Supergirl Saw it thread (some spoilers in OP)

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Man this was the second Summer movie this year to let me down (after Disclosure Day). And I feel worse feeling this way because every Chud on the Internet has hated this movie since it was announced and I don’t want to be even remotely associated with that.

Some context: I really really liked last year’s Superman. I have also read the source comic that this Supergirl story was based on and liked it so I knew this would be more of a sci fi adventure than a superhero movie and was okay with that.

The good:

Mily Alcock is good as Supergirl. This is an interesting take on the character because unlike Kal, she remembers Krypton and feels true sorrow for its loss vs Superman who never really knew his home (and in this incarnation has reason to reject it).

I liked the world building. I get a kick out of just random aliens are everywhere scifi. It reminds me of old cartoons like Space Ghost.

The villain. I like moral ambiguity as much as anyone but sometimes you just need a villain that is easy to hate (more on that later though).

The bad.

It just looked ugly. There was zero color. Everything was muddy. I get we were seeing some messed up planets but there is a way to make that look like something other than brown.

Lobo. He just had none of the character’s charisma and none of Jason Momoa’s showed through.

Every action sequence was flat when they should have been exciting.

I think in short this was a badly directed movie. I know James Gunn can’t direct them all but this one suffered.

The ending. I will spoiler this. I hated that Supergirl killed the villain. I get why. To save the girl from doing it which is commendable but at the end of the day that means there’s a person on Earth with the power of Superman who is willing to kill and that is terrifying. The original comic is more vague about what happened at the end.

So yeah I didn’t hate this but I wanted to love it and I only thought it was fine at best.

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How does she keep her superskirt from flying up upon landing?

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When I heard the term “gritty” in one review, I lost all interest.

Also (a spoiler revealed in many reviews) A dog is grievously injured. That’s a non-starter for my wife.

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She doesn’t actually wear the costume much but when she does she has spandex under the skirt.

Krypto’s crisis is the inciting incident of the story. That is actually right out of the source comic the story is based on. She is in a quest to save him.

BTW and this is mostly an aside, this movie confirms beyond a shadow of a doubt that Lex Luthor did not falsify anything about the Kyrptonian recording in Superman.

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I think it is a better movie than Superman from last year. In fact, I liked it quite a bit.

Uh, did Lobo say, “See ya, tits!”?

Tits? That’s what he calls her? Not “toots”. So odd.

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I did a double take also but he said “Ditz” because earlier he called her, “the Ditz in the bar” and she said, “Funny, that’s what I called you.”.

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Thank you. This makes more sense, but boy if it didn’t sound like “tits” to me. I brushed it off more or less, but it was odd.

Anyway. Good movie. I don’t mind that she killed the bad guy at the end, but I know nothing of Supergirl’s normal behavior in comics and stuff.

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I despise Lobo. He really is a villain, but they have made him into an antihero. He is disgusting.

When I saw he had a major role, I lost all interest.

Those too. No way.