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This short is a chick flick 20% of the time. I'm a nerd so I got into this movie. I got Kill Bill though. Some people just enjoyed Kill Bill on the surface as popcorn. I saw how it combined lots of shots and or characters and or costumes and or ideas from "Five Fingers of Death", "Game of Death", "Lady Snowblood", "Shikoku", "Kung Fu", "The Green Hornet", "The Searchers", "Once Upon the Time in the West", "The Good the Bad and the Ugly", "Swithblade Sisters" and even "Charlie Brown" plus much more. Bane v Superman: The Movie is similar to Kill Billl as it's a remix geared for the comprehensive geek's consumption.

Just a few examples include a shot of Cat Woman like in Batman Returns with the bat signal/ powerless Clark Kent walking through the snow like in Richard Donner's Superman II remastered director's cut/ "Earth Angel" song cue from Superman III --etc. This is the kind of extracted exactness that clued me in. Countless other specific actor moments and line lifts from the aforementioned movies equals crazy nerd appreciation."The father becomes the son" prophecy has never been more poignant and relevant as it is in this movie with the same actor playing the father and son.

Hypothetically, I speculate it's the next step in the Christopher Reeve time-line. Superman's connection with his father and the Fortress of Solitude is gone and no one knows what Superman knows- cause he kept spinning the world in reverse-. Zod is dead and allegedly so is Batman. Jack Nicholson's Joker is somehow alive so he's sort of the Dark Knight Joker, somehow? My theory is the plot plays like Superman V in abstract rendezvous with a time-line after the four early 80's/90's Batman movies combined and within the trilogy of the Dark Knight Rises. Bane is alive and looks like the Hardy version but he's just the muscle or the "soldier" type villain, like the archetypal "Nuclear Man" in the last Reeve movie.

Superman seems caught in a time loop after all that reversing the world on it's axis stuff. Clark Kent's leading man act has become solitary confinement and his tired time-traveler like perspective has left an isolated understanding of a time-line that the ladies in his life know little about. Which explains why the actress in this looks so young. Which actually reminds me Kate Bosworth being way too young as the five years later version of Lois Lane. The result of the same actress as Lana and Lois is that they look like identical twins- save for hair color- which is exactly the way they were drawn in the early comic books. Wonder-Woman and Superman seem to have a thing in the end, in keeping with the "new 52". Additionally, Superman fights floating like a butterfly like the late Ali when he stings Bane like a bee and this may just be a reference to the legendary "Superman vs Muhammad Ali" comic book.

Just my nerdy thoughts but it's fun to see some thought went into this fan made effort. Some people just saw Kill Bill as stupid fighting film. Certain other geeky people know that there's a play on a bunch of genre type films that came before and now they're all combined into one super- nerd concept. Then again- I'm slower than most super fans so maybe there was more or even less going on than the references I realized.