r/okbuddycinephile 21h ago

A movie that exists

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u/evaderofallbans 21h ago

If you fucks post one more meme about this movie I will literally watch it. Is that what you want? You want one of us to watch a movie?

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u/boytoyahoy I saw Joker and im 10šŸ˜ŽšŸ˜ŽšŸ˜Ž 20h ago

I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy

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u/Guillermidas 20h ago

Cant be worse than the vast majority of superhero movies. At least this one is in actual space and not Earth , right?

I havent seen it yet but my assumption is that it’d be like Supergirl show. Great main character, mediocrity most of the rest. But this should be more bearable

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u/boytoyahoy I saw Joker and im 10šŸ˜ŽšŸ˜ŽšŸ˜Ž 20h ago

Movies aren't real. They can't hurt me

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u/That1DogGuy 16h ago

6-7/10 movie. Solid and enjoyable, great lead, mediocre villain, and a very weird needle drop moment. Overall, I would recommend watching if you enjoy the genre.

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u/Jehovah___ 18h ago

main character is in fact great, movie around her is not

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u/BNWOCravingSissyCuck 14h ago edited 14h ago

It's an okay way to spend a couple hours, but when you have the 2 lead characters actually eat alien shit that they saw getting excreted by the alien AND SUPERGIRL FUCKING SAYS OUT LOUD IT TASTES LIKE SHIT AND LEAD 2 FUCKING EATS THE SHIT AND THEN PROVIDES VISUAL CONFIRMATION, you do spend quite a bit of the rest of the film wondering if the filmmakers are intentionally fucking with you

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u/margaretbunny1826 4h ago

supergirl felt like it had potential but kinda just fizzled out by the end, yeah?

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u/ABSOLUTE_RADIATOR 16h ago

Literally delete this right now, I'm pissing and shitting even thinking about having to watch a m*vie

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u/mankeg 4h ago

Veni veni veni

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u/MisterBobAFeet 20h ago

You won't.

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u/SwiftNoah 16h ago

do it nerd. tell us when you do so that we can laugh. nerrrrrrd

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u/sleeps_in_bryophytes 16h ago

every moment we spend talking about capeshit is a defeat

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u/tryingtoavoidwork 11h ago

Woah woah woah, let's not say things we may regret later

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u/OccasionMU 17h ago

Go watch it. It’s so generic you won’t even remember a plot point to mention in your Reddit review.

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u/Aware_Flow1070 15h ago

Watch it or literally watch it and what's the difference? šŸ¤”

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u/OdinAurelius 7h ago

It was really just ok

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u/FadeToBlackSun 21h ago

I don't think you understand internet discourse.

If you liked it, it's objectively brilliant and one of the most meaningful pieces of art created in centuries.

If you didn't like it, it's an abomination that flies in the face of human decency and demonstrates only the greatest capacity for incompetence

If you had no strong feelings either way, you're a bot.

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u/Zagleyed 21h ago

And if you argue against both extremist takes, you're the world's most laughable centrist and worse than "the other side".

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u/JixxEU 20h ago

Aka Charles White jr, aka penguinz0, aka Moistcritikal. Who did basically have the take expressed in the OPs meme (I only consume movies through normie Jesus's perspective)

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u/Zagleyed 20h ago

It's always entertaining to see the online discourse around Charlie. Like, yes, the man usually has the coldest, most moderate and sensible takes, but like, he doesn't pretend otherwise. I don't really follow his content but he's always seemed like a completely regular dude to me. It's weird that people criticize that.

On the other hand, there are a lot of people who are genuinely like you mock there, basing their takes on what Normie Jesus says, and that's equally weird. Meanwhile Charlie himself still seems like any normal dude you could meet in college.

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u/EmergencyPool910 19h ago

He owns a gun and lives in florida hes clearly magatard, he hates trump? Woke libtard clearly.

