Originally posted by Mindset
Was mediocre at best.At least the ending wasn't trite.
Yea it wasn’t better than Man Of Steel, but I didn’t go in there hoping or thinking it was going to be.
It’s as good as we are going to get for an ultra man first flick.
CTDM have you been on your period longer than usual?
Originally posted by BrolyBlack
Yea it wasn’t better than Man Of Steel, but I didn’t go in there hoping or thinking it was going to be.It’s as good as we are going to get for an ultra man first flick.
CTDM have you been on your period longer than usual?
Originally posted by BrolyBlack
Very good film, in the credits they have an evil aqua man and evil wonderwoman. This is going to be a great injustice league.
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Probably Berserk. 👆
The symbol was also featured predominately in a comic book series called Nameless, by Grant Morrison:
https://i.imgur.com/Zg8MNb8.jpg
It's a really good mini, but not many people have read it, so that's probably not where you remember it from.
I’m a long time Superman fan. I haven’t seen it yet but I plan to. I think it’s has potential to be interesting.
I certainly don’t consider it in any way to be insulting to Superman (who is not real after all) nor his fans nor the idea of Superman. I think of it as “What if instead of Kal El that landed in Kansas, it was Zod?”
Variations on this idea have already been done in comics. Alternate worlds where Kal El was raised by different people (most famously Red Son where the he was raised in the USSR), or by an Amish family. In Marvel’s Justice League pastiche, the Squadron Supreme, one version of their Superman analoge Hyperion was raised by a secret government program that attempted to replicate a carefully orchestrated American family (to questionable success)
Anyway, I think it’s could be a fun movie, but as always it will depend on the writing, directing, and acting.
Originally posted by HumbleServant
Is this a Superman movie? And if it is, is it DCEU?
What is looked like to me was a Mark Millar comic that he never wrote. He does this flips and riffs off famous genre characters, like in Nemesis ('What if Batman was the Joker?'😉; there's been a pending movie adaption of that for years.
Just saw this. It got a lot of mileage out of its premise but frankly didn't have the balls to go far enough. Making Brandon's space ship responsible for his descent into murder robbed Brandon of any real agency and as such hamstrung what could have been much more interesting themes and a provided a more thought-provoking deconstruction of the Superman mythos and the superhero genre. I'd have preferred the film ask questions like are people born in equilibrium with each other, or are they forced into it by being placed in a relatively even playing field? What happens when a child is possessed of power to make him utterly above consequence? Essentially, a lot of more interesting shit could have been done with the Superman archetype than just making his space ship infect his mind, and though one could argue that there are hints that it just exacerbated issues that were already present in Brandon's alien psyche, or that the ship and Brandon's alien nature is an effective subversion of the Superman assumption that that Jor-El's influence upon Superman is a positive one and that he was flung to be the last beacon of hope from a dying world to inspire another (where instead Brandon was sent to be a brood parasite), for the first I'd still argue that the presence of the clearly mind-altering ship cheapens it by once again putting Brandon's agency into question, and for the second while true I guess that isn't nearly as compelling as the possibilities I've outline IMO.
Still, I enjoyed the movie, I liked how they emphasized how horrifying the wrong type of person with a Superman powerset would be (his speed in particular being played for horror), I liked that Brandon's victims didn't turn out to all be bullying scumbags and were mostly decent people, I liked how brutal some of the deaths turned out to be, and I quite liked the sequel hook. I just think the movie could have been a lot better.
I'm glad it was made, and hope to see more superhero genre films that go outside of the formula set by the MCU. Probably a 7/10.
I watched this because I thought James Gunn wrote it, but it seems he produced it? Who are the Gunns who wrote it? I assume they're related to him?
Anyway, it's a clever way to try to capitalize on the Superhero genre except switching it around for a horror audience. I assume they'll hope to make a myriad of other anti-superhero films if this is a hit. But I can't say it was particularly interesting enough to warrant it.
