Hello America and the World! We almost never do quick little update posts like this but I wanted to get ahead of some controversy. We keep extremely up to date Rankings of various clusters of movies, if you haven't checked it out, go for it!
But we have some curveballs, mostly with the new Superman (2025) movie that just came out. I thought really hard about whether I wanted to start a new DCU category in addition to our DCEU that has Aquaman and SHAZAM, and all that. That wouldn't quite be fair, because then I should slot like, Nic Cage's Ghost Rider (2007) in with Marvel, right?
Ultimately I decided to create a DCEU / DCU category. It is useful to compare current efforts with previous efforts (which is ultimately the larger point), and it also keeps things much less befuddled. I have previously had broad categories like Batman, which involves Burton, Schumacher, Nolan, and Reeves films and Spider-Man, which involves Raimi, Webb, and Spider-verse films, so I think I'm in safe territory.
So the big question now is, do I throw in those early 2000s SONY efforts into the MCU category? I don't think so, mostly because they just feel so different and aren't really connected in a major way. Nor do I really have a desire to throw in standalone efforts like Green Lantern (2011) or Jonah Hex (2010) in the DC category. These things just seem like one-off attempts that aren't fair to mix in. BUT maybe they do deserve their own category. Not Green Lantern. It's bad, let's leave it at that.
I'm also keeping all the Kanye albums. There are just a few artists where I've legitimately listened to all of their work, and that's basically Beatles, Zeppelin, and Kanye. I know he is currently controversial, and he largely wasn't when I was a big fan. Well, okay, he was controversial but just because he's an asshole, not a Nazi. I don't want to erase that history but I do want to acknowledge that people change, tastes change, but I don't think we get to pretend that I haven't listened to every Kanye album. In many ways I'M the real victim! Really though, I just want you to know that I know there are some problems there.
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