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This movie was pretty good. Actually felt like a breath of fresh air compared to Marvelslop and Snyderslop.
Superman actually felt like Superman. Lex felt like a billionaire. The Justice Gang was great. I loved that Hawkgirl actually killed the Netanyahu.
It just needed more Clark time like the old movies. Christopher Reeves is still the best Clark Kent by a mile.
Movie was pretty good, I liked the comedic relief of the dog and the extended superhero cast of D listers really came together.
That being said this movie specifically has the weirdest discourse surrounding it. I think the overly-invested comic audience that came with the movie came prepared to hyper analyze the weirdest details of the movie to compare & contrast to Snyder.
Like, filter discussions back to the release day of the movie and you'll see the strongest praises for the weird cutaway scenes where Superman saves a dog or a squirrel or mugs the camera with some outdated 1950s charm. Not in any smart or creative way, just Superman saving animals & people and stuff.
I genuinely have a hard time believing people are in the cinemas to see those scenes, but you'd get the impression they were based off the discourse.
I think it's a big example of Diegetic essentialism causing a cultural fixation on the wrong parts of media. If Snyder never made his Superman movies I don't think people would care how many squirrels Superman saves.
Punkrocker was peak.
The whole point of the scene of him saving the squirrel is what it reveals about his character, not just that he’s saving a random squirrel. It’s showing how even when there’s literal buildings collapsing around him (if I’m remembering correctly) he’ll still give everything he has to protect everything he can. This ties into the punk rock, the radical empathy he shows where he tries to understand and protect even his enemies.
The point wasn't lost on me, it was the discourse surrounding it. It almost felt as if the (online commentary) audience missed the point of these scenes and saw them instead as Superman's 'essence.'