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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 9707734" data-attributes="member: 6988941">For the first hour or so I loved it, and felt like it was easily on track to be the best Superman movie. Very comicbooky, in the best sort of way, while also interrogating the impracticalities of the fundamental naivety that the "good guy punches evil away" narrative of superman is built upon. After the Man of Steel caused untold collateral damage seeing a Superman dive to rescue a squirrel in the middle of a kaiju fight was a welcome change of pace, while also helping establish him as an off kilter enough character to fit into a James Gunn movie.It all got a little to complicated with too many moving parts by the end. James Gunn is clearly more at home with ensemble films, so Superman lost some screen time to Mr. Terrific and the Justice Gang, which was a lot of fun but also made the back half of the film feel unfocused and stole some of the lead's big damned hero thunder. So my rating would be "very good but not great". It still might be the best superman movie, if you don't have a nostalgic connection juicing up the first couple Reeves films.</blockquote>