Off-brand superheroes thread.

"Scanners" plays out like a horror, but it uses comic book hero/villain origin tropes.

Yep!
And, it's in the same universe as "Super".
Crimson Bolt is in the mid-credits.

Oh, God...how could I forget Mystery Men?

I've never seen this one, but it's got a cult following. With Alan Arkin(!) as a caped superhero and Christopher Lee as the villain!

Check it out, it's pretty good.
The songs aren't as consistently good as say, Rocky Horror, or Little Shop, but it's worth it to see Arkin and Lee in a "Last Unicorn" rematch.

That's your brain trying to protect itself after a severe trauma.

Aw, c'mon. It was pretty entertaining.

You probably liked Battlefield Earth too, didn't you?

Battleship?

Do we need a "worst movies you've ever seen" thread?

Let's not say things we can't take back.

Okay, while that was a Michael Bay-level crapfest, it was actually kinda enjoyable. And Brooklyn Decker was the absolute hawtness.

The Mask!
There's one!

Ironically, "Son Of The Mask" can go in that one.

If we're naming bad superhero movies now, that could be a long list.

I'd start with Batman and Robin. In many ways, it's the worst not because it's so bad (though it is), but because it had so much to work with and manages to be bad.

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was a pretty big pile of flamin' dog poo. It's tragic that this was the finale of Sean Connery's live action film career.

Fantastic 4 (the recent one) is just a train wreck which is a shame because its first hour is pretty good.

Since I know they'll get named here, I'll just say that Green Lantern is a perfectly serviceable superhero movie, and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (particularly the Extended Edition) is (for me) a bona fide classic of the genre.

Also, I forgot...one of my absolute all-time favorite superhero films, and it's off-brand: Watchmen! I consider it the greatest off-brand superhero film, and it ranks higher than most of the brand-name ones.

It's DC though, even though it isn't the Superman universe.

Micro-Face returns to the comics.

More at the link.

Lucy to be a TV series. No, not that Lucy



This Lucy

Ugh, jesus. It was a trippy movie, but it leaned WAY too hard on the "using 100% of your brain" horse shit.

These days it's pretty obvious a good portion of humanity could use 100% of their brain and still be fucking idiots.

More Dredd 2 rumors.

https://cosmicbook.news/dredd-2-karl-urban-happening-shared-universe

^ Patient zero.

"Fast Color" is a better X-Men movie than either "Dark Phoenix" or "New Mutants" and on an indie budget to boot.
It's on Starz on-demand.

Now, it's apparently an off-brand show.

Hulu's Animated Hit-Monkey Is Returning, But It's No Longer a Marvel Show

Humble Bundle is offering a digital collection of 30+ 2000 AD (Judge Dredd, Slaine, and Dante) books for a cheap price.

Zorro series coming to Disney+.

Duncan Regehr needs to cameo as Zorro's dad or something.

Zorro could be inspired by having his parents murdered after a screening of Batman.

Amazon Studios Beefs Up Its Comic Book Bona Fides With Former Marvel Editor-in-Chief

Some times folks do this to act as a "mole" so they can merge with their former employer, or as a way to get access to IP or people. Other times, they do it so they can go all Don Bluth and out-Disney Disney at their new company. I can see this going either way.

I'll throw this one on the pile even though it's a villain instead of a hero.

Brain Damage (1988)

It's Venom before Venom.
With no PG-13 cut-aways from the brain eating.