I watched the Superman movie, which was kind of as good and meaningful as a Superman movie could be.  And I don’t think that’s damming with faint praise.  (To refer Alan Moore on the appeal of Superman — you have Krypto the Superdog, and he wears a mask.)  And I think there was one superhero and special effects laden fight sequence which I cannot narrative follow — no clue what everyone is supposed to be limited to or has what great ability — close your eyes and wait two minutes, I guess.  Looking at it in the cultural zietgiest, I remember hearing ponderances of the superheroes at the time of the Heath Ledger as Joker Barman movie (having watched it for a second time, not since it was released, I don’t think much of that one now) — that Superman comes off flat in current times, we are too cynical for this depiction of a pile of goofy altruisms.  And somewhere after a bunch of dark depictions of a Superman breathing his words as heavily as Batman, the Joker movie which gets a pile of “story for our times” and alluded to as some character study of the Trump age (but which I squint at asking “Doesn’t everyone remember ‘Falling Down’?) — (I never saw The Joker, incidemtally, but all the commentary I saw seemed just a rehash of that for the 1993 Falling Down.)  I actually don’t know how extensive the right wing “Superman so woke!” commentary i , being that I stare at a liberal ecgo chamber ready with pithy lines for sources they are at the ready to seek out.  I was actually a little on guard for on the nose tie-ins.  But if you want to do “Orange Man Bad”, Lex Luther is not really the characterization.  And in this realm, a Putinish figure invading a Ukrainiish country is kind of a stock plot in history — if you want to read this into this, go nuts.  Likewise the rest.  Somewhere in the zietgiest you land on the immigrant fantasy from the eve of ww2 trying to bring light to the world as opposed to the warmed over pulp vigilante stalking the night — surprise twist from 2008 to now.

Meanwhile Disney / Marvel has its slate of movies which look as uninteresting as ever.

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