Terminator vs Rocky? What’s next for the versus movie? – The Guardian

FilmThe monstrous success of monster smackdown Godzilla vs Kong may bring back a subgenre of movies that pit one famous character against another
Like you, I was convinced that the versus movie genre died five years ago. What began as a silly, self-aware method of getting bums on seats had hardened into the unforgivable grimdark pomposity of Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice. Any rational human being would see a film like BvS as a larky bit of inconsequential fun. And yet there it was; three hours…

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