alex_5348

January 14, 2012 1:30 am @stevetwo has a good point. One of the major issues with these films is the writing. The sad thing about the hollywood system nowadays is that big execs will find some chump that wrote some straight to DVD buddy cop film or something along those lines, who they can pay a lot less money to in order to get what they want. And even if they do get a good writer, the system's become so messed up that by the time the script gets to the screen a lot of times it's been rewritten over and over and over again by fifteen different people. With the chunks that the execs like kept in, and just enough to put together something mistaken for a good plot. Green Lantern had multiple rewrites and all sorts of credits for the story to the point where half of hollywood probably had a say in the script by the time it was done. One of the good things about the Nolan Batman films was that Nolan himself has had a lot of creative control on the films. So he works closely with David Goyer and his brother Jonathan to develop the stories. And in the end the three of them sit at a table somewhere and pound it out until it's perfect. With movies like Green Lantern, the whole entire crew was just a bunch of puppets to the execs. In the end though what we truly need in order to see DC films as Good as the Nolan ones, are good directors with strong vision and complete creative control. Either that or Chris Nolan to produce every single one. (Slightly kidding there... We'll see how Man of Steel turns out before I jump to any conclusions) Also, let's be glad that Warners is at least slightly taking note that Green Lantern sucked. And be glad that we're not having this discussion over another Schumacher film or the abandoned Jack Black Green Lantern film... When it comes to the third question, one of the important things to remember with the older comics is that a lot of the new comic book readers didn't always have comics in their life. Nowadays we have over 70 years worth of material and anyone of us that tends to frequent this site or any comic store has always spent their life knowing comics. Way back in the day when comics started as just one line of panels each week in the newspaper, you didn't have the full story contained in one book. My guess is that one of the reasons for adding the tagline at the bottom to say, "hey keep reading!" was so anyone who was new to comics and didn't realize that these were truly self contained stories within the entire book, and only knew comics as a few panels in their local paper, would keep reading til the end of the book.