The difference between cinema of this type of yesterday and today is one very important person -- Quentin Tarantino. Observe--
Before Tarantino, movie studios were always quick to disregard comics because of the plausibility issues. Screenplays were, in Hollywood, always considered to be superior to comic books for that particular reason. Evidence of this is all over the original Superman and Batman movies. Superman III is the most glowing example of the way pre-Tarantino movie studios regarded comics because the stories are right there...but made with the aim of grounding it in as close to reality as possible. Unfortunately, with Superman III came the task of doing this with Mr. Mxyzptlk, Brainiac, and Bizarro -- probably the three hardest challenges to do this with. In order to bring Mr. Mxyzptlk to the screen, we have to do a few things Warner Brothers would cry over -- have a tiny man floating around in a bright ass orange and purple outfit dispensing spells that will make the whole thing feel like Labrinyth. An encounter with Braniac entails entire skyscrapers being eaten. And Bizarro would guarantee parent advocate groups because with the pin that says...
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