Superman (2025) - An ACM Instant Movie Reaction

Donald and Jon share their immediate reactions to James Gunn's new Superman movie! Fresh from the theater, they discuss David Corenswet's performance, the film's comic book accuracy, and whether this Superman can launch the new DCU like Iron Man launched the MCU.

Key Topics

• Superman movie review and rating
• James Gunn's DCU launch strategy
• David Corenswet vs previous Superman actors
• Comic book accuracy and "Boy Scout Superman"
• Comparison to Christopher Reeve films
• Cleveland filming locations
• Lex Luthor character analysis
• Supergirl introduction setup
• Post-credit scenes discussion

Best For: Superman fans, comic book movie enthusiasts, anyone interested in the new DC universe

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Transcript

[00:00:00] Donald: Hello and welcome back to another episode of Almost Classic Movies 

[00:00:15] Jon: During Is Taking Over. Okay? 

[00:00:17] Donald: The First Ever. Love This Instant movie Reaction, instant movie reactions. So John and I over the weekend. Just happens independently. Yeah. Happenstance. Did you see F1? I did not see F1. 

[00:00:33] Jon: Good movie. Everyone should watch.

I need, that's my review. I wanna see F1. I saw one. This is the only thing I'll talk, talk about for this movie and then we can go onto the point. Yeah. I saw someone say, wasn't Mr. Sunday movies, I think it was Mr. Sunday movies, they said something to the effect of. Every summer, there's that one movie that your dad is gonna [00:01:00] love and will tell everybody to watch it, and F1 is F1.

I believe that like it just has that dad vibe. Like usually Mission Impossible is the movie. So this is me taking what they said and now I'm putting my spin on it. Sure. Usually my opinion is that Mission Impossible. Is that because every dad loves Mission Impossible Facts. Or at least the former generation of dads.

'cause I'm a dad now and I don't like Mission Impo. I don't like Modern Mission Impossibles. 

[00:01:27] Donald: Yeah. 

[00:01:27] Jon: I like old ones. So, but now moving on, the other movie I saw was Superman. Superman. So now we're talking about soup. So we, we both saw, 

[00:01:36] Donald: yeah. Superman. Yeah. What did you think of the movie? 

[00:01:46] Jon: I really thought it, Hmm.

I thought it was really good overall. Sure. I don't think it was a perfect movie. [00:02:00] I don't think there, I think there were moments where I was like very confused about certain things. Sure. But for this being like the formal launching point of. James Guns, DC Movie, cinematic Universe to DCU. I thought this was a perfectly passable movie for that, right?

I think Superman and Lois, both actors, 

[00:02:35] Donald: Rachel Brosnahan. 

[00:02:37] Jon: Perfect. I like this version of Lois. I like this version of Superman. I love that Jimmy Olson's in it. Jimmy freaking Olson is in this and it's so awesome. He was so good. So good. Perfect Goat. I think he is the Dan of this movie. He's the goat. Yep.

Um,[00:03:00] 

we both didn't, I have more opinions, but yeah, it's good. Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you. Yeah, no, no really good. Really needed. Superman after the former Superman. Not that Henry CA's bad. I actually like him as Superman. Oh, sorry. I didn't mean to pause like that. I had another thought, but then I lost it. Oh, it was, I really appreciated how Comic Booky this felt. 

[00:03:30] Donald: That's what I was gonna say. I really like how this does Boy Scout, Superman. 

[00:03:41] Jon: Uh, yeah, I would agree to that. I think, I think this was, I think when he needed to be a Boy Scout, he definitely carried the Boy Scout.

I don't think he does it as much as Christopher Reeves for sure. I think this is a good middle [00:04:00] because yeah, 

[00:04:01] Donald: there's a lot of a. Boy gets angry. I was gonna say, and I liked it. He's not afraid to show 

[00:04:08] Jon: anger. Like, I got scared sometimes when he got angry. Like the interview scene. See that? That was something I was gonna bring up too earlier.

But I paused myself 'cause I wanted to wait until we talked about something like that. Sure. Where it was like, I like that they poked fun at the whole, like, oh, did he wear like the where what's his name? The guy that plays Green Lantern in this? Uh oh, 

[00:04:31] Donald: Nathan Fillion. 

