10 Problems With The DC Cinematic Universe Nobody Seems To Acknowledge

2. DC's Failures Are More Infamous Than Marvel's

Let's start this point of order off by stating that neither DC or Marvel is bomb-proof. For every Green Lantern there's a Daredevil. For every Superman Returns there's a Captain America 2: Death Too Soon. Both houses have children they'd rather forget, and that's plain and simple. But when you really look into the failures that people continually harp on when it comes to comic movies, most of them come out of the house that Bruce Wayne built. A house he almost caved in with the brute force of the atomic bomb that was Batman and Robin. To this very day, it's one of the most infamous failures in comic movie history. Weak puns, bat nipples, George Clooney purposely bombing his performance: it was enough to make Batman a poisonous word in Hollywood. Along with its partner in crime, the box office bomb Steel, both films killed a lot of comic possibilities for several years. After Marvel revived the genre with the one-two punch of X-Men and Spider Man, DC came back into the game with their best foot forward: the 2004 Razzie-winning classic Catwoman. It would take Batman Begins to bring DC back the table, but even with Nolan helming his dark trilogy of urban crime, the parent company wouldn't let success get in the way of unleashing Superman Returns, Watchmen, Jonah Hex, and Green Lantern on an unsuspecting public. Just when we think DC's doing it right, they find some sort of way to tell us that we shouldn't count them in just yet.