Super Tuesday, Episode II
Hi, Folks:
Well, in a bid to watch all superhero movies ever made, the time had come for some super research. Just how many superhero movies had been rolled out, after all? Well, I went to the Internet Movie Database, and I was flooded with more than 7,000 entries! OK, as it turns out, many of these were video games, renamed foreign versions, ‘making of’ shows, cartoon episodes, and every other thing you can imagine. I tried to make a checklist from this information, but soon I called it quits. I’m still going to keep looking for a comprehensive list of live-action superhero movies, but for now I’m going to be less organized in my approach and just watch a bunch of movies.
Netflix ended up being much more helpful in finding all the superhero movies I’d missed, and tonight I loaded up my list with Ghost Rider, Catwoman, Zoom Academy, The Specials, V for Vendetta, SuperGuy: Behind the Cape, Hulk, The Hebrew Hammer, The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl, Elektra, The Punisher, The Superhero Movie, Darkman, Darkman II: The Return of Durant, and Spider-Man 3. I realize that some of what I’m going to watch doesn’t qualify as great cinema–We’re not talking Lawrence of Arabia meets the Godfather, are we? Still, my quest in spandexy cinema has begun.
As I get organized, I’ll start some sort of review system. That will make it all that much more respectable, won’t it?
Think of Me in the Dark Times Ahead–Scott.