[00:04:32] Jon: Yeah. Yeah Walmart version. Green Lantern, not the actual sponsored Green Lantern.

Um, he made a comment about the hypno glasses or whatever. It's like, oh, did you wear the hypno glasses on you? Or whatever. It's like, I think that is part of it, but like, this world knows how stupid that idea is. Yeah. I think it's really more in how Clark, Kent and Jel. Like it's not [00:05:00] the glasses, it's the expressions and how they carry themselves.

Because when he's in the daily planet, yeah, I'm gonna say daily bugle. When he is in the daily planet, he is a bonafide nerd. 

[00:05:11] Donald: Yeah. 

[00:05:12] Jon: But when he is doing the interview with Lois Lane, it's like you can see the two personas like fighting each other. In like a very, almost like kind of weirdly disturbing way.

It's very physical acting, which is why he's such a good actor for this. It's really, really good. It's so good. Yes, so good. Like that is where like proverbial glasses actually are, right? Because he is like being really cute with Lois. He's being really funny. He is like, okay, sure. Yeah. We can do your interview like.

But then Lois gives him the one too, and he's like, freaking out. 

[00:05:51] Donald: You can't po You can't use that. That's not on the record. You didn't say it was off the record. He's so 

[00:05:57] Jon: good doing that. 

[00:05:59] Donald: Yes, that [00:06:00] that's probably one of my favorite scenes of the whole movie, 

[00:06:02] Jon: that podcast, and the really stupid evening scene I said.

Excuse me. I said stupid, but it was good. It was just really silly. Like it, it was very James gun fired, which frustrated me 'cause it was such a good scene where Lois is talking to, to Superman. Defeated, like defeated Superman. With the alien in the background and Green Lan. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sponsored Green Lanterns.

Just batting it with an actual bat. 

[00:06:34] Donald: Yeah. That's a low level dimensional guy. They got it. 

[00:06:38] Jon: Yeah. But like left. That was a very good scene though. It was very good. It was very heartfelt. I, I left so hard. Oh, I laughed with the whole thing too, at the guy in the background. Oh, it was so great. It hysterical.

It's really good. But it was like a very emotional scene like Superman's defeated. He's feeling really down on like the whole. Situation like I liked [00:07:00] it. Yeah, 

[00:07:00] Donald: Paul Count was better. I was really impressed at the James Gunn treatment of Mr. Terrific. So 

[00:07:10] Jon: good. 

[00:07:11] Donald: I feel like everybody knows who Green Lantern and Hawk Girl are because they're iconic from the Justice League.

Mm-hmm. Mr. Terrific. You get more in Justice League Unlimited and Yep. And like Batman, brave In the Bold and other 

[00:07:23] Jon: stuff. Different take on Mr. Terrific. But I think the way he handled this was very good. I love the Lex that we got. Yeah. Yeah. The like really good character arc for him, I think where he was very methodical, very stone cold.

Um, he knew exactly where everything was gonna happen, at what time and when and how. Kinda like when they got into the fortress of solitude and he was just walking through the carnage. But then you see the progression by the end of it where he is like, oh, I messed the [00:08:00] wrong guy. 

[00:08:01] Donald: Yeah, 

[00:08:02] Jon: like I think the big dichotomy, and I got this one from a movie review that I listened to today actually.

Um, they said the two points that you can see, the ends of the character are happening for Lex Luthor was he, Superman is storming it. Like, he like throws himself into the office of Lex Luthor, flips a table, and Lex is just like, what's going on? I was like, how are you doing? What dog? At the beginning. Yeah, at the very beginning.

Yes. And then at the very end when Superman does the exact same thing, like just bolts into that like, whatever you want to call it, floating The floating office thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Just barrels into it, throws him over and l just like freaking out. Like, oh no, what am I gonna do now? I, I lost.

[00:08:55] Donald: Yeah. 

[00:08:55] Jon: And he just looks so. Crazed. Yeah. Like [00:09:00] that. That's the dichotomy. Like Superman does the same thing, but the reaction in the instance is very diametrically opposite. 

