Superman
The exposition, especially in the beginning, can be a bit boring, and is therefore kind of a misfire. If anything it made my brain inattentive rather than inclined receive or retain information.
And while I get that you can only allow for so much breathing room and complexity in your storytelling if you've got a lot of plot and theme to go through within limited runtime, I still think Supesy's goody two-shoes schtick was a little more one-dimensional than it needed to be. Just like... a few other things in this movie seemed uneccessarily ham-fisted, on the nose or convenient. But it works.
I can understand that the overall tone of this made be not the easiest to get into for some, but it definitely grows on you over its runtime. And it...I don't know, man, it has just way more of a Superman feel to it and is just way more of a, you know, a movie than whatever exercise Zack Snyder was going for there.
And, not knowing anything about these comics, with James Gunn I always feel in extremely safe hands when it comes to giving me an overall feeling of what these worlds/universes/mythologies/whatchamacallit are like. Also of course his signature style of mixing funny with creepy in a way that enhances both. Or at least doesn't take away from either. Always nice to see.
I also just realized something while reading someone else's take on this. They said this must be the least Clark Kent screentime in any superman movie ever compared to the Superman screentime.
The reason I'd disagree with that is because I think this may be the first Superman movie that doesn't seperate the two. Neither for the audience, for the characters in the movie, nor for the performance of the main character or lead actor. This Supesydupes is just way too unabashedly honest for that. The movie doesn't treat them as seperate, because Supedy-Dupedy doesn't. It's just him at work. Well, at his second job at least.
Oh, and the dog looked very good for a cgi dog. Not as good as the AI-enhanced cat in Caught Stealing, but still.
And while I get that you can only allow for so much breathing room and complexity in your storytelling if you've got a lot of plot and theme to go through within limited runtime, I still think Supesy's goody two-shoes schtick was a little more one-dimensional than it needed to be. Just like... a few other things in this movie seemed uneccessarily ham-fisted, on the nose or convenient. But it works.
I can understand that the overall tone of this made be not the easiest to get into for some, but it definitely grows on you over its runtime. And it...I don't know, man, it has just way more of a Superman feel to it and is just way more of a, you know, a movie than whatever exercise Zack Snyder was going for there.
And, not knowing anything about these comics, with James Gunn I always feel in extremely safe hands when it comes to giving me an overall feeling of what these worlds/universes/mythologies/whatchamacallit are like. Also of course his signature style of mixing funny with creepy in a way that enhances both. Or at least doesn't take away from either. Always nice to see.
I also just realized something while reading someone else's take on this. They said this must be the least Clark Kent screentime in any superman movie ever compared to the Superman screentime.
The reason I'd disagree with that is because I think this may be the first Superman movie that doesn't seperate the two. Neither for the audience, for the characters in the movie, nor for the performance of the main character or lead actor. This Supesydupes is just way too unabashedly honest for that. The movie doesn't treat them as seperate, because Supedy-Dupedy doesn't. It's just him at work. Well, at his second job at least.
Oh, and the dog looked very good for a cgi dog. Not as good as the AI-enhanced cat in Caught Stealing, but still.
Mini Review: Supesy's goody two-shoes schtick was a little more one-dimensional than it needed to be. But it works. And it has way more of a Superman feel to it and is way more of an actual movie than whatever exercise Zack Snyder was going for there. And with James Gunn I always feel in extremely safe hands when it comes to giving me an overall feeling of what these worlds are like. This also might be the only Superman movie that doesn't seperate Supesy and Clark. Movie and character treat him as
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