Spoilers Superman Spoiler Thread

[Staffan]

I can't really tell the difference. There's general US/Canadia, Noo Yoik, Southern. Maaaaybe a high school girl everything goes up at the end one.

Bahston also has a pretty distinctive accent. I'm not sure if it's a more general Massachusetts thing or if it's specific to Bahston.

On the topic of supers, I'm hoping that when they get around to doing X-Men and hopefully including Emma Frost, they'll have her speak in a very refined voice... until she gets angry or something and breaks out into a wicked thick Bahston accent.

 

[Belen]

I thought that was a bit over the top, especially with how slowly Ma Kent spoke. It seemed a bit like a characicutre to me. Maybe it was meant to be. Still loved the movie!

It may say a lot about that folks complaining view the accent negatively.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Yeah I mean I am Californian, and when I call my company’s corporate “store support” line and get someone from Kansas, Tennessee, or a few other places, I feel like I’m talking to the sloth character from Zootopia. It is so slow I struggle to remember how the damn sentence started, by the end of it.

We talk fast and tend to blur everything together from the perspective of most of the country anyway, I suspect, from the one time I tried to listen to Californians on YT and compare them to everyone else anyway.

Yeah you gotta be immersed in a US country accent or two to hear the difference between them tbh.

I can definitely tell some differences, but I couldn't tell you which group was which.

 

[Tonguez]

Did Gunn use Superman as a proxy for himself?
The punk trope felt like it, hilarious

My only quibble: Ma and Pa Kent were made out to be serious rubes, albeit kindly ones. That felt a little mean.

Yeah I seriously didnt like the Kents being presented as yokels, especially when they should be the moral grounding that made Clark the good person he is.

I liked the movie much more than I thought I would, it moved at a fair pace and got the origin story points covered. It did seem a bit disjointed and rushed though. The plot was convoluted and giving Lex access to so much superadvanced tech including subdimensional spaces, clones and enslaved martians(?) was a bit too much without it being explained and justified (even if they had just shown us alien collaborators per CADMUS). Lex was just a bit too campy villain too, especially with the ex-girlfriend thing. And whats with Gunn wanting to put a Harem subplot and Eve Teschmacher being obsessed with Jimmy - ehk!

Supes not being all powerful and actually needing the others was a good change, made him more relatable and able to show his morality.

I also liked the the reporters of the Daily Planet got to be important to the resolution too. I even liked the Lois-Supes interview with her pushing him to actually justify his actions, its what she'd do and gave a nod to the whole super-legal authority premise

the Justice Gang was meh, although Guy was well done, Hawkgirl was a bit pointless and the portrayal of Mr Terrific just a bit dodgy. I like Mr Terrific but the Fairplay aspect of his character should have been more apparent.

I'm also trying to recall what superman show used the 'sent to rule earth' point previously 0 was it in one of the TV shows or a movie? cant recall

 

[chuckdee]

I like Mr Terrific but the Fairplay aspect of his character should have been more apparent

In what way?

 

[dbolack]

It may say a lot about that folks complaining view the accent negatively.

I dunno.

I was born in Kansas. Spent most of my "learning to talk" years there, in more than one region of the state and I just cannot recall ever hearing that accent.

The pacing? Sure. But not the sounds.

 

[Tonguez]

In what way?

The comic book version of Mr Terrific (and as he appeared in the Justice League cartoon) was deeply committed to justice and fairplay, acting as a voice of reason and moral compass to his team. This version was a bit more rash in his approach and too ready to kill the kaiju.

 

[dbolack]

bit too much without it being explained and justified (even if they had just shown us alien collaborators per CADMUS). Lex was just a bit too campy villain too, especially with the ex-girlfriend thing. And whats with Gunn wanting to put a Harem subplot and Eve Teschmacher being obsessed with Jimmy - ehk!

I think the harem bit is a tag/dig at folks who believe in replacement theory.

As for Jimmy, it's been pointed out that at various points in his history, Jimmy has been an inexplicable ladies man. This was probably a throwback to that and also a way to make Jimmy a little more relevant in an age when folks have less appreciation for photojournalism.

I'm also trying to recall what superman show used the 'sent to rule earth' point previously 0 was it in one of the TV shows or a movie? cant recall

Smallville had a bit of this but I forget if it was overt or more of a "White Man's Burden" in Kryptonian clothes kinda thing.

 

[Mannahnin]

I think the harem bit is a tag/dig at folks who believe in replacement theory.

Including one billionaire in particular who has conceived at least 14 children with at least 4 different women, and possibly many more.

 

[Morrus]

Bahston also has a pretty distinctive accent. I'm not sure if it's a more general Massachusetts thing or if it's specific to Bahston.

On the topic of supers, I'm hoping that when they get around to doing X-Men and hopefully including Emma Frost, they'll have her speak in a very refined voice... until she gets angry or something and breaks out into a wicked thick Bahston accent.

I doubt I could distinguish it.