Pick one. James Gunn Addresses If He Had Any Issues with DC Comics over Brightburn's Similarity to Superman
Man, these are both the worst movie reviewers online. Stop giving any weight to their half-arsed opinion.
"What if Superman was, like, evil and stuff?" has to be one of the most over-used and boring superhero concepts. Superboy Prime: The Movie. Tagline - He'll kill you. To death.
I hate to judge a movie before I see it, but I read the plot leaks, and I still have no interest in this movie. From what I read, the movie never explores in detail why this kid would start killing everyone. It’s like a light switch. There’s no way to relate to the kid at all, and many of the characters sound like they make some really stupid decisions. I have no interest in a Joker origin movie, but at least that movie has a character arc to follow.
Stupidest movie so far this year and there has been some stinkers so far. Stupid plot and his powers are not consistent. Writers have the imagination of 10 yr olds.
Saw this earlier. Not very good, remove the Superman stuff and it's just a sub-par "Evil Kid" movie. Only real takeaway is that the Gunn brothers must really hate Superman. Yeah, I was tired of this trope for years even before garbage like Injustice ran it even more into the ground. What's even more annoying is that every time another "Evil Superman" retread comes out people who don't like the character to begin with come out of the woodwork to say this is how "Superman should be".
I read the plot synopsis... this is laughably dumb and boring. They never even explain WHY not-Clark turns evil, and since in this universe there is no kryptonite, there is little mystery in how they will NOT stop him in the end. And then the movie even sequelbaits with news reports of evil fishman Aquaman and evil Wonder Woman who strangles people with her lasso. This is saaaad. DC should sue. The Justice Lords version on the JL toon was one of the few good tries at that. And Red Son too, I feel. Both fundamentally have him still being good, just taking more extreme measures of establishing peace. Here, it is just straight up evil without any rhyme or reason. Was the kid some vanguard of an alien invasion? Why send him as a baby then? Never explained.
Just saw the trailer before John Wick 3, and I gotta tell you, I am about sick of the evil Superman shtick. I don't mind Superman killing when necessary, but making him evil? No. Yes, it does. Here's an idea for a movie, if Hollywood can pull its subversion-loving head out of its ass: You have a bunch of people getting superpowers for whatever reason, probably some alien or mad scientist (or alien mad scientist) looking to destabilize things. Most of them when given this power start acting like this little twerp because power corrupts. The hero of the story, a salt-of-the-earth, old-school farmboy like Clark Kent, sees the carnage these people are inflicting and uses his own superpowers to put a stop to it. Edit: grammar correction.
About the only thing I don't like about that is that they tie the killing of supervillains to scumbags like the Elite in order to justify the editorially enforced no-killing stance that the heroes take. What I'm thinking is more "we've got a bunch of homegrown Kryptonians, most of whom are abusing their power in horrific ways, and the only guy standing between them and us is one guy with powers." So your classic superhero vs supervillain setup, only the hero isn't held back by sanctimoniousness and editorial mandate.
That’s not too far off from Kingdom Come: The population of supers has exploded since the old guard retired and the younger superheroes mostly just use their powers to screw around, fight each other for fun (most of the villains died or retired) and are massively irresponsible. After their antics cause a disaster, Superman and the Justice League come back to put a stop to it.
Again, the problem with that one is the same as Superman vs the Elite - they associate the false superhero with killing in order to discredit the latter idea. In this case, it's Magog killing Joker that set off the false superhero revolution in that series. Other than that, the idea of a true superhero going up against villains and false superheroes is a good one.
Honestly, an 'evil' superman story could be entertaining, especially if he didn't have a Kryptonite style weakness. You just have to make his fall compelling, ala Injustice.