The Growing DC Universe

As always there an ass load of of comic book movies coming out. With the Marvel studios putting together an Avengers film Warner Brothers are trying to retaliate with its DC license and creating a slew of films riding on the coattails of the recent Batman film. Thankfully they have abandoned the JLA film which produced nothing but awful sounding rumours. But they are making some movies now in production that sound a lot more interesting which confounds me.

First up is the new Green Lantern film which needs to be fun and have a load of action. If it isn't fun and action packed audiences just won't care because Green Lantern, although well known in the DC Universe, isn't that well known to general audiences. So far the news has been good, evidently they are using the Hal Jordan incarnation and they have plans on having huge space battles and so forth. Link. Now to play Hal Jordan you have to get a semi identifiable face mixed with good actor and I can't argue with the choice of Ryan Gosling as Hal Jordan.

Second up is the very ambitious "Super Max." The films main character is Green Arrow who is sent to a prison filled with supervillians and attempts to escape. This film just seems that its way to high concept for the "play it safe" movie studio's.

Now nothing has been mentioned a new Flash movie and Nolan has nearly gone into hiding and no information on the next Batman has been released no matter what anyone has heard. Its nice to see these films taking chances and trying to be closer to the source material and coming out of the DC camp its very refreshing since the Marvel studio's could get the next couple of films disastrously wrong. Marvel is pushing their films out to quickly and it could restrict the creativeness of the people involved.

"I think I feel a Jackson Pollack coming on." -Kyrten from Red Dwarf

The Dark Knight Videogame: Necassary?

Let's face it we're all nerds and all of us have seen the Dark Knight in movie theatre's about three times now. But has anybody really been saying, "Hey! Where's the video game for this? "
To my knowlegde there has been no nerd outcry for the video game version of this film. And as we all know most of the time they aren't very good. Batman Begins was a great batman film and a game was included in the marketing package at the time but the game was panned over as bad just as most game tie ins are. Do I need to mention Enter the Matrix?

Just today I was passing over a ton of articles and came across this one on Yahoo Movies asking were the game tie in for the Dark Knight was. Evidently they could have made even more money, around 100 million, in addition to a record breaking millions that the Dark Knight has already made.

At this point I'm sure that the studio is scrambling to get a game out since the film surpassed all expectations of how much money they would make. But my point is that we don't need movie/game tie ins for every major release. Lego Batman I'm sure will do well but the movie doesn't benefit from it and the game has nearly nothing in common with its darker brother.

In the end movie's should be made with the idea that a audience member will sit down and enjoy a movie. It's not a commercial for someone to go out and purchase the game. The same goes for games, they should be made for someone to enjoy with a controller in hand and not be a commercial. If you're going to make a game do so for the sake of the game and not for taking away more money from some poor mothers pocket book because its only these twelve and younger kids that are buying these games to begin with.
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