Spoilers Superman Spoiler Thread

[Maxperson]

What is wrong with hillbillies (aka rural folk)?

Nothing. It's just not what the Kents were.

 

[Stalker0]

That said, most of the bits aside from the accent were simply older parents bits - a return to the idea that the Kents were at the upper end of child-rearing age than the significantly younger versions we've had ( even in Lois and Clark ) recently.

people are having children a lot later than they used to. If we assume the Kents were 30 when they got Clark (which again for today's era is not super late to start a family).

Clark is ~30 in the movie based on tweets by James Gunn. So the Kents are 60 years old...yep decently old. Even if you assume they were more like 25, still 55 is old enough to match their look.

 

[Morrus]

still 55 is old enough to match their look.

Jeez. You mean I only have 4 years left until I become officially old?

 

[Kichwas]

Jeez. You mean I only have 4 years left until I become officially old?

What can be fascinating is to look at actors who played "that dude is seriously old" characters in past decades and realize they were often in their 30s or 40s.

At the time I often look at people my age and they can look really old. Yet my friends who are my age don't look so old. And I wonder if we're living better on the coast, or if my perception is warped or not.

That said, the actor playing Jonathan Clark is 65. Martha Clark's actress is 70.

In the 70s or 80s that same visual age would have been played by a 40-50 year old actor.

Red Foxx was 50 when he started playing Fred Sanford and depending on camera angle he'll look very old or you can tell he's only 50. But he also runs around dressed and talking like an old man which helps the effect.

 

[Staffan]

Jeez. You mean I only have 4 years left until I become officially old?

 

[Morrus]

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Phew. 9 years!

 

[GothmogIV]

I liked that.

They were rural folksy people with good hearts. Today’s politics has us all thinking rural people are hopelessly lost in a cult which just isn’t true. I liked that Gunn made them true to form and let them be country people as well as an ethical center for Clark.

I thought it was a caricature, to be honest, but I still loved the movie and liked their relationship as a family for sure.

 

[dbm]

Watched the film last night; I enjoyed it.

Re the ‘no animals harmed’ tagline, there was a short behind-the scenes about how they did Krypto and they had a reference dog when filming some scenes, to check what a real dog’s fur would look like under that specific lighting.

Lois also had a real dog on her knee when flying Mr Terrific’s ship that one time, too.

But most of the time, Krypto was a mo-cap performer, even on wires for the flying scenes!

 

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[Kaodi]

Not sure I can be bothered to read all 42 pages of comments before saying anything myself. I got through the first five. My Dad and I enjoyed it, though it took a minute to get him to watch it.

I have read all about what version of Supergirl they are doing before and I am cool, super cool, with that. As far as the issue of whether she was holding back from Clark on what Kryptonians were like... I have seen speculation that maybe the message was altered by Brainiac, but I think that would alter the significance of Superman healing to videos of growing up with the Kents too much. I have also seen Krypton, and understand that whole thing about Clark is different even for a Kryptonian because he is the first one conceived and carried naturally in centuries. I wonder whether the direction they will take is that that uniqueness warped Jor and Lara's perspective. Or, perhaps more likely, their wildly different outlook someone led to them conceiving naturally. Maybe Zor and Allura will stay true to the traditional ethos of the House of El, and maybe they too were unaware of Jor and Lara's true intentions. After all, for them, their daughter, being a "normal Kryptonian" likely has no prospects of having a hybrid human family. Her future lies only in how she lives her life, not in her reproducing Kryptonian society.