The Reel Rejects - COY'S COMIC CORNER: All 15 DCEU Movies Ranked! (Black Adam Included)
Episode Date: October 21, 2022RANKING THE DC CINEMATIC UNIVERSE From Worst To Best! With the Black Adam movie now out, Coy ranks from Man Of Steel (Superman) to today including The Batman, Joker, Zack Snyder's Justice League, The ...Suicide Squad, Wonder Woman, Shazam, Batman V Superman (Theatrical & Ultimate Edition), Josstice League, Aquaman, & MORE! #DCEU #BlackAdam #Superman #HenryCavill #ManOfSteel #Batman #TheBatman #Joker #TheSuicideSquad #Shazam #Wonderwoman #ZackSnyder #zacksnydersjusticeleague #snydercut #restorethesnyderverse #justiceleague Follow Coy Jandreau On Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@coyjandreau?lang=en Become A Super Sexy Reject For Full-Length T.V. & Movie Reactions! https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects Support The Channel By Checking Out Our High-Quality Merch: http://shopzeroedition.com/collections/reel-rejects-merch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-reel-rejects/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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should be. Internet and citizens of the reject nation. Welcome to the list I was most afraid to make
with Black Adam now in theaters. It is time to rank the entire DC film universe after and including
Man of Steel. Now, this list is going to include the Joker and the Batman, even though those are
not part of the DC-EU. It's a multiverse. They're not tied together, but we wanted to include them because
I love those movies, so they're all included here. But things like Peacemaker are not. Even though
it's a direct spinoff of the suicide squad if we start including shows this is a four-hour video and
greg will be very upset that being said if you want to see any other lists or rankings leave a comment
below let me know what your rankings of this video are i'm curious what your 15 is of these dc films
how you would rank them and you want to see me making anything else you want to see some fancast
you want to see uh some breakdowns of my favorite fights my favorite costumes my favorite villains
whatever it is you want to see let me know in the comments below and please do follow me on
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We got three minutes. We got all sorts of links of comic book goodness over at Coy Johnro.
But in the meantime, I'm scared because the DC fans are lovely but passionate. Let's get into it.
Kicking it off with Suicide Squad. Now, I am a huge David Ayer fan and that actually might be part of what makes this so low on the list is I had really high expectations.
They did an incredible job painting a picture of a movie they didn't actually make, and that's not David Ayer's fault.
He made a movie, and then another director made a giant movie called Gardens the Galaxy,
and then the studio decided they wanted something more akin to that, so cut a trailer to make you feel like you got that movie,
and then it went through all sorts of rewrites and retoolings and all these things.
To make it a movie, frankly, it wasn't, and it feels like it, and that's an issue.
Yes, I would love to see the Ayer cut one day.
Yes, I would love to see what David Ayer would do with a suicide squad, and yes, I do see the irony that then,
years later the Suicide Squad with the original director of Guardians the Galaxy did in fact make
a movie I love very much but for this cut of this movie I think the movie that suffered the most from
studio interference and a lot of cooks in the kitchen is suicide squad so something had to be the
lowest it's going to be Suicide Squad coming in at number 14 is Batman versus Superman
Dawn of Justice the theatrical cut this movie in itself I have talked about at length with
passion and hope in the worst comic book movie list on this very channel it's just
my opinion, it is one of the ones that I think I suffered most through. And even the title,
it's Batman v. Superman. That's law. Is Batman suing Superman? I don't understand some of the
fundamentals of this movie. And it didn't help that it got truncated down to a two-hour
experience when the other cut is much more fleshed out. It's a different experience. This cut
of the movie made me feel like it disrespected Superman and not understanding the character as I've
always read him. Again, this is my personal opinion. That's why it's my opinionless. And
Batman didn't feel like Batman to me as much as been after.
like is perfect I think Ben Affleck as Batman is one of the greatest casting choices of all time
I think Henry Caval to Superman is one of the greatest casting choices of all time so it pains me
When they're under the direction of someone as talented as Zach Snyder that so much can go wrong and that's all I feel like this is
I love all of the pieces of this puzzle the puzzle just did not work for me and I feel like it tried to do way too much
This was just BVS great if it was just doomsday great but it tries to be a junior justice league movie in two hours
It's not for me coming in at number 13 is justice league a k a justice league
This is the Joss Whedon cut of Justice League.
