Movie thoughts and fiction updates.
Apparently Wes Craven took this comic book adaptation to prove a couple of things to studios: that he could work with action and that he could work with movie stars. Is it a surprise that he didn't get Batman immediately after this, a few years before Tim Burton got his shot, after everyone saw Swamp… Continue reading Swamp Thing
#5 in my ranking of the theatrically released Superman films. Batman Begins came and went to great fanfare, and Warner Brothers needed someone to help them reboot the long-neglected Superman franchise. Who better than Bryan Singer, the man who made the well-received first two X-Men movies? It helped that he was a big fan of… Continue reading Superman Returns
#1 in my ranking of the theatrically released Superman films. It's interesting, but I really feel like every element of Donner's director's cut of his film that was taken from him with only 75% of the material shot is an improvement over the original except the ending. The ending is just as dumb as the… Continue reading Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
#2 in my ranking of the theatrically released Superman films. Walking into Superman II, Richard Donner probably had a much clearer idea of what story he wanted to tell than in the first. When he was fired 75% of the way through production and Richard Lester took over at the insistence of the Salkinds, he… Continue reading Superman II
#7 in my ranking of the theatrically released Superman films. I have had an issue with Richard Donner's 1978 Superman for a while. I've never watched it particularly critically until now, and now it seems pretty clear to me why I simply can't get into the whole exercise. I like parts of it quite a… Continue reading Superman
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