I think what makes this one the best of the seventeen Fleischer cartoons is how it nails the formula perfectly. There’s a crazy bad guy, he does some serious destruction, Lois gets herself in trouble along with the serious destruction, Clark calmly claims this is a job for Superman and gets in his iconic costume and the rest of the cartoon is watching Superman save the day. It’s simple and gets a bit repetitive when you do it seventeen times.…
I’ve seen this movie countless times yet seeing it in the theater was when it truly moved me for the first time. I felt every explosion, flew through the battle above Coruscant, let the abject cruelty and spectacle of Order 66 wash over me and felt the heat of battle on Mustafar. Yes I still cringe at Anakin and Pe dialogue and the bigger screen made it easier to tell when a character was fully cg rather than plopped on…
I’m reminded of the time I accidentally read “Superman dies in BVS” somewhere around when the movie was first coming out and I genuinely thought it was a joke. This was early 2016 after all, the force awakens was just out and people were making so many “Han solo dies” jokes that I thought this was one of them. “They wouldn’t be stupid enough to kill off Superman in the second movie of their franchise” I naively thought. Then I went to see it in theaters and lo and behold.
Zombie baby.
Always heard this was one of Snyder’s “better” films and I guess kinda? It’s thankfully not a shot for shot or even beat for beat remake of the original film, does manage to separate itself nicely in that regard, it’s really only similar in title and the fact they both take place in a mall. It’s a fairly standard zombie flick though. It also suffers from usual horror movie cliches with jump scares and things only happening because…