I didn't even realize when assembling this list
that there are so many cuts that I have to like explain
on the journey into the movie,
which version we're discussing.
But the Joss Whedon cut of Justice League
did have a couple scenes that I did feel
were very authentic to the character.
It did a lot wrong.
That is why it's so low.
I'm not defending this movie,
but I do find there's certain flash scenes
and there's certain moments that did sing for the characters
and there's certain back-and-forth dialogue
that worked but man that's the best thing I can find this movie was very rushed this movie
didn't make a lot of sense there were moments that happened seemingly out of nowhere there were
things that just occurred and none of it felt like it was rewarding or had weight behind it
it just felt like I was watching a cartoon in a bad way ironically some of the best ever
adaptations from DC are cartoons and this one felt like a bad cartoon and let's not even get
started on the CGI of the mustache and the journey from page to screen this one just
inherently felt flawed
and I couldn't stop thinking that when
watching it. Number 13. All right, we're going to
get a little bit into the weeds here
with Wonder Woman 84 because I don't know
what this movie might have been without COVID.
I always try to give a little asterisk
but overall this was one of the biggest
disappointments for me from first movie
to sequel, maybe ever. We live in an age
where sequels are actually good. People don't
talk about like, oh, it's a sequel and have
that certain tone of
ooh, I'm worried like you did in the 80s, 70s
even some of the 90s. Sequels weren't good.
This felt like that, where they just tried to go bigger, they just tried to go bolder,
they just tried to go more brazen, but without the heart.
The thing that made Wonder Woman so special is that Patty Jenkins and Galgadotte felt like
they understood what was so important about Wonder Woman.
This one, I feel like it was very shiny, and I feel like a lot of the things that sang
didn't sing as well here.
I love the Chris Pine Galgadot dynamic.
They made it a very, very weird subplot that did not feel comfortable throughout the film.
The villain somehow didn't work, and that's one of the best casting choices you could have
gotten for that 80s Tony Robbins big flavor and also the logic of the movie I still don't know
why it was set then I still don't feel connected to the story and then the third act just felt like a
mess I like what it tried to do but I don't think it did it and it's one of my bigger disappointments
of comic book movies all right things are getting better we got Batman versus Superman ultimate
edition this is that girthy three hour cut this is the experience this movie had a lot right
this movie added some to Lex Luthor that made it feel a bit more like Lex Luthor to me
this added some elements that fleshed out Batman and Superman enough that it felt more warranted
that they had some animosity i still maintain that there are things that work in the comics that do
not work in movies when you read a comic book your imagination is doing 90% of the work when you read
a comic book a character in 2d fighting another character in 2d that are both drawings and visual
representations of deities you can believe more fully that a human being that has billions of dollars
could fight a god alien a little more plausibly because of the media and yes just because it happened
in the comic doesn't mean it should necessarily happen in the movie world because that's a director
giving you his vision in a world that's 3d that feels more tangible your brain when you watch a movie goes
hey that could happen i'm living as someone in this world that's different than a comic and i think
that's the biggest flaw from the entire concept of batman versus superman i like it as an idea i like it
as a comic i don't necessarily like it as a movie because when i see batman being like i don't
like this and fighting a god i don't buy it he's one of the smartest men in the world he's the
world's greatest detective he wouldn't throw a punch at an alien that can smear him across the planet
in two seconds that fundamental does make it hard for me like this movie but i did enjoy it for what
it was and i'm very glad the ultimate edition exists still not one of my favorite movies but a vast
improvement over the original cut all right it's time to talk about bongo squids i enjoyed moments of
aquaman because there were so many moments that felt like burning man there were so many moments
that felt otherworldly there were so many moments that immersed me much the way avatar
did but then there were other moments. This movie is a very interesting like 50-50 experience where
overall I walked out with like a nice solid B feeling. I really enjoyed the overall, but when I
think of my experience in the movie, there are large gaps of interest. That said, there are
great performances in here. I really think that some of the best acting from villains happens in
here. For example, Patrick Wilson somehow makes that character work while wearing that throughout.
