# Marvel Movies or DC Movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 12, 2016, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-movies-or-dc-movies/752041 "2016-04-12T21:34:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2016, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-movies-or-dc-movies/752041/61 "2016-04-14T23:53:47Z")
Alicia Silverstone performing her entire role naked wouldn’t have improved that movie, it was that bad. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-movies-or-dc-movies/752041/62 "2016-04-15T17:20:13Z")
> [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](#): > > I was given passes to see _Batman and Robin_ from Warner Brothers (I was doing work for them at the time) and even though I got in for free, I felt I was being cheated. I don’t buy the “it’s so bad it’s good” bit. I wanted to leave that theater half a dozen times. It wasn’t funny, it wasn’t enjoyable and wasn’t worth anyone’s time or money. Well, I would agree, but… parties and drinking games! Hilarious Internet Reviews! BAT CREDIT CARD!!! ---
**Author:** ![Lochdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/edb3f5/32.png) [@Lochdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lochdale)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-movies-or-dc-movies/752041/63 "2016-04-15T18:19:14Z")
Great thread. Howard the Duck though isn’t exactly an iconic character on par with Batman so I think it gets a pass. And it had Lea Thompson in panties so it wins. Marvel are now making better movies though that’s a relatively new phenomenon as has been pointed out. Just one point for Snyder’s Watchmen movie but having the bombs made to appear to be the work of Dr. Manhattan made more sense to me then physic squids. YMMV. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-movies-or-dc-movies/752041/64 "2016-04-15T18:20:56Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > As a lifelong fan of 50+ years of DC Comics, I say that Marvel does the movies a whale of a lot better. > [@Lobot](#): > > Yeah, I’m a much bigger fan of DC’s characters. But overall, Marvel’s films win out, even though no single Marvel film has eclipsed Donner’s Superman, IMHO. Yeah, I’ve always preferred DC’s characters, for the most part. I didn’t start regularly reading comics until I was an adult (I hilariously contracted chicken pox at 21 and I didn’t have a television at my apartment, so my sister went out and bought me a big stack of comic books to give me something to do while I couldn’t go to work, and I was hooked). What I grew up on was the _Superfriends_ Saturday morning cartoon in the 1970s, which probably explains why many of my favorite superheroes, to this day, are second-stringers like The Atom and Plastic Man, along with Green Lantern and The Flash. My entire childhood experience with Marvel characters was that mute Spider-Man who showed up now and then on _The Electric Company_, and some random issue of _Fantastic Four_. But the movies of the last several years? Marvel all the way. Marvel hasn’t forgotten that comic books are supposed to be _fun_. I was never a Batman fan while I was collecting comics, and I’ve not been happy with DC trying to give their other characters the Batman treatment. > [@silenus](#): > > Alicia Silverstone performing her entire role naked wouldn’t have improved that movie, it was that bad. I was gonna say that the best part of that movie was Alicia Silverstone’s ass wrapped in skin-tight leather (or whatever her costume was made of). ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-movies-or-dc-movies/752041/65 "2016-04-15T18:24:55Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > I was gonna say that the best part of that movie was Alicia Silverstone’s ass wrapped in skin-tight leather (or whatever her costume was made of). Yep. _Almost_ made the film watchable. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2016, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-movies-or-dc-movies/752041/66 "2016-04-15T22:15:31Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Maybe. But have you seen Justice League Unlimited? They did a couple of direct to DvD movies. > > I’ll give you there hasnt been a great live Supes since Christopher Reeves. Dean Cain was pretty good as a post-crisis sort of Supes (with Clark being cool instead of faking being a spaz, which was mainly what Reeve did so well with the role) ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-movies-or-dc-movies/752041/67 "2016-04-16T00:52:14Z")
> [@Mister\_Rik](#): > > I was gonna say that the best part of that movie was Alicia Silverstone’s ass wrapped in skin-tight leather (or whatever her costume was made of). Supposedly, she had weight problems at the time and was digitally “slimmed.” For my part, I was just dismayed that they put nipples on everyone in that movie except for the two characters I wanted to see them on. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-movies-or-dc-movies/752041/68 "2016-04-16T09:52:20Z")
> [@Inbred\_Mm\_domesticus](#): > > Poor Marvel > The Fantastic Four as a movie has consistently produced failure. I was not able to finish the Daredevil movie while on a 14 hour plane flight with literally nothing else to do. > > Great Became Marvel > Darkman You could always throw in a couple Spider-Man movies, too. And a couple X-men movies. But most people discount all of these since they weren’t made by Marvel. But, then, what movies were actually made by DC? ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_John_Marcej)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-movies-or-dc-movies/752041/69 "2016-04-16T17:29:11Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > You could always throw in a couple Spider-Man movies, too. And a couple X-men movies. But most people discount all of these since they weren’t made by Marvel. > > But, then, what movies were actually made by DC? Warner Brothers, who own DC Comics, has produced _Batman Batman Returns Batman Forever Batman & Robin Steel Catwoman Constantine Batman Begins V for Vendetta Superman Returns The Dark Knight Watchmen The Losers Jonah Hex Green Lantern The Dark Knight Rises Man of Steel Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice_ and a bunch of upcoming films. Yes, it’s not similar to Marvel Studios, Warner Brothers just owns those valuable IP’s, but still. They’re there and if they wanted tight control like Marvel has with their characters, I’m sure WB could weld that control. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-movies-or-dc-movies/752041/70 "2016-04-16T22:32:25Z")
So about four that are almost always considered good, and all about Batman. Then maybe a couple more that some people like. Not good odds for them, then. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-movies-or-dc-movies/752041.md?page=3)