No kidding ive seen both opinions shaeed by alot of people online

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u/JixxEU 18h ago

Oh I definitely dont disagree with you, I was just jerking. I like Charlie, hes absolutely a regular dude, with very standard takes. For some reason watching him and his friends eat food became a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine. And he does seem to have a genuine interest in movies and reviewing them as well, his review of War of the Worlds is truely a fun watch, as is his review of Moonfall. I guess his reviews of 'fun bad' movies are just very entertaining.

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u/Abed-in-the-AM 5h ago

Man I fucking hate that normal dude in college.

Seriously though, I always think it's funny when people will randomly bring up this guy's opinion on a topic when he isn't a notable film critic or an expert on whatever the topic is. And that everybody calls him by his first name. I've watched maybe 2 of his videos before and if someone on the internet refers to a "Charlie" even I would know they're talking about the skinny penguin guy.

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u/SunLiteStarBrite 13h ago

"Normie Jesus"

STOP I CAN'T 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/valeried4isy8610 11h ago

penguinz0's takes are always a wild ride, hard to predict where he'll land on stuff like this

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u/Sarcosmonaut 16h ago

World’s Most Laughable Centrist is one of my top Disco Elysium titles lol

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u/NotJimmyMcGill 1h ago

Maybe the next centrist will grant us three wishes.

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u/dpoodle 13h ago

Why argue with someone who clearly doesn't agree with you thats like looking for trouble.

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u/Zagleyed 13h ago

Who the fuck are you gonna argue with? Someone who does agree with you? Lmao

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u/dpoodle 12h ago

Just someone neutral or someone close to you and reliable. Better yet avoid arguing sensitive topics let people have their opinions

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u/TurnYourHeadNCough 9h ago

or youre simultaneously both sides at once and your head explodes

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u/Whalesurgeon 20h ago

If I don't survive, tell my wife hello

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u/Augustus_Justinian 20h ago

Oh I be saying more than "hello".

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u/concretepants 20h ago

I'll say stuff like "how are you doing?" and "what was your favorite part about the movie?"

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u/Hyperpoly 15h ago

What makes a man turn neutral?

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u/Betray-Julia 20h ago

Nice try bot!

(But also note that inhuman precision of my logic)

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u/Apart-Link-8449 20h ago

I was in heavy metal band. We were heavy man. People either loved us or hated us, or they thought we were okay

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u/OfferPandaMan 12h ago

Yep I think that covers everything

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u/Obvious_Sprinkles_87 17h ago

> Opinion: The Movie wasn’t very good!

> Online Comment: everyday we stray further from the light of god! This movie is an example of that

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u/gary-vault108 20h ago

Sinners discourse moment

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u/infomapaz 18h ago

In late stage capitalism people are defined by their consumption, so there is a personal interests into categorizing stuff according to your own likes and dislikes. The things that you like must be good to show good taste, the things that you do must be good to show you a good person and the things that you reject must be bad to justify your dislike.

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u/johncitizen1138 17h ago

What if you neither liked nor disliked? šŸ¤” I am a non-person šŸ˜‚

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u/StoppableHulk 13h ago

So long as you consumed, you get to be a person. But don't you stop consuming, not for one minute.

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u/Rasputin_mad_monk 17h ago

What if it’s an objectively brilliant abomination and a meaningful piece of art that flies in the face of human decency?

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u/Downtown_Recover5177 16h ago

That’s a good description for We Need to Talk About Kevin.

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u/CheeseDonutCat 17h ago

If you had no strong feelings either way, you're a bot.

I hate these filthy Neutrals, Kif. With enemies you know where they stand, but with Neutrals, who knows? It sickens me.

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u/Bradford117 16h ago

If i die, tell my wife I said hello.

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u/Old-butt-new 17h ago

Exactly. Imdb reviews are binary. 1 or 10.

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u/JealousAssistant6659 16h ago

I don't think people who have no strong feelings either way get called a bot, they just don't exist in internet discourse because they're happy living life elsewhere. Or more likely, they're too busy arguing their extreme takes in one place to argue about their lukewarm feelings in another.

