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From: YourName@YourISP.com
On 2025-10-07 01:07:26 +0000, Dimensional Traveler said:
> On 10/6/2025 8:32 AM, Ted Nolan wrote:
>> In article <10c0mji$cefj$2@dont-email.me>,
>> Ubiquitous wrote:
>>> You know, having had some time to think about it, I think I may have
>>> been a little bit too kind to James Gunn's Superman movie. I did give
>>> it a 6.5 out of 10. Maybe that was at least one point too high. When I
>>> think about the amount of times Superman needed to be rescued in that
>>> movie, or how one-dimensional most of the characters were, or how awful
>>> the CGI was in places, or how serious moments were undercut by cheap
>>> Marvel type humor despite this being a DC movie, even right at the very
>>> end, Superman is treated with disrespect. Basically walked on like a
>>> doormat. I'm talking about his obnoxious and drunken cousin, Cara
>>> Zorel, aka Supergirl. She mocks him, takes her dog, and swears before
>>> leaving. And this is supposed to be the main character of an upcoming
>>> Supergirl movie in the same DC universe. Can't wait.
>>>
>>> https://youtu.be/Z5j_ad0_hiQ?si=zzKePzrm5lhUU3lf
>>
>> It's not clear to me why Gunn thought Tom King's take on Supergirl was
>> the one he wanted to use in the DCU, but the bigger problem is, if there
>> is any adherance to standard continuity, Supergirl knew Superman's parents,
>> and for that matter, lived on Krypton until she was a teen and could easily
>> set him straight on their message.
>
> The problem I had with Gunn's Superman movie is he made another Marvel
> movie using DC characters.
Gunn is to the DC world as Ron Moore is to the Battlestar Galactica
world ... an egotistical idiot who thinks he knows better than the
person who actually created the idea, and simply turns the franchise
into an even bigger mess. :-\
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