It was utter crap, that's why
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Well you must have more to say than just a single sentence? Like was it the acting, music, plot/story, rubbish cgi? You claim to rate it 0 or 1 out of 10 so im just curious as to the reasons why you felt it was that bad?
I've seen it multiple time and give it 8/10 it was a lot of fun personally.
I've seen it multiple time and give it 8/10 it was a lot of fun personally.
Well you are obviously a lot more forgiving than me, and yes it was full of crap acting and scripting. Don't like my review then ignore it, and as this is a Superman thread that's where I stop talking about it.
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I rate his "review" -5/10
Quite frankly I couldn't give a monkeys whether you take my score seriously or not, nor anything else you have to say on the subject. I didn't like the film and it's as simple as that. Like it or lump it.
well i quite enjoyed it 7/10. Its nice to get away from the dark and gritty tropes and move more back into comic book style.
Only stupid things were how lex didn't get his brains spread around the office when the dog was savaging him. Loki was a god so had that excuse to survive a hulk attack. Lex is just human.
The whole 2B 44Z 66Y nonsense. They couldn't hire trainers over the years to teach him how to fight?
Superchav at the end coming to get her dog back.
The other supe's were great. Here's hoping they get a spinoff each.
Only stupid things were how lex didn't get his brains spread around the office when the dog was savaging him. Loki was a god so had that excuse to survive a hulk attack. Lex is just human.
The whole 2B 44Z 66Y nonsense. They couldn't hire trainers over the years to teach him how to fight?
Superchav at the end coming to get her dog back.
The other supe's were great. Here's hoping they get a spinoff each.
How many people do you think read that story in the comics?
It's great for comic book fans, but the average joe ain't gonna understand these deep cut references
Comic books are niche (obviously popular on forums like this) imo. I've watched probably every Marvel and DC movies and never read any of the comic versions. At best I read a book version of some comic called Death of Superman.This isn't a dig, but it always annoys me when people claim comic book accuracy, as the vast majority of the moviegoers are probably oblivious.
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That's sometimes why big blockbuster comic book movies don't go down to well with 'normals'.How many people do you think read that story in the comics?
It's great for comic book fans, but the average joe ain't gonna understand these deep cut references
This isn't a dig, but it always annoys me when people claim comic book accuracy, as the vast majority of the moviegoers are probably oblivious.
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They dont get all the references, which is why some dont become big hits.
Then there are the movies based on comics and graphic novels that people aren't even aware are based on them. Like 300 The Mask, Men in Black, Road to Perdition, Red Sonia.
If any comic book movie was only watched by comic book readers of that character, I suspect that would be the lowest grossing comic book movie ever! Normals are needed it for it to succeed (and fail as well).
My point was these films are successful or failures regardless of their comic book following. i.e. I don't think most normals care or know about the source material...and explaining it to them won't help matters!
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I don't know anything about the comics but the film was pretty good spelling out that she had been partying on planets with red suns because she can't get drunk on earth.
i forgot i watched that - yeah it was garbage
That reminds me of when the Blade movie came out, no-one knew it was based on a comic, like no-one!
I remember in the early 90's, I watched Spider-man cross paths with Blade in an episode of the animated series, based off a real issue of the comic. Of which ends up happening multiple times after that.
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So presumably a red sun means she doesn't have her super powers so can get drunk? but if she doesn't have her superpowers then how did she get back? Uber?
You are correct. Krypton had a red son so they had no powers there either.
She had to get shuttles or space ships, usually hitching a ride with someone. It'll be shown and explained in her movie properly.
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Thanks for the xplain, but I guess this is the issue.. you only know this stuff if you have read the comics, which is why it comes across to others as a bit daft..
That works both ways though, as one could argue that it's a bit daft to watch a film specically tailored towards fans of the comic, and die-hard ones at that? So at that point it isn't the film's problem if you don't know the source material?
I'm not saying this is how I feel, but I do believe it can go both ways, which is fair enough.
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Yeah of course it does, and those who "know" the comics are going to be in on it.. which is also fair enough..
However the character Superman has progressed out of comics, so anyone who creates a Superman movie is going to know there will be lots of people who don't know the comics, and quite probably the majority..
Anyway.. I watched it, and i'm still unsure if I enjoyed it or not.. it almost felt as though it didn't know itself what it wanted to be, the 40's comic book superhero, in which case then set it in the 40's-50's so the "golly ms Lane" stuff makes more cultural sense, (and yes I know the original Reeve's superman was set in the 80's, but his language in that even made some sense as the parents / grandparents would have been from the right era.. but not in 2025) or update the language and character for more modern times, which is what more recent movies have tried to do.. some of it I found just bizarre, the whole calling out 2A, 4B stuff was plain stupid.. and it seems to have been written in the same universe as "The Invention of Lying".. i.e. the whole we have to get proof thing.. very strange.. although I thought it was quite a good representation of Lex Luther..
I didn't dislike the movie, but it's certainly not one i'll watch again in a hurry, and also now wouldn't go out of my way to watch any of the other DC films made by Gunn.. Whereas I think i've watched both the original Superman movies, and the newer re-boots several times.. and will probably watch them several times again..
I guess the real test will be, once they release a second movie, they will get a sense of do people want this or not, which is difficult to get when you release the first in a series because there would have been a lot of people go to watch it, but then found they didn't enjoy the style..
Either way glad some people really liked it, as it was certainly different, and i'm all for hollywood pushing out different kind of movies, rather then the same thing regurgitated time and time again.. just in this instance it didn't click with me..