Nationalist propaganda capeshit gonna propagandise

More like Pooperman amirite?

  • Moss [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    Awesome! They should make him wear the American flag on his back too, and always tell bystanders that “they’re the real heroes”.

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        this sounds like a shit lib af premise

        It’s beating that dead horse of “young people these days, so ridiculous because they care about things!” grillman that the fucking Brady Bunch movie tried some decades ago.

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    I think it’s going to be ironic, in a lib sort of way, where Superman discovers that America bad, and that some deep state shadow agency is colluding with a foreign entity, but then Superman saves the day and America becomes the good and true America that America was always destined to be.

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      This is the only plot that is ever allowed in lib slop that even remotely acknowledges that the something in the status quo might be bad.

      It’s also close to the plot of Barbie lol. Barbie learns she’s problematic, but it turns it that nah she’s actually great.

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      If Superman doesn’t laser eyes everyone responsible for every bad thing america has ever done he’s definitely a lib

    • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]@hexbear.net
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      so, captain america? idk i know DC has had more trouble getting their Cinematic Universe together, but the ones they have released have been more thematically simplistic and straightforward than the MCU.

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      I’m holding out hope that the “truth, justice, and the American way” shit might at least be a little ironic, but who knows. His other capeslop movies are pretty decent.

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    If you’re going to make a movie about a superhero who has outdated values, you already have the perfect superhero for that in Captain America. Why Superman?

  • Ericthescruffy [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    When Captain America: Winter Soldier came out it was (insofar as capeshit slop can be) a pretty big deal for a few reaosns. The biggest one by far was that they took a guy whose whole schtick is that he throws a giant frisbee and managed to make him and his fight sequences actually fucking cool. Of note also though was that it actually confronted and indeed actually confirmed the idea that the shadowy government agency they were all working with were basically Nazis. The moral of that one was that America has become what it originally fought against in WW2 and we needed the symbol of the American dream to bring us back on track.

    That was 10 years ago. At this point even people like me who will guiltily consume capeshit will tell you that’s all cope. America is a genocidal colonizer state who served as inspiration to the Nazis. The values Captain America claims to have represented are and always were fantasy.

    If I was to do a Superman movie I think I would take a page out of David Goyer’s brief comic run where Superman renounced his American citizenship. Maybe have a B-plot that ties into the A plot where Superman who is by any and all definitions an undocumented immigrant is being granted American citizenship only to have him reject the offer at the end when he realizes that the concept of the American way is actually short sighted and myopic and that he actually needs to see himself as a citizen of the world. Honestly I wouldn’t be shocked if they actually go that route. Meaningless platitudes but I don’t see how anything else won’t land completely flat.

  • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Bit idea: Inframan: he’s an alien from another planet whose otherworldly origin makes him the only guy capable of doing some goddamn self-reflection