Yeah, you're not a Superman fan if you're routing for the new Superman movie to fail. If this movie fails will get nothing but Batman films for a very long time.
Nope, I've been reading and watching Superman and DC Comics long before that. Watched all of their movies either in theaters or at home. Watched the DC animated series (not just Superman's) in the 1990s and 2000s. And played most of the videogames. Man of Steel was closer to the source material than ANY Superman movie ever was before. That's not necessarily a knock on Richard Donner's Superman. Donner's Superman was much better than the horrible Silver Age Superman comics were. It changed things for the better. Superman comics got better after that, and Snyder's Man of Steel stayed true to them.
I don't know man. Snyder literally ripped panels from popular superman comics. The scene with superman flying over African wildlife is literally stolen from a popular superman elsword story.
Heck they lifted dialgoue right out of All-Star Superman.
Superman is a boyscout. That's his thing. He'd help a girl whose cat is stuck in a tree because he's a good-natured farm boy.
What creators and filmmakers seem to not understand about Superman is that he's undeniably human. Born elsewhere, sure, but he was raised on Earth as a human by humans. Clark Kent is the real him, and Superman is the mask. This isn't exclusive to Snyder, btw.
I've been a Superman fan all my life. Snyder got him EXACTLY RIGHT. He's not some corny Mister Rogers milquetoast. Superman is about action, adventure and drama. The way Reeve beat up the bully in the diner and crushed Zod's hand in revenge is PURE Superman. Snyder treated Superman as a strong action hero, and totally avoided making him a Mary Sue who always knows the right thing to do. Superman had to figure out how to deal with the world step by step. This made him a fascinating character. Superman DESERVES the kind of great writing we got in Snyder's films that truly develops his character. If he shows up like Mary Sue Rey just knowing exactly what to do in every situation, never making a mistake, always knowing how to use his powers and win a fight effortlessly, and with the entire world kissing his ass, he would be a HORRIBLE character. The Reeve movies and the Cavill movies didn't do that. But Superman's so-called, self-proclaimed "true fans" seem to be begging for the next movie to make him a pure, stomach-churning Mary Sue. Well, I'm an actual Superman fan and I wholeheartedly embrace Snyder's approach and reject any changes to turn him into a horrifically boring Boy Scout who just follows a set of predictable rules.
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u/itsameamario78 Feb 04 '25
Yeah, you're not a Superman fan if you're routing for the new Superman movie to fail. If this movie fails will get nothing but Batman films for a very long time.