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Cape Fear (1962)

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PENNYWISE from IT (2017)

He’s just a silly little guy.

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It (2017) Andy Muschietti

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The Stephen King Conundrum

Lately I have read The Life of Chuck, a novella by Stephen King which is in a novella collection called If It Bleeds and am now halfway through a short story collection called You Like it Darker. I do not know what has been up with Stephen king for the last twenty years and his aversion to writing anything horror. All I seem to read now are nothing stories or crime stories with characters without characters and writing that is just sanitized of everything "controversial."

I honestly want to go back to writing my essay on IT and rereading Pet Sematary. Or reading Any other author. It just feels like a complete waste of my time.

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JAWS (1975) dir. Steven Spielberg

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Creepshow (1982) “Father’s Day” Directed by George A. Romero

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When you're a kid, you think that you'll always be... protected, and cared for. Then, one day, you realize that's not true. If you open your eyes, you will see what we're going through. 'Cause when you're alone as a kid, the monsters see you as weaker. You don't even know they're getting closer. Until it's too late.

It (2017) - dir. Andy Muschietti

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Mads Mikkelsen and Willem Dafoe in At Eternity's Gate (2018)

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ANNABELLE: CREATION 2017, dir. david f. sandberg

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Time has a pattern that it can’t help reliving. Different people, different worlds, drawn to each other like magnets.

THE FLASH 2023 | dir. Andy Muschietti

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Batman Returns dir. Tim Burton | 1992

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Merry Christmas, Alfred. Good will toward men… and women.

Batman Returns (1992) dir. Tim Burton

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EYES WIDE SHUT (1999) dir. Stanley Kubrick

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Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

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My Thoughts: Batman(1989)

This was the movie that would start the popularization of non stop superhero movies, but not really at the same time. In the late eighties, The Superman franchise was all but dead and then this came out. I was going to say this is the most popular superhero movie, but maybe it isn't, but this is, for a superhero movie, a perfect mix of seriousness mixed with not taking itself too seriously, which I honestly can't say about superhero movies anymore. They are just a joke that keeps getting told over and over and over now. I think most people but fanatics are tired of them.

This was being made off of a giant hiatus of the Batman tv series, and people wanted to see something more serious. Warner Bros. gave Tim Burton the director's chair and well, the rest is history. I think a big complaint of many is the repeated over the top final fights that always happen in superhero movies, and the thing that I noticed was the final showdown was extremely lowkey compared to endings now.

My plan is to watch Batman Returns next, and then The Flash to close up the Michael Keaton Batman story then watch one of every acter who has played Batman since Michael Keaton.

To be honest, the death of Val Kilmer did bring this on. And Batman Forever and Batman Begins will be the most painful to watch, but I do have a soft spot for distaste when it comes to Batman movies when it comes to Batman movies when it comes to The Batman. I'll leave my thoughts for that later though.