[00:09:07] Donald: That's a really good point. I didn't pick up on that. 

[00:09:09] Jon: Yeah, don't either. I got it from a review. Yeah. Yeah. I thought it was very like, oh yeah, that's, that's very true.

I 

[00:09:14] Donald: think this is a incredibly re watchable movie. I'd agree to that. Yeah, I think so. I have two questions for you. Mm-hmm. Question one. How did you feel about the opening crawl? 

[00:09:29] Jon: I was annoyed by it, but I think the way that James Gunn handled it was passable. It was annoying because the font was white and it's happening in Antarctica, so my brain was just like, wait, where's the words?

Oh, there it is and also 

[00:09:44] Donald: it was like they were consistently moving down to like show 

[00:09:47] Jon: progression of time. Yeah. But I think the way James Gunn did it though, because he just did it like comically like in three, like three centuries. 300 years ago? Yeah. 30 years ago. [00:10:00] Three years ago. Yeah. Three minutes ago 

[00:10:03] Donald: I thought like he did a really, and then boom, he did a really, like, he made it a gag out of an he out of an opening crawl.

But so for those who don't know. This first phase is called Gods and Monsters, and so you get that at the very front. I didn't know that. Yeah. Oh, so you get that. Okay. So like it says like three, like three ad or whatever. Gods and monsters, you know, come to the Earth in this era is called Gods and Monsters.

So like that's, he's establishing that from the first seconds of his first movie. 

[00:10:39] Jon: So it's Superman. Supergirl. And who, what's the third movie? Oh, I've, for he, no, he has a whole slate. Yeah. I'm trying to remember like what's the era that this is gonna go under. It's Supergirl's the next one and I think he also said too, Superman is not gonna have a Superman two for quite a while.

Yeah. [00:11:00] 

[00:11:00] Donald: Uh, so he's 

[00:11:00] Jon: gonna show up probably in Supergirl, I would imagine. H, I thought the opening crawl was like, it was, it was pretty obnoxious to me because I'm just like, ah, man. Like I know why he's doing this. He's trying to play catch up. He's trying to establish this like as soon as possible so you can get into the action as soon as possible.

So we're not doing like Ironman one, Ironman two Ironman, like you're not getting all of that. You're like Superman, super girl, da da da, justice League. Whatever. But I think it was rewarding though too because, because it was like, I, like I was joking earlier, but it was like three minutes he lost his first fight and then he just, like, it's barreled into Antarctica or whatever.

And I thought it was like three minutes ago, Superman lost his first fight. Yeah. And then boom, just explosion. He hits it. He is like [00:12:00] crushed. 

[00:12:02] Donald: The, the machines were really interesting, but what I loved about this movie is they gave that, it didn't feel like an origin story, but you got all of the information you needed.

Yeah, I agree to that. To feel caught up to speed, 

[00:12:24] Jon: but. That does mean you get a lot of what I really was frustrated about with this movie, like this is really what would peg it. A couple points off from me. This is pretty much for the most part, why my rating for it would be a little bit on the not low. It it's, it's a pretty fair number.

It's, but like why it wouldn't be a 10 outta 10. Sure. It's because it's Superman. The exp the exposition dump of a movie. It is so exposition heavy. It drives me nuts [00:13:00] at the beginning. Yeah, no, even at the end, like the whole monologue about why Lex Luthor is so envious over Superman, it's like, I don't need to know why you're envious.

Lex Luthor is like on the front for this first movie. You just need to be a very methodical. Racist. I don't need to know that. You're like, Michelangelo. 

[00:13:29] Donald: You, so as a person who appreciates bond movies, you don't like a good climactic villain monologue ISN James Bond. But I'm just saying like, you, you don't appre, like that's what it, that's the vibes it gave off to me.

You don't appreciate that. 

[00:13:50] Jon: I think the context is different enough for me to be sure. A little bit more critical of this. That's fair, because you're also like getting a bunch of, like you said at the beginning. Yeah. It's like, okay, well [00:14:00] now I'm expecting it, and Oh, there it is. James Bond is different. The context for that, it's like you got decades on movies to be like, where's the exposition?

