There you have it!
I?m no opposed to Calvin Ellis, actually, the CB story was even good. But Superman seems s to be a character they don?t know how to approach.
Retuns was basically good, but missed a real threat and fight, plus, be it in Returns or MOS, they had to play the character either angsty or the reluctant Superhero. They don?t get the character. I wouldn?t be opposed to Calvin Ellis or any multiverse Superman, but that?s just too early. They don?t even have one entirely good Supes since 1978 (and granted, it was good because of CR mostly). So they keep botching the character over and over and what do they do instead of learning from their mistakes? They?re going to use a fringe character that is not what most Superman fan need: if they really need a reboot (and in spite of the many, many things I hated about MOS, the only real success was the casting of Cavill), let?s do it right.
DC is running after Marvel. They started after Marvel, screwed they movies and would like to introduce minor characters and give them their own movies when they haven?t been able to make a good one with the basic characters first. JL was a mistake. You don?t put characters together who will each have ten to twenty minutes of screentime in a crowded film before they?ve had their solo movies with character development. They wanted to jump the horses and fell off the cliff. DC movies can?t even manage their properties and they?re doing it worse as they go.
