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Worst Secret Superhero Club Ever

The 1997 Justice League TV movie is like a tutorial on how not to do superheroes on film, from the stiff, I-can't-move costumes to the incredibly cheesy dialogue and acting. (Although I think the little documentary-interview segments are a neat idea, just horribly executed.) Here's the scene where our point-of-view character Tori Olafsdotter meets the rest of the League, who are based on the mid-1990s comics lineup of characters you've never heard of except Flash and Green Lantern. No matter how awful George Miller's abortive Justice League: Mortal might have been, it would have looked great compared to this disaster. More »

5:30 PM on Wed Apr 30 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
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Latest by WizarDru: @bobarobes: The genre has been viable since the 1970s. The problem has always been that the films usually required a budget for special effects and were largely seen as juvenile source material. Which generally speaking is true. Donner's Superman more »

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New Justice League Flick Puts Green Lantern in the Korean War

The award-winning retro-futurist graphic novel DC: The New Frontier will become a stylish movie, judging from this newly released trailer. This direct-to-DVD animated film, based on the Darwyn Cooke graphic novel, follows Green Lantern (voiced by David "Angel" Boreanaz) from the Korean War to the Kennedy administration. It's also part of a trend toward putting DC Comics characters back in the bygone eras that spawned them. More comic book journeys into U.S. history after the jump. More »

10:00 AM on Mon Dec 24 2007
By Kevin Kelly
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Justice League Movie Could Be Way Too Comic Book-y

The Justice League movie will be ultra faithful to the comic book, reports the newest Entertainment Weekly. If anything, the new ensemble flick sounds like it may fall into the common trap of trying to shoehorn too many elements from the comics into one film. More »

3:23 PM on Sat Oct 6 2007
By charliejane
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