When I walked out of my local Alamo Drafthouse, I felt something I haven’t felt in a while after leaving a theater; satisfied, but not full.
I think that’s the best way I can describe the Superman movie from James Gunn. It scratched that touch-to-scratch itch that many superhero films nowadays can’t, because we live in an era when we’ve been trained to see superhero films as disappointing, CGI-fests that too often carry “the message.”
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Indeed, Superman was thought to have carried that message thanks to Variety’s red carpet reporter Marc Malkin, who was doing his absolute best to get the cast and crew to say something negative about MAGA and the fight against illegal immigration by tying superman to the immigrant crowd. Gunn wisely didn’t bite on the question, but Malkin still grossly misrepresented his reply to fit his own narrative anyway. Conservative media bit on the