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Reviews tagged ‘dc’ by Sydney🚀 Patron
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Blue Beetle 2023
Idk, you know the deal. Onward we trek through the world of enjoying certain things about these assembly line superhero movies, but wondering if the recurring flaws are something to be fixed or something to get used to… Blue Beetle is far from the bottom of the barrel though. The first act is supremely rough, but once he gets his powers it not only brings some fun with the action, but reaches a level of genuine spirit and soul at…
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The Flash 2023
There’s so much to pick apart about The Flash after its years of production chaos and the very foundation of DC shifting underneath it, so I’ve resolved to just rate based off of my level of entertainment, minus some for the pretty despicable cameo show at the end. I think I would rate it higher if it didn’t feel like Frankenstein’s movie - there’s something truly good held in the second act of this where the focus is on Barry…
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Shazam! Fury of the Gods 2023
Better than Quantumania and Black Adam but not as good as the first film - it helps that they’ve laid the groundwork with this very likable family because they got sloppy in other ways. The humor is worse, it’s lit like shit, the villains are a huge missed opportunity and the second act is a mess. They rely almost exclusively on people being stupid to push this plot forward - I’m getting progressively more annoyed with how childish Billy acts as…
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Shazam! 2019
Don’t much care what’s wrong with this movie, I think it’s super cute. One of the only standard/formulaic comic book movies of the last several years that actually manages to have heart and doesn’t try to be something it’s not. Also why do we not discuss how great the Seven Deadly Sins look? Horror directors + CBMs💙💙💙
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Black Adam 2022
I don’t want to talk about what I just watched I want to talk about when we are getting a Pierce Brosnan Doctor Fate movie
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The Batman 2022
Seeing this three times is definitely enough, still good though
I did a video ranking the 13 Batman movies I watched this month!
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Batman & Robin 1997
Pros: ass shots, production design, Bat credit card, Mr. Freeze speaks only in puns, Uma Thurman, BAT NIPPLES
Cons: everything else
Camp lightning doesn’t strike twice😔☝🏼
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice 2016
Very flawed but I do think the seething hatred is hyperbolic. This is such a massive swing, and I genuinely respect Zack Snyder for taking it. Its implications are heavy, and it does pretty well until it crumbles under the weight of its own message in a big way. Snyder repeatedly tries to bend these characters to his will rather than adapt to the moral fabric of superheroes themselves. Sometimes it’s refreshing, or even moving - here, it kind of leaves you with a bad taste in your mouth.
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Batman Forever 1995
Are you people crazy?! This movie fucking rocks. This ran so Sharkboy and Lava Girl could walk. This invented the word yassified. And it looked good while doing it. It’s a camp relic. Something in the earth shifted when Joel Schumacher did this
Also Val Kilmer is an underrated Batman…
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The Dark Knight Rises 2012
This is Nolan’s most nonsensical film, and it’s not even a Batman film for most of the runtime. It’s ridiculous. It’s a mess.
But it’s our mess :) and in the hands of a less capable mind it would probably be the worst film ever made. There are things that are bad here, but sometimes it’s operating at a level in the genre that’s so high, Marvel can’t even see it yet. You kind of have to admire how it shuffles…
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Batman Returns 1992
I thought I hadn’t seen any of this film before, but once I saw the opening sequence of the Penguin floating down that river, I knew I had when I was really little. It surfaced a weird memory of me being curiously engrossed by such a sticky, mythical origin story that gave me the creeps as much as it enchanted me.
That’s my favorite kind of film moment, and my favorite thing about the Burton movies. I don’t think Tim…