It’s hero slop good guy beats bad guy
This type of movie is only a drag if you are a sex trafficker.
It was a total waste. Now we have 2 people from Krypton on Earth. The only two. I expected a story about Clark and his hot blonde cousin working hard to repopulate their species. They don’t even talk about it!
Like… come on. We all want to have sex with our hottest cousin. We don’t because stupid society says it’s wrong. But if we were the only two humans left so suddenly banging our hot cousin was something we had to do for the survival of the human race? Fucking JACKPOT.
What kind of a weirdo totally ignores the story we all want to see? It writes itself.
I can tell you never read the comics I did.
I couldn’t afford comics as a kid, my education comes entirely from alt.sex.stories.unmoderated.incest.
I was loving this movie until it started being a superhero movie. It was a really cool scifi experience till then
I thought lobo was the villain. Is lobo a sex trafficker in this movie?
No. He is not the villain. He is just a bounty hunter.
BTW, I really liked Lobo in Man of Tomorrow, the animated film.
I guess I should watch this.
The dog sucked. I wish they used a real one. The cgi was just very rough, and I felt nothing for it all movie because of this fact.
Very ruff you say?
Boo Go to your room and think of what you’ve done
Hmmm doggie? Which movie was this again? Asking for a friend
Lassie Has a Psychotic Reaction to Krokodil
This meme is so confusing, do I read it top to bottom or bottom to top?
Yes
That’s pretty much all a movie needs, really.
Smells crime, back to the lab, full penetration. Crime, penetration, crime, full penetration, crime, penetration. And this goes on and on, and back and forth, for 90 or so minutes until the movie just, sort of, ends.
I’m a little more interested in it now TBH
It was a weird one I thought. It has all the good elements I like - a sort of grungy vibe, ass-kicking woman protagonist, kill-all-sex-traffickers central theme - but somehow it was also kind of boring? I’m not entirely sure how they managed to pull that off TBH.
Good! If you’re interested in the sort of story, it’s a solid movie.
Perfect movie.
I think next DCU movie should just be Krypto. That’s Avatar levels of money.
Krypto is based on James Gunn’s misbehaving dog
Krypto killing sex traffickers
As a side quest, Krypto can kill Sam Altman and Peter Thiel to help reign in crypto.
This one time I got too high and sat down to watch an entire season of Krypton. I think I was about 2/3 through the season before I realized I hadn’t seen Krypto yet inn a series about him… I giggled and continued watching. Anywho, I totally agree they should option Krypto!
Except the dog was poisoned and sad. It wasn’t “awww doggie” it was “awww sad doggie.” Also Supergirl didn’t have her powers for like 3/4ths of the movie (due to her character’s own stupidity). Like they couldn’t write a decent story if she had powers.
I think that’s kind of the main issue with any character that has Superman-level powers, they’re so OP that it sort of limits what you can do to keep the story interesting. You basically have:
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Try to make the powers irrelevant and embroil them in a complicated psychological/moral issue (great if it works but difficult to pull off and not especially visually interesting for a superhero movie.)
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Create an enemy with the same power level as them (then you just basically have two invincible characters bouncing off each other and smashing everything around them (visually interesting but essentially no stakes.)
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Have them lose their powers in some convoluted way and then get them back at the climax of the movie to do an ass-kicking scene (which seems to be the default.)
I think it’s the same problem that The Boys TV show had - at first there was kind of a tension about them just being normal people and Homelander being so powerful that he could hear their heartbeats from half a mile away and level the entire city they were hiding in if he knew they were there, but the longer it went on the more preposterous it got that he hadn’t just squished them yet. Especially when the show has them meet face-to-face multiple times and he either lets them go because reasons or they escape somehow.
I don’t think that’s true at all, and there are nearly 100 years of Superman comics full of stuff that doesn’t fit that. I feel like you are commenting on the movies specifically and coming to the conclusion that these are the ONLY choices.
When they make a movie, they are OBSESSED with the 2nd idea. An enemy with equal power. Which is why we’ve seen 2 movies starring general Zod, despite him not being that major of a character. It’s why we got Doomsday in the Justice League movie. Hollywood filmmakers are clearly in love with the idea of two super people bouncing off buildings for 90 minutes. In the comics though, this would be boring as hell. “Essentially no stakes” as you put it. Correct. It’s boring. I hate that the movies always want Superman to become this. Because it’s not what the comics are like at all.
There are many options you have missed. There are limits to Superman’s powers. Remember that these are from detective comics. A good Superman comic involves a mystery for Clark Kent/Superman to solve. Like who is supplying Intergang with weapons. A good episode from the kids cartoon show starts with Clark Kent being assassinated, then Superman trying to figure out who did it and why. Superman Red Son (which has a cartoon movie with some changes), puts Superman in the USSR instead of Kansas, for truth, justice, and the communist way. Again, not remotely any of the 3 plot lines you have suggested.
Superman (2025) did a great job with this. Yes you’ve got an “equal” super-being for him to fight (Hollywood wouldn’t accept anything less), but ultimately it’s about Lex Luthor and the plot behind it all.
The Boys is a poorly written show that loves violence. They ran out of ideas within a couple years. Not surprised at all that everyone hated the ending. They wrote themselves into a corner very early on. They were always pushing the idea that violence was the answer, very unlike Superman in nearly every way. The fact that you see this as comparable to Superman is pretty frustrating. Frankly I think the whole show is a bit of a middle finger to Superman. It’s literally a show about how much they think Superman sucks. The show that’s about Superman sucking, isn’t a satisfying portrayal of Superman? Shocker.
