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Message: [QUOTE="ZooCougar, post: 5312890, member: 296"] Superman (2025) Superman isn't even a comic book hero anymore. Nobody reads Superman comics which is why everyone is wondering how Superman got a dog. He has a substantial cinematic history at this point. He's been in some great ones and some really forgettable ones. Time will tell what kind this is. Mike Francesa wasn't totally wrong. This didn't feel much like a Superman movie. Superman is a total screw up here, he gets his butt kicked throughout the movie and it's so bad that it stops feeling like you are watching the right movie. There's a ton of extra noise in this movie. There is a lame Hawk Girl (Who cares?), some guy who talks like Robert Downey's character from Tropic Thunder, who also is like Rob's Iron Man without the suit and an actually pretty good Nathan Fillion Green Lantern with a Simple Jack haricut who steals every scene. And this is the problem; If your Superman movie needs all these extra supporting characters to help carry your movie then your Superman movie blows. Superman is Superman, and written correctly he can carry a movie. This is objectively true and not up for debate. The other thing a good Superman film needs is a good villain. The Lex Luthor in this movie was totally boring. He's nothing you haven't seen before. A pretty stock smart rich guy who is angry that someone better than him exists. He's no Gene Hackman. He's not even Jesse Eisenberg. He's certainly no General Zod. Unbelievably the other bad guy is the leader of a totally "fictional" nation called "Boravia". I don't want to get all political here but with this leader there are just so many tropes on display here, the accent, the big nose, yeah you guessed it. The movie is just one giant Computer Generated Imagery generated crisis after another. They are meaningless and you will lose track. James Gunn as usual is incapable of making a story that's good enough to stand without heavily augmenting it with catchy music. It's like a tasty sauce spread all over a bland steak. The only acting that occurs is with Jimmy Olson (How could James Gunn not bring back that Spin Doctors song) and Lex's "girlfriend". That's literally the only interesting subplot and more interesting than the actual plot. Do yourself a favor. Wait till it comes out for free on one of your 12 streaming services. Or watch Man of Steel, which is 100 times better. [/QUOTE]

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