Villain. Tell me why you're doing it. Ah, there it is there. Oh. Oh, there's me. There's me. There it is. Dr. No. Had it again. Crazy guy. You know Alex Luthor? He's so smart. I don't need to hear it. He shouldn't be monologuing. Yeah, but that's not a discredit to the actor. Yeah. Like you were saying. Great actor. No, 

[00:14:39] Donald: that that scene was tease.

That was intense. 

[00:14:41] Jon: I was very nervous about this guy being Lex Luther. Not because I didn't think he could do it, I just didn't see it. Yeah. I mean, to his credit, I also couldn't see Jesse Iceberg doing it. He didn't do it. He did great. He's a good actor. I just, again, it's the whole, like, I [00:15:00] don't see him as Lex Luthor.

[00:15:01] Donald: Yeah. And we talked about that in our dawn of. Justice episode. Mm-hmm. Go back and listen to it please. But 

[00:15:10] Jon: so get your peach tea on. No, for real though. He was really good. I, I do like him. He, as a character showed a lot of the characteristics of why he's as bad as he is in a lot of good different ways to where I'm like, I believe you as a character.

[00:15:28] Donald: Right. And as you're talking about the, like the racist part. You get that in the forcedness of solitude, like James Gunn does not pull that punch. 

[00:15:38] Jon: Mm-hmm. 

[00:15:39] Donald: Um, 

[00:15:41] Jon: we have a lot of political undertones in this movie. Oh yeah. And like the whole Gaza conflict. Yes. Like that was as Yeah. As bright as day. Yeah. 

[00:15:53] Donald: Yes.

So obvious. Yeah. If you don't get that political allegory 

[00:15:58] Jon: now you do. Welcome [00:16:00] what's happening right now in 2025. 

[00:16:03] Donald: Yeah. So this just being like a short instant 

[00:16:07] Jon: review, what would you rate it? Oh, well, tell me what you thought about this stuff. Oh, like, like you also had two points and you only gave me one.

Oh, that was two. Oh, what's the second one? No, but like what's, I mean you might remember it later. Like what are, what are some of your thoughts? 

[00:16:21] Jon: I felt like I was being interviewed. 

[00:16:24] Donald: Yeah. Were, 

[00:16:25] Jon: I was really enjoying it. No, I, I enjoyed it too. I don't, I'm not good at asking questions. 

[00:16:29] Donald: Um, so I thought this movie was great.

Um, it was filmed in Cleveland some of it was Sure. From Cleveland was. Yeah, sure It was. And 

[00:16:38] Jon: Cincinnati. 

[00:16:39] Donald: And Cincinnati. And thanked Ohio. I really appreciated seeing the whole Ohio logo at the end of the credits. I love seeing all that 

[00:16:45] Jon: armpit hair all over the place. Ohio's the armpit of America. No, it's the heart.

We went over this. It's the heart of it all. It's its slogan. Well, no, like the new New England region like goes up. I'm doing it. You can't see this in the video. It's going [00:17:00] up. What's at the bottom of that arm? It's an armpit DC

I'll give you that one. That is a very swampy, muggy area of the us. That's very true. There's a lot of ccro, so, so crocodiles over there too. So the arm is going 

[00:17:19] Donald: up. 

[00:17:19] Jon: Lot of the ar. A lot of alligators there too, right? Oh no. 

[00:17:24] Donald: So if the arm's going up, DC's the art pit. Ohio's the heart 

[00:17:29] Jon: saying DC I'll give you that one.

No, the mini said DC I was like, Nope, nope. He's right. He's right. I'm with you. 

So 

[00:17:42] Donald: it was cool seeing cleveland on display beautifully as, as like a bustling metropolis, pun intended. Yeah. Uh. [00:18:00] There, there were some really sentimental moments in that movie for me. Yeah. Key landmarks, familiar places.

Yeah. Yeah. Key landmarks in my life because it was done 

[00:18:10] Jon: in 

[00:18:10] Donald: Cleveland. Because it was a Cleveland. Yeah, totally. So you recognize some of Yeah. One 

[00:18:13] Jon: of my friends reached out and said that he recognized a couple places too. 