Throughout the movie, I wasn't bothered by Jason Mamoa's take on Akaban, which feels very
counter to my belief in what aquaman is you'll notice a lot of my reviews deal with how i believe
these characters and archetypally presented this to me isn't the aquaman archetype but the conviction was
there the world they built around jason momo's aquaman was there and the belief in the villain
and the and the very maniacal mustache thrilling subplot all really worked so the reason it's so low is
the gaps in moments of believeability and the moments weren't dragged but there's a reason
it made a billion dollars this movie's bananas i like that they let it get full weird i really hope
the sequel is just as Octopus Drum Heavy.
Did you sign the petition to replace Amber Heard?
I will sign the petition to not comment.
All right, now we're into the Goodens, the ones I really enjoy, the ones I rewatch, the ones I
experienced as a comic book fan, and really love that they exist.
And that is going to be one of my favorite movies of the year it came out, and one of the
movies that surprised me most, frankly, the Snyder Cut of Justice League isn't quite a
movie and it was actually tricky i knew i had to include it on here because that's what all the
comments would be but this is a four-hour experience this is almost a show this is something i would
love to see in theaters because this is the runtime of many seasons of television that i enjoy
and it's the first thing the very first thing that made me feel like zach Snyder's view
of superheroes was possible i did feel that sense of marvel underdogs they're with us on our
level they're fighting alongside us up at gods dc they're gods looking down they're trying to
to figure out how to live alongside us they're these deities there are these experiences that we're
reacting and responding to those are two very different tones and sometimes the comics do reflect
those it's not as black and white as that but this felt like that this felt like the world i
always saw zach Snyder encountering of these characters and when it's so so passionate
and when it's full of so much conviction and when it believes itself so much i believe it regardless
of my view of these characters because i'm watching someone else's belief in these characters
that is so strong i'm in that was this movie i believed every moment i had conviction i was enamored and it's
what i wanted from the beginning of man of steel to see in his world and i think it delivered i'm ever so
impressed with the snider cut and here we are at the reason for this list and the movie that really
impressed me we're at black adam now black adam does something that i've seen many many comic book
movies attempt to do and that's deal with an anti-hero but when you've got an anti-hero in a movie
You usually have a character that's just like, I'm grumpy, or I believe that you should hit them harder.
You don't often get a true anti-hero.
Sometimes you get something like the Punisher, but that takes a show.
The reason that John Bernthal's Punisher feels so believable is you've got time to immerse yourself in his belief system.
That's really hard to do in two hours.
What I was most impressed by in Black Adam is that I felt equally for the Justice Society of America,
who I just met, and I always say it's hard to establish a team in one movie,
and Black Adam himself, which is the most charismatic man in entertainment, The Rock.
It is hard to believe anyone going up against the Rock.
There's a reason he's always the lead is like, yeah, I'm rooting for the Rock.
I was rooting for both sides of this very tricky conversation.
In a world where there are superheroes and gods, what do you do when you keep having villains get back up?
Do you kill? Is killing acceptable for the greater good?
I loved this take on anti-heroes.
I loved how much it trusted the audience.
I loved that I was immediately invested in Hawkman and Dr. Fate.
I love that throughout the movie, I was wondering where I aligned on the side of anti-heroes.
And I love this new Stoic take from The Rock.
