IIRC, as a kid, he grew up wide-eyedly reading issue after issue of a Captain-America-esque comic book, where the costumed hero’s boy sidekick was a riff on Bucky or Robin, only, y’know, with that distinctive and goofy haircut.
He started out looking like this. Just a generic military-looking buzz cut type thing. He was a semi-serious parody of a hyper-masculine jerk.
As time went on, the parody became less and less serious and the haircut became more and more of an exaggerated bowl. Superman is just the latest evolutionary stage. I’m assuming Nathan Fillion didn’t want to shave his sides.
Thanks all for educating me on Guy’s haircut. It does say something about the character that he deliberately chooses to look like that and also believes it’s a good look.
Did some looking online too, apparently Fillion insisted on the bowl. He did not want to go for a more conventionally attractive haircut as it was a key thing for the character. Was also a wig.
He’s also rooting for the scene where Batman punches Guy out.
So are we all
We all are!
Cat would be very familiar to any fans of the Supergirl TV series, as well.
But not this version. And with her blond hair and cleavage she reminded me more of Spider-man’s Black Cat than Cat Grant.
My wife and I saw it on Friday and I really liked it. I’ve been a fan of Superman since 78 (I was 7) and this stands up well in comparison to Superman The Movie. The movie is busy and there it a lot going on but that’s handled well, I think.
One of the things that I didn’t expect was Lois and Superman having a conversation about what is punk rock. I never thought of either Lois or Superman as punk rock until now but I liked it and I get what Gunn is saying.
Random: They’re doing a Superman night at the Cleveland Guardians ballpark this weel (Metropolis Meteors t-shirt giveaway!) and the commercial they keep playing has Superman’s motto as “Truth, Justice & A Better Tomorrow.” I looked it up and DC announced it as the new motto back in 2021. I am very pleased they went this way, and very appropriate for 2025.
Truth, Justice And A Better Tomorrow is also better as it is less America centric.
I just had one of those terrible awful thoughts. That’s probably gonna keep me up all night. I don’t know what the ruling is on spoilers in this thread so I’m gonna cover up some of what I’ve got to post here.
So before we get to the spoilers, one thing that anybody that’s seen the trailers knows is that this movie appears to take place more or less in the summer. The scenes in the Kent household are clearly warm days and what we see in Metropolis equally appears to be late spring to very early fall if not dead in the middle of summer.
In the movie, when Superman is injured, he returns to the Fortress of Solitude to be recharged by the lenses concentrating the sun’s rays on that dentist chair he’s got. The movie tells us that the Fortress of Solitude is in Antarctica. Given that we’ve established that it’s North American summertime, my question is this - how the hell is it light in Antarctica?
[Flat Earther]
The evidence just keeps piling up and up!
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Maybe this whole film takes place on Bizarro World.
I saw it yesterday, and yeah, overall good comic-book fun that didn’t feel the need to take itself seriously.
One thing that felt out of place, though, was Superman knocking a toddler into a black hole in the climactic fight. Sure, it was a fight for his life, but still, Superman doesn’t do that. They should have at least made it more accidental.
Oh, and I really hope that the Cleveland Library paints on a “crack” that “doesn’t quite line up” on the side of the building, per the post-credits scene.
That bugged me, too. That was one of the points where I adopted the MST3K mantra:
If you wonder why it’s sunny in Antarctica
And other science facts
Repeat to yourself it’s just a movie
And you might as well relax
It’s interesting that they put it in Antarctica, and I noticed this while watching the movie but decided it didn’t bother me, because traditionally his Fortress is in the Arctic. Although in the current comics it is somewhere else entirely, I forget where.
The Arctic ice is not as reliable as it used to be.
IIRC, it was move to Antarctica post-crisis.
They could have avoided any criticism just by eliminating a caption. Why does the audience even need to know where the fortress is?