In Time.

Any of the recent DC superhero movies.

A Merry Friggin' Christmas.

Jumper comes to mind.

I’m still bitter about losing Snyder’s vision of an evil Superman. The dream sequences and JL coda promise such an amazing story that we’ll never see.

Batman and Robin is my first thought. Cast was pretty stacked but oof.

Lincoln is my second thought. Great cast. Sounded interesting. But sooooo boring.

Unrealized potential for sure but excellent production value, the casino scene in particular.

I saw Push and got really excited. Then read the rest. I guess the way you explain it is one reason they didn’t make more.

But I’m mainly here to say I friggin love that movie. Maybe it’s just that nostalgia thing

The Tourist, Johnny Depp & Angelina Jolie

Spectre

Hear me out... Someday I'm wishing for a Bladerunner noir style remake... of Pluto Nash. Take out the weird set and costume design, and the attempts at comedy that mostly miss - it would be a legit sci fi mystery thriller.

It has all those elements already. You could probably even use the same actors just with a different creative team. It certainly can't get much worse...

Neither of them can act worth a damn, so it went as expected, IMHO. 🤷🏼‍♂️

They did that movie so dirty. The books are like 1000 times better. Jumper, reflex, impulse and exo are the main story books. The movie and the book are almost completely different stories, they’re both about David, a guy who can teleport, but in the books he’s stopping terrorists from committing hijacking’s.
Also, Apple TV made a show called impulse, “based” on the book, except it’s not, like it’s not even any of the same characters as the book. That show has even less in common with its book than the jumper movie did with its book. That being said, I still liked the show, it was worth watching.

I was obsessed with that movie as a kid. I’m sure it won’t be as good as I remember given how people tear it apart, but the couple scenes I’ve looked up aren’t that bad. The scene in the restaurant where they take cover and use telekinesis to float the guns closer and closer to each other is still badass.

I enjoyed it as well. It has been a while since I’ve watched it, but the only thing I remember being a little disappointed by was the ‘master plan’ for the climax. I thought the acting was fine, and that Fanning was pretty charismatic throughout.

The SFX are so bad. The floating guns are legitimately the 3D models you can buy through Hum3D with graphic overlay texture that looks weird when rotated and doesn’t match the scene lighting whatsoever.

Evil Superman is a trope that is already being overdone in media with things like The Boys and Invincible, and it never lasts long in the comics because the plot is honestly boring. The thing keeping Homelander interesting is that his narcissism keeps him from just killing everyone and ending the story. An evil Superman wouldn’t have that. Honestly, the fact that we lost Snyder’s vision is a blessing. Who throws Zod and Doomsday as your opening villains for the Man of Steel?

To the original response’s point, the DCU had everything it needed to succeed… and didn’t.

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Out of the Furnace

I liked the movie :/

Also the movie with Will Smith and his son. Everyone shit on the movie and it had a terrible rating. Normally if it has a bad rating I won't like it. But I enjoyed the movie and watch it from time to time.

I'm pretty bitter that Snyder ever got anywhere near DC, tbh. I remember thinking in 2013 maybe he'll surprise me. Nope. But hey a lot of folks like his work, and I got Nolan's and Reeves' Batman in the last decade, so I have no gripes.

Dick Tracy comes to mind.

Warren Beatty, Madonna, Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, Dick Van Dyke, Kathy Bates, Mandy Patankin, James Caan, Catherine O’Hara.

Almost unwatchable by todays standards.

I try to watch it every few years and I still really enjoy it. It does drag sometimes, but nonetheless it is still a fun watch.

Maybe so, but the JL coda hinted at so much more story with the Superman army society, Joker, an entire post-apocalyptic world, other supes desperately making a last stand, etc. We don’t get that development elsewhere. In addition, the troupe of actors at that one point, now almost all dismissed, were peak players of those characters.

I get what you’re saying about boring Superman story lines; if you’ve got an invincible protagonist, the story only goes one way. That’s been the problem with Superman from the very beginning. However, the Affleck Batman battle with Superman was a superb execution with engaging character insights. The entire DOJ storyline giving us more Wonder Woman development, the genesis of a new and very interesting Lex Luthor, and a tease of Deathstroke is all a sad waste now being discarded.

It does seem that DC is quite good at squandering their properties.

Hadn’t heard of that film. Interesting situation with the lawsuit against the town by people with the same last name as the antagonist claiming it was negatively portraying them personally.

Yeah the guns don’t look good, but I give it some slack. It’s an action movie from 2009 without a huge budget. They aged pretty poorly but at least for me they aren’t bad enough to ruin it.

Especially in the context of a movie that I’m well aware is no masterpiece hahaha

Superman is only a boring protagonist with an unimaginative director and writer. The thing that is boring is having one-dimensional villains that can only try to fistfight him (like Doomsday, a villain created solely for the Death of Superman arc and has done nothing of note since). Superman isn’t a Dragonball character, his sole purpose in the story isn’t to be guy that beats up the bad guy. If there was one good point of the JL movie, it was that the way to beat Supes is to distract him by giving him someone else to save, because Superman will ALWAYS prioritize saving people over beating up the bad guy. Superman is supposed to be the example of what a hopeful, helpful being could be when given godlike powers and NOT wanting to abuse them looks like. Unlike Spider-Man, whose struggle to balance life and crimefighting is part of his narrative, Superman does all of this because being a hero is who and what he is, and he gives everything he has to do that.

But I overall think you and I are on the same page: DC shit the bed.

100% agreed.

I’d be willing to let stuff like that go unmentioned except there are so many major things, wooden acting, bad scripting, etc that keep pulling me out of the moment. It may be that I’m so disappointed; reading the synopsis and cast list had me excited for a really good movie, an undiscovered gem. I didn’t get that at all.