8. Justice League In Two Parts
One of the more curious aspects of the film schedule is that Justice League -- the lynchpin in the entire series -- has been split up into two parts. While this isn't unheard of in the world of adaptive genre film, other notable examples --
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and the upcoming
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay -- have taken much more loyal approaches to the conversion of their source material. If anything, superhero comic book films -- with decades of published material and tens of thousands of pages from which to pick and choose -- are telling original stories with adapted characters. If
The Avengers can tell a complete (and fantastic) story in a single film, shouldn't Justice League be able to do the same? Also, the gap between the two films seems strangely wide. Though comic readers are no strangers to being left in a cliffhanger, in those cases it only lasts for a month. Will audiences -- comic fans and non-fans alike -- really want to see the League strung up by a villain, with Batman traversing the bowels of his lair to plan an extraction, as their last impression of the film for two whole years? This isn't 1980, and it's not
The Empire Strikes Back. The words "To Be Continued" have never seemed so ominous.