Tim occasionally enjoys a bad superhero movie. This wasn't bad in a fun or interesting way. The parts that didn't work were kinda just meh
Where does this stack up against Fantastic 4 which people said was "bad" despite being the best MCU film since GOTG3?
Fantastic 4 was worse because it was more boring, with less compelling characters. At least Milly Alcock’s Supergirl/Kara performance was consistently great throughout. Somehow making The Thing dull is criminal.
How does this compare to I Built You a Tower which some bearded 46 year olds said was distinctly missing Chris Walla despite it being phenomenal?
I unfortunately have no Death Cab thoughts (and didn’t know what that was until searching), except I’m pretty sure there’s a song about New Years I used to see shared every year on Facebook.
?? I just disagree that F4 was bad haha I'm not trying to pick a fight, I like Tim as a fellow Spidey fan lol
I’m gonna name some things that worked in this unsuccessful movie to me. - Like I said, Milly Alcock was fantastic. - The Krypton and Argo City was mostly great and complimented Superman’s Jor-El choice quite nicely. I hated that everything was white and colorless instead of bright Silver Age comic colors, but otherwise worked really well for me. - The sequence with the bus ship and the criminals with cool teleport devices was cool and fun enough it made me thing the film was finding its stride after a clunky start. - “Safe Word” by Halsey playing made me so happy I briefly forgot to pay attention to the action scene. Glad there are now two girlie DC Comics movies with action scenes set to Halsey. - This is gonna be an unpopular take I think, but I honestly think the cover of “The Middle” kinda worked in context, lol. Maybe it helped that I expected it, so I wasn’t taken out of the movie by it. And it accompanied maybe the best action of the third act. And the lyrics fit in a silly on-the-nose way I was kinda alright with. - Lobo was alright, occasionally fun. - David as Superman is so good, I was happy for every additional minute of him.
i enjoyed F4 a lot, granted i went in with zero expectations and zero knowledge of the source material, whereas i've not only read the graphic novel this was based on but also quite a few other Supergirl stories here and there (and i watched the CW show). tho i do think F4 may have played things a little too straight, perhaps to its own detriment.
idk i feel like Momoa was trying too hard to be cool. or maybe Lobo as a character is trying too hard to be cool? i'm pretty ambivalent towards Lobo in general
I’ve thought about asking to revive those, but fully done by me instead of having to recruit others. And also doing ones for occasions that aren’t new superhero movies (like Pride month, Christmas, etc).
I’d say his vibe fit the character (who kinda started as a parody of edgy characters like Wolverine). So yeah, probably just not a fan of him, which, not unfair.
this is a bit nitpicky but i kinda dislike that Kara was born years after Kal was shot into space. she didn't know Kal as a baby, she didn't see Krypton blow up, she only saw the fall of Argo City (obviously still giving her ptsd and all that). she's supposed to be the "older" cousin that arrived on earth later. i guess i shouldn't be surprised that they changed her origin story after Superman (the movie) made his parents whole ass colonizers.
i think the only thing i've actually read him in was Crush and Lobo; I kinda like that it recontextualizes him as this deadbeat absentee father figure
I'm gonna take my kids to this next week. We loved Superman, and the Supergirl cameo at the end was great. That said, I did not like the Tom King Supergirl comic that much and as this seems to be heavily based on it, idk how much I'm gonna like it.
one thing i liked about the book that wasn't included here was how in the narration Ruthye is an older woman recounting this story from her childhood, and through her eyes, we see Kara as this like legendary, almost mythical figure. in his storytelling Tom King kinda uses narration as a crutch tho. tbh i mostly like the book for its art. it's weird that they named a planet in the movie after the comic artist, Bliquis.
It was okay. I liked Milly and the actress playing Ruthye. Less so for Momoa. Not really sure if Gillespie was right for this. Most of the action scenes were too frenetic to follow and I thought, overall, the movie’s aesthetic just looked like vomit. The script also was trying to be light on its feet with the comedy and sarcasm, but didn’t really have many laughs. I didn’t hate it, but it’s a sizable step below “Superman.” Some other stray thoughts: This might have the most pissing ever featured in a superhero movie. I feel bad for the family that got waxed by the villain and Kara is like “No time to mourn. Gotta save my dog.” Always happy to see David Krumholtz. The scene at the end where Lobo watches Supergirl fight the villain was so obviously a reshoot and for no real reason. The needle drops were a bit much, but that “Middle” cover was really something. It was even sung in that “Welcome to moy kitchen” 2000s indie singer voice. All of the alien costumes looked really good. The production values on this were pretty impressive, even if some of the green screen was not.
I just watched this and I thought it was fun. I won’t pay to watch it again, but I also won’t mind rewatching it before MOT. Just like Larsen, Alcock could offer a lot more to the role than the script allowed. Hopefully she gets more to work with in MOT. Back to my earlier comment, I really don’t get the doom and gloom “Fire Gunn” “DC is dead” “this movie sucks” posts. The movie could have been better, obviously, but it’s not worse than the average MCU film. There seems to have been a shift within the last 10 years where the fandom has become less forgiving and far more alarmist about movies they don’t think are great.
Just got out of a showing and jfc that was abysmal. The script is just terrible and I felt absolutely nothing watching it.. At least Clayface looks interesting ¯\_(ツ)_/¯