[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The story that Justice League gives us is a hodgepodge of all the superhero films, the fantasy epics, the space operas and the children’s cartoons you’ve seen and immediately forgotten.I've been watching a bunch of movies lately, and I have no idea why.
I watched Topper last night -- Cary Grant and Constance Bennett at their best. I watched Stagecoach, Conan, The African Queen, the original Ghostbusters, a bunch of Kurosawa -- Seven Samurai followed immediately by The (original) Magnificent Seven. I couldn't remember which Clint Eastwood movies were rewrites, so I stuck with Yojimbo and and Sanjuro without any western sequels. I've got much of all the Star Wars movies memorized from watching them with my grandson when he was on the kick, and I even watched Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, which is better than all but the first two of the Star Wars pics even if it does have Beyonce in it.
I know, it's more interesting to actually watch them than it is to recount them. But my point is that the movies themselves were pretty original in concept when they first came out. Topper was a very good read, and the movie naturally leaves out some of the funniest parts (like the Colonel and his wife and Otto the dog) but it flows beautifully and it's got its own unique set of laughs, some of which are actually subtle. Now we have a dreary and usually humorless series of superheroes tromping into mostly empty theaters at horribly inflated ticket prices in sequels and prequels and probably postquels and upquels and downquels and quels to all points of the compass, all of them across sets designed by Edgar Allen Poe.