- Not using the Flash show
- Using Zack Snyder for Superman

Yeah, they fucked up every single step right at the beginning

[waver]

If you think Zack Snyder is bad, just remember Walter Hamada who wants to replace Superman and Batman with Supergirl and Batgirl, and no straight vision in releasing movies.

[emmanuelnaicker]

The 2 biggest things that killed the DCEU was stupid executives who don't know the first thing about how to make a movie, who demanded Zack cut out half and hour from BVS as well as the rest of what happened to suicide squad and JL.
But the biggest death blow was people's lack of media literacy skills.

[abramsullivan]

Man Of Steel was released a year after The Dark Knight Rises actually.

[Matt-rmir]

"The DCEU used to gross between 800 million and 1 billion PER MOVIE at the box office."

That's a bit of a stretch 😂 only 3 DCEU movies made between 800 million - 1 billion (out of 15 films).

[inshaalarieh]

I thought this was a channel with 500k+ Subscribers or something . I’m shocked… This channel definitely deserves more subscribers 🎉🎉