Movie thoughts and fiction updates.
You know the thing about ensemble pieces? They're hard to do right. This is a great example of an ensemble piece having a dozen different elements swirling around each other, the majority of which never come to anything at all, and the movie as a whole suffers greatly for it. What could any of this… Continue reading Army of the Dead
#2 in my ranking of the DCEU franchise. #8 in my ranking of theatrically released Batman films. #6 in my ranking of the theatrically released Superman films. Well, that's an improvement. The original release of Justice League in 2017 was a conflict of visions, mostly made by Zack Snyder but completed with heavy reshoots by… Continue reading Zack Snyder’s Justice League
#5 in my ranking of the DCEU franchise. #11 in my ranking of theatrically released Batman films. #8 in my ranking of the theatrically released Superman films. The biggest mistake Warner Brothers seems to have made about their big team up picture isn't that they forced it too early, it's that they forced it to… Continue reading Justice League
#1 in my ranking of the DCEU franchise. #7 in my ranking of theatrically released Batman films. #3 in my ranking of the theatrically released Superman films. The sequel to Man of Steel feels both of the previous film and decidedly apart. Where the first one had a rough visual aesthetic with a lot of… Continue reading Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice
#3 in my ranking of the DCEU franchise. #4 in my ranking of the theatrically released Superman films. There's something big and ambitious and earnest about Zach Snyder's take on Superman that I find really admirable. Not everything in this movie works, but the mythic scope and embrace of the idea of gods coming to… Continue reading Man of Steel
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