Like… “Superman” is Clark Kent. A reporter who discovers crime, then he also has the powers to stop it. But the “Superman” you describe is a super-being who is boring when he bounces off buildings, always being power scaled or losing his powers so that the fights will be interesting for Hollywood. Do you see the difference?
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and she recovered from the poison with yellow sun power, but the dog couldn’t?
Maybe this would have been better written with ChapGPT.
Yes! That was plot hole that frustrated me early on.
They said that moving Krypto would accelerate the poison so he would have died before they got to a yellow sun.
Yeah that’s pretty nonsense though. Superman can literally die for days/weeks and come back to life with the sun’s power. Krypto should be able to also.
It’s not a great excuse, no, but the lampshade was at least present.
I think the issue was more DC’s power scaling issues. It’s kinda hard to write a compelling story for Superman or Batman at their peak, because they are, for the most part, invincible and flawless according to DC. I suspect that her not having the ability to access her powers for 3/4 of the movie was an effort to make her seem like a Marvel superhero with flaws and relatability. Unfortunately, DC doesn’t know how to do that, as Marvel doesn’t even know how to do that consistently. Power creep is a real problem if you can’t just magic away the hero’s basic invulnerability.
This is one of the issues that Invincible tackled quite nicely at least until the end of season 2. I haven’t gotten around to watching season 3.
It also kind of made the villains seem a bit daft. The rule seemed to be red sun = no powers, green sun = kills her, yellow sun = super powers and the main villain seemed to be pretty powerful no matter where he was, and they establish early on that there are lots of red sun planets where people live, so literally just hide out anywhere without a yellow sun and you’re 100% safe?
Couldn’t get past season 1 of Invincible. You won’t like what I thought about it. But I’m a Superman fan who doesn’t like excessive violence, so hopefully you can understand where I’m coming from.
Nah, I get it. I wouldn’t have gotten to season 2 if I had watched season 1 before season 2 was already out. Season 1 ended on the WORST POSSIBLE down note that they could, and I think they did that intentionally.
Minor spoilers: it’s not like they ended season 2 on a good note, just that Nolan and Markus do finally find a common ground against Nolan’s objectives.
It won’t end in a satisfying way. They never do. Game of Thrones or The Boys or any violence-focused show. Terrible endings, all of them.
EDIT: Breaking Bad did okay by killing everyone, including an unrealistic machine gun in the trunk.
Apparently the machine gun thing actually works. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=06t_KP7y8Ao
Maybe, maybe not. The Boys was written from 2006-2012 in comicbook form, and they followed all storylines almost exactly as written. The ending of The Boys was predetermined because they were adapting an already written story that they didn’t want to change.
Invincible was written over the timeframe of 2003-2014 in comicbook form. They have already ignored major plot points to make Invincible a bit more palatable to a wider audience. I suspect that they will end it in much the same way the original ended, with Nolan and Markus being the undisputed protectors of Earth, but not having any real power on Earth, via actual laws and standings.
23-year-old with abandonment and self-worth issues behaves less than reasonably, more at 11.
It’s a general complaint I have about some of the mainstream attempts at Superman. “We’ve got to make him/her weaker.” Is a common theme that has been done way too many times. Because in these people’s minds, there is nothing interesting that can happen if Superman/Supergirl actually has their powers and wins. The drama, for these non-Superman fans writing the script, is in the hero losing their powers. They don’t actually understand what’s appealing about Superman in the first place.
I mean I agree with them. There’s nothing interesting about a character who’s invincible and can do almost anything with ease. I always found Superman painfully boring.
I know what you’re talking about but here it’s rooted in actual character development. Nobody took her powers away, she wasn’t taking care of herself, was reckless, and suffered the consequences. Sure at some point there was Kryptonite involved but even that could’ve been avoided if she had been more level-headed and less self-destructive.
I would like to see a situation that cannot be solved by strength alone. It feels like lazy writing to take that strength away. Kryptonite as a plot device is kinda old. But if you use it for a few seconds here or there, like Superman (2025) that’s great. What I definitely do not want is a movie about Superman without his powers. Powerless for a situation? Yes! Powerless for 75% of the movie? No!
Good, because this movie isn’t about either Superman without his powers or Supergirl without her powers. It’s about a very young adult sabotaging herself because of her pain and overcoming her self-imposed restrictions to save others.
I like all that. Really liked what she did to that one jackass at the end— made me like her a bit more.
Did not like dog being hurt, dog being left, dog almost dying. Did not like! 😭
Edit: omg I just realized why the Cons hated this movie! It’s in the second line of the OP’s post.
Her suit also included shorts under her skirt. SHORTS! Isn’t that outrageous? How are they supposed to get pantyshots now?! /S
Conservatives require cameltoe. Fucking disgusting, but entirely predictable behavior from the Epstien Class.
Can someone explain what the aww doggie part means? Is it sex scenes?
No, it’s Supergirl’s dog, who is cute, then possibly dying, so they are non-sexy awws (either adorable or sadness awws, depending).
She has a cute doggie, it is the most harmless and wholesome of "aww"s you could imagine.
😂
Meh… still not going to watch it
It was… fine. The action scenes were pretty dull, though. Seemed a strange choice for a second movie. If you’re gonna have Supergirl as your second movie it really has to knock it out of the park. I mean guardians was after like 8 MCU movies or something.
