The Shrewd And Cynical Brilliance With DC Universe Animated Movies

Back when we thought we were a long ways from another rebirth of the DC Comic Book Universe — mostly because we just had one — DC started putting out animated movies that reflected their most recent reboot. The first was The Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox, a very loose and bloody interpretation of The Flashpoint event in the comics, namely the story of The Flash rearranging the timeline to the one we presently have. Paradox the animated movie? It was terrible. But that’s not really the point, it was marketed brilliantly and set up the next series of films to do a pretty specific job. I love comic books and I love comic books in motion, but even I can admit that the saturation passed ridiculous a while ago. Marvel got spin-offs for its spin-offs while DC finds a more obscure protagonist to give a whole TV show every month. Anybody else from DC you might have an interest in has probably appeared on Arrow at this point. And still, the big dogs have always been, and will always be, the major release movies. Despite how they bill it, DC at least wants the box office sales and critical acclaim that Marvel gets, even if they think they can get there with a completely different philosophy. What they do share however, is the propensity to make movies inspired by somewhat older comic book stories that are populated in the most monochromatic ways. While Marvel is doing a greatest hits of recent storylines they have licenses to (as long as it occurred at least a decade ago — …