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PLEASE BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR. After the success of her first Wonder Woman movie, Patty Jenkins quickly got to work on its sequel, this time with Geoff Johns co-writing the script with her. This would be the fixed point in the timeline that explains everything that follows, good and bad. But mostly bad. This movie has only furthered the curse of each DCEU movie being overwhelmingly divisive,...

IT'S KIND OF ABOUT THE TITULAR GROUP! KINDA! With separate solo projects revolving around Harley and the Birds of Prey circling the same drain that all the panic-pitches DC threw at the wall after the failure of Justice League , both finally saw the light of day as a Frankenstein-ed mashup in Cathy Yan's 2020 film. There's a lot that's been praised, such as the styling, performances, action, and s...

AND THE "MOM OF THE YEAR" AWARD GOES TO... Despite being one of the oldest superheroes in comics, the character formerly known as Captain Marvel never made it to the silver screen until 2019. Even during the superhero movie boom of the 2000's and with Dwayne "The Dwayne" Dwayneson attached to the project as Black Adam as far back as 2007, it took ages for Billy to finally say the magic word on the...

OCEAN MAN, TAKE ME BY THE HAND! After the colossal failure of 2017's theatrical cut of Justice League , the future of the DCEU looked to be dead in the water. However, that all changed when one year later, the long-overdue Aquaman film finally released, earning $1 Billion and becoming DC's biggest commercial success since the Dark Knight trilogy. However, the film itself was far from perfect, garn...

HALLELUJAH! After nearly three years of many fans demanding for the release Zack Snyder's original version of Justice League -- with displays of support ranging from incredibly heartfelt to bizarre and insane -- they finally got what they wished for when Zack Snyder's Justice League was released on HBO Max in March 2021. Before we watched it on release, we didn't know exactly what to expect, only...

AKA "JUSTICE LEAGUE VS. SUPERMAN'S CGI MOUTH." After the release of Batman v Superman and the divisive reactions that it spawned, production the subsequent year's Justice League was, shall we say, sabotaged to oblivion. Even people who aren't fans of Zack's take on DC's heroes could see the truth to the hellish production and post-production it went through, especially as more things came to light...

UNNECESSARY BIG CGI MONSTER THIRD ACT BATTLE GO BRR. After nearly eighty years of only ever appearing in television, animated, and video game adaptations of her comics, Wonder Woman finally leapt to the big screen in the DCEU, first in BVS , and then in her own solo movie a year later. After three misses with audiences and critics, nobody seemed to expect much from this film in the lead-up to its...

"THIS IS KATANA, SHE CAN CUT THIS ENTIRE MOVIE TO SHREDS JUST LIKE MOWING A LAWN." In an attempt to have their own marketable team of misfits set to copyrighted music, DC made plenty of eyebrows raise when announcing that the third movie of its universe would be Suicide Squad , helmed by one David Ayer. And when you take a studio not willing to commit to a tone, a filmmaker who was only given six...

GRAPHIC DESIGN COURTESY OF LEXCORP, LLC. The DCEUneral Screenings continue with the second entry in the doomed universe, Batman v Superman ! This film has become outright infamous for arguably being the most divisive and controversial mainstream comic book film to date, with rabid fanbases arguing for and against it to this day. Alec and Brian are firmly in the camp of people who don't enjoy a mov...

THE DCE(F)UNERAL SCREENINGS BEGIN! With the already highly-divisive Flash movie only a few months away and aimed to reset DC's messy film universe, we figured it was high time to look back and rewatch all the movies in it thus far. First up on the chopping block is the one that started it all, Zack Snyder's Man of Steel . This universe came out of the gate swinging with incredibly mixed responses...

"IF YOU WANT PEACE... PREPARE FOR WAR." Before the latest chapter in the saga of the Baba Yaga releases, last week we sat down to finish our marathon with John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum . Continuing right where the last one left off, the hitman finds himself running out of time as the number one target of the entire underworld, desperately trying to stay alive. So, how does it stack up to the f...

THE ONE WITH THE FUNNY SUBWAY SILENCED PISTOLS SCENE. After the shocking success of the first film, John Wick: Chapter 2 was quickly greenlit, with the budget being doubled from its predecessor's. This film took the stylized comic-book-esque world that was previously built up to new heights, with new characters, locations, and especially lore. So, how does this film stack up to the first with all...

