Hmmm.
I've seen all the various iterations of superman movies, this one was an Ok watch, but leaves no lasting impression other than it was a light-weight attempt, with a whole dose of random characters thrown in with zero explanation.
This superman is badly watered down, both the character and the film. It's superman lite.
You can see why Cavill was never in the frame for this film, this superman is far removed from that superman.
I've seen all the various iterations of superman movies, this one was an Ok watch, but leaves no lasting impression other than it was a light-weight attempt, with a whole dose of random characters thrown in with zero explanation.
Yeah I get from the opening written introduction that we are in a different universe (who knew that DC would go meta) where there are loads of superhero characters, but I came to this to watch a superman movie. What i got was some crappy DC avengers version, with 3 "sups" i never heard of going by some apparently comedic name of Justice gang, the implication that there are a whole host of others, similar to the guy that can form physical stuff from his hands, And a 10 sec cameo of Cena doing an interview as a SUP of some sort of other, clearly a blunt advert for another film.
At least when we got the Cavill/Affleck/Gadot ensemble, we had already been introduced to each of them with their own movies and who hadn't heard of superman/batman/wonderman. This time we had some weird woman with wings whose superpower seems to be screeching a lot, some guy from firefly as the green lantern that has a dis-likeable high opinion of himself and another guy called terrific the definition of his super-abilities left to the imagination. No idea where they came from, or back story, they just showed up. And you'd think that a lesson would have been learnt that green lantern is really a crappy hero from the Reynolds version, but no, apparently no lesson was learned.
And then in the end some bratty teenager for 30 secs comes to take the dog, again seem a very overt and crass advert for another upcoming character, with no explanation of how there is another person from krypton in this new timeline.
Now I imagine there is a host of people following this thread that knows the "canon" of all these characters and how they interact and their place in the story, but 99%+ of people watching the film will be like me and will neither know or be interested, and unless it's explained as part of, you know, the story telling, it's just a confused mess. And if it's gonna take too long to explain then perhaps that's an indication not to include.
It's a sad indictment that the best character was the dog (again no explanation of how this terrier has superpowers), it adds some genuine comedic value at times, although him doing the beating up at the end was lifted straight from avengers where loki is in the middle of a monologue and the hulk smashes him to bits.
At least when we got the Cavill/Affleck/Gadot ensemble, we had already been introduced to each of them with their own movies and who hadn't heard of superman/batman/wonderman. This time we had some weird woman with wings whose superpower seems to be screeching a lot, some guy from firefly as the green lantern that has a dis-likeable high opinion of himself and another guy called terrific the definition of his super-abilities left to the imagination. No idea where they came from, or back story, they just showed up. And you'd think that a lesson would have been learnt that green lantern is really a crappy hero from the Reynolds version, but no, apparently no lesson was learned.
And then in the end some bratty teenager for 30 secs comes to take the dog, again seem a very overt and crass advert for another upcoming character, with no explanation of how there is another person from krypton in this new timeline.
Now I imagine there is a host of people following this thread that knows the "canon" of all these characters and how they interact and their place in the story, but 99%+ of people watching the film will be like me and will neither know or be interested, and unless it's explained as part of, you know, the story telling, it's just a confused mess. And if it's gonna take too long to explain then perhaps that's an indication not to include.
It's a sad indictment that the best character was the dog (again no explanation of how this terrier has superpowers), it adds some genuine comedic value at times, although him doing the beating up at the end was lifted straight from avengers where loki is in the middle of a monologue and the hulk smashes him to bits.
This superman is badly watered down, both the character and the film. It's superman lite.
You can see why Cavill was never in the frame for this film, this superman is far removed from that superman.
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