I thought The Rock really delivered a different version of The Rock.
Everyone critiques his like, oh, he's The Rock in every movie.
This wasn't that performance.
And it felt like Black Adam.
This is a man that was dedicated to a role for 15 years, and it showed.
And to me, this movie not only did the Black Adam story justice, it did anti-heroes justice.
And I'm very excited for where the hierarchy of power goes next.
Are you ready for the comments?
Are you ready, Greg?
Are you ready?
Wow.
That's just for you.
That's for the SEO.
The comments to drive this kind of trending.
And what do I like even more than Black Adam?
The original Man of Steel, a movie I have wanted a sequel to for the better part of, what is it, 15 years now?
This one is very tricky for me because I have always seen and enjoyed Superman as a Boy Scout.
I have always appreciated that much like Captain America, when done right, I feel for a character that should be boring.
I don't necessarily think on paper these characters work, but when translated, they sing.
I love Henry Cavill's take on Superman.
I don't necessarily love how it's utilized throughout this film.
It works a lot of the time, but not all the time.
The reason it's not higher is there are moments where I'm like, that doesn't feel like Superman to me,
even though I believe in Henry Cavill's Superman.
I don't love the death of Jonathan Kent.
I don't love, and this might be me retroactively plugging it in, the Martha stuff to come later,
because of the interaction with Batman.
I know I said the curse word of the DC film universe,
but the stuff that comes later does feel like it kind of undermines my experience
with what this was building to.
This movie itself, excellent, taught action thriller,
a genius way to make us feel like gods walk amongst us,
some of the most beautiful visuals in comic book film.
But if I don't always feel like it's authentic to the character,
even for a few scenes,
that does put it lower than the top five.
I love Man of Steel,
but it can't be as high as some of the other ones I feel like
stay true to what i believe these characters are and in addition to it being a great
taut thriller the action establishes a world where you do believe a man is faster than a speeding
bullet more powerful than a locomotive it does establish a greater dc films universe and there's a reason
zach Snyder became the architect for so much to come starting with these movies it is one of
the most visually stunning experiences in superherodom all right this is where i imagine things are
going to start to get spicy i'm going to go with a movie that really really wrecked me in theaters
I had a very interesting experience with this film
where I finished it and was like,
that's a dangerous movie.
I don't think that often.
I think this is a movie that emboldens a lot of the wrong people.
I think this is a movie that will be misinterpreted
by the wrong people.
I think much like my favorite movie of all time,
it has the worst inherent PR,
and that is the Joker.
My favorite movie of all time is Fight Club.
I think a lot of people don't realize Tyler Durdens, the antagonist.
I think a lot of people don't realize
that it was written by a very frustrated gay man
about toxic masculinity.
I think a lot of people that use the word snowflake don't realize it came from Fight Club to make fun of the people that now wield it.
I think the Joker is the same.
I think this is a movie that is a deep satire that when activating the wrong people that see the Joker as their hero are going to be misled.
I think this movie absolutely nailed what it's like to feel trapped in a system.
I think this movie absolutely nailed what it's like to feel alone and put out and left to rot and to be a removed from society.
think this movie did some of the best elseworld work I've ever seen.
This isn't the Joker of the Batman lore.
Bruce Wayne's a child.
This isn't the Joker that does what he does in the animated series or even the other
movies.
This is an else world where we've got a stand-up comedian take on the Joker that is just
broken and rotten through and through.
And the reason I love this movie so much is that I felt for him and that scared the
fuck out of me.
I felt for every choice he made.
I felt for every decision he did.
and that worried me about how far we can slip and how easily.
I think this movie has some flaws in its exposition.
I think this movie has some flaws in how it's a little heavy-handed.
But I think overall, it's fucking magic.
That this movie can be made and you could take these bold chances
and everything that it delivered,
I really, really think The Joker is a very special experience.
