Cinema and Movie Thread: coming 2 a theater near u

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[LadyCrimson]

Superman (2025)

---first 40 minutes = "yes, dog is still cute. The rest is meh." I did like not rehashing the origin tale again.
--the first giant monster somewhere in there was horrible CGI.
--Supes and Lois having a talk with a monster fight casually going in background was slightly amusing.
---Fillion as Guy Gardner was great.
---overall most of the actors were fine, including the Supes actor. The material they were given, not as much
---the usual modern day pacing issues that lead to boredom/not caring, for me.
---after that 40 minutes the FFWD button was used more and more rapidly
---it made me think even more that 70's Superman/Superman-II was a time-period fluke and generally speaking, Supes does not make a compelling/fun MOVIE universe (I've liked some of the S comics more than most of these films).

Conclusion: It's an action movie I guess, and I didn't hate what I saw, but to me, it's not Superman. I didn't even like the action. No rating. It is what it is, you'd either like it, not, or don't care.

Edited Sunday at 11:37 PM by LadyCrimson

[Lexx]

For me it's more like... I probably liked it more when everything felt more "down to earth" - the more other super heroes they slap into a movie, the more weird and disconnected it feels to me. Jeez, they destroyed almost the whole town (again) in the movie. Then I look outside the window here and see that we have a road under construction for 10 years already. Technically the whole super hero world would probably have to be in ruins, because no way in hell is anyone rebuilding this fast. 

Guess this is why I liked the earlier Spider-Man a bit more. The scales weren't that huge yet. Not everything was a world shattering event. Hell, give me a movie about Superman rescuing a cat from a tree or something, I dunno. Just... not everything always has to be so big. 

It's the same with the Punisher... I really liked it when he was a lone guy, doing lone guy things. Now it's Punisher and Daredevil and Electra and what's all their names... it just doesn't feel the same anymore.

Edited Monday at 06:15 AM by Lexx

[Hurlshort]

I liked that Superman was weird. The new one really embraced the bizarre, and I thought that was the right choice after the seriousness of the Zach Snyder stuff. Peacemaker is also goofy and weird and I'm enjoying that too.

[LadyCrimson]

6 hours ago, Lexx said:

Hell, give me a movie about Superman rescuing a cat from a tree or something

 

[Lexx]

^ I actually very much liked that scene.

[ShadySands]

We just watched it too.

While there were scenes that we enjoyed, overall it was kind of middling

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[uuuhhii]

 

somehow this movie get a sequel

[LadyCrimson]

On 9/29/2025 at 6:31 AM, Lexx said:

^ I actually very much liked that scene.

Yeah, it was cute, just like the dog.
I think one issue for me is that Gunn gave a certain flavor to Guardians of the G that worked, but some of his humor style didn't mesh well with this Superman, imo. I mean, Superman II back when definitely had a lot of silly humor bits too - I love that film but it was mostly because of Terrance Stamp, it had a lot of flaws - but I dunno. Outside of animals and occasional humor re: Supes, it felt a little try-hard. And yes I agree re: too many chrs, in single films. The "universes."  It starts to feel like every movie is just an ad for the next movie. Probably a reason my fave Marvel is still Iron Man.  >.>

6 hours ago, uuuhhii said:

somehow this movie get a sequel

I saw that on YT yesterday. I admit I laughed. I actually thought the first film was passable disaster entertainment. Nothing to write home about but the flavor of late 90's/early 2000's disaster films maybe. But it definitely didn't merit a sequel.

Edited 2 hours ago by LadyCrimson