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New SUPERMAN movie betrays "the American way"

Melensdad

Melensdad

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I just want to be entertained.

And I grew up in an age when we gathered about the Black & White TV set to watch SUPERMAN as a family. Heck, sometimes the neighbors would gather and we'd watch together. Few shows were as overtly patriotic and pro-American as SUPERMAN. Thru the years, and through several generations, SUPERMAN has been fighting to defend and protect "truth, justice and the American way!"

That ends with the new Superman who now stands for "truth, justice and all things good."

WTF?

This article claims that he is the Superman we need now, in today's world. I disagree.

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James Gunn: Some people will take offence at my new Superman​

The director reveals why his superhero reboot has jokes, politics and is only two hours long — he’s the Man of Steel the world needs now​

 
Who wants to bet the movie is a big disappointment for a lot of older Americans who grew up admiring Superman?


www.thewrap.com

For Superman, It’s Truth, Justice and a Whole Lot of Political Baggage

Superman became an American symbol during World War II and a political lightning rod, making adapting him a heavier lift than Batman.
www.thewrap.com www.thewrap.com


Full story at link ^^^

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For Superman, It’s Truth, Justice and a Whole Lot of Political Baggage​

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The Man of Steel became an American symbol during World War II and later a political lightning rod, making adapting the character a heavier lift than Batman​
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Brian Lowry
July 9, 2025 @ 6:00 AM​
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Christopher Reeve in Superman II
Christopher Reeve in "Superman II" (Credit: Getty Images/ Christopher Smith for theWrap)​
Superman might be faster than a speeding bullet, but thanks to another slogan he picked up in the 1940s, “Truth, Justice and the American Way,” he comes weighted down with more political baggage than any of his fellow superheroes — the kind that requires threading the needle in portraying this “visitor from another planet” as anything more than an indestructible Boy Scout.​
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The question of how to handle Superman on screen is more than just academic, with director and DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn’s movie about to hit theaters Friday, carrying the future of DC and in no small measure Warner Bros. Discovery on its broad shoulders.​
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Given past efforts to politicize the character, one might have thought that the studio wouldn’t want to do or say anything that might distract from the task at hand. Yet instead of shying away from such a fight, Gunn leaned into it in an interview over the weekend with the Times of London, saying Superman is fundamentally an immigrant story and about the value of human kindness, adding if “jerks out there” choose to be offended by that message, “screw them.”​
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Superman was not an illegal Alien.
He was an invention of a creative writer.
His home was not in America but near the North Pole.
In the Artic Ocean on the moving ice Floes.
He was in America as a welcomed visitor.
Jus' saying
 
I love James Gunns' body of work and his sick mind.

I LOVED the new Superman movie and am looking forward to the new-and-improved Detectives Comics Universe.

Disney/Marvel are about to get their asses handed to them in the genre of comic book films.
 
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