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   From: atropos@mac.com   
      
   On Oct 8, 2025 at 12:06:05 PM PDT, "Ted Nolan " > wrote:   
      
   > In article <10c6c57$1q485$5@dont-email.me>, BTR1701   wrote:   
   >> On Oct 8, 2025 at 1:30:49 AM PDT, "Ubiquitous"  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>  anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:   
   >>>>  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,   
   >>>>   
   >>>>  And yet one of the ubiquitous TV reporters makes a point of saying he's   
   >>>>  the mightiest Meta human of them all.   
   >>>   
   >>>  According to the intro after the opening credits, that was the first time   
   >>>  he lost a fight, which makes sense because Ultra Man was actually a clone   
   >>>  of Superman.   
   >>   
   >> Which means at best, it would have been a stalemate with each of them   
   >> inflicting equal damage on the other. It doesn't explain why Ultraman so   
   >> easily beat Superman.   
   >   
   > Well, in-movie I'd say for the same reasons Superman had more trouble   
   > with the Kaju than the Justice Gang did.  He would be trying to *stop*   
   > Ultra Man while Ultra Man would be trying to *kill* him.   
      
   Well, if you let yourself get beaten, you're not stopping anyone, so as a   
   strategy, that's not very smart.   
      
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