Originally Posted by
JAK
I think a lot of it has to do with nuance. If they screw something up on a TV show, they have 12-ish or more episodes to learn and do better. It has time (hopefully) to "find it's legs" and figure out what works. If the team is smart, they'll learn and lean into what works.
But with movies? It's like having a pilot episode that just has a massive budget. And the next movie is just episode two. Not nearly the same amount of screen time to correct what's wrong, and since these things take so long to make, that restricts the prep time - so they're hit two different ways.
Add in WB's almost instinctive idiocy when it comes to Superman, and movies become a match made in hell. lol So it's to the point where I'd rather see a tv series than a movie - with perhaps the exception of making a movie using a TV cast. Not that a movie can't work, but Superman is a particular enough property that it's a lot harder to make work without a team who has a good understanding of the character.