markrichardb: Wasn’t feeling the Justice League trailer. Marvel developed their characters first, and then threw them in a big movie together to give them a new dynamic and see how they play off each other. Justice League puts the cart before the horse – I know so little about these characters, or at least their movie incarnations.
That's a valid concern, however, for one thing, doing the exact thing Marvel did is hardly the way to go. A different approach is a necessity. Also, it's not like a team movie without characters having solo movies before can't work. X-Men didn't have a problem with that, and going into JL we'll already know Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman from previous movies, so that will only have Flash, Aquaman and Cyborg to introduce. For another thing, it looks like at least partailly the inspiration for the movie is the Justice League origin story by Geoff Johns from 2011, that had the characters come together while mostly unknown to each other and the public, and also served as Cyborg's origin story (and for all the shit I give the New 52, that storyline was actually pretty good). So it's not an unprecedented or necessairly problematic approach.
Also, I guess we should mention the
Lego Batman Movie. I was not looking forward to that one (I didn't like the Lego Movie as much as most people seem to), but the trailer is actually really fun. Having a silly comedy family Batman films and serious, darker films from Snyder and Affleck sounds like a good idea for everyone to get what they like.