Dean Cain is wary about Hollywood making Superman 'woke' after James Gunn called the Man of Steel an "immigrant," igniting MAGA outrage.
  • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.worldEnglish
    38·
    5 个月前

    Dean Cain can lick a sweaty nutsack. An embarrassment in the history of Superman casting.

    Him and Kevin Sorbo can lick boots together while they swap stories about how they used to play strong guys on TV but now spend their time being weak-willed sheep IRL.

  • Hobo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    5 个月前

    Anyone who just read the headline needs to actually go read the article. It’s not very long. Not that the headline is misleading, he absolutely said those things, but the whole thing is just the most deranged rant. Cain somehow got from being mad about changing the slogan to “truth, justice, and a better tomorrow” to immigrants want to make America into Somalia in two moves.

  • Apeman42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    5 个月前

    Dollar Store Jerry O’Connell is still around? Figured he’d have drank himself to death about 10 years after Lois and Clark ended.

  • synae[he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    144·
    5 个月前

    I’ve never cared about anything superman related because it is just the most boring premise of a character to me. what’s the best way not get lumped in with idiots like this?

    • blockheadjt@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      10·
      5 个月前

      If the premise of a superman story is “strong guy fight strong guy,” then yeah, not very interesting. What I’d prefer to see is a story that explores what having superheroes around does to humanity. What happens when a kid copies Superman and jumps off a building, and doesn’t get caught? What happens when police expect a superhero to do their job for them? At what point does Superman decide to step away because he thinks he’s causing more harm than good?

      • SkyezOpen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        5 个月前

        What I’d prefer to see is a story that explores what having superheroes around does to humanity.

        The Boys, basically.

        • chemikyle@lemmy.zipEnglish
          10·
          5 个月前

          Maybe my memory is tainted because I tried to read the comic version of The Boys somewhat recently, but Watchmen is a much more mature exploration of the same topics.

        • ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          3·
          5 个月前

          Perhaps, but less cynically.

          All Star Superman is kind of my yardstick for a great Superman story. It gives Superman a challenge he can’t simply punch his way out of, and spends most of its time simply exploring how he moves through the world.

          • uid0gid0@lemmy.worldEnglish
            5·
            5 个月前

            Meanwhile the X-men have been around since the 1960s exploring all kinds of stories about how the greater population treats mutants. Including the recurring stories of Mageto’s “We are better than them Charles” while Professor X is like “can’t we all get along?”

  • bitjunkie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    331·
    5 个月前

    Every once in a while I’m reminded of what an absolute dipshit one of my fondly remembered actors from childhood is

      • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        20·
        5 个月前

        I saw a YouTube short the other day of Bruce Campbell talking about how there’s this stereotype in acting where the good-guy actors are all pieces of shit, and the bad-guy actors are all the nicest people you’ve ever met.

          • bitjunkie@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            5 个月前

            Does it hold up? I’ve specifically avoided it as an adult because I was worried it wouldn’t. Ash vs. Evil Dead is fantastic if you haven’t seen it, btw.

            • Vandals_handle@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              5 个月前

              I was an adult (at least chronologically) when it came out and I enjoyed it so you might find it holds up.

              Thanks for the recommendation.

        • kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          5 个月前

          It’s kind of true for horror. Kane Hodder and Gunnar Hansen are/were very gracious to fans and really seem/ed to enjoy being icons of the genre.

          Most of the actors I’ve met who played a lead role in horror movies tended to be bitter and snide towards the fans. A lot of weird spiritual delusions, too. The amount of times I’ve stuck listening to how they can see real ghosts or how horror can negatively effect my aura and shit like that from these people is fucking weird.

    • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      5 个月前

      it’s one thing seeing these idiots, but even more disappointing to see so-called liberals supporting genocide.

    • HugeNerd@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      5 个月前

      Yeah, I kind of enjoyed Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman back then.

  • pjwestin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    136·
    5 个月前

    Superman as an immigrant’s story is one of the oldest and most obvious analyses of the character. It’s barely even subtext; it’s just text. Imagine how he’ll react when he finds out Superman was originally a New Deal socialist who went around smashing up corrupt capitalists’ businesses for safety violations.

    • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.worldEnglish
      601·
      5 个月前

      The quintessential symbol of heroism, of ‘The American Way’, Superman, was created during the rise of fascism and nazism by two Midwestern Jewish boys, one of whom had immigrated from Canada and whose parents were immigrants from Russia and The Netherlands. In the story introducing their character to the world, he saves a wrongly convicted woman from execution, stops a wife beater from killing his wife, and stops a slimy lobbyist and corrupt senator from roping the US into a war with Europe. i.e. it acknowledges that the justice system gets it wrong, that women can be abused and endangered by their husbands, and that congress has a huge corruption and bribery problem. Sounds pretty fucking woke to me. And a few years later had him literally punch Hitler. The idea that they didnt have anything to say with the character about prejudice, about immigrants adopting their new home and being adopted in turn, about politics, is fucking laughable… “too woke”. No, Dean, you’re too ignorant to think that he ever wasn’t “woke”.

      • pjwestin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        53·
        5 个月前

        Oh, that’s the tip if the iceberg. There’s one comic where he smashes up the city’s slums because he finds out the government will replace them with nicer, rent-subsidized apartments. There’s another where he traps a mine owner and all of his rich friends in a cave-in because of unsafe working conditions. Then there was the time he decided to take on traffic safety by smashing cars until the mayor promised to start enforcing traffic violations. Old-school Superman was one of those violent, radical-leftists the conservatives are so scared of.

  • frog_brawler@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    5 个月前

    Just remember; when someone says “don’t make it political,” that’s a statement with a political agenda.

    Call them out on that bullshit.

  • Triasha@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    5 个月前

    What else would superman be? Are you gonna change the lore so Krypton is a small town in Kansas?

    • TribblesBestFriend@startrek.websiteEnglish
      8·
      5 个月前

      And that Lex Co. is strip mining it for a rare earth mineral, now the CEO is going to run as president because of those pesky environmentalists… wait !

  • barnaclebutt@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    5 个月前

    Worst Superman has harsh words for creator of better Superman. After playing the part for a decade, Dean Cain still doesn’t understand the character.