BOOSTER GOLD: Speculation Once Again Mounts That ETERNALS Star Kumail Nanjiani Has Joined The DCU

@THEDARKKNIGHT1939 - damn you stole my line

@THEDARKKNIGHT1939 - no evidence yet don’t like it’s better from black kang

@RockReigns - Eh, Eisenberg wasn't actually a bad choice for the role - its the material that was kind of the issue. Or at least the direction of said material.

@HashTagSwagg - Man get Snyders sack off your chin. You do care or you wouldn't have commented

@HashTagSwagg - Chris Reeves was a great Superman/Clark Kent. But the movie was not that great. Lex was not menacing at all, his henchmen were goofs, too much slapstick physical comedy, flying around the earth fast to reverse time is ridiculous. Movie was great then but now it's a yawn fest.

@Baf - I prefer rewatching Man of Steel to Reeves but that's probably just an age thing. I still acknowlege it as the best Superman film, especially considering the time it came out and the impact it left. Michael Rosenbaum is the best live action Luthor so far. I don't the dude playing him now and think he could make a greater impresion but Gunn's writting just f**ked him over.

@mastakilla39 - Thats a long ass list man.
I'll try and keep it short.
Tone: too much of the serious moments are undercut with Gunn's attempt's at humour, he ain't Taika Thor bad but it does hit that area too often that it just pulled me out, far too many misses than hits with the jokes. I don't feel any of the main cast are in any sort of danger.
Sups is shown being frustrated with how the Justice Gang handle the giant monster and the collateral damage, the next time a giant monster shows up, he's uncaring. Had there been a scene before that where the gang prove to him they're taking the collateral damage into account and that he could trust them, just a little bit more and that could lead in to him leaning on them more in the end when he calls them in to help out during the war. It's missing that third act type structure. Gunn's more focused on another haha background scene while we get an out of place romantic moment.
I already vented on Ultraman in that other 6 worst characters article if you want to see that. Having Lex being already able to max Sup's strength is little world breaking, theres no real weakness to Ultraman, there could have been had gunn stuck to his weaknees in the books, would have made a hell of lot more sense as to why Lex only made one and might move to other experiments later on down the line. All Lex needs to do is makes a couple more and thats it, Lex can take out Superman and anyone else now that he can create is own army of them. There's zero reason for him not to do this in the "sequel".
Sups getting his ass licked in every fight, I I don't mind seeing sups have a hard time but are introd to this all powerful dude is him doing the Yamcha pose, having his dog chew on him while he cry's and is then carried back to the fortress where his sapposid serious injuries are played up for more humour,we get further screaming while the sun heals him and then he takes back of to go fight the man who just beat him during his fight loss (which happens entirely off screen), while flying he's clearly taking the threat serious as sups then decides to spin around some icy mountains for the movies opening titles whilst the dude who just beat him starts melting a building with people in it. I remeber just thinking to myself during this opening, WTF are we meant to takeway from this goofy shit? and it doesn't get better from there.
Lex arrive's at the fortress and it's only then that he starts explaing the plan. He explains exactly why he's there, no to steal the tech or burn down this alien hideout, he's there to find dirt on on superman to expose to the world and thats exactly what he finds. Pretty f**king convenient huh?
According to Holt himself, Lex hates and fears Superman. When he enters superman's home for the first time you'd think this would be the perfect time to show some of that as it's him going completely into the unknown, instead he just walks straight in like yep not even worried, zero reaction to the drones, the tech, the environmeant, it's as if he's already been in the room before.
Christ, this is getting long. You're a champ for getting this far.
This is just a copy paste of my issue with Gunn's dumbing down approach he took with the world, skip it if you've read it.

People shit on Synders visuals being too on the nose like the jesus imagery and all that jazz but Gunn's take was so much more dumbed down that he has his "super""man" go off on a whiny tangent to lex, explaining to him and by extention us (the audience) what makes him human. Writers worth a damn do this through subtext, Gunn explains it to us as if we were 6 year old children. There's movies that can be dumb fun and then there's the insultingly dumb kind and Gunn crossed into that area too many times during this film to enjoy it.

Cornsweat is okay, I ain't blaming this whiny take on Superman on him, it's Gunn's Superman and he comes off as such a damn whimp.
Guy and Terrific were the only characters that I enjoyed an wouldn't mind seeing more off, the problem with that is it's sappose to be a superman movie, make me like Superman first and then focus give his super friends some attention, maybe even a little mini character arc.

The cinematography makes the film look artifical as hell and the constant camera movemeant is a damn eyesore, it's okay to hold a some shots, you're making a movie not a Tiktok video.
My biggest letdown is what Gunn had in his hands and how much he fumbled it. He had, maybe not full creative control but a hell of a lot more control than any other Director/writer from marvel studios has had since Whedon's first Avengers film and this was really the best he could come up with?

@HashTagSwagg - yeah I agree with you about the issues with gunn supe. snyder supe had its fair share of issues. If they could somehow Frankenstein the 2 together it would be a great film. I think man of steel was better, but not by much. I also think man of steel was the only good thing in the snyderverse

@Baf - Unless you're James Gunn, you got nothing to be sorry about man.

@Baf - I liked his first guardians film and Super, his suicide film was good too (aside from every scene with Harley) didn't care for his other films. His Super film though was just so off the mark. There's nothing worth rewatching in gunn's Superman, not one scene. The tone was so off putting, it's a fimilar feeling of how i felt about Whedon's justice league, seen it once and absolutely hated it, seen the Synder cut and that film is now either my first or second favourite of the Synderverse films, it is more or less the same plot but I like Synder's tone and more importantly it's consistant, Gunn is constant tonal whip lash.
If I could show an example, Gunn's film felt like this film clip


and some people like that, fair enough but that tone ain't for me. This edit though is more my thing, not neassarily because its darker and brooding more so cause it feels more intense and very cinematic whereas the other flips between B-movie and made for TV CW type stuff

@TheVisionary25 - Good point on that he could join the DCU without being Booster.
WTS I also wouldn't mind him as Booster if he was the pick. Acting wise he fits the character pretty spot on. Most criticism is because he's not white. Comic book movies have the most hardcore they need to look like person on page because it's a visual medium. But we have to give room for these directors and show runners to create as well.

@PatientXero - oh, you can't say he doesn't look like the actual character if he's a different race in real life these days. the PTB consider it racists.

@PatientXero - Powers That Be

@HelloBoysImBack - why should we?

@HelloBoysImBack - I see.

Love your username btw

@MCUKnight11 - I could definitely see that!!.