[00:18:16] Donald: Yeah. 

[00:18:16] Jon: So, 

[00:18:17] Donald: um, and I love that they did that personally. Like we mentioned before, the writers of Superman were.

Like born in Cleveland. So to have this movie start, I didn't realize that. Okay. In Cleveland is really kind of cool. Okay. I remember my other question and I'll get, and we'll get to later it, it later afterwards. Yeah. Yeah. Thought I thought again. I thought casting was cool. The whole staff of the Daily Bugle was, they were all perfect.

[00:18:51] Jon: Awesome. 

[00:18:52] Donald: Perfect. 

[00:18:53] Jon: Yep. I love that. I really felt like I was in a newsroom with just the dynamic. Yeah, it was really [00:19:00] good. 

[00:19:00] Donald: Uh, I love the actor who played the head editor. 

[00:19:06] Jon: Yeah, who I recognized him. So 

[00:19:10] Donald: he's in quite a bit. 

[00:19:12] Jon: Yeah. There's a movie in particular. I, I, oh, I recognize him 

[00:19:15] Donald: from TV shows he was in

[00:19:18] Jon: maybe it was 

[00:19:19] Donald: a TV show. John, the John Kaczynski's. Tom Clancy show. Oh, Jack Ryan. Yeah. Yeah. So he's in Jack Ryan he's also in the Wire. He's bunk in the wire. 

[00:19:31] Jon: Um, that's what I was thinking of. Yes. 'cause the Wire feels like you're watching a movie. Yes, it does. That's, yeah, that, that is what I was thinking of.

It was The Wire. So, 

[00:19:39] Donald: um, no, really all really, really good. I could not get over the soundtrack. Oh, 

[00:19:48] Jon: their rendition, the orchestra rendition of like the classic with the guitar. 

[00:19:51] Donald: Oh, the classic with the guitar over it. Get outta here. I loved hundred percent the vibe of like the futuristic past, like [00:20:00] the eighties vibe of the font.

Futuristic machines, but 

[00:20:04] Jon: the, it was really like a love letter to the Christopher Reeves series. Oh, for sure. For sure. If, but it felt right. The letter on the cape too was really good for that. There was, they, 

[00:20:14] Donald: uh, so James Gunn in an interview mentioned that how he was thinking about not doing the trunks on the Superman suit.

He did that like 

[00:20:23] Jon: the day he decided that what the day of filming too. Yeah. '

[00:20:26] Donald: cause the actor who played Superman wanted him. 

[00:20:29] Jon: Oh, that's cool. Yeah, and 

[00:20:30] Donald: he advocated for 'em. 

[00:20:31] Jon: That's cool. 

[00:20:32] Donald: So glad they were there. They didn't do that for Fantastic. Four 

[00:20:36] Jon: Fan. Four Stick Fan. 

[00:20:37] Donald: Four 

[00:20:37] Jon: Stick. Yeah. Another episode should check out.

You should. It, it wasn't episode, literally just finished recording this. Yeah, we 

[00:20:43] Donald: did. Literally. So true. Yeah. No trunks in that movie. I, I thought what I appreciate about James Gunn is that he, he broaches a lot of. Somewhat tough [00:21:00] to digest topics in the DCU. Like D. C Univers A very 

[00:21:04] Jon: lighthearted way.

Yeah. Like yeah. 

[00:21:06] Donald: Pocket universes, like everything, man. And how he's holding Superman hostage with kryptonite. I thought that was really ingenious. The element. Yeah, the elemental guy. 

[00:21:17] Jon: Did your heartstrings pull when like Joey was in danger? Yes. That hit me really hard. It Almo. So Hannah watched it and HI teared up when the elemental was like, you're gonna get 'em right.

I was like, oh, oh. I'm like tearing up right now. Yeah. It, 

[00:21:40] Donald: it was, and, and the way that Superman like kept him above the quote unquote water. 

