A kindly couple dramatize a super - powered alien , an orphan growing up to be the world ’s great crimefighter , an Amazon princess with an invisible super acid … the DC macrocosm is a plaza where anything can happen . Well , anything but a joke , if this absurd , but entirely plausible , rumour is reliable .
accord to Hitfix , Warner Bros. has issued a mandatory that its DC superhero moving picture all be gag - free . And I do n’t mean they do n’t require to make clowning , I mean they do n’t require to have a individual joke in any of the nearly 10 pic they have come up .
I could get into a whole matter about how I think the DC pantheon is endlessly more suitable to being less serious than Marvel , but I wo n’t . Instead , please intend about the future ramification of this . Are we really going to have a Flash moving-picture show where Barry Allen is n’t allow to snap wise ? Is The Flash work to be as blue and excruciate as Man of Steel ? Because that sounds atrocious . Will the Shazam movie be jest - devoid ? Will we watch a movie about a 10 - twelvemonth - old who turns into an adult superhero without any humor whatsoever ? That ’s madness .
count , whether you really jazz DC ’s flick or not , the thing that kills me is that witticism is a basic tale prick . That ’s like attempt to write a book without metaphors — yes , you probably can , but why would you ? I ’m not saying Man of Steel 2 needs to be softheaded comedy , but can you really evidence me consultation will bask it more if they ’re never given a exclusive reason to smile ? You ’d think the Marvel movies — all of which had humor , and the most recent , Guardians of the Galaxy , was pretty close to an outright funniness , might have shown WB that perhaps audiences might desire more from their superheroes than brood and angst , but patently not .
Hitfix suggests that WB has made this decree after the joke - laden Green Lantern bomb , followed by the success of the dour Chris Nolan Dark Knight films . A couple of things , guys — 1 ) Green Lantern ’s job was n’t that it had jokes , it ’s that the jokes were n’t funny , oh , and also the quietus of the movie was also terrible and 2 ) dour works exceedingly well for Batman , but believe it or not ALL OTHER DC persona ARE NOT ALSO BATMAN . IT MAY behove YOU TO TAKE A DIFFERENT GODDAMNED approaching WITH THEM .
Even if all the future DC movies are fine and make a lot of money , that does n’t change the fact that this is a draconian and wholly harebrained response to fix a trouble that does n’t actually be . And if Warner Bros. think banning humour from its superhero movies is going to make them an smidge good , well , then the jocularity ’s on them .
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