The team behind “Superman” is responding to the backlash after director James Gunn said the DC tentpole is the story of “an immigrant that came from other places.”
When asked about the reaction to his comments, James Gunn explained that the movie is for “everyone” and that he doesn’t have “anything to say to anybody” spreading negativity around “Superman.”
“I’m not here to judge people,” he told Variety at Monday night’s “Superman” premiere at Hollywood’s TCL Chinese Theatre. “I think this is a movie about kindness and I think that’s something everyone can relate to.”
I have more than a few things to say to the face of those people.
Dude is from another planet but magat get upset he is called an immigrant.
Conservatives unable to grasp basic plot points of a story thats been around nearly 100 years. Color me unsurprised.
they don’t get Jesus message, even though they say Jesus is the most important thing in their lives.
“When did Star Wars become woke?!”
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If Gunn has balls he’ll do the Injustice plotline at some point.
I can’t help but feel like when Hollywood switched to ME villains instead of nazis, it really had a large sociological effect.
Not that it was intentional propaganda, just that 20 years of “anything to stop poor brown people in the desert” had an effect different than “anything to stop the genocidal fascists”.
It’s because the scary Boogeyman has to be relevant. USA needed people to get onboard with current wars, not old wars.
There were also plenty of movies about the scary Russians too in that specific political time.
Also they’re a fairly small market. Which is also why there are few Chinese bad guys.
One of the recent Marvel movies had the ‘Japanese’ government as a minor antagonist that was very obviously a stand-in for the Chinese.
I confess to having given up on marvel a while ago.
So you’re saying it’s time for a new war against Nazis.
Everything upsets MAGA. They’re petulant children in desperate need of a nap. Sadly, they are using that energy to ruin lives, and destroy a country.
A dirt nap
MAGA are mentally ill from propaganda… mainly with narcissism, but your critical thought needs to be corrupted to listen to Trump speak and think “that’s my guy”.
Snow flakes
I mean he was literally created by Jews during the time of Hitler as an inversion of the Nazi ideal of a “super man” who would go around beating up Nazis. His origin story is basically just space Moses, and his Kryptonian name “Kal-El” is formatted like the name of an angel, containing the name “El” meaning “God” (compare MichaEL, GabriEL etc.) Superman has been anti-fascist and pro-minority since his inception.
Nobody cares about objective reality anymore. Once we started letting people live in their own worlds of “feel facts” without consequence, lest someone throw stones at our own escapism cognitive biases, we ceded control of the world to the loudest and most hateful people.
There is no convincing people of anything anymore because they can just close their ears and go somewhere more comfortable. If they face no repercussions and can not only get praise for being hateful but even raise money and become celebrities, what do we really think is going to result from explaining things anymore?
But if we force schools to change their curriculum to align with MY version of reality, that makes it true! Right?
Or it’s just a really really long con for a ton of content creators to make content about “the shocking truth they won’t teach you in school!!!”. Because I guess that’s the only way to get idiots to actually understand something is by packaging it in some hidden conspiracy wrapper.
The next layer of destruction of our species’ potential was when we monetized attention spans.
But he’s white! How can he be an immigrant!
Shame they did stick with a white actor. Imagine the chuds losing their minds over a Superman played by Pedro Pascal or Michael B. Jordan.
Did they forget they were mad at James Gunn for comments he made about Trump in 2018? It’s not like they were going to see this movie anyway since they don’t like any form of entertainment that’s not explicitly pandering to them.
Lol, they can’t remember all the things they are outraged about. If you’re expecting consistency and logic, you’re talking about the wrong group.
I hate everyone in this story. I hate MAGA by default. I hate the director for deciding to associate a fictional character with societal issues. He decided to make it political and I hate it when people decide to make something that once was not political and shouldn’t be political - political.
everything is political
“We don’t go to the movie theater to be lectured to and to have somebody throw their ideology onto us.” Jesse Watters added
People like him is why AI slop movies are going to be successful. They just want to watch pretty pictures and see the American flag waving at the end, not be intellectually challenged and entertained.
Do the people complaining about it know anything about Superman? If you didn’t think Man of Steel had commentary about immigration, you either didn’t watch it or you’re an idiot. I wish there was some way we could enforce a rule that you have to know something about the franchise you’re commenting on.
“SuperMan is an immigrant” I thought that was an alien. In which world we do live where is worst being an immigrant than an alien.
When I was a kid, immigrants were called aliens. Illegal immigrants were illegal aliens.
I’m looking forward to when “MAGA” becomes derogatory like they somehow did with “woke.”
It already is for half of the country.
You can be the change you want to see. Start using it as a pejorative.
“What, are you MAGA?”
“I got a MAGA type explanation in response to my question.”
“It’s clear that MAGA is in charge over there.”
Your usage doesn’t seem derogatory without context. I could see a MAGA person saying those things without negativity. It might help to look how woke got transformed. Perhaps it was paired with negative terms like “get this woke shit out of my face.”
by using their terms/names you give them legitimacy. Do not fall for it. Less platform they have, less damage they can inflict. Remember their task is to “flood the zone” and adding MAGA to your vocabulary is helping them. “Misinformed Americans” or “Malicious Americans” or “Mindless Americans” are more appropriate terms
well, they have someone in the oval office, so they already have legitimacy. I think we’re well past one-nazi-walks-into-a-bar by now.
They were able to take away the legitimacy of “woke” instead of avoiding using it to deny its legitimacy. Worked for them, might work for us.
2015 That’s when.
Just taking far too long for it to propagate.
How could someone take umbrage there? Like… read his origin story. He was born on Krypton. He got dropped on Earth. He was adopted by folks in Kansas. If I told people I found a child who drifted across the Rio Grande and adopted him as my own, we’d all agree he was probably from Mexico and not a native born citizen. But apparently him drifting in from SPACE changes the narrative?
But he’s a white space alien
Hmm, an endangered child’s parents send him in a craft to be found and adopted by others, assuring his safety. You’d think that would resonate with MAGA Evangelicals, who should recognize the story of Moses.
Bold of you to think they read any part of the bible except the ones they can twist for the sake of hatred.
The story of Moses is of God’s Chosen People being insulated from bad events while the Pagans are made to suffer.
The moral of Exodus (and Kings and Judges) is that if you’re following God’s Will, nothing bad will ever happen to you.
* coughskincolorcough *
I want to go back about 20 years and find every idealist moron online who tried to debate with me that we can’t keep calling people racist and that oppression is a deeper issue than superficial appearances and I want to smack them clean into 2025 so they can see what they permitted.
