This type of movie is only a drag if you are a sex trafficker.
I was loving this movie until it started being a superhero movie. It was a really cool scifi experience till then
I guess I should watch this.
The dog sucked. I wish they used a real one. The cgi was just very rough, and I felt nothing for it all movie because of this fact.
Very ruff you say?
Boo Go to your room and think of what you've done
That's pretty much all a movie needs, really.
Smells crime, back to the lab, full penetration. Crime, penetration, crime, full penetration, crime, penetration. And this goes on and on, and back and forth, for 90 or so minutes until the movie just, sort of, ends.
I'm a little more interested in it now TBH
It was a weird one I thought. It has all the good elements I like - a sort of grungy vibe, ass-kicking woman protagonist, kill-all-sex-traffickers central theme - but somehow it was also kind of boring? I'm not entirely sure how they managed to pull that off TBH.
Good! If you're interested in the sort of story, it's a solid movie.
Hmmm doggie? Which movie was this again? Asking for a friend
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I think next DCU movie should just be Krypto. That’s Avatar levels of money.
Krypto is based on James Gunn's misbehaving dog
Krypto killing sex traffickers
As a side quest, Krypto can kill Sam Altman and Peter Thiel to help reign in crypto.
I mean, that's kind of what they did in Superman, and it was very cathartic
Except the dog was poisoned and sad. It wasn't "awww doggie" it was "awww sad doggie." Also Supergirl didn't have her powers for like 3/4ths of the movie (due to her character's own stupidity). Like they couldn't write a decent story if she had powers.
and she recovered from the poison with yellow sun power, but the dog couldn't?
Maybe this would have been better written with ChapGPT.
Yes! That was plot hole that frustrated me early on.
They said that moving Krypto would accelerate the poison so he would have died before they got to a yellow sun.
Yeah that's pretty nonsense though. Superman can literally die for days/weeks and come back to life with the sun's power. Krypto should be able to also.
It's not a great excuse, no, but the lampshade was at least present.
I think that's kind of the main issue with any character that has Superman-level powers, they're so OP that it sort of limits what you can do to keep the story interesting. You basically have:
Try to make the powers irrelevant and embroil them in a complicated psychological/moral issue (great if it works but difficult to pull off and not especially visually interesting for a superhero movie.)
Create an enemy with the same power level as them (then you just basically have two invincible characters bouncing off each other and smashing everything around them (visually interesting but essentially no stakes.)
Have them lose their powers in some convoluted way and then get them back at the climax of the movie to do an ass-kicking scene (which seems to be the default.)
I think it's the same problem that The Boys TV show had - at first there was kind of a tension about them just being normal people and Homelander being so powerful that he could hear their heartbeats from half a mile away and level the entire city they were hiding in if he knew they were there, but the longer it went on the more preposterous it got that he hadn't just squished them yet. Especially when the show has them meet face-to-face multiple times and he either lets them go because reasons or they escape somehow.
I don't think that's true at all, and there are nearly 100 years of Superman comics full of stuff that doesn't fit that. I feel like you are commenting on the movies specifically and coming to the conclusion that these are the ONLY choices.
When they make a movie, they are OBSESSED with the 2nd idea. An enemy with equal power. Which is why we've seen 2 movies starring general Zod, despite him not being that major of a character. It's why we got Doomsday in the Justice League movie. Hollywood filmmakers are clearly in love with the idea of two super people bouncing off buildings for 90 minutes. In the comics though, this would be boring as hell. "Essentially no stakes" as you put it. Correct. It's boring. I hate that the movies always want Superman to become this. Because it's not what the comics are like at all.
There are many options you have missed. There are limits to Superman's powers. Remember that these are from detective comics. A good Superman comic involves a mystery for Clark Kent/Superman to solve. Like who is supplying Intergang with weapons. A good episode from the kids cartoon show starts with Clark Kent being assassinated, then Superman trying to figure out who did it and why. Superman Red Son (which has a cartoon movie with some changes), puts Superman in the USSR instead of Kansas, for truth, justice, and the communist way. Again, not remotely any of the 3 plot lines you have suggested.
Superman (2025) did a great job with this. Yes you've got an "equal" super-being for him to fight (Hollywood wouldn't accept anything less), but ultimately it's about Lex Luthor and the plot behind it all.
The Boys is a poorly written show that loves violence. They ran out of ideas within a couple years. Not surprised at all that everyone hated the ending. They wrote themselves into a corner very early on. They were always pushing the idea that violence was the answer, very unlike Superman in nearly every way. The fact that you see this as comparable to Superman is pretty frustrating. Frankly I think the whole show is a bit of a middle finger to Superman. It's literally a show about how much they think Superman sucks. The show that's about Superman sucking, isn't a satisfying portrayal of Superman? Shocker.
Like... "Superman" is Clark Kent. A reporter who discovers crime, then he also has the powers to stop it. But the "Superman" you describe is a super-being who is boring when he bounces off buildings, always being power scaled or losing his powers so that the fights will be interesting for Hollywood. Do you see the difference?
I think the issue was more DC's power scaling issues. It's kinda hard to write a compelling story for Superman or Batman at their peak, because they are, for the most part, invincible and flawless according to DC. I suspect that her not having the ability to access her powers for 3/4 of the movie was an effort to make her seem like a Marvel superhero with flaws and relatability. Unfortunately, DC doesn't know how to do that, as Marvel doesn't even know how to do that consistently. Power creep is a real problem if you can't just magic away the hero's basic invulnerability.
This is one of the issues that Invincible tackled quite nicely at least until the end of season 2. I haven't gotten around to watching season 3.
It also kind of made the villains seem a bit daft. The rule seemed to be red sun = no powers, green sun = kills her, yellow sun = super powers and the main villain seemed to be pretty powerful no matter where he was, and they establish early on that there are lots of red sun planets where people live, so literally just hide out anywhere without a yellow sun and you're 100% safe?
Couldn't get past season 1 of Invincible. You won't like what I thought about it. But I'm a Superman fan who doesn't like excessive violence, so hopefully you can understand where I'm coming from.
23-year-old with abandonment and self-worth issues behaves less than reasonably, more at 11.
It's a general complaint I have about some of the mainstream attempts at Superman. "We've got to make him/her weaker." Is a common theme that has been done way too many times. Because in these people's minds, there is nothing interesting that can happen if Superman/Supergirl actually has their powers and wins. The drama, for these non-Superman fans writing the script, is in the hero losing their powers. They don't actually understand what's appealing about Superman in the first place.
I mean I agree with them. There's nothing interesting about a character who's invincible and can do almost anything with ease. I always found Superman painfully boring.
Perfect movie.
I like all that. Really liked what she did to that one jackass at the end--- made me like her a bit more.
Did not like dog being hurt, dog being left, dog almost dying. Did not like! 😭
Edit: omg I just realized why the Cons hated this movie! It's in the second line of the OP's post.
Her suit also included shorts under her skirt. SHORTS! Isn't that outrageous? How are they supposed to get pantyshots now?! /S
Conservatives require cameltoe. Fucking disgusting, but entirely predictable behavior from the Epstien Class.
Meh... still not going to watch it
It was... fine. The action scenes were pretty dull, though. Seemed a strange choice for a second movie. If you're gonna have Supergirl as your second movie it really has to knock it out of the park. I mean guardians was after like 8 MCU movies or something.
Can someone explain what the aww doggie part means? Is it sex scenes?
No, it's Supergirl's dog, who is cute, then possibly dying, so they are non-sexy awws (either adorable or sadness awws, depending).
She has a cute doggie, it is the most harmless and wholesome of "aww"s you could imagine.
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