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Superman didn't suck
« on: July 11, 2025, 09:06:51 AM »
James Gunn kicks off the current iteration of the DC universe with Superman.. and it's up to Gunn standards.

Finally they've shaken off the dour Snyder bullshit and this is back to being a fun hopeful flick. It hits the ground running.. thankfully no origin.. and perhaps one of the few complaints here is it never really stops. This movie is paced like a race car. But there's still enough time for that James Gunn character building. There's investment here.. Superman is a good character and you like him.

One thing this movie does well is make Lex Luthor a dick. He's not goofy evil like Hackman or whatever the hell Jessie Eisenberg was trying to do.. this is a smart calculating evil Lex and it works.

You can tell Gunn is trying to build up the DC universe as we have a few other "metahumans" already in play. Gunn manages to do this organically though it doesn't feel rushed or pushed like in the previous iteration. Nathan Fillion's Guy Gardner is particularly fun.

Overall it was good. The story was good enough to get you invested.. everyone was likable.. they kept politics out of it.. no real major issues. I'm interested to see what they do next.

Now it's on Marvel to make Fantastic Four good.


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Re: Superman didn't suck
« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2025, 05:18:41 PM »
WTF . This number 6 has been replaced by Chat GPT
 Superman sucked. Save your money
Holy CRAAAAAAAAAP   !!!!!!!! CW superman and lois !   Certain episodes of that are better than this new Trash ..
Oh man , hope is fkn lost !!!!  The world is ok with Subpar CGI Shit graffix and the story and or plots are just NWO brainwashing ..  I hated the new Captain america but even that was better than this sheet !!!!!!!!!!
  Save your money and see ANYTHING else !!!!!!!!  Stupid Krypto is nothing like the Krypto of the Justice league Animated series and was the most unbearable part for me other than every other boring minute..
 Save a squirrel let others get smashed. GTFOH ..  CW could have done a better job than J Gunn
 Thought superfag was going to cry like 3 times  / they should paint his EMO nails Black

 Hope Stern picks the title up and do a DICK STICK Control panel . Just look at them sticks. i think Supergirl at the end would enjoy that panel as much as the Pounding she got frtom Krypto 
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Re: Superman didn't suck
« Reply #2 on: July 14, 2025, 01:34:08 AM »

« Last Edit: July 11, 2025, 06:12:25 PM by PinFever »

wow, THIS was the edited post???

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Re: Superman didn't suck
« Reply #3 on: July 14, 2025, 07:08:51 AM »
And?!
See Brightburn instead. 

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Re: Superman didn't suck
« Reply #4 on: July 14, 2025, 09:36:26 AM »
Yeah we'll have to agree to disagree on this one. Superman is fine.

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Re: Superman didn't suck
« Reply #5 on: July 14, 2025, 11:26:21 AM »
Yeah we'll have to agree to disagree on this one. Superman is fine.

This is where we are at with movies..

"fine" and "meh" are todays glowing reviews.  :P like people are shocked they aren't total piles of shit.

I may see it.. I think its good they went more campy like the original one from the 70s.

Super hero movies that take themselves seriously are ridiculous to begin with...

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Re: Superman didn't suck
« Reply #6 on: July 14, 2025, 04:41:28 PM »
not campy, not like original at all. /

Glad you liked it Jack.
For me not even fine/  I wish i could say any piece of the contents where fine /. Not even sure i gave a chuckle or a glimpse of a smile through-out the show.
Feel free to get up and pee or get lucnh during any of it,you would have missed nothing compelling.
such a DUD
BOLLYWOOD even does better
 
 Script....
 3d,4s.6y.b9,c8.cya la8tr stupid fkn movie !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Loved Brightburn . Can not believe the same Director made the two

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Re: Superman didn't suck
« Reply #7 on: July 14, 2025, 07:00:05 PM »

And?!
See Brightburn instead.

I saw Brightburn. I thought it was ok.

'And?!' I saw the new Superman. And I thought it was the right product at the right time to give IP stockholders a big sigh of relief, after previous studio heads couldn't figure out what to do with a bunch of valuable characters. This movie did blatantly borrow 4 or 5 plot points of the other Supes films from 1 through Returns, but like Jack and most reviews everywhere else have said, it's the casting that really made this work.

And the movie hasn't bombed, it did $225mil worldwide over the weekend, which covers the production budget. It's from today on that sees if it has legs.

