Spoilers Superman Spoiler Thread

[jian]

Finally saw it. It’s really good, a great example of a film that’s more than the sum of its parts. In no particular order:

• Brosnahan gives us, finally, the definitive version of Lois Lane on screen. The interview scene, as painful as it is, is a perfect character establishing scene for her.
• Ma and Pa Kent are actually also pretty perfect. Jonathan’s gentle lecture to Clark about parents and children, and how you define yourself by your choices, was brilliant and really earns the payoff of the final scene.
• Lois and Clark actually have a relationship! Hurrah!

 

[Homicidal_Squirrel]

• Ma and Pa Kent are actually also pretty perfect. Jonathan’s gentle lecture to Clark about parents and children, and how you define yourself by your choices, was brilliant and really earns the payoff of the final scene.

As soon as I saw Pa Kent, I expected him to have his eyes flickering side-to-side and secretly being a serial killer. Every time I see that actor, I think of his role in Indentity.

 

[jian]

Oh, and something that made me irrationally happy about the film - Mr Terrific is an amazing character and is now my headcanon version (not that Michael Holt wasn't pretty awesome already, I like the Reed Richards stand-in version from The Terrifics) but it's extra cool that he's played by Edi Gathegi, whose character Darwin was done extremely dirty* in X-Men: First Class.

Also, Hawkgirl was Dora the Explorer! Sweet.

*Seriously, they kill the black guy whose power is to survive anything? Pathetic.

 

[Staffan]

Oh, and something that made me irrationally happy about the film - Mr Terrific is an amazing character and is now my headcanon version (not that Michael Holt wasn't pretty awesome already, I like the Reed Richards stand-in version from The Terrifics) but it's extra cool that he's played by Edi Gathegi, whose character Darwin was done extremely dirty* in X-Men: First Class.

Also, Hawkgirl was Dora the Explorer! Sweet.

*Seriously, they kill the black guy whose power is to survive anything? Pathetic.

The thing I mostly remember from Darwin in the comics was that they tried to put him up against Worldbreaker Hulk, and his power's survival response was to nope out and teleport away.

But yeah, Darwin's fate was probably the thing I liked least about the otherwise pretty good X-Men: First Class.

 

[Necropolitan]

For anyone who's interested the second Mr. Terrific (who's the one in this movie) first appeared in Spectre Volume 3 Issue #54.

He was feeling suicidal, The Spectre talked to him about the first Mr. Terrific, and he was inspired to become a superhero.

 

[chuckdee]

There's an excellent Year One comic ongoing currently. It's only on issue 4, so pretty easy to catch up.