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Watching all the trailers for this film and I'm so "meh" about it. It doesn't feel like it's going to be a successful movie, and I think because there's no public appetite for more super hero throwaway shit due to the tension the current political climate is fostering.
It is much harder to stomach the whole "truth, justice and the American way" bullshit when it's been so nakedly exposed to be a huge lie.
That's why I appreciated Sinners so much.
Give me more monologues like that.
These are the stories I've been waiting my whole life for. I've found them in dark, private spaces till now. But writ large by major directors? Ah that feels good.
Superman was created in response to both the Great Depression and specifically the rise of the Nazis.
Paragons like Superman and Captain America are at their most popular when society is at its lowest specifically because it offers hope of a world where people simply aren't that shit. Or at least a brief fantasy of it.
Fuck 'sinners' was good.
Edit: and an american fantasy necrocommunism! Ebough of the long dead ussr having a monopoly, with its hard scifi rocket necrocommunism!
I liked the darkness and the setting, but the vampires were badly written. Everything was so obvious. The klan added basically 0 to the film other than “let’s kill some racists” type justice boners. Everything was resolved by then…
Part of why I enjoyed The Winter Soldier so much
Oh, the government agency has been taken over by nazis? How topical…
Plus, it's superman. Its a boring premise that's been beaten to death at this point. Nobody gives a crap about it; at least with spiderman they've done unique villains every time they reboot it. Superman's rogues gallery is kinda crap for variety.
True. He's also too damn powerful with an extremely rare weakness. The only way to make Superman interesting nowadays is to subvert him somehow.
There's a clone of him in this movie. That was the solution this time.
I did like how the flash movie subverted him. That was a good thing in that movie.
This is a common opinion from people who don't know anything about Superman
Can you please expand on this?
Last I read superman was in the 80s, and they seemed to be translation of stories from the 70s or earlier into German.
IMHO, the best stories about Superman are the ones that challenge him in non-physical ways. Like how All-Star Superman laid out as a given that Superman had a year to live and focused on how he spent that time, or What's So Funny About Truth, Justice, and the American Way, which puts him in an ideological conflict against younger heroes with more lethal methods.
The American way
nonlethal methods
It is James Gunn so if you liked Guardians of the Galaxy and/or The Suicide Squad (the good one without Will Smith) then I'm guessing it will be fun as there is a lot going on in the trailers and it includes things from the comics that are normally excluded from superhero movies for being too 'weird' like a super powered dog.
It might not be as popular with general audiences as other versions for the reasons you mention whether it is good or not.
I only watched the first trailer that came out for it but it left me kind of excited for it which more than I can say about any other trailer I've seen recently. The tone of it certainly seemed more upbeat than the other superhero stuff that's come out which is refreshing. Me and my friend are using it as a reason to go hang out this weekend which is about the only thing I have so look forward to right now so I'll appreciate it for that if nothing else