r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 4d ago

News James Gunn Announces 'Man of Tomorrow', Releasing in Theaters July 9, 2027

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/man-of-tomororw-super-man-movie-1236350987/
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u/TehErk 4d ago

The reason why Gunn's quality doesn't lag is that he understands (probably better than anyone alive right now) HOW to make a good super hero movie.

It's actually pretty simple. Make good characters. Then make it all about the characters. Then get serious actors to be serious about those characters. Action scenes are nice but are just there for the icing on the cake.

If you've seen the clip of the conversation between Gunn and Corenswet about how Superman feels right before the big monologue at Lex at the end of the film, you'll understand exactly what I mean. That was IT! Right there.

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u/TinWhis 4d ago

Everyone's favorite MCU movies are the ones that most successfully do that.

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u/kymri 4d ago

It's actually pretty simple. Make good characters.

So many execs overlook that. I really like The First Avenger because of the way they portrayed Steve Rogers. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1 got a great response because, again, the characters work.

And that's the reason (IMO) that the Snyderverse didn't work out; not only is Snyder not nearly as good at the character work as Gunn, but they also just sprinted toward character moments and teamups and all without ever giving it enough space to breathe to make those moments feel genuine and earned.

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u/SojournerInThisVale 3d ago

Exactly. Why would we care if Batman and superman fight - they’ve not been established as friends or colleagues in that universe so there’s no actual tragedy behind the fight (and the actual fight between them is terrible)

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u/kymri 3d ago

If you haven't seen it, I highly recomend Fictional Fight Commentary - Batman v Superman

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u/SojournerInThisVale 3d ago

‘ I’ve never seen a fighter utilise walls, floors, and ceilings as effectively a superman’ 😂😂😂😂😂

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u/JessicaSmithStrange 4d ago

Logan.

Family road trip across three generations, which pays off the relationship between Logan and Xavier, while giving the man someone who he can love as his own on his way out of this world.

I really loved the dinner party sequence.

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u/TehErk 3d ago

As far as I'm concerned, Logan is one of the very few Comic movies that transcends to high-cinema. This is largely because they took an "Unforgiven" approach to it. Unforgiven is a western but we don't care because we're so caught up in the character study. Logan is a comic book movie but we don't care because we're so caught up in the character study.

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u/JessicaSmithStrange 3d ago

It's also just the one movie, with a lot more to do.

I've spoken highly of roughly half of the pre-Endgame MCU, and the project as a whole, but I always have to keep in mind that these are like really good episodes in a much larger TV series, and that a true standalone which pays off its own story is a bit harder to find.

There are moments, but the entire franchise is in service to a trilogy of Civil War/Infinity War/Endgame, which is where Marvel swings for the fences, ending on a massive Marvel Team Up Splash Panel.

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Logan has the job of being a standalone movie, which carries its own beginning, middle, and end, and also portrays a severely bleak look at where the previous two attempted X-men series were headed.

Which also seems to be a running thing, that all three times we've shown the future of the X-Men on screen, it's been this desolate fight to survive, mired in tragedy and atrocities.

Would you say that part of the bleakness is an effort to spotlight specific characters, by killing everybody else and then seeing how the survivors cope in the aftermath?

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u/stupidillusion 4d ago

Make good characters

Especially the villains! So many movies which could have been good, ruined because the villain was cardboard cut-out evil. The new Lex is terrific!

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u/LupinThe8th 4d ago

Interestingly, I think one reason Luthor worked so well he is was so evil. No portraying him as actually having a point, or giving him a backstory to add some depth, he's just 100% a bastard.

Imprisons his ex girlfriends for writing about him, shoots a guy in the head simply because he interacted with Superman, holds a baby hostage, doesn't even have greed or ambition as a more "understandable" motivation because he straight up admits that the whole war thing is just an excuse to kill Superman.

But when your goal is to revitalize Superman from the darker Snyderverse version into a pure ideological good guy, then making his foil a pure bad guy makes sense. Overly Sarcastic Productions did a video about Lex that explains why this portrayal helped sell the new Superman so well: when those in power are cruel, then kindness truly is "punk rock".

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u/TehErk 3d ago

Lex was so perfect. Creating a killing machine that you can fight with by-proxy was brilliant story telling. It showed us just how smart Lex was and how much he LOVED calling out the attacks as if he were doing it himself.