This kind of film had its peak in the 80s, where the hero faces alone, usually shirtless and weapon in hand, entire armies always managing to be the winner in the end: among the most famous films we can remember are Rambo (First Blood in the US), Commando and Predator among the most famous.
To many, the film displayed too Dark a tone with a blow by blow Dark Miller version of Batman v Superman rather than two young brave and the bold superheroes meeting at the beginning of their career. Mixed with fighting Doomsday and the Death of Superman there was a forced sense of too many classic comic stories being forced into one movie, with viewers not really knowing enough about Bats and Supes to care if they lived, died and how they would feel about that. A shame, but there was an Amazonian light at the end of tunnel. After years of waiting to see both characters meet on screen they were to be blown literally out of the water by a fellow Justice League member who laid to rest the memory of Lynda Carter to many superhero fans.
The pairing of Kidman and her real-life husband (at the time) Tom Cruise in a sexually-charged drama helmed by legendary director Stanley Kubrick caused a great stir among film buffs in 1999. In a film whose sexual content had to be cut back in order to avoid a dreaded NC-17 film rating, Kidman shone as the wife of a successful New York doctor (Cruise), as she confesses to him that she had contemplated having an affair with a naval officer some time before, which leads to a number of sexual explorations, culminating in a masked orgy that has become a part of Kubrick lore.
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