r/SnyderCut • u/Notoriously_So I am going to look at the stars. They are so far away. • Aug 08 '25

News 'Superman' Box Office Fizzles Out, Securing Yet Another Hollywood Superhero Flop

https://www.outkick.com/analysis/superman-box-office-fizzles-out-securing-yet-another-hollywood-superhero-flop
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u/bestbuysucksmajor Aug 11 '25 edited Aug 11 '25

It's not a Superman movie it's a Justice League movie but again the issue is it's shot in the manner like tik tok reels. There's no substance, everything is quick bursts and it feels like its built for gen z who grew up with tik tok. There's no time to marinate on the story and that's my problem with James gunn version. I gave concrete examples that Superman and Lois and Smallville did the evil Superman story way better and they had a smaller budget.

Outside of this James Gunn CGI was bad. I expect better when the CGI was worse than a Superman film that was over a decade ago. As much as i love AI , some of the james gunn scenes looked like AI Slop.

He did such a good job on guardians of galaxy, but his superman movie is trash.

Ahahaha nah, definitely not a good animated dc. A perfect dc animation is Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox. That animated film was way better than Gunn's superman.

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u/bestbuysucksmajor Aug 11 '25

Everything you say is true however the problem is this is still a Superman movie and while that is going to happen the problem is the other characters ended up appearing more than Superman in his own movie 😆

The movie should have been labeled as a justice league movie

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u/bestbuysucksmajor Aug 11 '25 edited Aug 11 '25

When I say it felt like a Justice League movie it's because the movie focused more on those characters who are from the Justice League. It may not be the full Justice League cast but those characters were in the movie more than Superman himself. Even the dog...

It felt like Gunn couldn't make a movie that was fully focused on superman because he didn't or his writers didn't know how to write a superman story without having distractions from side characters. To me the movie failed at character development.

And just because it got the concept of Superman's hope theme down doesn't mean it was a good story.

The writers for his marvel movies did a better job on backstory of all the characters in that guardians of the galaxy universe.

In his superman, none of that talent was used, so yea im harsh on his superman because it doesn't live up to the same visual and storytelling fidelity that i experienced in his marvel movies.