What even is this? Gunn literally sold out to the megacorp. He still made a vehicle for capitalism. It’s not like it’s some counter culture or auteur movie.

But new Superman is recycled ass, despite its somewhat humanist values.

Kinda the opposite. No longer able to fall back on DVD sales, Hollywood has become more conservative in what they'll invest in. Matt Damon explains.

I’m surprised you were able to see it in the theater. By the time I get off the couch to go see something, the studios have usually already shuffled it off to streaming.

Superman was the first movie I went by myself to see in like 5 years. I've taken the kids to a couple in that time period but none just for me.

Not quite the same but I have not watched anything new in awhile at all but I grabbed the digital edition. Got it for the dog and overall disapointed. I mean it was ok but definitely happy about the dog decision as it was the best parts to me. Keep in mind I have pretty much hated everything since the twenty teens so my bar is pretty high. Like LOTR high.

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I really didn't like the new Superman. I'm a massive Superman fan and was bitterly disappointed in it. I see lots of people enjoying the new style, so maybe I'm just getting old. But each to their own; the old movies aren't going anywhere.

I think studios can be reliably trusted to learn exactly the wrong lesson from KPDH and flood the market with derivative cash-grab slop instead of taking a risk on something novel and different.

There are still enough western stories left untold that there's no need to pillage other cultures for a quick buck. I would love to see more representation of all cultures, myths or not, but I don't think the best way to do that is through churning out movies from Hollywood about them because that's what's in now. There has been more good representation recently, but that's not the takeaway from KPDH in my opinion. Josie and the pussycats is arguably superficially pretty similar, so it's not like the overall concept of girl group saves day through music and friendship hasn't been done in western media, this just had more fighting. I think the takeaway is that people aren't exclusively looking for established universes or known creative teams. Studios are unwilling to take chances on unknowns and it's causing a drought of creativity and originality. There's also a lot of created by committee issues that arise when studios do try something new that ruins the whole thing. I don't want to see a movie where every line was focus tested. I want to see a cohesive film with a point of view.

O_o important detail: how many tickets ?

I feel like James Gunn is the perfect man for the job to make it less formulaic. He uses the universe as a sandbox to play in. He has tools and characters to play with. Marvel has been so bad that they are predictable and boring. Fantastic 4 sucked ass. Even with Pedro Pascal, I just couldn't care about the characters or story. But James Gunns Superman is the first Superman movie I ever enjoyed. He's an OP character with no personality, but Gunn managed to make it enjoyable, which is hard with a character as bland as Superman. Basically Superman is mayonnaise, but James Gunn made it taste good. Marvel lately has been taking flavorful recipes and making them bland. The only exception being Deadpool. Fantastic 4 was a mouthful of mayonnaise.

People who make shitty movies like to blame fatigue or wokeness or racism instead of the root cause of poorly written stories.

James Gunn is good at what he does because he's passionate about the stories and characters. Disney uses characters and stories as profit inducers. That's the difference. James Gunn is going to end the MCU unintentionally by just being better at character development.

Some of the Batman ones are OK. Watchmen and Antman were fine.

I still remember going to see Ironman 1 or 2 in the cinema what seems like 15+ years ago.

There was a scene where the oligarch is captured by the Taliban and he is held hostage in a cave. He then builds an ironman costume (from scrap?) in the cave and kicks the Taliban's ass. I was laughing at the stupidity of the scene.

It's at that moment I realized this stuff is not for me.