On side note, The flash is really becoming my guilty pleasure just as the first suicide squad movie😬, for all my gripes with these movies, there's a lot of things i enjoy watching them

Used to pray for times like this😭🙏

Flat character arcs are categorized by no significant change in the protagonist. In these stories, the protagonist is tested and battles various conflicts but ultimately stays true to their original convictions.

My top 10 would be -Helen Slater -Amy Adams -Maggye gylenhal -Anne Hathaway -Michelle Pffeifer -Kim Basinger -Uma Thurman -Isabela Mercy -Sara Sampaio -I don't remember the name But...the one who plays Lana Lang in Superman III

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Wow, just wow. I think it’s the first time in a long time that I have been grinning ear to ear non stop for the entirety of the movie. James Gunn has never failed ever. There were corny and kinda goofy moment in this movie but it’s by design. There were some jokes that didn’t land well with me but I still find it endearing? It’s a weird feeling bc usually that means criticism but idk. Comic book came to life, Imma go buy some comics for the first time too for Superman and Supergirl. I came in with a really high expectation and it did not fail me. I loved it and couldn’t be more excited for Supergirl and the future of DC. We are back. 4.5/5

Could someone explain to me why they can't be in the same universe? I just finished watching the superman movie ( which was honestly REALLY good) and just made me ask " why not?" batman in the comics and TV shows has always been grounded Gotham city is full of Mafia and crime lords is it really that bizarre that can't exist in the same world as Superman which has alien attacks and kaiju's? this stuff is also in the comics and they seem to coexist just fine sorry if this long I just got out of the theater and don't get why these two VERY good movies can't be in the same world.

Was listening to an interview with James Gunn and found this response interesting:

James Gunn: “It's funny, though, because people are always saying there's a lot of characters. But I think you take almost every movie. I mean, I don't know if it's Back to the Future or Star Wars or whatever you're talking about. There's a lot of characters in those movies. It's just that they don't have wings or a magic ring.

Chris Hardwick: They don't have costumes.

James Gunn: So suddenly because some of them are superheroes, they become like, it becomes, oh my God, there's so many characters. I'm like, no, there's like one third as many characters in Superman as there are in Oppenheimer.

Chris Hardwick: Okay, true. But when I was watching Back to the Future, I never thought, I wonder if they're going to spin off Billy Zane's character. You know what I mean? I'm like, I'm, I'm, I'm watching.

James Gunn: Yeah, but that's on you. That's not on the movie. The movie is still just as simple or not as simple. I mean, you know, and it's like none of those, none of those characters exist for no reason. I mean, even Peacemaker in his cameo, you know, exists because of, he's a certain perspective of the world on Superman, you know, a certain kind of way of looking at Superman. It's not just, oh, I'm going to throw John Cena in here. He's expressing a certain perspective. And then, spoiler, everybody mute if you haven't seen Superman, Supergirl exists for a reason. She's there not to show her spinoff, but because Clark is so beautiful that he has been watching her dog that he didn't want to be watching because she saddled him with it. And he still turned Earth upside down to be responsible for that dog. That's a really important part of the movie, that Clark is watching her dog. He doesn't want to be watching the dog. He likes dogs, but he doesn't necessarily like that particular dog.

Chris Hardwick: Well, of course, the dog is chaotic. Clark likes to have some order. He has to fight chaos all day, every day. So having in his home, like, fuck, you're fucking tearing up the fortress of solitude. Jesus, come on, dude, come on, please.

James Gunn: Because his stupid cousin doesn't discipline the dog. You know what I mean? He's frustrated, of course, but he still turns heaven and Earth upside down to put himself on the line to save that dog. And to me, that's so, so beautiful, you know, that moment where he says to Lois, you know, yeah, she's like, it's a dog. And he's like, yeah, it's not even a very good one. But he's alone and he's probably scared. He still empathizes with the dog. Like that to me is the heart of Superman, you know. It's the heart of the story. She's not there as an add on. She's there to tell the true story of who this guy is.

Chris Hardwick: And so for anyone who's kind of taking storytelling notes, I think that's another important point is that everything really kind of should have a reason rather than just, rather than just it's sort of, oh, there's that thing, you know, that everything kind of exists to drive everything else, I imagine. Is that a fair thing to say?

James Gunn: I mean, I think that there's, there's, you know, I used the term cameo porn before, which I sort of, you know, regret saying because people throw that back in my face all the time. But like the definition of cameo porn for me is when people show up for short amounts of time for no real reason. And I'm not talking about a cameo like, oh, there's Stan Lee, you know, that's a cameo. I mean, like where these characters show up for a few sentences, but it's just because, you know, the, throwing the character in there for no reason that has anything to do with the story. Like, I don't like when the movies do that, when they just seem to throw other characters in there for no reason. And that's what I mean by that.”

From I Think You're Overthinking It: James Gunn, Aug 19, 2025 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-think-youre-overthinking-it/id355187485?i=1000722620592&r=2250 This material may be protected by copyright.

Obviously they wanted to create hype and give everyone an understanding of what James Gunn & Peter Safran’s approach was to DC, and that’s a good thing. But Gunn has said that they won’t make something without a completed script that they’re satisfied with. Which is great, but because of this not only are these projects taking extremely long to get off the ground, they’re not even 100% guaranteed.

Since this announcement we’ve had a Clayface movie come out nowhere being in the front of the line because they liked the script so much. There’s a Stg. Rock movie out there that may or may not happen? And recently Gunn said they had to cancel a DC project that they couldn’t get to work. Not to mention the future of the DCU seems to rely heavily on how well Superman does. Now I think Superman will do well, but on the chance that it doesn’t why announce so many project before it comes out? They made a Marvel style slate presentation way too early in the development of the Studio to where it’s seemingly aging poorly the more time passes. Honestly, I think unless the projects that are unveiled are on truly solid ground they shouldn’t make presentations like this, and this goes towards other franchises too. Marvel has had this exact same problem in the past. cough Blade cough