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If I recall correctly the monument at Heroes’ Square in Metropolis that commemorates the Black Zero event has approximately 3000 names of victims on those black monoliths behind the Superman statue. We see at the start of the Superman-Zod fight that there’s obviously huge devastation at ground...

I’m having a chuckle at the memes, because the choice to reveal the suit in such a way is so strange. It’s so low budget and bizarre. I just can’t get excited about this movie. I don’t want something that goes hard with nostalgia for the classical comic book Superman tropes which I think why...

Interestingly the Hot Toys JL Superman does give him that vibrant blue. There’s a featurette that WB made with costume designer Michael Wilkinson explaining how the blue suit for JL had more chrome and was a more saturated blue color. That’s because Geoff Johns wanted Snyder to change his...

The giant alien jellyfish ufo is hightailing it out of there because it sees Superman casually putting his boots on?

Now with InArt making a fellowship line—and especially with me running out of space to store boxes!—I’m thinking that it’s probably time to let go of the Asmus figures. I’ve enjoyed them for several years now, but the InArt versions will give me the fun of starting over with collecting them...

Syl Abdul breaks down the numbers for Rebel Moon Part 1 and 2. It’s performed well!

As they said at the end of Part 2, next they 1) find Princess Issa, 2) continue to fight the Imperium. It’ll be interesting to see the explanation for how Issa still lives. We do see her life energy leave her body when she is killed, though. And she resurrects a dead bird in Part 1 using the...

Those that disliked BvS did so mainly because they expected a straight-ahead classical genre take—which was hugely popular when done in a grounded way a la Nolan’s Batman. But they didn’t get that at all. What Snyder did by deconstructing Superman and Batman wasn’t “bad” objectively. Just...

He’s shared a lot about what he’s doing with Rebel Moon in interviews since Part 2 released: https://www.reddit.com/r/Snyderverse/s/D4iJMkPfrM https://www.reddit.com/r/Snyderverse/s/24qbJx005U https://www.reddit.com/r/Snyderverse/s/FLsA7GXKrj But you’re right! In the interview at the bottom...

Well, what you’re saying is from the perspective that your experience of Rebel Moon is that’s it’s objectively terrible, truly awful in its execution. And it’s not that I don’t understand what you’re saying because I really do. I get why people see it that way. But obviously I have a different...

It kind of is, in a way! Indirectly… Netflix insisted that he make the two hour PG13 cuts, he says. I liken this to putting a wild creature in a zoo. He had to take his crazy idea of applying a Heavy Metal/pulp/B movie vibe to “Star Wars” (the “wild animal” in my analogy) and try to turn it...

This is Snyder’s fault for not properly explaining it when the film released. He did a little of it on opening weekend for BvS but it was a kind of glib explanation that didn’t impact anyone’s perceptions, I don’t think. Snyder has since more fully explained that he took a lot of core ideas...

The thing about the standard approach to analysis for the PG13 cuts is if it misses the following context, I’m not sure if it’s really taking enough into account to be fair to it. I know I’m a broken record on this, but: With the director’s cuts giving the genre a sci-fi fantasy pulp/Heavy...

Well, for my part I’ll just reemphasize a couple things: 1) FWIW I actually do understand, appreciate, and even respect some reasons why this movie is experienced as “not good” or “bad.” (When folks take the time to articulate why.) 2) Personally I really enjoy the characters, story, and...