People have been complaining, and rightly so, about Warner adding Batman to the upcoming and most likely terrible sequel to Man of Steel. Yes, it seems like they are trying to lead up to a Justice League movie too quickly, doing in two movies what took Marvel five. Yes, Batman being rebooted again not even two years after his last movie is as creatively bankrupt as creative Lehman Brothers, regardless of whether Bennifer Batfleck has the chops to play the role (he couldn’t be worse than Clooney, right? RIGHT?).

I dispute none of this. But my question is this: in an era of creative bankruptcy and a Hollywood studio system that seems more anxious to make explosions that play well in Guangzhou than anything worth watching, why is it that the tag-team brands that are revived are always the most stale and predictable ones?

I guess what I’m saying is: Hollywood, Robocop vs. Terminator has been a thing since 1992. The last Terminator failed. The godawful Robocop remake failed. What’s it going to take to get Original Robocop pitted against Original Terminator? Peter Weller and Arnold Schwarzenegger are game and the fans would lap it up.

Do that, Hollywood, and we’ll give you a pass for Zack Snyder Presents: Half-Assed Justice League. Maybe.

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