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Me think it hilarious that everyone agrees big mistake DCU made was rushing to assemble super-team before giving us reason to care about anyone on that team, so now they start over with lesser-known, lesser-loved super-team and make same mistake.

It also funny that DCU now have several characters that feel like blatant rip-offs of their Marvel counterparts, when in comics, Captain Marvel and Dr. Strange were blatant rip-offs of their DC counterparts.

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My interest in this was briefly piqued when I found out Pierce Brosnan was playing Doctor Fate, a character I have great affection for. I can’t see myself sitting through what is by most accounts a bloated, repetitive slog just for his scenes, though.

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There no reason they not could have done Dr. Fate movie, and movies for whoever else in this thing, and then do team-up.

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Friday morning quarterbacking, Cookie.

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Genuinely shocked that there's apparently not even a nod to the Shazam movie (in Black Adam, that is. I'm less surprised there isn't one in Ticket to Paradise). Could be they're waiting to tease that crossover in the upcoming Shazam sequel, or could be WB is just fumbling their way through shared universe management. Precedent would seem to support the latter.

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No, no, we need to hold Ticket to Paradise accountable. Either get onboard with the DCEU or get out of the way, I say.

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The balance of power in the romcom universe has been disrupted

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founding

it's kinda baffling that someone could sit down and write a comedy about two divorced people falling in love again without ever contemplating what made them get divorced in the first place.

but then again, I guess there is some reason to be cautious, because you could write something that makes the audience find it harder to forgive than you want. my own personal example: Jason Sudeikis' character in Sleeping With Other People is so so so awful at the beginning that I could never truly get over it and root for him to get together with Alison Brie. (boy, I hope I got that movie right)

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