All right, we're into the top five
and the movie that's going to get me the most crap on this whole list
because I love it so, so, so very much,
a movie with incredible action as stunt directed by the team behind John Wick,
a movie that establishes an entire team in one movie that makes you believe,
hey, you can do team movies in one go.
A movie with one of the most visually appealing Gothams I have ever seen that somehow
matches the Nolan realism with the insanity of a Joel Schumacher circus, Gotham,
it somehow blends those two and makes this stunning bit of art,
a movie that is colorful like a comic book, that is shot like a comic book,
that is big as a comic book, a movie with maybe my favorite D.E.
villain who is a complete
reinterpretation from the comic who is able
to be both malicious and hilarious
in Gotham the villains are
terrifying but you're also charmed by
them this is the most I've seen that
and it's Ewan McGregor having the best time of his life
as Black Mask in addition to five
incredible heroines in
Harley Quinn and the emancipation
of Birds of Prey. I don't remember the title that's not a
good sign of the top five what's the title of this movie
Craig?
First of Awards Birds of Prey
and the fabulous
emancipation of Harley Quinn. Number five
is the Birds Afraid, the fantabulous emancipation of one Harley Quinn.
I think Margo Robbie really, truly loves this character,
and I think it shows whether it's that incredible sandwich scene
or the fights with the hammer later on,
or it's the circus madness you get in the third act.
I also think Mary Elizabeth Winstead is one of the most slept-on performances
in this movie, and that's a spinoff I would want.
And we're getting that Black Canary spinoff with Journey Smolett.
Hopefully, I hope it still happens.
There are so many pieces to this that have to nail it to add up to the great
tapestry that is this movie this is like starting with a justice league movie at the jump this is a
team movie with the lead we already love and she doesn't feel outshined and they don't feel
outshined and the villain again one of the best villains i think in dc doesn't outshine anyone
that is so impressive i think this movie is one of the most comic accurate in its sensibilities
in that it's a blast and it's colorful but it lets itself be brutal and it's also a great commentary
on real life you get so many moments of emotional impact while you have this
incredible cacophony of sight and sound i love birds of prey this movie is not appreciated enough all right
we're up to the suicide squad james gun take on the suicide squad is a masterpiece this movie from start
to finish does not let off the gas this movie is full tilt insanity this is what you can do with an r-rated
movie this is going to be a take that will get all the the stupid rivalry that doesn't exist there is no
marvel versus dc rivalry except what you make it jeff johns and kevin fogie your friends but this statement i
standby, but I don't mean for it to cause fighting. I'm just saying it. This is what I want from
letting directors do their thing within the universe, but still untethered, that I think they
were doing with phase four that didn't land as well. I think this is exactly what you need to do
in having a greater universe, but also letting a director make their movie. I think a big problem
I have multiverse of madness was it didn't feel like it was in the MCU as much fun as it was
a Sam Ramey movie. I think a big problem I had with Love and Thunders, that it felt like a
Tyka movie, but didn't feel like it knew the characters that it was playing with anymore.
This does both.
This is able to balance the greater DC universe.
This is able to make all the characters interesting and important, and it's able to
let James Gunn make effectively a $200 million troma film.
This movie is balls to the wall crazy, and it launched Peacemaker, which, by the way,
would land right in front of this as far as if we were including shows.
It is so special, so unique.
The fact that you feel for Pocodot Man, a character that shouldn't even get the time
a day. The fact that they let David Dostmaltian play with that amount of
emotionality and pause in those scenes. The fact that Harley Quinn got that incredible stunt
sequence, that that crazy walk and talk but with violence, the fact that we are so
invested in two sides of the same violent vigilante coin with Idriselba and John Sina.