[00:21:46] Jon: Yeah. That he should have dissolved in. Yes. But yeah, continuity issues. There's a lot of continuity issues I had with this movie, but I can forgive a lot of them. [00:22:00] Yeah, because it's like as lungs get filled with the engineers like the nan, but then the post credit spoiler, the post credit scene is him on the moon where there's no air with crypto.

[00:22:13] Donald: You had a different post credit scene than I. 

[00:22:15] Jon: Oh no, there was the fault line and then there was, that was like the last one. Yeah. The first one was when he was on the moon with crypto looking at the earth. Oh 

[00:22:25] Donald: yeah. 

[00:22:27] Jon: He wants not in space, 

[00:22:29] Donald: air. 

[00:22:30] Jon: Air, so the nannis or whatever, like that didn't mean anything.

Super. But 

[00:22:36] Donald: Superman has always been able to breathe in space that that 

[00:22:40] Jon: was No, but he can't breathe without air. It's just a lack of oxygen. 

[00:22:46] Donald: It's, it is like he needs less oxygen than we do. Oh, your lungs 

[00:22:50] Jon: are full of the nans. There's a lack of oxygen. 

[00:22:52] Donald: There's a difference between a lack of oxygen and a gas versus not being able to move your lungs because they're filled with nans.

[00:23:00] Ex excuse. 

[00:23:01] Jon: No unacceptable.

Nah, that's stupid. Agree to disagree on this one. Ah. 

[00:23:14] Donald: Because like even in Christopher Reeves, he flew a guy into the sun. 

[00:23:17] Jon: No, no, no that fight was cool though. The, the, the engineer and Ultraman. Yeah. In progressive field. Like when, when he like tomahawked her onto Ultraman. Yeah. So cool. I I was really surprised.

I know you snuck in, by the way, with that stadium reference. That was sneaky. 

[00:23:43] Donald: Thank 

[00:23:43] Jon: you. 

[00:23:44] Donald: Uh, I thought like, but bringing in like, like Nan Knights. Nan Knights are a little bit more digestible now because we've seen them in the mcu. Yeah, totally. But we haven't seen 'em in the, any DC movies yet. Yeah. [00:24:00] I was really impressed with how approachable they, he made everything feel.

Yeah. So overall I thought this was a good movie. I'm really excited for the direction mm-hmm. That he takes it all. Yeah. I, if it was anybody other than James Gunn, I would be concerned about pumping scripts out for a full slate of movies. But he wrote the entire season, season one of peacemaker in three days.

Uh, during COVID, like he was trapped at home and wrote all of peacemaker in three days. Makes sense. Yeah. And that's 

[00:24:40] Jon: peacemaker, cameo in this movie. That was fantastic. So good. So good. I clapped, there was like four people in the theater with me and I was the only one that clapped.

[00:24:53] Donald: Yeah. No shame. No, none whatsoever. Yeah. I'm excited for season two. Yeah. Uh. No. [00:25:00] So overall, I, I, I was really, really impressed with this movie echoing a lot of what you said. 

[00:25:05] Jon: Mm-hmm. 

[00:25:06] Donald: Um, my other question though, for you Oh yeah. Is, so we, the difference is we didn't know Iron Man was kicking off what is now the MCU.

Yeah. We know that this movie is going to kick off the DCU. Yeah. Do you feel like that this movie is strong enough to kick off a universe like Ironman 

[00:25:33] Jon: was? Yeah, I think so. Yeah, I think so. I think it's gonna be more of a question of will it hold after Supergirl and mm-hmm. 

[00:25:51] Donald: I still can't remember. I'm really interested to see I, 'cause I didn't know the I like, I forgot that the Super Girl movie was coming and with her introduction [00:26:00] as like this partying off world girl, I loved it actually.

I love, I love that 'cause like we just got like this super serious super girl in the Flash and now we get like this, you know, party 

[00:26:12] Jon: girl. So I think it was smart and I'll tell you why, because. Yes. The CW version was very like the all like Heartland America, like Christopher Reeves as Super girl. Like as far as like the posture of is.

