The Problem is the Audience

Rating: 8/10 (5 March 2018)

Let's get started on this topic by giving a rating of 8 for Justice League.... It's not perfect by any means, but for me as a true DC/Marvel comic fan I appreciate Justice League more than say the most recent Marvel's Thor - Rangrong which in my opinion was a big joke and a comedy than anything else. If you ask most people (the general audience) however, see this the other way around and this is why -
Let's get the obvious out of the way first... Justice League as I mentioned, by no means perfect. As many have indicated the plot and some character development could have been better... what Justice League needed in my opinion is more screen time. The movie seriously lacked screen time to bring a group six superhero characters together therefore affecting the whole flow and the plot of the movie... But the movie manged to maintain true DC essence in it to a degree. DC differ from Marvel from being more dark and twisted in their stories...Justice League in many ways maintained what DC is all about. Many
(the general audience) would see this as being boring or non entertaining but if you know DC then you know what you are up against. Batman vs Superman had a similar tone to Justice League... again many criticized that movie too.
The problem here come down to the blockbuster earnings. Marvel has been making some healthy $$ figures on recent movies like the whole Avengers series and other solo movies such as Iron Man. Studios don't care about maintaining the original essence of DC or Marvel comics... for them the the success lies in the $$ figure. So, how do they earn more $$s? Well the answer is of course developing movies to capture a wider audience than the true DC/Marvel comics fan base out there... My friend rated more recent Guidance of the Galaxy and Thor - Rangrong very high... I asked him why. His view was simple - it fun, lite and great entertainment with some hardcore CGI - you walk out of the theater happy... nothing wrong with his view... but he has no clue whatsoever what DC or Marvel comics are all about - have never read them. He would easily mixed up Marvel and DC characters. And that's the general audience I'm talking about... And this is how Thor - Rangrong gets its high ratings and blockbuster $$s.
By this definition Marvel by default has the edge when it comes to entertainment as Marvel comics have more fun/brighter element in the original comics in comparison to DC. Iron Man's and the Guidance of the Galaxy success were around these elements - Audience like this. However, studios try to apply the same theme across on movies such as Thor - Rangrong which in my opinion led to jeopardizing the Thor character to a comedy which was disgrace and ended up in a disaster regardless of it successful blockbuster earnings. Only a Marvel fan would see this but no the general audience. You can see how ratings on Thor - Rangrong go either very high (general audience) vs very low (Marvel fans).
So, this my take on how DC and Marvel movies will continue to the future... Studios will try to make more $$s. Marvel was first in this game... they sort of got the formula right making more $$s by focusing on entertainment than maintaining the true essence of the original comics. DC will follow the lead at a certain point. Its going to be interesting to see how DC does this if they wanted to maintain the dark and twisted nature of DC comics which is what differentiate DC from Marvel. The end result however, is that Marvel and DC movies will gradually loose the true essence of the original comics and what they were all about.