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Motherfuckers really grow up watching these plots and then side with the same shitheads as the bad guys in those.
Oh god yes.
And don’t get me started on right-wing X-Men fans.
It’s wild to me that they’ve adopted The Punisher logo as a right wing symbol.
https://www.cbr.com/remember-to-forget-that-time-the-punisher-became-a-black-guy/
Don’t get me wrong, Frank Castle has generally been (theoretically) anti-corruption and anti-racist, but it’s not weird that fascists like the guy “cleaning up the streets” with vigilante murders.
Watching all the trailers for this film and I’m so “meh” about it. It doesn’t feel like it’s going to be a successful movie, and I think because there’s no public appetite for more super hero throwaway shit due to the tension the current political climate is fostering.
I only watched the first trailer that came out for it but it left me kind of excited for it which more than I can say about any other trailer I’ve seen recently. The tone of it certainly seemed more upbeat than the other superhero stuff that’s come out which is refreshing. Me and my friend are using it as a reason to go hang out this weekend which is about the only thing I have so look forward to right now so I’ll appreciate it for that if nothing else
It is much harder to stomach the whole “truth, justice and the American way” bullshit when it’s been so nakedly exposed to be a huge lie.
Part of why I enjoyed The Winter Soldier so much
Oh, the government agency has been taken over by nazis? How topical…
That’s why I appreciated Sinners so much.
Give me more monologues like that.
Superman was created in response to both the Great Depression and specifically the rise of the Nazis.
Paragons like Superman and Captain America are at their most popular when society is at its lowest specifically because it offers hope of a world where people simply aren’t that shit. Or at least a brief fantasy of it.
I liked the darkness and the setting, but the vampires were badly written. Everything was so obvious. The klan added basically 0 to the film other than “let’s kill some racists” type justice boners. Everything was resolved by then…
Fuck ‘sinners’ was good.
Plus, it’s superman. Its a boring premise that’s been beaten to death at this point. Nobody gives a crap about it; at least with spiderman they’ve done unique villains every time they reboot it. Superman’s rogues gallery is kinda crap for variety.
True. He’s also too damn powerful with an extremely rare weakness. The only way to make Superman interesting nowadays is to subvert him somehow.
There’s a clone of him in this movie. That was the solution this time.
I did like how the flash movie subverted him. That was a good thing in that movie.
This is a common opinion from people who don’t know anything about Superman
Can you please expand on this?
Last I read superman was in the 80s, and they seemed to be translation of stories from the 70s or earlier into German.
IMHO, the best stories about Superman are the ones that challenge him in non-physical ways. Like how All-Star Superman laid out as a given that Superman had a year to live and focused on how he spent that time, or What’s So Funny About Truth, Justice, and the American Way, which puts him in an ideological conflict against younger heroes with more lethal methods.
The American way
nonlethal methods
It is James Gunn so if you liked Guardians of the Galaxy and/or The Suicide Squad (the good one without Will Smith) then I’m guessing it will be fun as there is a lot going on in the trailers and it includes things from the comics that are normally excluded from superhero movies for being too ‘weird’ like a super powered dog.
It might not be as popular with general audiences as other versions for the reasons you mention whether it is good or not.
What if we ruined their lawns and cars with paint, or… maybe some delegitimizing posters, fliers… and even better, what if we gave them a (completely voluntary and widespread organized) incompetent work force!
there’s many ways to ruin the plans (or the pants haha) of a billionaire, but remember the safety of the people is more important. Off topic, but i love strawberries, that’s all! :)
If you can get into their gated communities and properties, have at it.
Reports of lost clothes caught on fences have risen… and missing car batteries?
Clearly paranormal activity 🤷♀️
I bring a small trampoline with me when i go “community gating”
Just grow wings you bipedal freak… sorry i didn’t mean to say that…
sadface
🫒 <3
how was kal el illegal? there were no laws against extraterrestrial beings, were there?
He came to America without a visa as an unaccompanied minor, and his “parents” falsified records to claim him as their own.
Going to need that comic book where ICE arrests Superman and he punches a ICE’s facemask off to reveal a KKK hood.
Superman fights to dismantle ICE, but it’s a political body with billions of dollars that exists because of the will of the Republican party. He can’t just go around punching thousands of masked ICE agents.
Or can he?
If the nerds can figure out how long it’ll take to jerk off everyone in the audience… They can figure out how long it’ll take for Superman to punch every ICE agent.
I mean, dude can move at the speed of light. Nothing between him and thousands of ICE agents but air and opportunity.
He could if he wanted, stop every war on the planet in an hour.
Yeah, but then we get Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, and nobody wants that.
Actually, and this may not apply to the current/new Superman but likely would the original Superman, based on the Nationality Act of 1940 Superman could be considered a child found in the United States with unknown parentage.
He wasn’t born in the US, he just landed there.
If he is a citizen, then Ma and Pa Kent knowingly forged the paperwork and his citizenship is invalid.
an arctic tern isn’t a birth citizen. a canadian goose isn’t a birth citizen. they just lands there in winter en route to warmer climes.
it’s not illegal for them to do so.
kal el was as human as ET. laws made for man should not apply to him.
laws made for a man shoukd not apply
I cannot think of a dumber take I’ve seen recently.
@ lemmy.world
Oh.
If they aren’t a birth citizen they’re an immigrant by default, and generally speaking you need permission to cross a border, even from the sky.
that logic would make all migratory birds illegal. imaginary lines drawn by men do not have legal significance in such cases (except for smuggling scenarios, which kal el’s was not).
Birds aren’t people. Except Hawkgirl.
No longer legally a person in the united states. Not for the hawk part.
but kryptonians aren’t people, either. without exception.
They aren’t human. Doesn’t mean they aren’t people.
And comic book universes probably have a lot of rules about that kind of thing, since there’s a lot of non-human people running around (like the aforementioned Hawkgirl).
there’s no probably about it. baby kal el was not people at the time of its entry into the earth’s atmosphere.
unless–i’ll grant you this–the assertion is that the superman universe overlapped with the MIB universe, where agreements and laws did exist for the immigration of extraterrestrial beings onto earth.
