“Every day, I come by your house and I pick you up.

[benji]

With all this Superman talk you guys are making me have to watch this. 

Let's see if this movie cures me of being a chud.

WARNING: May make you more chud:

[simiansmarts]

Eh, I'll go see Superman only if my siblings want to see it.  
 
I don't feel the need to rush out and see the latest superhero flick these days. Videogame movies are more exciting.

[killamajig]

Well, it wasn't bad but it didn't do anything really interesting other than it did feel a bit more comic-booky. 

I'm tired of the cape shit so I'm not the target audience but at least it didn't bore me too much.  

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In my opinion Mr Fantastic saved the planet. Once again a Black man doesn't get the credit he deserves

[Potato]

Do we need to bring back the capeshit thread? 

KEEP IN MIND I AIN'T SEEN THIS SHIT YET, SO WILL WALK BACK ANY AND ALL TAKES IF NECESSARY

There's nothing overly wrong with it as a story. It's just a really poorly made film.

This review is pretty accurate...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20250708-superman-review

That review makes it sound great! 

transplanted from the shitbin:

Did we read the same review?

This is the paragraph that sums up my feelings:

But Superman rushes through its outlandish concepts and whiplashing plot developments too quickly for them to have any impact. Skyscrapers collapse, monsters stomp through Metropolis, and people zip into different universes, but Gunn is in too much of a hurry to instil these momentous events with any of the wonder of 1978's Superman: The Movie – however often he drops in John Williams' classic fanfare – so none of them seems to matter. The video game-style visual effects add to the sense that nothing on screen has any consequences. The evocative tagline of Superman: The Movie was, "You'll believe a man can fly." Almost 50 years later, the tagline of the glib and flimsy Superman could be, "You won't believe any of it."

[Cauliflower Of Love]

OMG superman was so good.

potatoe is crazy

[Polident]

With all this Superman talk you guys are making me have to watch this. 

Let's see if this movie cures me of being a chud.

WARNING: May make you more chud:

…

I didn’t see this before posting about how Americans can be emotionally subnormal. But the shoe fits.

[Potato]

OMG superman was so good.

potatoe is crazy

I said there was nothing wrong with the story (aside from being very comic bookish), but as a film it's really poorly made.

Anyone who thinks otherwise is a doodlebreath.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

In an era of shitty made films. This is one of the best.

[Potato]

High praise indeed

[chronovore]

OMG superman was so good.

potatoe is crazy

I loved it.

[Eric Cartman]

Did we read the same review?

This is the paragraph that sums up my feelings:

But Superman rushes through its outlandish concepts and whiplashing plot developments too quickly for them to have any impact. Skyscrapers collapse, monsters stomp through Metropolis, and people zip into different universes, but Gunn is in too much of a hurry to instil these momentous events with any of the wonder of 1978's Superman: The Movie – however often he drops in John Williams' classic fanfare – so none of them seems to matter. The video game-style visual effects add to the sense that nothing on screen has any consequences. The evocative tagline of Superman: The Movie was, "You'll believe a man can fly." Almost 50 years later, the tagline of the glib and flimsy Superman could be, "You won't believe any of it."

yeah; the header pull quote is: "Bursting with geeky weirdness" 👍

It basically says the whole things very idiosyncratic and hasn't made any fucking effort whatsoever to mainstream things.
Its like an IGN 8/10 saying the gameplays fucking great but the voice acting is kinda hammy and the visuals aren't AAAA enough for mass appeal.


I liked Super, I liked Brightburn, I liked The Suicide Squad, I liked the GOTGs, it seems fairly likely I'll like this

Its also pretty interesting to me that the US / ROTW split seems not just on is Superman American Wayish enough, its also that the majority of US press have taken Madeupistan invading Notrealya as a signifier for Isreal / Palestine, whereas most of the UK press I've read read it as Russia / Ukraine, which... is actually pretty fascinating in terms of political concerns and geopolitical relevance.

[simiansmarts]

Superman was okay, the humor didn't land all the time and the movie moved very fast. Lois Lane was a much needed improvement from when Amy Adams played her, she was a nothing character in those Snyder movies tbh 
 
Someone told me that Superman and Lois looked like they were related to each other and I can't unsee it now, they look more like cousins than Superman and Supergirl. 

[HaughtyFrank]

Its also pretty interesting to me that the US / ROTW split seems not just on is Superman American Wayish enough, its also that the majority of US press have taken Madeupistan invading Notrealya as a signifier for Isreal / Palestine, whereas most of the UK press I've read read it as Russia / Ukraine, which... is actually pretty fascinating in terms of political concerns and geopolitical relevance.

The movie kind of plays both sides. Like the bad guys are 100% Russian look and sound alikes and gives them same reason for their invasion as Putin but at the same time the evil country is described as longtime ally of the US and the country they want to invade is full of poor brown people who don't even have a military. 
Geopolitically I'd lean more towards Ukraine/Russia allegory though considering how there's no complicating factors about one side claiming that this is their homeland or any October 7 kind of event.

