That being said, Supergirl showing up drunk and calling Clark a bitch for no reason was a bit weird.
That's how Supergirl is in the comic series Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow. The party girl persona is directly from that. And Gunn has been open about that being the inspiration for the DCU Supergirl.
Lois was bad here. Her interview with Clark was so openly hostile and almost like she was trying to create a propaganda piece for a Fox News like news station.
Wow I got a totally different feel. The feel I got was that Lois is a responsible journalist. When Clark loses it and asks her if she really believes what the Boravian government says about the invasion, she says no she doesn't, but she can't base her perspective as a journalist off of what she suspects, only what she can prove.
Clark is vindicated in that we later find out the Boravians were league with Lex, but Lois shows she's committed to being a responsible journalist. Which plays into how her character unfolds as she investigates Luthor.
So no, I didn't see her as setting up a hit piece. I saw her as being committed to responsible journalism. She even says, just before the interview, that it's wrong for "Clark Kent" to interview "Superman" since he knows the answers ahead of time. This is her showing her best side of her professional life by showing she won't go easy on Clark.
It also sets up that she's maybe so focused on the ethics of her job that she's going to risk her relationship with Clark. As she says- in that scene- she's not good with relationships.
I thought it was an excellent piece of character work.
Lex was a bit over the top...
I loved him. Hoult's Lex seems like the first live action Lex to actually get what Lex is about.
Ma and Pa Kent didn't work for me. Previously, we have had such talented actors in these roles that can really bring out the best of humanity and shine like beacons in their scenes to get that across. We didn't get that here. We got a couple of old folks doing old people jokes and a generic "proud of you" speech from Pa.
Massive disagree with you there. I thought they- Pa specifically- were the heart of the rising action of the film.
Kevin Coster sure can wear a pair of blue jeans and look longfully into the middle distance of rural America but his Pa Kent was hamstrung by Snyder's dark and edgy storytelling where he suggests Clark should have let his classmates drown.
This version of the Kents feels like the parents that would have raised Clark to be the hero he becomes.
One last negative thing, I don't like the reconstructive message. I don't believe that his parents would have told him to do that. To have harems of women to spread his DNA and rule over the Earth, is not something that Jor-El or Lara-El would say.
Now this I agree with. I know the comics have explored "what if Krypton were evil?" from time to time, and ofc Invincible is built off of that premise...
But as someone who's primarily familiar with Superman through STAS and the various movie incarnations, it didn't sit right with me.
It also undermines Gunn's "Superman is an immigrant" message. Because if Superman is someone sent to Earth by his host culture to undermine us and usurp us on our own planet, then what message does that send about immigrant communities?
This was absolutely not the intent Gunn was working with but it's very easy to read it that way.
And also... as I said, Invincible. Never copy the people copying you.
The revelation that Jor-El and Lara-El were evil is the one thing I didn't like... but overall it's a wonderfully fun film.
