As counterintuitive as it sounds, there is only one way to make a great Superman movie, and that's to make a movie about someone other than Superman. Let me try to explain.
There are times when a big-budget movie has incredibly specific similarities to some more obscure work, to the point that it's really hard to swallow that it could be coincidence.
Sometimes Batman's a weird super-strong baby with a grown-up brain who fights crime in Mickey Mouse pants.
Horror is, perhaps more than any other genre, often dissatisfying. Every year the same old monsters slouch into theaters.
The more I thought about it, the more I realized that the reason certain shows get confused in my head isn't because I watch too much television; it's that television isn't different enough.
Sometimes the characters in these movies seem to know less about what they're doing than we do, and for every sensible decision they make, they stumble through a series of catastrophically terrible blunders that defy explanation.
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Heroic movie characters stand up for what they feel is right, and they stick to those beliefs until it's inconvenient not to.
Bad news: The explosion of big-budget superhero movies is a bubble that seems poised to burst. How do we know? Because it's happened before.
The Internet has overlooked one key group of comic book films: the best worst movies. Good thing I wrote this article to fix that
Thankfully, someone decided to change them to keep people from sobbing through several traffic lights on their way home from the theater.
Authority figures, from police departments to federal agencies, aren't known for making the wisest decisions in movies. In fact, some of them are bafflingly stupid.
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Some characters are so bizarre, improbable, or flat-out impossible that you have to wonder how their creators ever came up with them. In a surprising amount of cases, the answer is that they didn't.