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  • Justice League on Random Superhero Movie Sequels That Just Didn't Live Up to Hyp

    (#10) Justice League

    • Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Gal Gadot, Ezra Miller, Jason Momoa, Ray Fisher, Jeremy Irons, Diane Lane, Connie Nielsen, J. K. Simmons

    There's two types of bad superhero movies: movies that superhero problems, and superhero movies that have filmmaking problems. 2017's Justice League falls into the second camp. In May 2017, during post-produciton, director Zack Snyder stepped away from the project and was replaced by 2012's Avengers writer and director Joss Whedon. Whedon wrote and reshot a reported 80 pages of material at the behest of Warner Bros. due to the negative feedback they received from their previous releases of Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice and Suicide Squad. What movie goers are left with is a tonally different and disjointed film that is just "fine". Admitidally the parts that work (see: anytime Diana Prince/Wonder Woman is on screen)

    For any other superhero property this wouldn't be such a big deal, but this is the freaking JUSTICE LEAGUE. Fans of DC Comics have been clammoring for a live action version of these Super Friends since at least the '90s and absolutely since the animated series Justice League and Justice League: Unlimited finished their runs. The backlash to this film was so intense that fans of the original director, Zack Snyder, began calling for a Snyder Cut of the film (and they got their wish in the form of an HBO Max series slated for 2021!).

    Leading up to it's release, Justice League had nearly an impossible list of things it needed to accomplish in order to be considered a success. It needed to introduce at least 3 new powered individuals while also giving them backstory and motivation for joining Wonder Woman and Batman on their quest, it needed to tie in a number of elements from BVS that were made intentionally to lead into Justice League's eventual big bad, Darkseid, not to mention do a hefty amount of worldbuilding in a relatively small amount of time thanks to a 120 minute time limit imposed by the studio. These key things, in addition to a sloppy studio roadmap (seriously- who releases a team up move before origin films?!) make this film impossible to be considered a success by normal standards, but hey-- at least we got this incredible Alex Ross inspired promotional image.

  • Superman Returns on Random Superhero Movie Sequels That Just Didn't Live Up to Hyp

    (#7) Superman Returns

    • Marlon Brando, Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, Parker Posey, James Marsden, Richard Branson, Frank Langella, Eva Marie Saint, Brandon Routh, Peta Wilson, Kal Penn, James Karen, Sam Huntington, Ian Roberts, Noel Neill, Tristan Lake Leabu, David Fabrizio, Stephan Bender, Vincent Stone

    On paper, Superman Returns should have been much better than it was. By disregarding any Superman film beyond Superman II and netting Oscar winner Kevin Spacey as a diabolical Lex Luthor, Bryan Singer promised to breathe new life into a once-thriving series. Years before Zack Snyder tried to imbue Superman with an ill-fitting “grim” tone, Singer tried to dramatize the Kryptonian’s life in a somber tale of a hero’s redemption.

    And then Singer delivered a cluttered, boring film that slogs its way through a “Superman is a deadbeat Dad” subplot before culminating in a ridiculous real estate scandal hatched by Luthor. Poor Brandon Routh is in way over his head as the Man of Steel, and Spacey’s Luthor somehow turned into the actor’s impersonation of late period Pacino. It was plodding, shallow, bewildering, and ultimately anti-climactic.

  • Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice on Random Superhero Movie Sequels That Just Didn't Live Up to Hyp

    (#8) Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

    • Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Jesse Eisenberg, Diane Lane, Laurence Fishburne, Jeremy Irons, Holly Hunter, Gal Gadot

    Zack Snyder is the worst thing to happen to beloved nerd properties since Uwe Boll. As a director, he seems to think that juxtaposing incomprehensible, ear-splitting violence with long scenes of gruff dudes brooding will make up for the fact that his films have zero substance. Batman v Superman is just the latest victim of his flashy take on classic heroes.

    Though Man of Steel saw its fair share of critiques, fans were still hopeful that Snyder could turn things around with Batman v Superman. He did not. Beyond the fact that the script is weak and the star of the film only has 43 lines of dialogue, the film is stuffed to the gills with new superheroes, the planted seeds of a new extended Universe. These additions cut both ways. On the one hand, they serve little to no purpose in the overarching plot. On the other hand, Gal Gadot’s needless Wonder Woman is literally the only watchable part of the film. 

    Batman v Superman is such a muddled, chaotic mess critical reviews scored it, on average, 50% lower than the original.

  • Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer on Random Superhero Movie Sequels That Just Didn't Live Up to Hyp

    (#5) Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

    • Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, Michael Chiklis, Julian McMahon, Kerry Washington, Andre Braugher, Doug Jones, Laurence Fishburne, Beau Garrett

    At one point in time, the comic book movie landscape was so bleak that a lot of people were forced to try and convince themselves that 2005’s Fantastic Four was actually a semi-decent movie. It makes no sense in retrospect, but it was a bleaker time. At any rate, when the original FF dropped in theaters, it made enough noise to merit a sequel.

