Superman (2025 film)

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Alright, my semi-coherent thoughts:

I liked it! It’s a good movie and a good story. It’s not THE Superman story, but it was quite good and I’m excited to see more.

I will say, I don’t know if this reboot was a good idea and the box office numbers ain’t looking great. Several coworkers and I normally go see action and superhero movies when we’re on the road, but only one guy wanted to go with me yesterday. The general consensus was basically that they liked Cavill as Superman and didn’t understand why they rebooted. Anectotal obviously, but worth sharing, I thought.

Corenswet was mostly good. Too emotional and whiny at times, especially during his argument with Lois. But I guess he’s still a young Superman, but he’s like 30 in the story. Hopefully they let him grow into role and feel like classic Supes.

Brosnahan was perfect as Lois. Case closed.

Thank you Gunn for giving us a REAL Lex. Christ almighty, how hard is that? Bald. Rich. Feels inferior to Superman so he hates him. It’s that simple.

The clone was an odd choice and could have been a bigger deal. Also strange to use the Ultraman name like that, but he was sucked into a black hole so maybe he did go to Earth 3?

Not a fan of making the Kryptonians evil, as a concept. I did love the ending where they changed the footage he liked to watch at the fortress from his Krypton parents to his Earth parents, so there definitely was emotional payoff. But I dunno. It does make me think Brainiac will be the villain in the sequel.

The Justice Gang ruled. Fillion CRUSHED it as Guy, Mr. Terrific was awesome and the girl who played Hawkgirl was fine as hell (the hawk screaming got old though).

Michael Ian Black making fun of Tucker was pretty funny.

Everything with the Kents was incredibly sweet, as was Krypto. Although I think his inclusion might have been a little too goofy.

And I’ll wrap my ramblings up with the whole forgeign intervention plot. I thought there were a few superficial connections to Russia/Ukraine but it was VERY blatantly a proxy for Israel/Palestine. Which kinda just made me sad. It also felt like they never dealt with the moral dilemma of metahumans meddling in foreign affairs. I guess it was just a free for all once FAKE Netanyahu was caught red handed being in cahoots with Luthor?

So yeah, there was a LOT going on but Gunn did a good job juggling it all. I’m sad to see yet another Superman movie do “just ok”. This definitely is not and never will be quintessential Superman, but it was still well done.

Oh, and I don’t really see Gunn’s claim that the movie is about “kindness”.