I watched Superman tonight.
As I was walking through the theater parking lot watching roaches scurry from my path, I found myself thinking about how strange the movie was. I waited till I got home to write about it. I’m sitting down with a (badly sitrred) Old Fashioned, trying to figure out what the hell I just saw.
It was good. In truth, Mr. Terrific hijacked the movie. He was a G and had possibly the coolest fight sequence in the film (hard tie with Guy Gardner). The over-sexualization is what threw me. I was talking it out with my kid and came to the conclusion that it wasn’t sexy Superman so much as it was sexy everybody else. Jimmy Olson was hot for days. Well, not the actor, but the character. At one point Lois asks him how he is always surrounded by such beautiful women. I’m not even getting into Cat Grant. Suffice to say, choices were made. With her, with Luthor’s very specific girlfriends.. The list doth go on.
Still, this was vintage Gunn. He did an excellent job of putting together a fun cast and rewriting the darkness of the previous DCverse into something else entirely. We don’t even have a Justice League anymore. What are they? Well, you’ll have to see for yourself.
It was fun. It was very wild and weird. I haven’t seen a movie on my own in some time and this was definitely one to do that with. I enjoyed it. There was a message there. It was not buried at all.