I've been reading your Man of Steel comments and I love them. (Perry's earring! Clark's introduction as just some guy! Helping people on his journey to discover himself and the world! Yes!!)
(Tangentially, I feel like something key to the character is often ignored when it comes to Man of Steel - young Clark's journey and how it's depicted, kind of blatantly, from an immigrant's perspective; the way he's desperately trying to fit in on a new world, and specifically in middle America.)
There's a YouTube channel I've been following for a long time, I usually respect their takes on films and cinema in general (Red Letter Media), and they recently brought up how they've seen the "Snyder Bros" complain about the new Superman film. I haven't seen any of this; I'm not really online and I'm too tired as a human being to really dip my toes into discourse anymore. But I feel like it's easy to make that distinction because there was a time when "Snyder Bros" were a thing, as an entity separate from just, you know, people who like Snyder as a director and/or his DC films.
It's harder to label the people who, 12 years after Man of Steel premiered, choose to complain about how Snyder "got Superman wrong." It's frustrating, as a fan, but it's also just petty and repetitive. I'm all for self-expression! I'm happy there are people who enjoy the new Superman. But there's no "wrong" take on Superman. He's been around for almost 100 years. Retroactively shitting on people, in 2025, is not how Clark/Superman would behave.
Anyway, Red Letter Media, while disliking Man of Steel, actually gave Snyder a lot of props for his Justice League and were refreshingly candid about how they often pick on Snyder, but do acknowledge that there's a hundred ways to interpret Superman - whether that be in a colorful, goofy way or in a dark, emotional way.
Sorry for the thesis; love your blog and your presence on here!
I'm gonna preface this by saying you should like Superman however way you want to like Superman.
But I think you have to understand why the "Snydebros" are acting out. Ignoring the last 12 years of fans of the movie ( not just snyder ) but just the movie itself having been attacked consistently all these years. And now, it's really more the hipocrisy is being shown blatantly to their faces.
Here are the facts and I'm not saying this to be conspiratorily, there's evidence to this if you look hard enough:
There was blood in the waters as soon as BvS was announced. Both from competition and the media. And the internet and the media has been latching on ever since to the individualistic / ayn rand urban myth version of Zack / Mos in their head.
Every minor nitpick and complaint that was blown out of proportion in MoS, is now being celebrated in the new movie. (Again, it's fine if you like the new movie more -- but it's hipocritical, don't you think? )
The company is lying to us. Still. The intention of this universe is to be profitable. And it's still early, I'm not saying it can't make back the money, but the numbers they're spitting, making anything less than any ( I'm not just saying snyderverse because snyderverse movies have remained more profitable than the entirety of the DCEU ) all of the movies they sold off for taxes and actual profit to announce their reboot, is just asking for bankruptcy.
So anyone with a good sense of business, needs to understand, they have to make profit. They burned bridges with artists for this one man's vision ( yes, the dc ceo and the wb ceo who sacrificed a perfectly decent artist's vision for a tax cut and money that was just going straight to his pocket. )
And here's the thing, there's going to be bad eggs in every fandom. But it's also absolute hipocrisy to act like Snyder Bros are the only ones when I've been around long enough to see MCU fans threaten a little kid, Star Wars fans to be absolute assholes, and etc.
But just like how I prefaced this, I'm going to enjoy what I enjoy. And writing and direction, Man of Steel is still the only Superman movie that speaks to me on that level. He's a refugee. He's an immigrant. He's just some guy trying to do the right thing. And trying to do right by the sacrifices of all his parents.