Yes, sure. And I think the super girl that we got in this movie was smart because drunk super girl is accurate. It's very accurate in the comic books from what I understand. Again, I'm not a big, I, I don't read as much DC comics or I didn't as much as I did for Marvel, but I do know the story of Supergirl just being like, you know, she's technically [00:27:00] older than Clark Kent, but because of like weird time travel stuff with space and all that stuff based on how she, like when she got to earth.

Yeah. Like it's really weird. Like she's stuck as a teenager. But when you think about it and some of the con contextual storylines of why she would be drunk, it's like she's technically older than Clark. When Clark was born, she was a teenager, so she was there when like Krypton fell. Yeah. And if he has this posture of parents being as evil as they actually are, which is comic book accurate, it was weird, but it is comic book accurate.

It's like, why wouldn't you like be really having a hard time keeping a secret and watching Krypton fall and you're stuck as a teen teenager, even though you're probably like in your forties. 

[00:27:48] Donald: Yeah. 

[00:27:49] Jon: Relatively speaking. Makes sense. And again, there's stories around it. 

[00:27:54] Donald: She goes to party, I'm playing it with Red Suns, 

[00:27:57] Jon: another exposition.

Just say you're drunk [00:28:00] off of alien juice. You don't need the red. Ah. Anyways, exposition. But it's comic book accurate in some ways and in other ways. It's a really good contrast with what you would expect with the CW Supergirl and James Gunn did a good job of all of the dichotomies that he wanted to lay up for this movie, and crypto was the bestest boy best good boy Morris would never.

Morris would never, if I was Superman and Morris was crypto and I was like, take me to the fortress now. And I'm like, broken up. He would just like lay next to me and just huff. He's like, I guess we're both gonna die here. Well, I'm not doing that. It sucks to be you. Alright. Old man. No. Morris would never, 

[00:28:53] Donald: Morris would never, 

[00:28:56] Jon: but Morris would play with T Spheres.

You [00:29:00] play with one and then be like, all right, I'm tired. Crypto had so much energy. I wish Lex would benefit the knee though, because Morris would be like, are you serious? Is it? And then like to be like, you're right. Alright, I'm done. He's got that. Look, 

[00:29:17] Donald: I'll put myself in one of my, 

[00:29:19] Jon: I'll see myself 

[00:29:20] Donald: out.

I'll see. I'll put myself in one of the cells in my pocket dimension. You're right, you're right. Morris. 

[00:29:27] Jon: Yes sir. 

[00:29:29] Donald: So what would you rate it? Eight outta 10. That's where I was at. Yeah, I was at eight. 

[00:29:32] Jon: Yep. 

[00:29:33] Donald: I was hovering 

[00:29:34] Jon: between eight 

[00:29:34] Donald: or nine. 

[00:29:35] Jon: I shared a lot of critical stuff, but like, I just, I wanted to be the critic, frankly.

Like I would watch this again. I have two nephews out of quite a few that I specifically know would love to see this movie there's like one, I mean. There's like one scene that I'm like, I'm a little sketched out about like having a young kid watching it, but like it's a [00:30:00] fun movie for kids. I 

[00:30:01] Donald: there, so like James Gunn can do.

Gore and he could do gore well, yeah. He held it back. He did. No, he totally did. But when you, the, the scene I'm thinking of is when Superman is pulling all the nannis out of his mouth that are in his lungs. 

[00:30:18] Jon: Oh, I was thinking, no, no, no. I was thinking of the Russian roulette scene. Oh, 

[00:30:21] Donald: that, that's tough too.

[00:30:23] Jon: Yeah. No, that part grossed me up, but I'm like, that's not bad. Or, but the ba, the 

[00:30:28] Donald: batting of the eyes of the giant stitch, like. That, that that orange thing looked like stitch that the justice came. What, what were you batting of the eye? Like, like the, the, they were just going at his eyeballs. Oh, no, that's comic, that's fun.

I, I don't do eyes well. Oh. Like I don't like watching minority report. Like 

[00:30:51] Jon: Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, that's interesting. Okay. Because all the eye stuff. Oh, interesting. I didn't know that. I've seen it once. Don't even see it again. Okay. Yeah. No, I was thinking [00:31:00] of the Russian relay part. That part is pretty intense for kids.

