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‘Superman & Batman’ movie will follow ‘Man of Steel’

To me the Donner movies still work as well as ever anytime Christopher Reeve is on screen, but I admit they are starting to seem cheesier and cheesier with every passing year.
The overt camp was there from the beginning (same with the '89 Batman), but it wasn't as obvious back in the day. But as time passed the camp became evermore apparent.

The '78 Donner film is fine until just after Superman's first appearance in Metropolis and then it starts to slide and never recovers throughout the rest of the films. The first film is tolerable overall, but it just doesn't work for me anymore as a whole.

That said John Williams' theme still sounds so definitive.

Those films both go very well with the spirit of the comics released during that era. I treat them in that context.
 
While MoS and BvS are not of the same continuity as Nolan's Batman trilogy they are undoubtedly taking at least something of the Nolanverse's tone over into the new continuity. I know some don't like that, particularly in regard to Superman, but it does help make the DC franchise distinct from the Marvel one.
Agreed.

Since the DC Extended Universe's Batman will already have been active for twenty years, I'm kind of treating Batman Begins and The Dark Knight as sort of a semi-canon origin for him until/unless the DCEU makes them incompatible.
 
To me the Donner movies still work as well as ever anytime Christopher Reeve is on screen, but I admit they are starting to seem cheesier and cheesier with every passing year.
The overt camp was there from the beginning (same with the '89 Batman), but it wasn't as obvious back in the day. But as time passed the camp became evermore apparent.

The '78 Donner film is fine until just after Superman's first appearance in Metropolis and then it starts to slide and never recovers throughout the rest of the films. The first film is tolerable overall, but it just doesn't work for me anymore as a whole.

That said John Williams' theme still sounds so definitive.

Yeah I think as a kid I probably focused a bit more on the serious and dramatic elements of the movies.

Not to mention that a LOT of the stuff I watched back in the 70s and 80s were full of the same kind of camp (BSG, Flash Gordon, Knight Rider, Buck Rogers, Greatest American Hero, etc), so I was probably a lot more immune to it back then! :D
 
Speaking of Donner Supes, here is a parody of my favourite character and moment
- an ad for Zod Kitchens:

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ9yYpUooiw[/yt]
 
Whipped this up as a response to a similar face-off:


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:p
 
That could be good. He's a great director, and it would be a nice way to make up for him not getting to finish his Justice League movie.
 

I know it's unlikely, but I think it'd be cool if they fit it in between the events of MOS and BvS so that it actually could be a proper MOS sequel. So we could see more of him learning how to control his powers and adapt to his new secret identity and see how that relationship with Lois actually developed.

Instead of what it probably will be, which is more a sequel to the events of the Justice League, Wonder Woman, and Batman movies.
 
If it's on hold it's probably only because they're so busy with all the other DC movies right now.

Although if BvS is a big enough hit and seems to get people really excited about the character again (in a way MOS apparently didn't), I wouldn't be surprised if WB decided to move the sequel ahead earlier to capitalize.
 
At this point they probably want to see how this first batch of movies and the new characters do before making decisions about sequels.
 
I would hazard a bet that the complete lack of interest in Fantastic Four by the movie-going masses might have tempered their enthusiasm for pursuing what so far is presenting itself as a borderline-"grimdark" universe of superheroes. If they're reconsidering the tone of the shared universe as a whole, it would make sense to hold off on beginning development of any new films under that umbrella.
 
I would hazard a bet that the complete lack of interest in Fantastic Four by the movie-going masses might have tempered their enthusiasm for pursuing what so far is presenting itself as a borderline-"grimdark" universe of superheroes. If they're reconsidering the tone of the shared universe as a whole, it would make sense to hold off on beginning development of any new films under that umbrella.

That is a hell of a reach - the failure of the fantastic four is connected not to 'grimdark' but that it is shit.
 
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