Rod and Karen review James Gunn’s first live-action DC movie, “Superman.” They also discuss their theater experience, a movie trailer and your comments.
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Karen got me dying with her joke about Guy Gardner, now I can’t unsee Nathan Fillion as lesser version of Woody Harrellson lmao.
I really digged this movie. Thanks to hearing you guys saying that you were going to see it on Tuesday, I looked up if I could see it earlier near my small town in Germany (backup plan was to drive to Amsterdam) and that’s how I got a Wednesday viewing in English with German subtitles. Won’t Kang Do It!
This movie had heart, performances, and moments. I wasn’t big on DC properties until I became a parent and had to make sure that my kid doesn’t inherit my complete bias so I exposed the intergalactic one to DC intentionally. But now I can say that I’m officially a Supes fan. I did feel like they over did it with the amount of “shit” and “bitch” at the end. I still laughed but I could imagine the complaints. Overall, I appreciate James Gunn standing on business. I got to watch this again on American soil.
I need a day to gather my overall thoughts on Supes ’25, but at the end of it all, even with the pacing of it, yeah, it’s a Gunn movie all right. Excellent use of colors, VFX, has a LOT to say about the current times we’re in as a society & James clearly hates the Internet like we do and who can blame him, considering some Right-wing scumbags made some shit up, lost his place at Marvel Studios, only to rise from the ashes & have two positions for a time from both studios.
I admittedly came into it late (15 minutes late), so the movie for me “feels off” but it’s because it took a minute for the subtext, characterizations to really sync into my brain. And, yes, Superman is silly, but I think it really plays into its favor, because none of these even the beloved ’78 original, which I love & subsequent ones, really weren’t allowed to be fully realized as this one is.
You can’t do Man of Steel, Superman Returns, or its TV brethren again & the fact that James was allowed to do a film that says a lot, speaks to how good of a writer & how good he is at characterizations. Obviously, David Corenswet’s Superman/Clark Kent gets the job done, Rachel Brosnahan Lois Lane might be the best Lois since the 90s Animated Series (& recently Elizabeth Tulloch’s depiction in Superman & Lois, to be fair) & Nicholas Holt’s Luthor is rousing but the real winner is my man Edi Gathegi’s Mr. Terrific! We can officially say, even if it is a good movie, go fuck yourself, X-Men: First Class! Anytime he was on screen, he basically stole the show. He’s God Damn Terrific! Nathan Fillion, Isabela Merced’s Guy Gardner & Hawkgirl are equally very good. Anthony Carrigan’s Metamorphio was great, too. The whole cast has their moments, even if I think Wendell Pierce’s Perry White needed a little more screentime, he cooked when the attention was drawn to him.
In any case, after my Thursday rewatch, I’ll feel firmly grounded as to how I feel about Superman (which I’m pretty confident in saying, it’s another great James Gunn endeavor, if not as brilliant as Guardians Vol 1 & Vol.3 were) but the fact that this film basically fell into his lap after he wasn’t afraid to speak his mind, is really a testament to his goodwill.
Good to have you back into relevancy, Supes.
Great film.