Well, we've finally reached the end of our series revisiting some of the movies that defined the superhero genre before the MCU juggernaut changed the landscape. Normally, we would save the best for last; that is not necessarily going to be the case here. Finishing up our roster of movies we will look at perhaps …
Category: Superhero Movies
Super Cinema Series: The Green Hornet (2011)
While the new year may have gotten off to a rocky start, our next movie has actually been one of the most genuinely enjoyable entries in this series. When I began this series almost a year and a half ago, I felt I was pretty familiar with the "superhero movie format" that had come to …
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Super Cinema Series: Ghost Rider (2007) and Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2011)
As we come to the end of 2020 and all eat a second helping of Hoppin’ John on New Year’s Day, let’s continue our foray into pre-Iron Man superhero movies with Marvel’s dives into demonology, Ghost Rider and Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. As I’ve said before, I’ve never been a big comic book reader. …
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Super Cinema Series: Superman Returns (2006)
As another Halloween season comes to a close and I begin to pack away my skeletons and pumpkins until next year, we continue our superhero movie project with a bit of an outlier. Up until this point, we have stuck mostly to films featuring Marvel superheroes (with the exception of The Crow). But Marvel's eternal …
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Super Cinema Series: Daredevil (2003) and Electra (2005)
I've said before during this series that I'm generally more forgiving toward the flaws of comic book movies, mostly because I didn't grow up investing my time in comics or superheroes in general. Of course, I would watch the critically-acclaimed "Batman: The Animated Series" when it was on Cartoon Network after school, and who didn't …
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Super Cinema Series: Fantastic Four (2005) and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)
It certainly has been a while since the last time we visited a movie from before the MCU, but with everything going on with our global pandemic and cultural unrest in the US, I hope I can be forgiven for procrastinating a little. Hopefully taking some time to look at and poke some fun at …
Super Cinema Series: Spider-Man Trilogy (Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, and Spider-Man 3)
Now that we're practicing social distancing measures as a nation and my job is finally letting me work from home, we can jump back into our look at pre-Iron Man superhero filmography with some of the most well-known and well-loved superhero movies of all time: the Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy. The Spider-Man trilogy was an …
Super Cinema Series: X-Men Trilogy (X-Men, X2: X-Men United, and X-Men: The Last Stand)
Before 2008 and the rise of the Disney-Marvel titan, if you were to ask someone who's generally unfamiliar with comic books to make a list of any superheros they were familiar with, chances are they would give you a relatively short list. At the top of this list would probably be Batman, Superman, and Spider-Man, …
Super Cinema Series: The Crow (1994)
Even though October is still a few months away, I never turn down the opportunity to help get me into the Halloween spirit. The Crow certainly falls into that category (it takes places on Halloween, after all). In spite of this initial appeal, The Crow left me with some mixed feelings. I had actually seen …
Super Cinema Series: Blade Trilogy (Blade, Blade II, and Blade: Trinity)
In the early 1990s, the superhero genre of film was dominated by DC. Batman and Superman had been cultural icons for many decades, and their transition from comic page and campy television show to film showed that there was still enough interest in the Man of Steel and the Dark Knight to be lucrative. Other …
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