Comments on: David Goyer Says “Fan Chatter” From “Tiny Portion” Of Audience Doesn’t Represent What Audiences Really Want

By: Blarv

Blarv — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:51:32 +0000

Don't like Goyer but he's right. I invariably type asinine stuff on the internet.

By: nick

nick — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:51:32 +0000

It's not about playing to the fans, it's about making a god-dammed good movie with a coherent script. The Dark Knight, Avengers, The Lego Movie all made a ton of money respectively because they were solid movies, not just because of the subject matter, or how referential they were.

STOP WRITING SCRIPTS GOYER. PLEASE. WE ARE NOT A MINORITY. YOU JUST SUCK.

By: anna g

anna g — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:51:32 +0000

can see Goyer's arogance continues as he seems to live in a freaking Matrix, where MoS apparently is a huge box office with 95% positive reviews. Critics and fans just love it I guess. How can this guy be such a prick after pretty much destroying Superman character and integrity is beyond me? Goyer and Snyder wasted the big opportunity (that will not repeat itself) to restore Superman to its glory. The movie had all working to its advantage: fan support and really huge hype, Nolan's name plastered all over the place for marketing reasons, big budget, good writer as it seemed, director that for some strange reasons is liked by younger generation, big marketing campaigns. All of that was wasted because with 300 million $ budget noone cared about DECENT AND COHERENT STORY and CHARACTERS. Instead, our duo opted for CGI overload and video game like action scenes with paper thin characters and made Superman a sociopath lacking empathy towards humans he was supposed to protect. This movie is one of the worst I have seen and definitely the biggest disappointment for many years.
I advise both guys to see Captain America 2 – that is how you apply "darker tone" to a pretty much decent and naive character like Steve Rogers. Copying Dark knight in MoS was lazy and just didn't work! Thank God they hired Chris Terio for the sequel! Maybe at least the movie will have a decent story. I'm even not gonna talk about the "inspired" casting for Batman vs Superman.

By: bada bim bada bum

bada bim bada bum — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:51:32 +0000

Every audience wants a good movie. Goyer has yet to make one.

By: bohmer

bohmer — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:51:32 +0000

I don't know anybody (no fanboys anyway) that didn't complain about the last third of the movie. Its pretty reasonable to say that they drop the ball there. I agree that you can't always change your "vision" to satisfy the fans, but nobody needs this amount of destruction porn in a Superman movie. Write characters Goyer, not 45 minutes pointless action sequences.

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:51:32 +0000

Its true that fan-chatter is small but loud and likely inconsequential, but I'd argue that it is as useful (for better or worse) to listen to them than looking at box office numbers and thinking "if they showed up for this one then we shouldn't change anything"

By: Huh

Huh — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:51:32 +0000

I could be mistaken, but I believe the 'internet chatter' and 'complaints' weren't necessarily 'fanboy' (shudder) nit-picking but were rather 'be tonally consistent' or 'craft stronger narrative' or 'make better movie.'