"Hoping to have its own Marvel Cinematic Universe, Warner Bros. in 2013 unveiled what it called the DC Extended Universe, officially launched by 'Man of Steel.' But slapping an ostentatious name on a series of flicks isn't the same as capturing the Zeitgeist. The DCEU never reached MCU levels of cultural ubiquity, unveiling a series of ambitious, mostly uneven films that often resulted in a lot of behind-the-scenes drama that rivaled anything up there on the screen. We had multiple sets of Batman films, a Superman arc that, because of corporate maneuverings, totally fell apart at the end, & two Swamp Thing movies. The bad movies are truly bad, but the ceiling was raised as high as a Christopher Nolan, Richard Donner, or Patty Jenkins could take it. And they've given the franchise a new name: the DC Universe. Today, we rank the 44 DC Comics movies; we intentionally left off films made from imprints later purchased by DC Comics. So sorry, 'Hellboy', etc." - vulture.com
