THE FANBOY #20: "DC and Fox's Risks Are Way More Satisfying Than Marvel's Safety Webbing"

In a cinematic landscape that's way over-populated with superhero fair, El Fanboy Podcast host Mario-Francisco Robles finds it interesting that we've gotten two classics this year...and that both came from wildly inconsistent franchises: The DC Extended Universe and Fox's X-Men Universe. In this week's show, MFR discusses the way huge gambles can pay off in a major way- something he thinks the folks at Marvel Studios could stand to learn. In 2017, Fox's X-Men Universe gave us Logan and the WB's DCEU gave us Wonder Woman; Two of the better films to ever come out of Hollywood's attempts to bring beloved comic book characters to the big screen. MFR takes the time here to point out what it is that makes those films so much more satisfying than the safe products churned out by Kevin Feige's Marvel Cinematic Universe. Along the way, he touches on all the week's hottest fanboy news.