Lmao I meant mainly to keep the DCU going and not fire Gunn right away. But I love Batman and Superman, so I'm always happy for more movies featuring them. Still want a good Flash and Wonder Woman movie. And a Blue Beetle sequel (I loved the first one). And I can't see it ever happening any time soon, but I would be so stoked for a Batman Beyond or Static Shock film.
Make a Hawkman movie but make it like Inception or Memento where we're never sure what Hawkman continuity we're in at any given moment, to give the full experience.
I think Gunn has the right idea to make the tentpoles like Superman with big budgets, while also making movies of lesser-known characters with smaller budgets so there’s less expectations if they don’t immediately connect. One of the problems that plagued the MCU was they could not make a movie that didn’t have a huge budget so everything had to be a massive home run.
One thing I forgot to mention is seeing Kara out of costume for almost the entire film meant when she finally donned the suit, it actually felt off. I think she should've at least kept the jacket over the costume, that would've made it work a lot more and given it more continuity, I think. Seeing her messy over the film to then be all clean and shiny in the costume just didn't feel right.
I mean, who cares, we're not getting new ones of either anyway. Let something else take up the torch. My point is that there's room in the arena.
You know, it’s funny, I actually legitimately did have the thought, “I think Tim would have said something though” hahaha
'Supergirl' director blames James Gunn for controversial song choice Time to pass the blame! That aside, what is with the tone of this article? The ending is acting like Gunn's DCU is in death throes after what, one film that's not even confirmed to be a misfire yet? Give me a fucking break. Vultures.
I don't feel like reading this article till I've seen the movie but if I were to criticize Gunn, his love for solid music wouldn't be one of those criticisms lol. EDIT I've never disliked a song choice in his movies, but idk, maybe they work better in movies he actually directed.
I don't think the director had anything to do with the song not matching the scenario in which it figured. It would've been out of place no matter who directed it.
That article title is another intentionally misleading headline too. The director definitely isn’t “blaming” Gunn. From the actual Rolling Stone interview: Tell me about the big slo-mo action scene, scored by a slowed down version of Jimmy Eat World’s “The Middle” with female vocals [by Kelty Greye and KidMotel]. How did we end up with that particular song choice? Nogueira: Oh, God. It went ’round and ’round, didn’t it? There were a lot of options. Gillespie: That was probably the biggest discussion. And it was down to the very last week, and I gotta give James credit for that one. Did you commission that version of it?Nogueira: No, I think we just found it. Gillespie: But there were probably about 45 songs that went against that scene. Was there a strong runner-up song?Nogueira: Yes, there was. Can you say what it was? Gillespie: It was a remix of a classic, and I think you almost need to see it as the remix, because that’s what works so beautifully about it, was the orchestration of it. That was down to the wire getting that sequence finished, ’cause obviously the visual effects are massive. So it was a long few months of being like, “It’s gonna be great.”
The part about giving Gunn credit though sure sounds like he's the one responsible. I say we get the pitchforks and torches, just to be safe.
The needle drops were insufferable in this movie and you can tell it was thrown in to mask the fact that the scenes were just not working well.. there’s like 20 of them in there too lmao
It’s gonna be fun being someone who’s like, “the movie didn’t work, but the cover of ‘The Middle’ does work.”
One other thought I had about the film that I forgot to mention, and I think someone else broached this idea too, but I'm wondering how the film would be if it followed a traditional three-act structure instead of peppering the flashbacks in throughout. Like Act I could be the destruction of Krypton, the fall of Argo, and Kara being found by Clark, and it ends with Clark telling Kara that one day she'll love Metropolis as much as he does. Then cut to Several Years Later and Act II opens with Kara clearly not loving Metropolis since she's off world and getting drunk in dive bars. The movie continues as normal without jumping through flashbacks and Act II ends when that family gets killed, Kara freaks out, and hitches a ride to Krem's planet. Act III continues as normal. I think this way we get some time with Kara and Krypto before getting to the main impetus of the film, Krypto getting poisoned, and that way we have a better reason to feel for Kara and Krypto rather than just starting out leaning on people's natural reaction to an animal getting hurt. You get that relationship and the reason Krypto is so important beyond just a loyal animal, and it makes it more meaningful when the stakes become clear. I also think it just makes a better journey for Kara to start out with her tragedy and loss and then over Act II she's still working herself out and making mistakes, and then Act III is when she levels up and decides to face things head on. You still get all that with the current film, but it's in a twisty sort of pathway and I'm not sure why scriptwriters/directors/moviemakers like to do the flashback thing instead of just making it a core part of the story. Flashbacks to me should really only be used in the service of revealing information that isn't necessary until the plot requires it, like in the case of hiding a mystery or revealing someone's true motives, but Kara's backstory doesn't fall into either of those camps IMO. Feels like an arbitrary storytelling decision.
It’s too bad. Something like this I think needed strong word-of-mouth and there’s just no way it’s going to get it. Again, I hope this doesn’t mean they’re going to abandon Supergirl because I think they could make something good from the lessons learned from this. But also, I don’t think Hollywood has much patience to learn lessons.