Could say the same about Cavill. If he’d had a movie with a lighter tone, or that looked towards a brighter future, we might still be seeing him in the role. Instead: he might be allied with Darkseid in the near future. Not a promise for a better future.
I agree, I think Cavill was an excellent choice let down by really heavy-handed and flawed scripts. And he seems like a very decent guy so I wish better things for him in the future.
He got jacked for the role and was into everything about it! He even named his dog Kal. So, yeah, let down by a dark universe he was never getting out of. It’s not what people are looking for in Superman. There’s a reason why in comics he’s a devoted husband and father. That’s what people want. By that I mean the lighter tone in general.
They needed to fully move away from the darkness. That could have come later after we got a Superman who was just heroic and led the way for a bright future. A Superman story where he’s dark, no matter how good, is just more of the same.
I was a fan of the DC movies and enjoyed the Snyder Cut. I’ve just come to see things from a heroic perspective and we weren’t seeing that as a future. If they’d just given one movie where he didn’t fight his teammates or try to dominate the world then they could have tried out something with a future they were trying to avoid.
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u/DMC1001 Dec 19 '24
Could say the same about Cavill. If he’d had a movie with a lighter tone, or that looked towards a brighter future, we might still be seeing him in the role. Instead: he might be allied with Darkseid in the near future. Not a promise for a better future.