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Batman/Superman movies 17 – Superman Returns
The year after Batman Begins released, the first major attempt to restart the Superman film franchise since Superman IV finally released, after decades of cancelled projects. The road to even getting to Superman Returns is a long and complicated one, … Continue reading
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Batman/Superman movies 16 – Batman Begins
If it wasn’t for the fact that Batman Begins released the year after Catwoman, the Catwoman movie probably would have damaged the DC superhero movies a lot more than it did. But the road to Batman Begins wasn’t a smooth … Continue reading
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Batman/Superman movies 11 – Batman Returns
This is probably the first movie I’ve done for this blog series where the production was fairly straight forward. That’s not to say there isn’t anything worth talking about, but there weren’t any significant production troubles, behind the scenes politics, … Continue reading
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Batman/Superman movies 10 – Batman
For pretty much the entire existence of the Christopher Reeve Superman series, there were a number of attempts to bring Batman back to the big screen. The character’s popularity at the time was waning, thanks to the 60’s show reruns … Continue reading
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Disney Remakes 3 – Alice in Wonderland
Three movies into this Disney remake series and we’re already looking at the second Tim Burton directed movie. Burton can be a brilliant filmmaker, but his strange style can also be detrimental to certain types of films. For example, The … Continue reading
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Disney Remakes 1 – Dumbo
Back in 2017, I started looking at movies on this blog when I got the idea to watch through every single Disney Animation Studios movie, in order of release. I wrote about every single one of them, getting through what … Continue reading
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Tagged box office bomb, cgi, colin farrell, danny devito, disney, disney animation studios, disney remakes, dumbo, eva green, katherine arnold, michael keaton, movie review, movies, tim burton
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Disney Associated Movies 11 – James and the Giant Peach
Although Tim Burton has worked with Disney quite a bit over the years, he’s only been involved with two movies tied directly with Disney Animation Studios. Like with The Nightmare Before Christmas, the famed studio mostly focused on touch-up animation, … Continue reading
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Disney Associated Movies 9 – The Nightmare Before Christmas
This is probably the only movie I’ve heard of that successfully celebrates two holidays at once. It manages to capture a touch of horror movies to tie into Halloween, while also celebrating Christmas. Although Disney Animation Studios had their hand … Continue reading
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