we failed you, “Thunderbolts*”), we have seen the most sincere and earnest superhero movies in years come out in a short timespan. Though many fans would like to think DC and Marvel are polar opposites, more often than not, they reflect one another. At the very least, that’s the case with James Gunn’s “Superman” and the new, more hopeful, optimistic, and cosmic take on Marvel’s first family in “The Fantastic Four: First Steps.”
Though the two movies are very different — one kickstarts its cinematic universe, the other brings it closer to a supposed reset — they nevertheless have more in common than you’d think. They are both reboots of iconic superheroes — Superman and a reinvention of the Human Torch both being the very first superheroes of DC and Marvel — that are hugely important to the history of their respective comic book publishers, and each has gone through poorly received and unsuccessful movies in the past 20 years. But their time in the sun has come at last.
