The Greatest Knight by Elizabeth Chadwick

With Richard Donner’s “Superman,” the technology was so nascent that the tagline was “You will believe a man can fly.” Because the visual effects were so groundbreaking. The movie is somewhat underrated it borrows the structure from 1970s disaster films and doesn’t shy away from heart-wrenching moments.Īs DC consolidates itself under the leadership of DC Studios chiefs James Gunn and Peter Safran, it’s time to look back at an earlier era, when comic books were seldom – if ever – adapted.

Obviously, the big draw is the movie itself, which hasn’t sounded or looked this good since 1998. The first disc of the collection features the film with a brand-new transfer the second disc is a Blu-ray copy of the movie and all the extras from the home video release in 2009 (including commentary, featurettes and promotional materials). (The rivalry is well documented in Peter Bart’s “The Gross,” about the summer of 1998 box office bloodbath.) If the war is still ongoing, “Deep Impact” just scored a major victory – “Armageddon” might be a tenuous part of the Criterion Collection, but “Deep Impact” is hitting 4K first. In 1998 two expensive, heavily hyped death-from-above movies were released into theaters – DreamWorks and Paramount’s more somber “Deep Impact” and Disney’s more cartoonish, Michael Bay-directed rollercoaster ride “Armageddon.” When the dust settled “Armageddon” made more money (although was still considered something of a disappointment), while “Deep Impact” was more critically acclaimed.

The Greatest Knight by Elizabeth Chadwick