I Hope Superman is Good

The final trailer for James Gunn’s Superman was released this week, and I do hope it is good.

I’m sure six million people can inform me that Superman was created by the Jews. Yes, I am aware. However, he is a hopeful American superhero, and it seems to me that a good Superman film, with a positive message, would be good for everyone. People complain about the entertainment industry a lot, obviously, and while it is true that basically nothing good is ever released, it should be noted that some of the reason for the poor quality is that everything is so dark and negative. It would be nice to have some piece of popular culture that is not totally nihilistic and dark.

From the trailer, I would say that Clark, Lois, and Lex all look good. And Guy Gardner. But Superman does not look great. And it really looks like there is a lot going on. I don’t know how there are this many characters. I guess you had to ram a black man in there, but there are really a lot of characters. Putting Metamorpho, Hawkgirl, Ultraman, The Engineer, and others in the film seems to be a bit much. I’m fine with Krypto. I think he should be a yellow lab instead of whatever that dog is, but including Krypto is fine.

Primarily, I don’t like the fact that Clark is getting berated and nagged by Lois. And I don’t like that he gets all mad. I don’t ever need to see another man getting nagged or him getting mad in response to nagging. Maybe in the film, she keeps nagging him and then he punches her in the stomach and rapes her, which would be cool. But I doubt that happens. I mean, that would subvert expectations, to have Superman engaging in domestic violence and rape, but I wouldn’t bet crypto on Polymarket that Superman beats or rapes any women in this film.

But in general, the tone looks fine, frankly. It’s what I would want the tone to be.

The rumor is that “Truth, Justice, and the American Way” is never said in the film. But the tone is fine.

There is something political in the film, apparently. Superman is involved in some kind of war. It’s not clear where. So that suggests that there might be some kind of political commentary, which would completely kill the film. I doubt they will make it political. It looks like Lex is the bad guy and Superman is the good guy and there isn’t any sort of confused political gibberish.

This trailer could be a fake-out, I guess, and it could end up being a totally political thing. As with all big budget movies, any of the gay stuff or anything else sickening is kept out of the film by the fact that the budget includes selling it in China. So there won’t be anything too terrible.

But that “nigger” in the film, which is what people are calling him (they’re also calling him “Supercoon”), Mr. Terrific, is gay in various DC TV shows, and he can’t be gay in the movie because it would get it banned in China and all of the budgets of Hollywood films are based on including the Chinese audience. If the Chinese would only show movies based on the response on 4chan, the world would be a much better place.

But I think it might be okay. And Superman sending a hopeful message to the world would be good. There’s no reason to just be totally negative about everything. If the Superman movie is not political and has a hopeful social message, and it’s a big blockbuster hit, it’s hard to think that’s a bad thing.