Oh, yeah. Especially, he's like, oh, I thought that would go longer. Yeah. Oh, no. That was funny. No, I laughed at that part. I was like, no, that was quick. That was, that was, that's actually accurate. Luck is on your side, huh?

Ugh. No. Overall his goal was that, and he got lucky. Yeah, right. Overall, not the luck you.

Overall good movie Eight Outta 10 would recommend. It was fun. I think this is a movie though, that IOC F1. I would. I was gonna say overall, 

[00:31:40] Donald: I think this is a movie that should be seen on the big screen. 

[00:31:43] Jon: I do wanna see it on imax. I didn't see it on imax. 

[00:31:46] Donald: Yeah, I think that this is a movie that you should see it on, on the biggest screen that you can.

[00:31:51] Jon: Mm-hmm. I would 

[00:31:52] Donald: agree. I. I, however, I'm a huge fan of previews and I [00:32:00] officially decided that before Odyssey comes out next year, we are going to watch every Christopher Nolan movie. Whoa. Wait, you got Odyssey on here. I got the Odyssey on my preview. No, you didn't. Yeah, I did. I was hoping I would. Hoping I did.

Oh, you bastard. So good. I don't call people that a MC in South Bend. I had the Odyssey pre. Are we about to 

[00:32:24] Jon: go see that movie again? I need to see that preview for real. Swear to God. No, you, I got this stupid conjuring. I got that one too. I like scary movies and that one spooked me. No, I got the Odyssey.

That's bothersome, but we, we have, we'll go to West Michigan. We're good, but they don't have the Odyssey to preview there. We do have to go 

[00:32:53] Donald: see it in IMAX in Grand Rapids, the Odyssey next year. 

[00:32:58] Jon: Oh, we will. Yeah. We have to, my. [00:33:00] My brother-in-law. Yes. You saw the, you saw Oppenheimer with, with us too. We saw we saw Superman together and we were both banking on the Odyssey.

And when the movie, when Superman started, we were both like, what the heck? Okay, cool. I guess. No. Okay, good. Jump off the proverbial cliff. 

[00:33:23] Donald: Go play in traffic now. 

[00:33:24] Jon: Yeah, for real. Hopefully Superman saves me. Oh, Superman just jumped the yard, took ice. I wish that was me. All right. Anyways. Yeah, no, that's cool.

Oh, that's a good idea too. 'cause I'd like to watch momentum again. We were talking about brother-in-law and I were talking about our favorite Nolan movies on the way into Superman because we were hoping to see the preview. We were giving our favorite Nolan movies. Not to sidebar too much, but you can fill in the blanks here if you want to for your perspective.

And we both said [00:34:00] the,

what's it called? Preti Prestige is our favorite movie. So good. Yep. 

[00:34:12] Donald: It's up there for me. 

[00:34:13] Jon: Yeah. People are gonna say Dark Night. And I said, that's up there for me. It's a good superhero movie. I think it's overhyped the Bait and Switch, but a Christopher Nolan movie 

[00:34:29] Donald: Prestige. Agreed. Go see, go see Superman.

We recommend to go see Superman. Yeah, check it out. Super good. Make sure you see the preview for the Odyssey. Ugh. I wonder how long that movie is gonna be? 

[00:34:46] Jon: Three hours. If it's not, if it's not three, I don't, I would love it if there was an extended version that you could pay premium for. That's five. That was, well, I was gonna say four, but Sure.

And there is an intermission. [00:35:00] Well, there needs to be like a good, like, you know, good half hour intermission. Like make it a thea, like a theatrical release. Yes. Which sounds really stupid. 'cause you're at, you know what I'm saying though? Like a good old fashioned, like, oh, there's a break in the middle. You know?

I agree. I would do that. I would pay. How much would you pay for that

North of 20? I was gonna say probably 30, 40 bucks. I would, I would a hundred percent do that. Probably. You can take my money now. Sure. I'm down. All right.

All right. Anyways, thanks for checking this bonus episode out. Bonus episode. Yeah, bonus episode. This has been churn and darn churn. And during Bye peace.