These are the stories I’ve been waiting my whole life for. I’ve found them in dark, private spaces till now. But writ large by major directors? Ah that feels good.
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…
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.
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.
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.
That’s why I appreciated Sinners so much.
Give me more monologues like that.
These are the stories I’ve been waiting my whole life for. I’ve found them in dark, private spaces till now. But writ large by major directors? Ah that feels good.
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.
Fuck ‘sinners’ was good.
Edit: and an american fantasy necrocommunism! Ebough of the long dead ussr having a monopoly, with its hard scifi rocket necrocommunism!
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…
Part of why I enjoyed The Winter Soldier so much
Oh, the government agency has been taken over by nazis? How topical…
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.