Sorry to see this film traumatized you so much to cause you to use some bigoted language, though.

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Re: Superman didn't suck
« Reply #8 on: July 14, 2025, 10:30:35 PM »
This is where we are at with movies..

"fine" and "meh" are todays glowing reviews.  :P like people are shocked they aren't total piles of shit.

I may see it.. I think its good they went more campy like the original one from the 70s.

Super hero movies that take themselves seriously are ridiculous to begin with...

Superman is better than Meh.. it's not going to redefine Cinema for you or anything but in terms of Superman movies it's up there just under the original 2 which may never be surpassed.

But it's still one of those situations where if you don't really care about Superman then it's probably not going to change that either.. but it's miles better than violence punch man that the last few movies were pushing.. now those were garbage.

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Re: Superman didn't suck
« Reply #9 on: July 14, 2025, 10:30:58 PM »
not campy, not like original at all. /

Glad you liked it Jack.
For me not even fine/  I wish i could say any piece of the contents where fine /. Not even sure i gave a chuckle or a glimpse of a smile through-out the show.
Feel free to get up and pee or get lucnh during any of it,you would have missed nothing compelling.
such a DUD
BOLLYWOOD even does better
 
 Script....
 3d,4s.6y.b9,c8.cya la8tr stupid fkn movie !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Loved Brightburn . Can not believe the same Director made the two

I do like Bollywood movies.

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Re: Superman didn't suck
« Reply #10 on: July 14, 2025, 10:33:10 PM »
I saw Brightburn. I thought it was ok.

'And?!' I saw the new Superman. And I thought it was the right product at the right time to give IP stockholders a big sigh of relief, after previous studio heads couldn't figure out what to do with a bunch of valuable characters. This movie did blatantly borrow 4 or 5 plot points of the other Supes films from 1 through Returns, but like Jack and most reviews everywhere else have said, it's the casting that really made this work.


Brightburn was an interesting concept and was executed well enough for a low-budget SCI-FI horror.. but hard to really say more than that.

The casting on Superman was well done and James Gunn known what needs to be done and was able to execute it. People don't want a dour Superman.. he's the goofy hopeful character.. he's not Batman.  It appears it's working because Superman is doing extremely well in this post-covid everything is on streaming in 3 weeks world.


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Re: Superman didn't suck
« Reply #11 on: July 15, 2025, 06:53:43 AM »
Traumatized spencer !  Lol. That is a state of mind or reaction.  I explained i got nothing but bore and waste of time feeling .  Ok maybe great dislike !!   Nit a feeling i want from any movie ..

Brightburn was a disturbing movie and well done .  Not this ! But glad more points you both made support why you thought it don’t suck. It made money and they used old characters.   Ok then
I saw Brightburn. I thought it was ok.

'And?!' I saw the new Superman. And I thought it was the right product at the right time to give IP stockholders a big sigh of relief, after previous studio heads couldn't figure out what to do with a bunch of valuable characters. This movie did blatantly borrow 4 or 5 plot points of the other Supes films from 1 through Returns, but like Jack and most reviews everywhere else have said, it's the casting that really made this work.

And the movie hasn't bombed, it did $225mil worldwide over the weekend, which covers the production budget. It's from today on that sees if it has legs.

Sorry to see this film traumatized you so much to cause you to use some bigoted language, though.

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Re: Superman didn't suck
« Reply #12 on: July 15, 2025, 11:30:54 AM »
I did not leave any comments in this article about how much I disliked it but it resonated the same to most commentators about the turd movie teens seemed to over love ,,  lol.
However I know a few teens who seen it and they said it sucked ….   As far as money made people also commented on.     
Seems They have hopes up….  Not me ….  Made money because people hoped it may be good and a good franchise name and no competition at all. Save your money . The effects won’t look any worse on any size screen .   DL it free . No loss ,
https://movieweb.com/superman-box-office-performance-dcu-fate-warner-bros/

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Re: Superman didn't suck
« Reply #13 on: July 17, 2025, 01:33:20 PM »
I saw this yesterday.. it was OK and entertaining enough for what it is.

Story is a mess and I didnt care one iota about the Clark and Lois thing... I mean I know they have to cram it in there but it felt just like that.

Guy in front of me ate one of those giant buckets of popcorn for the whole first hour and then passed out for the rest.

Not sure if he was in a diabetic coma or the movie knocked him out but that about sums it up I think.  :P