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From: atropos@mac.com
On Oct 8, 2025 at 1:35:23 PM PDT, "anim8rfsk" wrote:
> BTR1701 wrote:
>> 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.
>
> To quote my BFF, did you ever see Superman do anything that he couldn’t
> have done more easily some other way?
Well, there is the fact that Superman is a dick to contend with.
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