THE NUMBER ONE RULE OF THE CONTINENTAL: ALWAYS REMAIN CHASTE. When Keanu Reeves, Chad Stahelski, and David Leitch made the first John Wick back in 2014, it's fair to say none of them knew what it would do for their careers. While Stahelski and Leitch found themselves in vogue as directors, Keanu found his career revitalized, as the film spawned an entire universe of sequels and soon-to-be-made spi...

A.K.A. THE ONE WHERE IVAN IS THE SECOND MOST DIVORCED MAN IN THE WORLD. Continuing the Creed double-feature, Creed II had some massive shoes to fill. Not only after being delayed, but in the wake of Ryan Coogler stepping away from the director's chair due to being busy with Black Panther . Despite the setbacks, this movie managed to draw in massive amounts of hype and praise due to the returning I...

THIS IS WHAT MOVIES WERE MADE FOR. With Creed III on the horizon, the boys decided to celebrate with a special double-feature of the first two in the trilogy! Nine years after Stallone's swan song as the Italian Stallion, Ryan Coogler made a pitch for a continuation of the legacy in the form of a new franchise centering around the long-lost son of Apollo Creed. Nearly eight years later, this decis...

WAKE ME UP INSIDE! Before finding critical and commercial success with Charlie Cox and the Netflix series, the character of Daredevil was only able to make the transition from page to screen twice. While the first time in Spider-Man: The Animated Series was fondly remembered, the 2003 live-action film starring Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner was, safe to say, fondly remembered for reasons not inte...

"NO! IT'S JUST DUMB!" After the success of 2019's Knives Out , Netflix was quick to swoop in and snatch up Rian Johnson with a $1 Million deal to make two more entries exclusively for their platform. Despite the pandemic slowing down the plans, the deal managed to come to fruition as Glass Onion finally hit the scene at the end of 2022! So, after all the anticipation, how does it live up to its pr...

" IN FOR A PENNY!" With the recent critical acclaim for Glass Onion , the boys decided to go back to where it started! Hot off the heels of his -- to put it mildly -- divisive take on Star Wars , Rian Johnson decided to go back to his roots for his next project: a whodunnit called Knives Out . Stacked with an incredible ensemble cast, this film made a ton of buzz before a trailer even released, an...

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO JESSE PINKMAN? While Breaking Bad ended on one of the most satisfying notes a TV show could end on, many viewers were left with one question on their mind: What happens to Jesse? Does he get to escape? Does he get captured again? Does he get back to work? After years of speculation and theories, Vince Gilligan and co. finally decided to answer their audience once and for all...

ALSO KNOWN AS SOCIETY-MAN: GAMERS RISE UP . Joker is a movie that poses the question: "If you rip off Scorsese and slap a known IP on it, how many awards can you get nominated for and win?" The answer is, apparently a lot. Ever since its announcement, Todd Phillips' take on the Clown Prince of Crime has been one of the most controversial comic book adaptations of all time, with critics and audienc...

" STAR WARS DIED AFTER ATTACK OF THE CLONES IN THIS UNIVERSE." - BRIAN, 2023 After many years of development hell, and a few more years of production, The Last of Us has finally made its (relatively easy compared to other games) transition to live action in the form of an HBO original series developed by Chernobyl 's Craig Mazin and Druckmann himself! While some of the PR leading up to the premier...

"I AM THE SOURCE WALL, WALL OF THE SOURCE." DC has been pumping out animated movies like nobody's business ever since the 2000's, so much so that they made most of them into their own little cinematic universe. In light of recent conclusions to multi-year and multi-project storylines, such as Marvel's Endgame and the CW's Crisis on Infinite Earths , the DC animated movie team decided to wipe their...

IT'S TIME TO WATCH SOME GARBAGE! Our tracks thus far, aside from a few exceptions, have mostly been competently made films that we enjoy to some degree. Because we can never be satisfied with peace, we have decided to declare war on ourselves by watching some of the worst films out there! And to start off, Alec has chosen an absolute stinker from his childhood, one of the worst spoof movies of all...

"WELL GANG, WE REALLY WERE A NEON GENESIS EVANGELION (1995)." Much of Evangelion 3.0 was made the way it was due to the intent of it being part one of a two-part final chapter, with part two initially set to release just one year later in 2013. However, due to Anno's declining mental health, the movie was put on indefinite hold, with no clear release for years. Fortunately, once he felt healthy en...

"LOOK AT OUR CGI MODELS PLEASE LOOK AT THEM." After the release of Evangelion 2.0 in 2009, fans were desperate to see where the story went next in this new and unpredictable timeline, especially when they caught a glimpse after the credits. However, much like the original series itself, things didn't exactly go according to plan, and the film that released was nothing like anyone expected. You Can...