There's also the possibility that Gunn didn't really have any of that in mind and that a story about an evil dictator invading another country will naturally have people draw real life parallels. Gunn really seems to love his evil dictators as he's been using them multiple times now.

[simiansmarts]

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Making Supergirl an alcoholic party girl is outdated. Gen Z doesn’t drink like young people used to, Supergirl should be a stoner who swears she needs weed for her anxiety and has a tendency for flying while baked out of her mind. I guess James Gunn is just writing what he knows as a nearly 60 year old man.

[Rendle]

They should have had some courage and made supergirl a weed addicted cumslut like in the novels or whatever

[benji]

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Making Supergirl an alcoholic party girl is outdated. Gen Z doesn’t drink like young people used to, Supergirl should be a stoner who swears she needs weed for her anxiety and has a tendency for flying while baked out of her mind. I guess James Gunn is just writing what he knows as a nearly 60 year old man.

It's not Gunn, it's Tom King. That's the version of the character in Woman of Tomorrow which the Supergirl film will be an adaption of. She's celebrating her 21st birthday drinking around space which leads to the story. Presumably she will meet Lobo in a space bar since that's where 75% of Lobo stories start.

[Tucker's Law]

Superman is...pretty damn terrible. 

It should be good. Actors are fine, scenario is fine, action is fine, CGI is passable. 

The script though...Jesus it's rough. Unnecessary exposition just constantly rammed into the audience's face, terrible dialogue, complete lack of transitions. Just scenes pasted together with little thought of how one moves to the next. 

The choice to go in media res and not really spend any time developing anyone's motivations or character. 

I'll give Gunn some credit for going full superhero comic book tone, but I hate comic books for a reason.

This DC reboot is off to a very rough start.

Potato is right, it was pretty fucking bad and almost entirely so because of shit writing and bad directing.  Cast are all pretty good fits for the characters, and if they get a writer and director for the sequel that actually likes and understands Superman as a character, then that sequel might actually be worth praising.  Standouts are Mr Terrific and Guy Gardner Lantern (dumb haircut and all, Fillion was a great fit at translating his comic dipshittery onto the screen, and is certainly a character much more in line with Gunn's creative strengths).

Snyder Supes movies were much better than this entry.

[Tucker's Law]

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Making Supergirl an alcoholic party girl is outdated. Gen Z doesn’t drink like young people used to, Supergirl should be a stoner who swears she needs weed for her anxiety and has a tendency for flying while baked out of her mind. I guess James Gunn is just writing what he knows as a nearly 60 year old man.

It's not Gunn, it's Tom King. That's the version of the character in Woman of Tomorrow which the Supergirl film will be an adaption of. She's celebrating her 21st birthday drinking around space which leads to the story. Presumably she will meet Lobo in a space bar since that's where 75% of Lobo stories start.

As down as I am on Gunn Superman, I think Supergirl and Lobo casting are both really good choices, making it all the more unfortunate that they'll likely be burdened with awful Tom King writing.

[Polident]

probably going to be bad but it looks and sound cool!




probably going to be bad but at least Johnny Cage is the lead instead of some random original character 

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/taika-waititi-tackling-judge-dredd-movie-1236311752/

probably going to be the worst thing ever

[simiansmarts]

Mortal Kombat II looks like what the first movie should've been. Even if it's not particularly good, it at least seems like it's gonna have the spirit of the games.

[Polident]

Really, I don’t remember much from the first. There’s a neat opening section with pre-Scorpion and Sub Zero. Kano was fun.

Apparently Jax, Sonya, and Liu Kang were already introduced there. YouTube tells me the OC fights Goro at some point?

[TylenolJones]

Eddington



And people still try to say Antifa Death Squads are fake news!

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it perfectly captures the relationship between a Resetera’s user and their parents

[Cauliflower Of Love]

The new trailer for Tron Ares is fantastic.

Mainly because it's just gonna be a movie filled with Leto dying over and over again, as is his destiny.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Anyone else feel like watching the departed?

[Tucker's Law]

The new trailer for Tron Ares is fantastic.

Mainly because it's just gonna be a movie filled with Leto dying over and over again, as is his destiny.

Weirdly it's not Leto being in the movie that has me worried, but instead modern Disney writing is my biggest concern by far.  Regardless of if the movie sucks, at least I think we'll be getting another really good soundtrack out of it, going by the one song released so far.

[Cauliflower Of Love]

Why does leto being in a movie make you worried?

[Tucker's Law]

It wouldn't, I'm apparently one of those rare people that has no dislike of him as an actor (though he does make strange choices in some roles). I think he can do very good acting when the material is there, like most actors.

[HaughtyFrank]

Was always a bit surprised that people shit on his role in Blade runner 2049 when I thought he's just completely fine in it. Agree though that all the method acting shit he apparently does is just silly.

[Eric Cartman]

Takes a special kind of talent to get to mars in 30 seconds

[Polident]

This is a loaded statement but Leto keeps taking roles meant for guys in their 20s.

There was a shitty Netflix movie where he joined the Yakuza after WW2. He’s presented as a fresh faced draftee. The actor playing a fellow soldier is in his 20s. But Leto is well into his 40s, with caked on make up.