jgns

[jgnsjgns]

Superman (2025)

Listen.

I'm glad we got a new Superman and a new movie.

But. I don't love the movie. And I love Superman.

There are a few things I have gripes with and I seem to be in the minority here.

Spoilers ahead!

The Kents. There's NO WAY this "simple" or "country bumpkins" version of Jonathan & Martha raised the man who is Superman. No way. It's a complete disservice to the history of Jonathan and Martha Kent to be dumbed down SO FAR to these people we got in this movie. John Schneider, Annette O'Toole, K Callan, Eddie Jones, Kevin Costner, Diane Lane…All significantly better than what we got in this Superman movie.

Ultraman. Ultraman is not a clone of Superman. This is not his origin story. Ultraman is from another Earth, and is the leader of The Crime Syndicate.

Alpaca Hair. From the early set pics to the final version, Clark's hair is just awful. It draws more attention to Clark than it detracts.

Krypto. I hate when there are CGI animals in scenes with real people. I'd rather just not have Krypto at all than look at this very clearly fake dog. It's like they got 85% there and went "good enough." on the visual.

[jgnsjgns]

I met my wife Jessica because of Twitter in 2010. It was a safe space to yell into the void, 140 characters at a time. Our circles mostly talked about our favorite tv shows & movies, and our favorite podcasts about those shows.

Our circles contained a lot of the same people, but not each other. That was until her group added me to their #Smallville rewatch chat on Skype. Where we would all sync up our DVD’s and Blu-ray’s of seasons 1-8 of our favorite Superman show, chat over 2-3 episodes per evening and stay up way too late.

This lead to a few of us going to Superman Celebration in Metropolis, IL that summer and we started dating that weekend.

If it hadn’t been for Twitter, we never would’ve met.

It’s a shame that the site is in the shape it’s in. I hope he tires of it and sells it to someone that can fix it, if it’s even worth fixing.

[jgnsjgns]

They can be a great people, Kal-El, they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way.

[jgnsjgns]

Unpopular opinion: The Newsroom was a great show.

Imagine what they could do with the content from 2017-2022.

[jgnsjgns]

Ay-yi-yi-yi-yi

[jgnsjgns]

Finding refuge in an apocalypse.