Superman (Legacy)- Summer 2025

[Steevy Maximus]

I feel a possible issue with some of the scenes Axaday might have issue with is that the film is more….subtle…in terms of letting the actors ACT. In life, sometimes body language and emotion say just as much as words, and I think that’s where some of the emotional moments tend to focus on.
Where as other superhero films (and comics, for that matter), I think, would have been more blatant with the dialog.

 

[The Predaking]

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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.

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While I get that is your interpretation of her actions, you can see that she is deliberately going after Superman, even ignoring what she knows is true to go after him. Lois has no problem making her own assumptions about Superman's actions and motivations while not addressing the active dictator that was trying to invade and murder his neighbors, regardless of his motivations. She was actively punishing Superman by being the worst journalist that she could, not the best. Like I said, I found it intellectually dishonest and made it sound like a hit piece. I mean, there is a reason why Superman gets upset here, and it's because he knows what she is doing and can't believe she is doing it.

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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 long fully 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.

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I don't doubt that they could have raised Clark, but honestly, we got old people talking on the phone wrong joke, followed up an hour later by the dad's generic speech. I can't tell you one part of what he said, but I can still tell you about Costner's speech, or some great dialog from John Schneider's Smallville run, or the fact that TAS Jonathan Kent never told Superman the truth about Santa Claus, or that even Glenn Ford's limited screentime felt more like Pa Kent.

Honestly it wasn't until the end when we got to see the home movies did we get something good out of them. They have limited screen time in this film and they really needed to be able to make the audience love them in that time. Personally, I don't think that they did that.

Also, Costner Kent didn't want the kids to drown, but he didn't know what to do in that situation. He literally would do anything to protect Clark, and showed that by dying in the storm rather than let Clark save him in front of all those people.