And that's just off the top of my head, a few of the characters. This whole experience is
so, rat catcher. You care about a character called rat catcher. You love a character
called rat catcher this is why we love comic books because you feel for characters that feel like
outsiders that feel impossible and yet you feel with and for them james gunn gets outsiders maybe more than
anyone and he makes you feel for king shark just as much as he made you feel for rocket raccoon he
he has you for two hours and it's bananas and it surprised you at every turn i i love what this movie
accomplished it's so much fun number three and this one is a tricky dance with what i just did with number
I was really debating between the suicide squad and Wonder Woman, but I think what Wonder Woman had to do was harder.
And that is really interesting to say because all the characters in the suicide squad aren't beloved.
And that is the strength of the freedom.
But Wonder Woman is beloved, and she hasn't had the big spectacle release.
There's a reason they canceled so many Wonder Woman properties.
There's a reason you have to hit the tone just right.
I think this did the impossible, and it nailed the tone I wanted Superman to.
It nailed what this character means in and out of universe.
You look at Wonder Woman and you feel presence.
You feel this sense of wonder.
You feel this incredible aura of what it is to be from Themiscaro,
what it is to look up to Wonder Woman.
Her choreography is top-notch.
I love the, they made a new fighting style,
the sliding around,
the using the Z-axis, the choreography with the bands.
The scene of No Man's Land is amongst the greatest scenes in comic book movies.
and then the scene of the two of them on the ship
with Chris Pine and Galganot
just talking about the rules of the world.
They're basically giving you exposition,
but it's so charming and so endearing
that you fall in love with both of them.
So it's able to do the rom-com thing,
the action thing, and be an origin movie.
It is so special.
I feel like with time,
people have kind of forgotten
what it was like to first see this,
and the junkie XL score.
The sound of Wonder Woman is so powerful.
I love her theme.
This movie was so great.
I do completely own the,
third act falls apart. I love it thematically, but visually, it did not work for me. The video
game, third act did not sing, but I love thematically what it represented. And that's enough for
me to just slightly edge out the suicide squad. Depending on my mood, this might be number four,
that might be number three, but especially because of the third act. But the second act with
no man's land, the first act with the boat scene of them talking, the world building and everything
else far outweighs my dislike for that third act. And the fact that I felt so much for everyone
so immediately. I think Wonder Woman is what I want to show my children. Like, it's a movie that I want
to impart wonder with. And number two, now this one's personal. Every time there's a movie that
addresses adoption or foster children or those things, it's usually done like maliciously.
Like, you don't think of foster houses as, you know, a positive thing. And I'm not a foster
child, but I know a lot of people that came up through the system. I have a lot of friends that have
been hard in their luck and out in the street. And it is really, really special to see.
see a superhero movie, see the world of taking people in his family this directly.
Almost every superhero movie has something to do with family, much like the Fast and
and Furious films.
And this one deals with a different kind of family and grows it out and you feel every beat
of this.
This movie felt like the best of Amblin to me.
It had that 80s warmth with that almost too dark action to be not rated R with the sense
of fear of like the Goonies and Gremlins, like that amazing 80s feeling in a superhero
film and then you add the charm of what Zach Levi is able to do as a giant man-child because
Zach Levi is like the king of Comic-Con he's been one of us for so long and you feel that in
every frame then you've got the incredible performances by Asher angel with his mom
Jack Dylan Grazer being one of the best sidekicks I've ever seen the playfulness the sarcastic
the sense of boyhood smarm that we all went through if you you know were a boyhood smarmie boy
like I was there's so much right in this movie and then Mark strong is the villain I love the
end where the family literally levels up and becomes your family after you've fallen in love
with all of them. I love the casting choices. I love the unknowns. I didn't know these foster
parents and I love them so dearly. I thought the action was top notch. I love that it said at
Christmas, I think when I read a comic as a trade, like a whole arc, if I can finish it and
get the same sense of warmth and wonder and moral compass and feeling connected to the world
that I get from Shazam, that is one of my top comics. So that this movie, which I did not have a lot
of expectations for came out and bold me over. I think it really established itself as a hard
thing to top. I wasn't looking forward to Shazam. And then it became my number two DC film.