    A small group of fans even had some high hopes for the film considering it was set to depict one of comics' most underrated heroes: the Silver Surfer, herald of Galactus. Then Rise of the Silver Surfer dropped, and it was so awful that it saw a 66 percent decrease at the box office in its second weekend. The film couldn’t even appeal to hardcore fans who were disappointed at the Surfer’s lack of screen time and the fact that the World Eater is rendered as a big angry space cloud.

  • Batman & Robin on Random Superhero Movie Sequels That Just Didn't Live Up to Hyp

    (#1) Batman & Robin

    • Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Clooney, Uma Thurman, Alicia Silverstone, Elle Macpherson, Vivica A. Fox, Jesse Ventura, Chris O'Donnell, Coolio, Vendela Kirsebom, Sandra Taylor, Michael Gough, Patrick Leahy, John Glover, Pat Hingle, Dick Shawn, Nicky Katt, Doug Hutchison, Eric Lloyd, Michael Paul Chan, Robert Swenson, Veronica Grey, John Ingle, Ralf Möller, Jack Betts, Kimberly Scott, Alex Daniels, Peter "Navy" Tuiasosopo, Christian Boeving, Jim McMullan, Dennis Keiffer, John Fink, Harry Van Gorkum, Greg Lauren, Neill Calabro, Joe Sabatino, Dean Cochran, Michael Reid MacKay, Elizabeth Guber, Takis Triggelis, Stogie Kenyatta, Jim Palmer, Steve Boyles, Matthew Hurley, Michael Bernardo, Mark Chadwick, Eva Ford, Isaac Mayanja, Steven Ito, Mark Leahy, Julie Michaels, Steve Blalock, Jean-Luc Martin, Elizabeth Sanders, Robert Powell, Jeff Podgurski, Danny Costa, Marc Glimcher, Jay Luchs, Chris C. Mitchell, Todd Grossman, Paul Sklar, Roger Nehls, Christopher Caso, Khristian Lupo, Bruce Roberts, William Victor Skrabanek, Chris Sayour, Spitfire Brown, James Kim, Simon Kim, Jon Simmons, Christopher Nelson, Tobias Jelinek, Don Sinnar, Azikiwee Anderson, Anthony E. Cantrell, Lucas Berman, Jim Hardy, Uzi Gal, Gabriela Tollman, Stephan Desjardins, Andy LaCombe, David Cardoza, Dennis Lefevre, Cory M. Miller, Casper Brindle, Howard Velasco

    Question: how do you ruin Arnold Schwarzenegger’s uncanny ability to land puns? Answer: Surround him with anatomically correct latex and then give him literally nothing else to do. 

    When Joel Schumacher took over for Tim Burton as the Batman series helmer, fans were rightfully nervous. Then, Schumacher delivered Batman Forever, a film that - while by no means perfect - isn’t a steaming pile of crap, thanks mostly to Jim Carrey’s inspired casting as the Riddler. 

    What is a steaming pile of crap is the follow up to Batman Forever, Batman & Robin. It’s hard to pinpoint what went wrong, here, because so many things did. Schumacher moved away from Burton’s old school noir-style Batman in favor of a more Adam West-inspired take on the subject matter. It didn’t go well. Then there’s George Clooney, who’s somehow an even worse cast for Batman than Ben Affleck. Finally, comic villain Bane is reduced to a monosyllabic troglodyte whose only function is to lumber around a scene-chewing Uma Thurman. It was so bad that it even lost Schumacher his gig as the franchise director.

  • Superman III on Random Superhero Movie Sequels That Just Didn't Live Up to Hyp

    (#6) Superman III

    • Richard Pryor, Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Annette O'Toole, Robert Vaughn, Pamela Stephenson, Jackie Cooper, Annie Ross, David Winning, Marc McClure, Gavin O'Herlihy

    What happens when legendary comedian Richard Pryor jokes about wanting to be in a Superman movie? The producers take him super-duper seriously and then offer him $5 million to do the worst Superman movie ever. If the script itself isn’t excruciating enough, Pryor’s attempt to play it PG-13 is so strained it’s positively painful.

    If there’s any actor who could give Toby Maguire a run for his money in terms of being awful at playing the bad man, it’s Christopher Reeve, and that is never more true than when he’s hamming it up as the evil version of the Man of Steel. Where Richard Donner knew how to use Reeve’s talent to harness the stalwart purity of Superman, his successor Ricard Lester didn’t have the same gift. As a result, Superman III comes off as a misdirected, awkwardly restrained movie in which everyone looks out of place.

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Superhero movies are one of the most popular styles in the film industry. Movie studios are almost certain to follow up a successful blockbuster with at least one sequel. There is no doubt that some sequels are considered to be superior to their predecessor. We must admit that superhero movies have always been successful, and these movies have attracted a large number of loyal fans, people are waiting for sequels.

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