[Abyss]

i was fully prepared to hate everything about this but GODDAMIT THAT'S KRYPTO

[QuickTidal]

 Abyss, on 19 December 2024 - 06:11 PM, said:

i was fully prepared to hate everything about this but GODDAMIT THAT'S KRYPTO

Not only that but Krypto being the bestest boy and draggin a wounded Superman back to Smallville by the cape.

So help me god if anything happens to that dog, I would not be averse to Clark going all John Wick on them.

[QuickTidal]

fuck...plug...veins...



EDIT:

Things that go hard:


1. Lois interviewing him with unexpected hardball questions that cause him to react and say Silver Age Superman things. Amazing.
2. Krypto fighting Angela Spica (Engineer) in the fortress of solitude. GUD BOY!
3. The ramping up of the music cues.
4. Superman saying "Hey buddy, eyes up here" and then shooting up into the sky. The flying in this film so far looks DOPE.
5. David Cornswet and Rachel Brosnahan being given a chance to just ACT and not all splodey splodey.
6. Average people helping him up...I teared up, not going lie.
7. What appears to be Ultraman or perhaps Bizarro?
8. Hoult is doing a great Lex from what I can see.
9. Ma and Pa Kent are just average people, who look like Kansas farmers...and not stunt casted. SOLID.
9. The World Needs Superman. Nuff said.


This movie is 100% coming out right when we sort of need it as a planet. A realignment to doing good and being good.


Now everyone knows I'm an unapologetic fan of Snyder's MAN OF STEEL....but I would be lying if I didn't say this looks like the Superman I grew up on, and I think I'm really ready to return to this incarnation of Superman. The one that was on my bedsheets with the rest of the Superfriends when I was a boy.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 14 May 2025 - 04:33 PM

[polishgenius]

I like Man of Steel, but I think of it as a very good superhero movie about someone with powers similar to Superman.

This... is a Superman movie.

[Tiste Simeon]

Oh yeah that looks tight.

[worry]

Pa Kent is played by Pruitt Taylor Vince, who's one of my favorite character actors. A unique and affecting presence in everything he's in. Rarely is he the lead, but there's a movie called Heavy he did with Liv Tyler in the mid-90s that is super slept on imo.

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

Based on how much they packed into the trailer, this movie has to be like 8 hours long...all those characters, jeeze.

[Abyss]

 Whisperzzzzzzz, on 15 May 2025 - 12:44 AM, said:

Based on how much they packed into the trailer, this movie has to be like 8 hours long...all those characters, jeeze.

Marvel and DC appear to be moving in a direction where instead of giving every new character their own introduction, they're just 'there', they've always been there, just roll w it. See Deadpool and Wolverine for examples. It's a surprising level of trust in the audience to 'get it' for companies that historically assumed people need Spidey or Bats' origin retold every single time.

[QuickTidal]

I heard a former Superman didn't like that the new Superman movie was going to be "woke"...and why did I KNOW without looking that it would be conservative shitbag, Kevin Sorbo buddy Dean Fucking Cain with the lava hot take...

https://www.superher...s-gunn-too-woke

Amusingly, he comments about the removal of the whole American Way stuff from the Truth & Justice line...someone want to tell him that a Canadian invented Superman, orrrrrr? Better yet, that the line was not originally part of the narrative and wasnt added till the radio adaptation in the mid-40's? Nah, he'd rather be annoyed about pointless shit.

Quote

I don’t think is a great idea. I think if you want to create a new character, go ahead and do that. But for me, Superman has always stood for ‘truth, justice, and the American way’ — and the American way is tremendously immigrant friendly. But there are rules,” Cain explained. “You can’t come in saying, ‘I want to get rid of all the rules in America because I wanted to be more like Somalia.’ Well, that doesn’t work, because you had to leave Somalia to come here — so it doesn’t make any sense.

Anyone want to tell him (and there are many examples of this in Americas history) that the whole ass reason Somali refugees exist is because the US intervention in the 90's (and up until now) extended a civil war that would have been over in the 90's if it had been left to it's own devices..the US involvement not only prolonged shit for years, but gave refugees a place to want to go to get away from the conflict. Don't want refugees from foreign countries in your country Dean? THEN STOP ELECTING WARMONGERS WHO GET INVOLVED IN OTHER COUNTRIES PROBLEMS....fuck me. Also I'd love for him to find me a Somali immigrant who wants to "get rid of the rules in the US and replace them with Somali rules"....that shit doesn't happen, it's just a lie he's been fed to hate immigrants.


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On the bright side, I have tickets for the whole family to see the movie on Sunday. WOOT! Exciting.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 10 July 2025 - 03:36 PM

[worry]

Someone that scared of change shouldn't have gotten the Wayne Newton special from his plastic surgeon.
Anyway, even on Lois & Clark they didn't say "truth, justice, and the American way", they just said "truth and justice".

[QuickTidal]

worry, on 10 July 2025 - 04:37 PM, said:

Someone that scared of change shouldn't have gotten the Wayne Newton special from his plastic surgeon.

I spat out my coffee Worry....LOL

Also to quote comics great Grant Morrison: I hope I never run into Dean Cain, but if I do it’s at 100 miles per hour

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 10 July 2025 - 05:51 PM

[Primateus]

Saw it, t'was pretty damn good.

And also, here's to a good Superhero movie that doesn't take itself too seriously.

[polishgenius]

Yeah that was Terrific.

[Slow Ben]

Now I’m even more excited to see it. Taking the kids this week.

[Tiste Simeon]

Ah dang I don't really go to the cinema any more but I might have to make an exception...

[QuickTidal]

I had tickets for the family today…but everyone went and got sick.

No idea when I’ll see it

Ah well, better we are all well to see it, kids summer camp is a Petrie dish

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 13 July 2025 - 05:30 PM

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

QuickTidal, on 10 July 2025 - 03:34 PM, said:

I heard a former Superman didn't like that the new Superman movie was going to be "woke"...and why did I KNOW without looking that it would be conservative shitbag, Kevin Sorbo buddy Dean Fucking Cain with the lava hot take...

https://www.superher...s-gunn-too-woke

Amusingly, he comments about the removal of the whole American Way stuff from the Truth & Justice line...someone want to tell him that a Canadian invented Superman, orrrrrr? Better yet, that the line was not originally part of the narrative and wasnt added till the radio adaptation in the mid-40's? Nah, he'd rather be annoyed about pointless shit.

This is probably too vague to be a spoiler but I'll spoiler it anyway...

Spoiler

Elsewhere in the movie they replace "the American Way" with... something else...

And this is slightly more of a spoiler, though still vague:

Spoiler

... that takes aim at MAGA/Nazis/Musk & co.

(I'm not actually going to watch the movie anytime soon, but I read this artiicle (spoilers):

The New Superman Movie Has an Unlikely Inspiration—and It's Not Superman - Slate

)

[Tiste Simeon]

I've started seeing a bunch of douchebag right wing morons talk about how rubbish it is, which means I'm definitely watching it!

[QuickTidal]

So I refunded the tickets and my wife is sending me on my own this afternoon, so that’s awesome and I’ll make her a solid dinner when I get home

[Slow Ben]

Tiste Simeon, on 13 July 2025 - 06:58 PM, said:

I've started seeing a bunch of douchebag right wing morons talk about how rubbish it is, which means I'm definitely watching it!

Same! Makes me even more excited to watch it. And take the kids.