Category Archives: Superman
I’m Down With Ben Affleck as the New Caped Crusader
If you haven’t heard the news yet, Ben Affleck has been cast as Batman in the upcoming Man of Steel sequel. For some reason, he’s a controversial choice. Did people really hate Reindeer Games that much?
Yes, yes they did
Personally, I’m happy with Ben Affleck as Batman. I like the guy. And I liked Daredevil, so there. Especially the Director’s Cut. Have you seen the Director’s Cut? You’ve got to see it!
Anyway, I don’t see what the big deal is. Affleck is a fine actor and an even better director. I will admit to having a hard time seeing him in the cowl or playing Bruce Wayne, but that’s apparently what people said about Michael Keaton back in the 80s. I can also remember not being sold on Chris Evans as Captain America. But these Hollywood folks know exactly what they’re doing. They wouldn’t give the role of Batman to just anybody. Someone saw in Affleck a reason to make him Batman. And even though I hated Man of Steel, I still love Zack Snyder’s other movies. The man knows what he’s doing.
So consider me on board with Affleck as Batman, or at the very list willing to give everyone involved the benefit of the doubt until we see a trailer or the actual film.
Plus, I’m exactly the kind of idiot who will make loads of Matt Damon as Robin jokes, so this is win/win for me. Or maybe Matt Damon as Alfred…
My Top 6 Greatest Comic Books of All Time
I love comic books because, deep down, I wish I was a hero with incredible powers. I wish I could fly around the world. I wish I was more powerful than a speeding locomotive. I wish I could turn invisible and mess with people on the street. I love reading comic books because they are a uniquely perfect way to tell a story, combining prose and pictures into one fun-to-read package. And comics have a creative freedom unmatched by almost any other medium. Movies and TV shows are hampered by budgets, technology, running time and so much more. With comics, the heroes can travel all around the world or into space without awkward green screens of fake-looking CGI. The visual imagination of comics is hampered only by the strain on an artist’s wrist. Comics can do anything, go anywhere and be anyone.
Though they’re mostly about men dressing up in animal costumes
I’ve had a draft of this List of Six waiting in my queue for more than a year now. I’ve been picking at it, rearranging it, deciding what should go where, but I’m dying to share this list with you. I’m always talking about comics, so what are the best comic book stories/series I have ever read? Keep in mind: this is my personal list. This isn’t just the best comic books of all time. This list isn’t going to have Watchmen or The Dark Knight Returns on it. I’ve read those comics, and I like those comics, but they aren’t among the best comics I have ever read. No sir. And that probably has a lot to do with my comic book upbringing.
When I was a kid, I read everything from my dad’s comic collection that he left lying around, which were mostly a small smattering of Marvel superhero comics from the 60s. I didn’t get into comics on my own until the mid-90s, when my brother and I started with Spider-Man in the middle of the Clone Saga…which explains why he and I both love the Clone Saga…and my undying love of Phil Urich. We eventually moved on to the X-Men, but it wasn’t until Batman: Hush and Infinite Crisis that I finally started reading DC Comics on a regular basis. Because of this timeline, I wasn’t around in the 80s for Watchmen to blow my mind. I wasn’t around in the 60s for Spider-Man and Superman to define my world. In fact, almost everything on this list comes from the past 20 years or so, when I really got into comics.
Here are my personal Top 6 Greatest Comic Books of All Time. I would recommend any of these to anyone, comic fans or not.
The League of Supermen
This exists. Dean Cain, Brandon Routh and Tim Daly induct Sam Daly into the League of Supermen!
This is just joyous. Like a big, giddy party of Supermen having a fun-filled afternoon! If you don’t know, Sam Daly is voicing Superman in the upcoming DVD movie The Flashpoint Paradox. I’ve seen it, it’s alright. Though honestly, this little short from The Daly Show is by far superior. This is just good times, people.
6 Things I Want From the Batman/Superman Movie
Holy cow, Comic-Con International was FULL of movie news this past weekend! Age of Ultron, Guardians of the Galaxy, Days of Future Past, Godzilla, Hunger Games; it was a madhouse of movie news, spoilers and trailers! We haven’t seen a lot of those trailers yet, but the descriptions online have been stunning. Us movie geeks are in for a good couple of years. But I think the biggest, coolest surprise announcement was that the sequel to Man of Steel is going to be a team-up between Superman and Batman!
And even though I didn’t like Man of Steel, I’m nothing if not a sucker, and I can appreciate the wonderful excitement of a Batman/Superman team-up movie just as much as the next guy! I’m not made of stone, people!
2015 is gonna be a wild year
Meanwhile, the Justice League movie has been pushed back to 2017, if it even happens. Frequent readers of my site might remember that I had absolutely no confidence in DC and Warner Bros. to make a Justice League movie by 2015. But that didn’t stop me from making a list similar to this one, and a Batman/Superman team-up was my #4 choice for what I’d want to see in a Justice League movie. So seeing DC simply do this film first is a very cool turn of events. It fills me with…something close to hope. But DC has messed up their superhero movies before. I didn’t like Superman Returns, I didn’t like Man of Steel and I didn’t like Green Lantern. So if DC wants to finally make me happy (and I’m sure they do), here are my six suggestions for the Batman/Supermean movie.
The Superman/Batman Movie is Going to be a Real Thing
How do you capture the hearts and minds of comic book fans everywhere? Make a surprise announcement at Comic-Con International that the sequel to Man of Steel is going to be a team-up between Superman and Batman. That’s how.
Logo unveiled at Comic-Con
How cool is that? Sounds to me like DC and Warner Bros. are stepping up their game big time to try and compete with Marvel. I mean, a simple sequel to Man of Steel would have been enough. They could have expected to make money and do alright by themselves. But no, DC didn’t want to just do that. They wanted to take things to the next level, baby! I’m down with that! The film has been scheduled for 2015, with a possible focus on the themes of The Dark Knight Rises, at least according to director Zack Snyder.
Other sources are reporting that this is just the beginning, and that DC also has a Flash movie planned for 2016 and they’ve moved back their Justice League film to 2017. So have DC finally entered the superhero movie arms race with some actual arms to bear?
What do you guys and gals think? Are you excited for a Superman/Batman team up film? Let me know in the comments!
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