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I've seen the latest Superman movie and I have opinions, like more than half everyone here in our beloved hellsite.

But @starrysailor asked me for it some weeks ago and here I am.

First of all, sorry for the delay. My fiancee and I are not in our best moments in our jobs and personal life (apart of loving eachother a lot) and I need a lot of energy to write and do simple stuff.

Interestingly, one of the ways I thought might help us break out of our routine was to go see this movie.

She wasn't expecting it, and although she had no expectations other than that our local cinema plays the volume too loud, she really enjoyed the movie.

I can tell you that I thoroughly enjoyed the movie; even cried several times. I'm a very soft guy and there were some points, like when (Spoiler alert) Pa Kent tells his son he's proud of who he is that shake something within me. Those were good cryings.

Now. Superman.

I'm very glad that James Gunn left behind the grim&dark version previously developed by Snyder and turned it around. I think it's a very comic-y version of a Superman story (not that I've read a lot of superhero books); like picking a number 2 or 3 of a 8 numbers series and going along. No need for origin story, no need for extra darkness.

Just a bit of fun and comic logic.

It has color, for pete's sake...

And Clark is portrayed as a human. Not as a all-powerful god cosplaying a human, as in the previous instance. Clark was raised as a good person, to feel empathy and do good. I can only think that when his powers developed he thought (and his parents should have been a moral compass) that having said powers and not using them fully to do good should be malevolence.

He cares about a random dog in the park, about a little girl, about a squirrell. He suffers a LOT when a good person is murdered in front of him. He pains when the real message from his space dads is decrypted (he doesn't run, he fumbles and tries to collect his thoughts in the Stagg building... not that Guy helps). He struggles with the person he loves.

He let himself be arrested just to find Krypto, a dog that IS quite misbehaved and not even HIS. Just because he thinks he'll be alone and scared.

Clark Kent is a normal person, S suit on or not.

I enjoyed watching him messing up and not being 'perfect' and find 'the perfect solution for each situation', but to be just a guy that tries.

This is great and it was remarked during the movie, and during his final speech against Luthor.

Oh, Luthor. A great cerebral villain and an amazing counterpoint. Incredibly well portrayed by Holt, So full of himself, so smart but oblivious ('maybe I'll shot that journalist he's always givin him interviews'). Powerful and full of pity.

In his final face-to-face with Superman you could almost feel waves of hatred from him. What a great interpretation.

Still I have a lot of opinions about the characters and the set dressing and the effects... but I felt relieved when the movie as a whole clearly tells you that the core of the character is that in an individualistic and cruel world, caring for others and being a good person is punk as fuck.

This is what Superman should reflect, not perfection but the posibiity to do better. To care for others. To try to do good.

And I also trully enjoyed singing out loud that Punkrocker version at the cinema, with the speakers at full volume. I am a PunkRocker, Yes, I AM.

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