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The teaser for James Gunn’s Superman came out today. It’s only a teaser so I wouldn’t have bothered otherwise. Then came an article from Variety about the movie that would be an interesting discussion, but a short one. Put the two together and you have a full article.

Superman is my favorite superhero, and seeing the continued crapping on it by…pretty much everyone of this “modern age” really bugs me. It’s why I have a playlist on YouTube dedicated to finding defenders of Superman, just to remind myself I’m not alone. It’s why even while admitting Man Of Steel was a decent superhero movie, I can’t call it a Superman movie (plus nobody in the move calls him Superman and the two times someone tries they get cut off) and why I haven’t seen a proper live-action Superman in years. Superman & Lois I keep hearing is good but it lost me on the first episode because I don’t need to see Superman being a bad father to his show-only emo kid while the brother actually named for his in-comics son has no powers. Even animation, the perfect venue for Superman, seems to be losing its grip on what makes Superman so great. This cynical age continues to lose Superman, and that is not right.

Then there’s Gunn, the guy who made Scooby-Doo and Shaggy into druggies and Velma a lesbian for some reason until the studio told him no. (The latter would still happen in more recent shows and I still don’t understand it.) He did get away with making Scrappy-Doo the villain. He also already has issues keeping this continuity straight, as we try to figure out  He is known for a brand of comedy that might work for the Guardians Of The Galaxy and Suicide Squad, but I don’t want to see in Superman. Superman III already overdid the comedy, and I defend the plot of that movie. Execution is another story. I’m not sure we want to go through this again.

Does James Gunn understand Superman? Does this actor, David Corenswet, who will be playing Superman, understand his character? Let’s try to answer both questions with a teaser and an article read.

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