Just saw the new Superman movie—I think it's the best Superman movie yet. The parallels with politics today cannot be ignored. In fact, it was incredibly refreshing to see Hollywood lean into politics rather than whitewash it. Posting my full analysis soon. This is not a review I expected to write.
You're one of many saying the same thing. That does it for me. Ok, I'm going.
Garbage post. Christopher Reeves was "the best Superman". The end.
The actor playing Lex Luthor by channeling both Elon Musk and Stephen Miller is what got me.
I don’t even need to watch it to know it will flop. Something about woke and broke comes to mind.
I adored it just as a fun movie with great acting. But the parallels to today were amazing. I highly recommend it. bsky.app/profile/thom...
Agree 100% and I must say I love his super dog!💙 I got to thinking on the way home about Trump and his stooges having a pic made of him dressed up like Superman! Someone needs to correct that post! Trump’s true character would of course have been the evil Lex Luthor!😈
That’s an insult to Lex fans. Lex is brilliant. Trump is dumb as a post.
I know many say he is dumb as a rock but he has been elected TWICE to the highest office in America! 🤷🏼♀️
1/ As someone who grew up with post war Superman comics, I think the character has always been political while the times were different and to some extent, the comics were constrained, he did go after many of the same type of criminals we have today.
2/ The character seems to have been a surrogate for an immigrant struggling to find a place in a strange new world where freedom and justice were considered ideals even if they were not always attained.
3/ Lois Lane was a ambitious woman reporter who IMHO, foreshadowed the liberation movement that would follow decades later. Finally, and perhaps most relevant to the situation today, the Superman character was anti-authoritarian. He would have despised a character like Donald Trump.
I read that Magats thought it was 'too woke'. so I decided I had to go see it. I'm not usually a big Superman fan but this one, I have to see. Thanks.
How did they get this movie made so quickly? It seems like the screenplay was written last month….😲
You’ve made me want to see a movie I never had any intention of seeing or liking.
Ooh sounds good
Ay Qasim! If you liked it, I have to go see it😭 I’m a Marvel fan, but my son was like “let’s go watch the new Superman! It’s really important.” P.S. If you haven’t watched Andor, I highly recommend it for the reasons you stated about Superman
Didn’t even know it was out this weekend.
I told my husband I want to see it, but he said he's tired of comic-book movies.
I was tired of them too but this one was so so different. I absolutely loved it.
I'll share that with him.
I am looking forward to seeing it.
Looking forward to reading it.
Saw it today also, Qasim, and totally agree.
It’s the most political Superman has ever been and the best. This wasn’t just a superhero movie. It was a warning. Full thoughts soon.
Superman has been political since the very beginning
Indeed, Superman started as a hero of the little guy who took on capitalists, the military-industrial complex, corrupt politicians, and the Klan. There’s never been a time Superman wasn’t political.
Amen. Hard to get more political than punching Nazis and the Klan.
Conservatives are just angry that we reminded them Superman has never been on their side.
A story about lies and manipulation, purposely creating chaos and mayhem to prove your lies, then claiming to be the solution to the problem, but failing big time at the cost of many lives. Sounded more like a documentary.
Just saw it and agree there are similarities for sure. (The movie had humor, however, and the real situation much less so)
Was not on my radar, but it is now.
I'm going to see it tonight
The family saw it today (in 3D) and completely agree…best yet.
Hollywood can’t afford to ignore it when politicians want to white wash everything including Hollywood. We need more of this.
It’s also quite the commentary on our corporate fascist society that 90 year-old comic book tropes with the call for basic human empathy are treated as a communist attack on the patriarchy.
I want to see it now!
Great movie that strongly parallels what we are going thru today. There was a point in the movie I literally teared up. Good always wins over evil.
Thks. Will watch now.
Then surely the film will piss off the red-hats.
Don’t leave Krypto out. He’s the real hero.
I agree. 💯
I thought it was great! Superman is supposed to care about people. He's supposed to be heroic and punch bullies in the nose. The fact that there are parallels to comic book villains in some peoples' behaviour should probably give them pause. I didn't find the movie very political at all.
Unless you happen to be Elon Musk, of course, he took a few strays.
I had high hopes for this movie and just feel like Black Adam all over again. You can make Superman seem vulnerable without having him get his ass beat throughout the movie. He didn't look strong or act strong. And I'm not blaming the actor. I blame the writer/director solely.
Strength is not “can’t get hurt”. Strength is “not letting that hurt stop you from doing the right thing.” Clark is a muscular guy, sure. But his strongest muscle has always been his heart.
I spoke of vulnerability, not strength. In man of steel his vulnerability was shown by him walking into a congressional hearing and not seeing the wheelchair bomb, watching all those people incinerated and coming to the realization that maybe he needs to start looking and questioning. 👇🏼
He still got his butt beat and over came it. Again, my opinion.
Killing villains out of fear is neither vulnerability nor strength. Superman has both, Snyder’s character had neither.
Got it. You didn't understand Man of Steel. Or that scene. Vulnerability is getting your ass handed to you by everyone & shrugging it off, and bad guys can shoot people in the head and then cry when caught. The one character who shouldn't cry is Lex, especially after going on about why he hates him.
Mistaking bullying for strength, and kindness for weakness, is very Ayn Rand. Very Snyder.
It's also fun. Comics used to be fun
Can you please touch on the lack of a strong female role (doesn’t pass the Bechdel Test)? I’m somewhat frustrated that the “immigrant” is a stereotypical, macho white male. I agree that the movie was good. I just think it could have been much better. Why can’t people empathize with women and POC?
I just can’t let go of the disappointing way the female characters were written. The movie had a whole scene where Lois Lane was treated as a damsel in distress, putting her in a bubble while a man fights off 40 people. She’s supposed to be a badass investigative reporter and the neutered her.
That was not a damsel in distress moment. That was an audience surrogate moment.
I’m a woman and it was not at all relatable to me. So I think if it was an audience surrogate moment, then it missed the mark.
Okay but damsel in distress would mean she would’t have autonomy in the situation and would only be used as a prop to motivate the male character. Going to the beach base was her idea. Lois is never used as a prop and is always proactive in stopping Lex.
Ok. I see your point about the damsel in distress. But she did not have free will in that moment. He literally put her in a bubble.
Yeah cause she’s a normal civilian and he was about to fight an army of Lex’s goons. One stray bullet and she’s gone. Lois isn’t a fighter but that doesn’t make her weak. I hate the idea that a strong woman needs to be physically strong.
She didn’t even break the story. That was given to a man too. What scene was she strong in? If her strength is supposed mental, that wasn’t the case. She only convinced one of the three meta humans to help her. She wasn’t written as a strong female at all. Gunn should get help with writing women.
She did break the story. Jimmy got the leads, but Lois was the one who put it all together. She even dictated the final story to Jimmy WHILE PILOTING A SPACE SHIP.
And don't forget--The Engineer was a total badass baddie and a woman. Critiques of "strong" female characters tend to forget/dismiss the villains--but thirty years ago, you wouldn't have had that character.
Loved it! 😍
I don't even think I saw much of the politics really. I saw OG Superman. What people don't understand is that he was fighting wars as a third party in old cartoons anyway. Social media may have not played a factor but he was definitely a universal peace figure.
Good. I’m going to watch it now.
I’m going tomorrow, I’m glad to hear it’s been pissing off the right.
Sounds like this is why the MAGAverse rejected it and photoshopped Trump's face over Superman's in one of the movie posters. James Gunn is suing the White House for $1B for copywrite infringement, in case you haven't heard.
I just saw it too and came to say the same thing. Amazing movie.