Riding high on the crest of the wave of Christopher Nolan's mind-boggling Dark Knight, DC broke the back of the Marvel's beast 'Iron Man' which got released earlier.
Marvel was immediately put under immense pressure to craft their products to utmost perfection if they wanted to dominate the Super Hero/Heroine genre especially with the failing Fantastic Four and the original Spiderman Trilogy neatly wrapped up in their kitty.
Oh Boy! and Girl!
Marvel not only marveled at the art of churning first-grade movies but also excelled at the science of using the advanced and sophisticated softwares to produce entrancing and absorbing visuals that will definitely give Medusa a run for her money!
Exactly a decade after Iron Man was screened, Marvel is the undisputed leader and has a mighty strong grip like He-Man over the complete category that makes DC look like Thor being thoroughly rattled and squished by Thanos!
"Hey...Are you a Marvel Fanatic? The way you are lavishing praise on them, you seem like so"
If this question didn't pop up into your head like a bursting kernel of popcorn, please read the following reviews for your reference.
1) Wonder Woman
2) X-Men
Have you checked it out?
If you haven't, then you will never ever understand that I primarily love superhero/heroine films irrespective whether they originate from the creative juices of Marvel or DC.
What Marvel has done fantastically (Read: Hindsight from an audience perspective) is that they have arranged the movies as a series of pieces on a chess board until every single one of them converge into the ultimate zugzwang against Thanos.
The level of planning and the far-sightedness that has been put into chiseling and shaping not only a single film but also by incorporating a continuation to the next and next and next for over 10 years is simply too good to be true, unimaginable and inconceivable considering a lot of factors like - audience fatigue or lack of interest or major scheduling and technical issues or actors/actresses dropping out from the project - that could have possibly and potentially crept in (sneakily or non-sneakily) while the Studio was giving birth to their astonishing babies one after the other.
But, it is true.
Marvel has achieved the impossible by regularly and continuously spawning out top-notch films that are not only well-received by ardent fans, fans, neutrals, and non-fans but also equally high on the received dollar value as well.
Unless the Studio gives a carte blanche latitude and unlimited elbow room for filmmakers, it's next to impossible to even write scripts for Logan or DeadPool leave aside directing them.
That's the strength of Marvel when compared to DC.
They invest a tremendous amount of time and effort to lay down all their nuts and bolts with their vision, Not the Avenger!, to wow us not once or twice or thrice but repeatedly till the Black Panther.
It really takes a special superhuman effort to implement such a large-scale plan of action into actual action to successfully bring it to fruition in terms of Revenues & Reviews and not merely as an idle Relax & Recreation entertainment.
Marvel has this terrific knack of making people wait for their movies by smacking their lips with great anticipation.
It's not that DC doesn't provide it.
But, they spectacularly fail to deliver as in Suicide Squad or Justice League.
They raise the viewers' temperatures as hot as the core of the Earth through their teasers and trailers.
Sadly, the thermometer plummets suddenly and quickly when the actual film hits the screen.
Fortunately, Marvel has mastered in their execution.
That's why I said earlier "art of churning first-grade movies".
The bunch of people sitting in Marvel are literally hungry and wanting to push themselves to the limits whenever they launch a new venture.
This - This degree of learning from past failures and be in tune with the trends is what keeps them heads and shoulders, not the shampoo!, above DC.
Of course, even Marvel has their own set of flaws.
Like following a standard template when a movie runs well.
Yes. No one would want to disturb the rhythm if it performed exceedingly superb at the BO.
However, from the audience standpoint who always expects more or new things and when additional creative compositions aren't involved in the script or VFX, the movie merely becomes a mechanical chore of the earlier version.
For instance - GotG 2 followed a similar narration to GotG 1.
But, what didn't make it a dingy affair is the fact that it had loads of new elements to complement the basic narrative structure.
This is precisely why I used "degree of learning from past failures and be in tune with the trends" in one of the previous paras.
"Where the hell is Avengers: Infinity War in this write-up?"
There is something called Part 2.
You Know.
Much like Avengers: Infinity Wars 2.
X---To Be Concluded---X
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