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The new Superman movie started development in 2022. That’s only a few years after the high point of BLM and peak wokeness. Movies made prior to that were so woke that they were radioactive. (Case in point, Sleeping Beauty.) Movies made after that point are not completely hopeless mostly because studios were pulling belated course corrections. If Superman 2025 had begun production a year earlier, it would have been written by Ta-Nehisi Coates (whom WB brought on board to write a black Superman movie) and directed by Jordan Peele and consisted of Superman fighting cops.
So on that scale, it’s probably not that woke. Instead it’s got a post-Trump liberal appeal to “kindness”.
James Gunn Says ‘Superman’ Is About an ‘Immigrant That Came From Other Places’ and How We’ve ‘Lost’ the Value of ‘Basic Human Kindness’: ‘Yes, it’s About Politics’- Variety
Everything we need to learn about human kindness ought to come from an industry best known for its sexual abuses and abusive work environments.
But, to state the obvious, the Superman reboot isn’t ‘Superman’. James Gunn, a Marvel vet, rebooted the classic character as a Marvel figure complete with constant quips.
The politics is also obviously front and center with Lex Luthor using social media bot farms to try and start wars for profit. I’m sure he’s not intended as a hackneyed commentary on Elon Musk.
On the other hand, Gunn in the Times of London interview which Variety just remixed (but which hardly anyone commenting on this actually read) resists every attempt to tie him explictly to current events from his own cancellation, to the Iran-Israel war to Trump. Now that may just be because he’s an industry pro fronting a movie probably targeted (in WB’s dreams) of earning $1 billion worldwide at a time when there’s an anti-woke backlash, but I suspect the politics of this are nebulous at best.
Something vaguely liberal about the value of immigrants, not fighting wars and not being mean to each other that millionaire liberals will congratulate themselves as a courage statement. Not something I’ll be paying to see, but also not what we could have gotten two years ago.
Oh for the days when I had nothing better to do than laze on my grandmother’s living room rug and read Superman vs Bizarro comic books 🙂
“Truth, Justice and America sucks.”
Bring back Henry Cavill. This guy is too ugly to be Superman.
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Enough said.
“Up, Up and Away!”, Superman kvelled, as he prematurely ejaculated. 〰️
Remember in the movie Superman II with the American Flag? Time have Changed now its Globalism they push
I would suggest that having one’s home planet destroyed is a much better claim to asylum than “I’m just here for money and to commit crimes.” There is literally nothing for Superman to go back to.
James Cagney should play SUPERMAN – Yes I know he is long dead – but to see him dance and sing Yankee Doodle Dandy while hovering about the Statute of Liberty would be awe inspiring.
Back before Bottom Feeders like Meathead Hanoi Janei
It’s the leftist attempt at brainwashing Americans into accepting foreigners rule/laws over Americans.
There used to be a Superman Saturday Morning Cartoon when Brainiac looks more Human Jimmy Olson had his Signal Watch Lois Lane Perry White there was even a Villian The Warlock who used a wand with a special Jewel on it Super boy and Krypto his Dog facing Monsters Aliens and he typical crooks and giving aid to the Birdmen f the lost valley