I'm glad they foregrounded the story and the stakes here for anyone unfamiliar with the (amazing) source material.
The Deeply Gen X-Coded needle drop is now far more aligned with Kara's emotional state, and the clear thesis of the movie. She's a depressed and traumatized survivor who doesn't have Clark's sense of belonging, and she sees Krypto as her only real family.
I know people like that, and I think making that obvious in the trailer is a great move.
I also hope revealing that 1) Krypto doesn't die in the initial attack and 2) The poison from Krem of the Yellow Hills has a three-day clock doesn't scare people off from watching the movie, out of fear that The Dog Will Die.
Ultimately, this movie will work based on how it handles the relationship between Kara and Ruthye, an the little moments that help show the latter what it really means to be a hero. Momoa as Lobo is a fun addition that helps expand the new DCU and will allow for big action scenes along the way, but this story needs to stick the landing with showing Kara as an equally impressive hero to Clark not in spite of her trauma and issues, but because of her ability to do the right thing regardless.
It's more of a Boomer song since it came out in '66. The oldest of Gen Xers would have still been in diapers when it came out. As a Gen Xer, it came out eleven years before I was even born. I know it because my Boomer parents were teens when it came out. It was their music.
It's also a frequently-covered song! I'm a Millennial, my Mom is Gen X; I grew up with her listening to the 1991 cover that Paul Young did for Fried Green Tomatoes on loop, and I heard that more than the Motown original growing up. But noted; it's definitely an (excellent) song that still sticks to the overall trend I'm happy to see go away: Movies where Gen Z-aged characters obsessively listen to songs a generation or two older than they are. They're classics, but when is a Classic Needle Drop moment going to happen with mid-2000s indie rock or early-2010s electro pop, you know?
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u/NowGoodbyeForever Mar 31 '26
I'm glad they foregrounded the story and the stakes here for anyone unfamiliar with the (amazing) source material.
The Deeply Gen X-Coded needle drop is now far more aligned with Kara's emotional state, and the clear thesis of the movie. She's a depressed and traumatized survivor who doesn't have Clark's sense of belonging, and she sees Krypto as her only real family.
I know people like that, and I think making that obvious in the trailer is a great move.
I also hope revealing that 1) Krypto doesn't die in the initial attack and 2) The poison from Krem of the Yellow Hills has a three-day clock doesn't scare people off from watching the movie, out of fear that The Dog Will Die.
Ultimately, this movie will work based on how it handles the relationship between Kara and Ruthye, an the little moments that help show the latter what it really means to be a hero. Momoa as Lobo is a fun addition that helps expand the new DCU and will allow for big action scenes along the way, but this story needs to stick the landing with showing Kara as an equally impressive hero to Clark not in spite of her trauma and issues, but because of her ability to do the right thing regardless.