It's, it's, I would change nothing. It's pitch perfect. Number one's the Batman. No, number one is
the Batman because it is the David Fincher comic book movie I always dreamed of. I am a huge
fan of Matt Reeves. I think everything he's done is a marked change in that climate in filmmaking.
to me is my favorite director. He's someone that literally, when he makes a movie, I'm there
night one, I study it, I experience it, I can't wait to read what people analyze from it.
Matt Reeves, to me, made a love letter to David Fincher with my favorite DC character.
He made the Batman I've always wanted. He made him street level. He made him a detective.
He made him give a shit. He made him someone that felt modern, but timeless. This is a character
that can be so many different things. I love that we've had Michael Keaton's Batman. I love
that we've had Chris Nolan's Christian Bale Batman that felt so completely different.
I love that simultaneously to Robert Pattinson's Batman, we had Ben Affleck running around.
Ben Affleck is the Frank Miller bruiser of a Batman.
Robert Pattinson is the kid just coming up.
He's here too.
He's Scott Snyder's Batman from the comic books.
He's someone figuring it out that is so invested that he's lost in it.
I love how lost he is in this.
The Nirvana play is genius.
The leaning into the slight emo sensibilities.
This is a dude that identifies with bats that lives in a cave whose only friends is a butler.
Like, these are recluse.
I love that they committed to all of that.
To me, the commentary on what Gotham would be now is fascinating.
If you look at Chris Nolan's Batman, which is, to me, the standard.
The thing I didn't love was that Gotham felt like it was very established in the first one.
And by the time we got to the third one, it was an actual character.
I didn't feel like I could visit Gotham.
I feel like I could visit Gotham in this world.
I feel like it's places in America right now.
And I feel like the crime that's happening in it could happen right now.
And I feel like the injustices people felt that turned villains, the entire codification.
of riddlers those people feel the injustices of the world today that felt like a documentary of what
we deal with online that felt like a documentary of people that feel like they've been pushed out so
while shazam welcomed people in and made you feel like a family everyone including the riddler himself
felt like they got pushed out and what do you do when society kicks you out things like the
joker that movie things like the batman with the ridler all of those things this is basically
two sides of the same coin one person felt like he was outside of society but had the money to
choices. The other person felt like it was out to the society and didn't have anything else he could do
except destroy it. I love that duality. I love that this felt tangible. I love the fucking chase scene
with the penguin. Colin Farrell is the penguin. Jeffrey Wright is Commissioner Gordon. The
first time I ever believed, Commissioner Gordon Batman relationship to that level, everything about
this movie and then leaning back, watching it and letting it wash over you. I watched this three times
in theaters the first week came out because I loved living in it. I love this fucking movie.
it's a detective gordon
not commissioner oh that's why i believed it because i don't believe commissioner i believe detective gordon
batman's related that that's accurate that's accurate i cannot wait to watch the batman again
so that is my list those are the 15 dc films we've had since the man of steel
effective reboot of whatever you want to call it the dc e u the dc films all in honor of black
adam which is now playing which i enjoyed the f***t of i really really really really am curious
how this list goes over because one of the coolest things about the DC film universe is that
it is so varied. Birds of Prey feels very different from the Snyder cut and the Joker feels very
different from Shazam. That means there are so many different people that identify with different
corners of it. But that doesn't mean anyone's wrong. My list is going to be different than your
list because I've lived 34 different years than you have. Please, in the comments, let me know
what your experience of these films were. Let me know what you identified with these characters.
Let me know what you enjoyed. Let me know what your 15 is. And let me know in the comments what else you'd
want to see you want to see me rankin villains do you want to see my 26 through 50 uh uh Greg's loving that
head shake I'm getting out of them you want to see maybe favorite fight scenes let me know any
ideas you guys have I will see you all very very soon let me know you want to see next
so much love rejection we'll see you soon no love for the back girl movie huh well you know
having not seen it