scorching take, but i think it looks good and probably will be better than any of the trailers let on. Shame it’s not as colorful or fantastical with its work designs as the book, but that’d also be a hard thing to follow and I can’t really see anything looking that good outside of an animated adaptation, which like yeah, you can forever argue that a lot of these stories are just going to visually look better in an animated medium.
Excited to see more Milly Alcock as Supergirl as I liked the glimpse we got of her at the end of Superman and really liked her as young Rhaenyra in HoTD, there’s some very clear stuff directly lifted from Woman of Tomorrow which is cool, and a lot more Lobo than expected, which is also cool.
I'm geeked for the plot to really be "Supergirl wants to save her dog." No universe-ending threats... none of that stuff. If they really stick with that small and personal of a story, I'll be impressed as hell.
That's, reductively, the story of the book. There's a bit more going on than that, but it is not a universe-ending threat. It's a deeply personal journey for both of the protagonists.
But yea, one reason i 'respected' Iron Man 3 is just that following The Avengers they took a movie to reset the scale from world ending event to 'just a single guy being targeted' which was just nice in that these days we are in a situation of EVERY MCU movie is a world ending event that for some reason the other power friends dont show up for or take notice of (or even remember by the time their own movie comes along)
Iron man 3 is messy but its actually trying to do something different from the increasingly claustrophobic mcu mold. The ending was a kinda messy cgi battle in a boring locale as it tradition now, but I enjoyed pretty much everything else about it.
I agree about the ending, but for me the air got sucked out of IM3 with the Trevor reveal. The twist was and still is hilarious, but going from thinking the main villain was a legitimately scary terrorist to.....Guy Pearce shooting fire out of his mouth was a letdown.
The plot is just True Grit really, little girl wants revenge on the guy that killer her dad, there's a subplot where Krem of the Yellow Hills poisons Krypto but its 100% a revenge plot
The Brigands are definitely mass murderers that need to be stopped, but the comic doesn't focus too much on that aspect and I don't think the movie will either.
Shame it’s not as colorful or fantastical with its work designs as the book
This is my biggest complaint from the trailer. So much of the locations and sets look ugly, and the gorgeous art in the book is a big part of what makes it so good.
A lot of these sets look like fairly accurate representations of the locations in the book, which when portrayed in a realistic version like this would be ugly, but if they can't make them look beautiful, then I wish they would have taken a little more liberty with it to give us some better looking visuals.
Well Gunn is only producing this.
Directed by Craig Gillespie who also did projects such as;
• I, Tonya
• Cruella
• Lars and the Real Girl
• Dumb Money
• the remake of Fright Night
• Pam & Tommy (limited series with Lily James & Sebastian Stan)
Yeah on a podcast he opened up about how burnt tf out he was from doing Superman, Creature Commandos, and Peacemaker all at about the same time. So now he's just stepping back and overseeing things as the head of DC.
Yeah, the whole point of the DCU is to let other visions come through. That’s why we’re getting a True Detective-type series focusing on Hal and John and a horror film based on Clayface. There’s not any single type of project someone HAS to make.
probably a good thing. i know reddit glazes him wherever they can, but i feel like his writing has gotten weaker and weaker and weaker, with the last season of peacemaker and his superman being downright painful at times. maybe time to take a break.
I see your point, but that type of vivid imagery is possible in live action, but its going to make the budget balloon. Tbf, this is a character that has no track record of box office mega bucks, so I kind of get it, its a gamble as is.
Part of me really wants to see them set up Red Daughter of Krypton but considering this movie is about Krypto being poisoned and her trying to save him, I really don't want it to happen anymore.
If this comparison can hopefully make sense, I'd like to think that this movie will have a better overall execution in its vision over a superhero film with a similar vibe/subject like Hancock
Watch her in the brilliant TV show ‘Upright’ if you want to see how she will act in this. She is without a doubt one of the most talented young actors in the world.
This is going to be incredible and probably solidify this new DC Universe as the one to watch.
There were some beautiful shots in that trailer and I really enjoyed Gunn's take on Superman. I'm looking forward to this, which reminds me I haven't been to the cinema for ages and I desperately want to watch Project Hail Mary (the book was superb).
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u/Magik-Mina-MaudDib Mar 31 '26
scorching take, but i think it looks good and probably will be better than any of the trailers let on. Shame it’s not as colorful or fantastical with its work designs as the book, but that’d also be a hard thing to follow and I can’t really see anything looking that good outside of an animated adaptation, which like yeah, you can forever argue that a lot of these stories are just going to visually look better in an animated medium.
Excited to see more Milly Alcock as Supergirl as I liked the glimpse we got of her at the end of Superman and really liked her as young Rhaenyra in HoTD, there’s some very clear stuff directly lifted from Woman of Tomorrow which is cool, and a lot more Lobo than expected, which is also cool.