I watched a recap and besides being "woke" it looks kinda bad.
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Interest in this movie was so low that they spent the last week trying to astroturf "MAGA outrage at Superman being an immigrant." No idea if that's actually what the movie is about, because like almost everyone else on the planet, I don't give two shits about this movie.
There's very little overlap between people who want Superman, and people who want James Gunn. For fucks sake, DC already tried this when they put Joss Whedon in charge of Justice League, and everyone thought it was shit. You'd think the acclaim the "Snyder cut" got (as undeserved as it was) would have clued them in, but nope.
The original Superman is certainly a model "immigrant"... assimilating to our culture, fighting for truth, justice and the American way, speaking English fluently, using his powers responsibly; and even in Clark Kent form you'd never catch him throwing a piece of trash on the ground, mooching off welfare or shitting all over the US talking about how great Krypton was.
He’s not even an immigrant, he’s a foundling adopted by a White American couple.
just the space version of a baby left on the doorstep
They technically falsified his birth records and citizenship and gave him a fake identity
The solution is so obvious it’s almost certainly maliciousness that they don’t do it. Make a hopeful Superman that saves the day and smiles, in a brightly lit movie. Make all the white characters white.
Look up who his creators were and why they made him an "immigrant"
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I think this version of Superman is certainly trying to make a more optimistic Superman.
The movie was exactly that. I'd definitely suggest giving it a watch if you're a Superman fan
The /tv/ board on 4chan was awash with shills trying to stir up any kind of drama and interest in the film, even going as far as trying to claim a fandom was between Snyder fans and Gunn fans. Nobody actually gave a shit, however.
I like Snyder but I don't think I've liked any of his stuff for a while. I think he's kinda passe now
I absolutely fucking loved 300. Thought Watchmen was okay. Didn’t really care much about any of his other films and literally fell asleep in the theatre while Justice League was playing.
But I honestly lost all respect for the guy when he dissed Geeks and Gamers and tried to disavow after they’d raised $1Million for charity. What a piece of shit.
His name is meaningless to me now
Watchmen was a lazy cop-out swapping the fake "alien" invasion for a fake Dr Manhattan attack instead. At that point in the story Manhattan was so detached from humanity pissing him off by claiming he was attacking the planet would not only be retarded but also blatantly obvious as a lie considering just how powerful he was. If he wanted to attack and destroy the planet he could. There wouldn't be anything left after.
The engineered/mutated "alien" psychic brain being teleported into a populated zone worked in the comic because it was literally alien enough in appearance to evoke primal fear just by itself, but the additional 1 shot psychic banshee cry that killed those nearby meant it could never then go on to do more and possibly give away it was a setup.
It's my understanding that if Snyder had great ideas, they were shot down by higher ups for being niche relative to budget and target audience. Just incompatible with the production company. The last great conventional superhero movies were the Dark Knight Trilogy and Ironman 1, before Hollywood went overt woke. Even with newer movies that happen to be less woke, the triple A media industry won't take creative risks anymore.
I have the Snyder cut of Justice League, and it is a thousand times better than the released version. More coherent, better paced, a much better movie overall.
I think if DC wanted to flesh out their universe, just give Snyder the franchise, and let him go nuts. He, at least, has a plan.
The part that made me memorably wince was when Wonder Woman gave the no-effort "you can be anything you want" platitude to that random school girl, during her intro hostage scene. Heck that whole sequence was narratively safe and unimaginative girl-bossing. I don't know if that differed in either cut.
Random human schoolgirl: "Can I be like you?"
Literal goddess raised from birth to be fight and empowered with magical artifacts created by another god: "yoU cAn"
Snyder isn't a blue ribbon director by any means, but he can make entertaining movies at least.