It’s somewhat of an admission that this franchise is on its last gasp.” A spot-on review of Zack Snyder’s abysmal 2016 team-up between the two iconic superheroes? Nope, that was what the screenwriter David S. It’s like Frankenstein Meets Wolfman or Freddy vs. Superman is where you go when you admit to yourself that you’ve exhausted all possibilities. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) So, sorry, Hellboy, Road to Perdition, and A History of Violence: You’re excluded here.)ģ8. (By the way, we intentionally left off films made from imprints later purchased by DC Comics. Today, we rank the 40 DC Comics movies - including this week’s Shazam! Fury of the Gods. It’s quite a journey, and it remains to be seen what new DC heads James Gunn and Peter Safran will bring to the table - after all these years, the company still seems to be trying to carve out a direction. This makes them vary dramatically in quality, but it eliminates any sameness: The bad movies are truly bad, but the ceiling is raised as high as a Christopher Nolan, Richard Donner, or Patty Jenkins can take it. Also: Ryan Reynolds has some thoughts about his role in all of this.įor a long time, the DC Comics movies had no unifying thread, no Kevin Feige overseeing everything. Alan Moore had his own wing, and of course don’t forget about the animated films, Keanu Reeves, Jonah Hex and Shaq. We had multiple sets of Batman films, a Superman arc that, because of corporate maneuverings, totally fell apart at the end, and two Swamp Thing movies.

The DC Extended Universe, if that’s what we’ve all decided to call it, officially kicked off with 2013’s Man of Steel, but limiting the films made from DC Comics just to those (mostly uneven) films is to miss decades of history … decades with their own drama. It has been updated to include Shazam! Fury of the Gods. Photo: Emily Denniston/Vulture and photos courtesy of the studios

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