Superman

[M'rk son of Mogh]

So I got to ask, is that picture implying this is going to be yet another big budget film where the climax is defeating another fucking evil sky beam?

The picture is implying an infinite number of interpretations. We take away what we want to take away.
At this point, we don't even know if it has anything to do with the movie itself other than a publicity shot to show us what the costume now looks like.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

big budget film where the climax is defeating another fucking evil sky beam?

From a certain point of view, that's Star Wars (1977)...

yet another

... and Return of the Jedi (1983)...

yet another

... and maybe also The Force Awakens (2015) as well. Damn.

 

[Skipper]

Top 10 Movies That Have A Climax Involving a Giant Beam in the Sky

 

[Rowdy Roddy McDowall]

They forgot DARKMAN.

 

[Tosk]

They forgot DARKMAN.

How/when does the climax of Darkman involve a sky-beam?

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

From a certain point of view, that's Star Wars (1977)...


... and Return of the Jedi (1983)...


... and maybe also The Force Awakens (2015) as well. Damn.

...which is another of saying people behind fantasy movies need to try...just try to create an original idea, because the rinse and repeat plotting makes films (so many already creatively challenged in other ways) boring or unbearable.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

How/when does the climax of Darkman involve a sky-beam?

It's a pun.bFinal battle at the top of an unfinished skyscraper, beams of steel, beam in the sky.

 

[Tosk]

Ah. Funny.

 

[The Realist]

Thought I'd share this graphic making the rounds of (almost) all the live-action Lex Luthors to date:

I enjoyed nearly all the versions pictured (including Eisenberg). My personal favorite would be Rosenbaum, with Cryer an extremely close second.

 

[Tosk]

I wonder why they bumped Titus. He's the only one out of chronological order.
Edit: Except he's not the only one. Sherman and Gene are switched too. My brain!

 

[tenmei]

I wonder why they bumped Titus. He's the only one out of chronological order.

I suspect it originally didn't include Titans Lex or Superman and Lois Lane Lex and they've been inserted onto an existing graphic.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Adventures of Superboy came about a decade after Superman: The Movie.

 

[Tosk]

I just couldn't leave it be. I got problems.
[Edited to remove old version.]

 

[The Realist]

Good for you. And your arrangement emphasizes the recent beardy-Lex trend (which I gather Hoult is going to break).

 

[Tosk]

Okay last one for now, I swear.

 

[Firebird]

I've only maybe seen a couple episodes of Lois and Clark, but I had no idea their Lex Luthor looked like a discount Warren Beatty.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

I get a chuckle when I see Sherman Howard on the list as I primarily knew him as "Bub" the Zombie from George A. Romero "Day of the Dead."

 

[The Realist]

FWIW, both John Shea (Lois & Clark's Lex) and Sherman Howard are delicious and delightful takes on the character.

 

[CorporalClegg]

Shea was nothing short of amazing for the first half-or-so of season one. But the character quickly became really trite towards the end. (Not really his fault, though.) His subsequent appearances were laughably bad, and some of that I do put on him because he totally phoned it in. Though, TBF, with material that bad, I probably couldn't be bothered either.

 

[the G-man]

It's a damn shame that no one just did the obvious thing and had Clancy Brown shave his head for at least one live action Superman.