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RELATED (scivillage) : Studios & NYT blame audiences for not watching their movie sermons? ...... Film Threat's reaction to "Supergirl" after watching it in theater
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This Supergirl really is a girl -- she's not a woman. I realize that Milly Alcock herself is 26 years old but the character in this movie barely looks or behaves like even a young adult. I mean, she's like the song "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" without that connected in any way with sex. And Alcock mentioned in an interview that there's no romance in the film, and that was a very good thing because it would have seemed underage creepy.
Like any James Gunn related film it is half-comedy or tongue-in-cheek (whatever you want to call it). It's not political. It was vastly easier to endure (Zzzz-wise) in that context than the television version of Supergirl was, which was wall-to-wall woke ministry -- featuring heavy preaching one episode after another.
Has a very derivative plot. It's like Tank Girl In Space combined with The Fifth Element combined with Mad Max 2 and the style of various 1980s punk films combined with True Grit.
99% of the movie doesn't even take place on Earth and she doesn't wear her costume until the last 15 minutes or less. (Yeah, you've heard this stuff in the reviews, too, but this is from the horse's mouth.)
If this was not a Supergirl film it would be alright as a merely average movie (again, the derivative plot makes it mundane). Similar to Tank Girl, it might even become a cult film years from now, but it wouldn't work as that at the time of release.
It's simply not what DC fans would traditionally expect Supergirl to be (I guess), because Supergirl is usually a woman (20s) who is misnomered as a "girl". And it's too much like Star Wars, it's dislocated from Earth. The "Mattie Ross" rip-off in it even runs around with a real sword instead of a light-saber.
Jason Momoa fit the part of Lobo as expected.
Oh, yeah. Supergirl actually kills villains directly in the film. That was a stunner. Classic or stereotypical Boy Scout Superman doesn't do that unless accidentally or indirectly.
https://youtu.be/PIb6AZdTr-A?list=RDPIb6AZdTr-A
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/PIb6AZdTr-A
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This Supergirl really is a girl -- she's not a woman. I realize that Milly Alcock herself is 26 years old but the character in this movie barely looks or behaves like even a young adult. I mean, she's like the song "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" without that connected in any way with sex. And Alcock mentioned in an interview that there's no romance in the film, and that was a very good thing because it would have seemed underage creepy.
Like any James Gunn related film it is half-comedy or tongue-in-cheek (whatever you want to call it). It's not political. It was vastly easier to endure (Zzzz-wise) in that context than the television version of Supergirl was, which was wall-to-wall woke ministry -- featuring heavy preaching one episode after another.
Has a very derivative plot. It's like Tank Girl In Space combined with The Fifth Element combined with Mad Max 2 and the style of various 1980s punk films combined with True Grit.
99% of the movie doesn't even take place on Earth and she doesn't wear her costume until the last 15 minutes or less. (Yeah, you've heard this stuff in the reviews, too, but this is from the horse's mouth.)
If this was not a Supergirl film it would be alright as a merely average movie (again, the derivative plot makes it mundane). Similar to Tank Girl, it might even become a cult film years from now, but it wouldn't work as that at the time of release.
It's simply not what DC fans would traditionally expect Supergirl to be (I guess), because Supergirl is usually a woman (20s) who is misnomered as a "girl". And it's too much like Star Wars, it's dislocated from Earth. The "Mattie Ross" rip-off in it even runs around with a real sword instead of a light-saber.
Jason Momoa fit the part of Lobo as expected.
Oh, yeah. Supergirl actually kills villains directly in the film. That was a stunner. Classic or stereotypical Boy Scout Superman doesn't do that unless accidentally or indirectly.
https://youtu.be/PIb6AZdTr-A?list=RDPIb6AZdTr-A