Ranking the Superman Films

Superman has never been a superhero that I was drawn to due to all the obvious reasons about him being too difficult to kill, etc. As I get older, I do find him more fascinating at the very least as a pop culture artifact. And that brings us to this column.

For the purposes of this column, I decided to only count the Superman solo projects. Thus, Man of Steel is the only Snyderverse film being included for an example.

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The Snyder Cut: Revisited – Epilogue: A Father Twice Over (and Final Thoughts)

The Snyder Cut comes to a close with a LOT of teases of things that would never come to be…

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The Snyder Cut: Revisited – Part 5: All The Kings Horses

The newly formed Justice League enact their long-shot plan to resurrect Superman, but things don’t go quite as they hoped, and Cyborg is plagued with warnings of the future.

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The Snyder Cut: Revisited – Part 4: Change Machine

The Justice League finally unite to rescue the STAR Labs hostages from Steppenwolf, but decide they’re one member short…

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The Snyder Cut: Revisited – Part 3: Beloved Mother, Beloved Son

Batman and Wonder Woman go on another recruitment drive, seeking out The Flash and Cyborg, while Aquaman finally heeds the call to action from Atlantis.

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The Snyder Cut: Revisited – Part 2: The Age of Heroes

Aquaman is courted yet again to take up arms against an invasion, while Diana learns more about The Mother Boxes, Steppenwolf, and his master, Darkseid.

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The Snyder Cut: Revisited – Part 1: “Don’t Count On It, Batman”

In the wake of Superman’s death, Batman tries to put together a team to defend against an impending alien invasion, unaware it has already arrived.

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The Superhero Pantheon: Zack Snyder’s Justice League

Jerome swore they would never discuss this movie in full, but with the end of the Superhero Pantheon in sight, consider this a gift to Brian.

Can this movie overcome all odds and make it into the Pantheon? Has Jerome joined the Snyderverse?

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Ranking the Batman Films (Again, but better this time!)

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Matt Waters and Mike Thomas ranked the Batman films back in 2017. Five years later we are doing it again but bringing Jerome Cusson and Ben Phillips along for the ride this time.

We also laid some new ground rules. 1.) The film had to receive a wide theatrical release. 2.) Justice League and Suicide Squad movies do not count, but v. Superman does.

Again, here are the voters.

Matt Waters
Jerome Cusson
Ben Phillips
Mike Thomas

12) Batman & Robin

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The Tape Crusaders – Episode #18: Zack Snyder’s Justice League

After 3 long years, The Snyder Cut has been unleashed, which means it’s time to dust off The Tape Crusaders so Mike & Matt can talk Batman (but mostly everyone else). Featuring two references to Lost, some heavy shade towards award-winning writers and a full reading of the Anti-Life Equation.

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