While only a comic its a fantastic telling of a superhero going insane and the others trying to stop him. The Plutonian levels whole cities and kills millions in the first issue lol. It’s fucking wild.
Love this scene
It’s good, but upon re-watching it now from when I first watched it, and thinking a little differently about it - Superman talks about needing to be careful to not hurt people and cause deaths. Then he proceeds to put Darkseid through several buildings that obviously weren’t evacuated, followed by punching him so hard he goes through a couple layers of earth and totally destroys a bunch of infrastructure. He essentially shows his power and ignores everything he just said.
I still love seeing Superman let loose and fuck Darkseid’s shit up though. 😂
I hadn’t seen it before so my first thought was “uhhh… Superman?”
I mean were those buildings even evacuated? He probably killed a fair few innocent bystanders there 😂
Brightburn. I haven’t seen it (yet), but alternate universe where Superman becomes evil. Trailers showed him absolutely wrecking his classmates in anger and frustration.
Didn’t The Incredibles have a backstory like that where supes are basically illegal after they caused too much collateral damage?
Mr. Incredible is sued for stopping a man’s suicide and injuring him instead.
In a Disney film.
This is explicitly stated, to the camera, within the first 5 minutes.
Holy shit Disney, you hadn’t “Up’d” us yet, chill
The first Incredibles movie was released two years before Pixar was bought by Disney
Pixar wasn’t owned by them, but they were contractually obligated to be making movies for and with Disney
This article is a great rundown of Pixar and Disney, but while the latter did publish Pixar’s movies through the nineties and early naughties they had very little creative influence over them - especially compared to what would come post acquisition. Even the four “transitional” films (that had already begun production in 2006) are clearly more Pixar than Disney.
Watch The Boys for exactly that. You won’t get that from Disney.
Maybe season 1 of the boys. It devolves into disgust porn in the later seasons.
Also the Invincible animated series does it too.
I totally agree with both your comments, but to be fair, they said “movies”.
Exploring the failed attempts and the real struggles of being a hero.
They cut all such scenes and pasted into The Boys, in a Mark Twain style “Sprinkle these around as you see fit!”.
I think Hancock had a few instances of that
Never got around to that one, worth it?
Have it on in the background.
I never fully understood Katherine Heigl’s character and her point in the plot.
It’s decent. Not great.
Critically panned, across the board, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. It could have done with another couple of rounds of script polishing.
It was two movies Frankensteined into one. The first half is awesome. The second, not so much.
It’s okay, not memorable though. I can’t seems to recall anything from that movie but i do remember i have fun watching it.
I remember liking half of it. Oddly enough, I can’t remember whether I liked the first half where he’s a drunken bum, or the second half, where he’s more together, but I specifically remember thinking half of it was decent at least.
So yeah, I agree that it’s not very memorable.
It’s not a good movie but it’s a fun watch if you’re not expecting much.
I wanted to like the movie, but drunk will smith just didn’t do it at all for me.
Perhaps they are going for a tone of heroic escapism, or fantastical drama over gory and downbeat “realism”.
If you really just want to see heroes maiming people it’s been done. Invincible, The Boys (show and comic). Even back to the 90s there were comics like Stormwatch that centered on the premise of “realistic” consequences of super powers.
Aye, it’s all about what theme you’re exploring or mood that’s being set. We don’t have batman exploding into mist when he fights people who can lift planes/cruise ships with their bare hands, because that’s not the story being told. When the theme is about the consequences of powers, rather than the escapism and being good (the ‘super’ part of superman being his morals and convictions), we get the boys and their (gory) explosions.