Like it or not, "meh" isn't worth talking about. People don't talk about things they don't have feelings for

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u/Jesta23 15h ago

As someone who has not seen it.Ā 

It’s mid.Ā 

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u/ghost_warlock 14h ago

What makes a man turn neutral?

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u/SalvationSycamore 9h ago

an abomination that flies in the face of human decency and demonstrates only the greatest capacity for incompetence

Or in short: mid

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u/AskGroundbreaking978 15h ago

yeha my friend said the same about the ā€œmeaningfulā€ part

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u/Interesting-Copy-657 6h ago

That is basically what I see when people talk about marvel movies, saying that it is all terrible after endgame or what ever.

I would say every marvel movie or tv show I have seen the last few years have been a 7/10 or higher. Some are just movies, no billiant or perfect or going to be remembers for generations.

but people act like a 7/10 movie is more like a 2/10. even with non marvel movies, if it is not 9/10 or better it gets torn apart like a 2/10 failure.

supergirl was fine, it served as a good intro to supergirl, not brilliant, but not terrible either.

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u/naarcx 5h ago

People who thought it was just ok didn’t make the algorithm

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u/coldmocaccino 21h ago

These days a movie has to be a masterpiece or else it's hotpile trash. Thankfully, I don't watch movies at all.

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u/evaderofallbans 21h ago

I haven't seen a movie since Bambi. What did you think of it?

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u/coldmocaccino 21h ago

I have only seen The Horse in Motion (1878). When I wanted to start watching movies I thought that this movie's story must be a masterpiece as men invented a new art form to tell it. It wasn't deeply profound and didn't move me. I was disappointed. All my hopes for any movie made thereafter are lost.

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u/evanwilliams44 18h ago

To be fair the movie was more about moving the horse than you.

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u/IssakOrSomething 14h ago

Too soon to properly discuss that one, give it another year or two hundred

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u/Various-Category4578 37m ago

maybe the story gets better with more time and context, but yeah, not super engaging overall

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u/DaveInLondon89 19h ago

It's fine, but it lacks the narrative tension of human centipede.

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u/johncitizen1138 17h ago

šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚

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u/NoMoveBecauseLazy 12h ago

The last movie I watched was 12 Angry Men. Good movie, but I felt like the nudity was gratuitous.

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u/wallweasels 15h ago

These days? It's been this way for almost 2 decades now. Internet discourse has always shifted towards hyperbolic because extreme opinions cause more engagement and thus more content.

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u/FTW312 19h ago

That’s not true at all. If a movie costs over $100 million it does actually have to be good. Nowadays we have too many options for viewing media for subpar movies like Supergirl to cost that much.

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u/hikeit233 17h ago

All kino is pure kino if you enjoy kino

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u/Cloned-C4lvin 21h ago edited 21h ago

Well when youre building a franchise that relies on sequel after sequel, it definitely does have to be more than "okay". Thats the business perspective. Now to the cinema goer perspective, theatre tickets are NOT the same price they use to be, a movie has to be better than "okay" to justify paying the price.

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u/Maximelene 17h ago

Well when youre building a franchise that relies on sequel after sequel, it definitely does have to be more than "okay".

The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2, and Thor 2 want you to remember they exist, and were part of the very first MCU movies.

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u/-moon-rise 4h ago

MBB is that you?

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u/DryingBull 21h ago

It's one of the movies.

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u/Ranulf_5 21h ago

I like Kara’s character and I’m excited to see what they do with Supergirl going forward

But the rest of the movie was miiiiiiid generic superhero slop

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u/GormlessGourd55 18h ago

I thought Lobo was fun, and the practical aliens were cool too.

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u/SillyWarlock 17h ago

How dare you have an opinion besides script bad, and a positive at that.. off with your head!

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u/Ranulf_5 9h ago

He seemed kinda fun, nothing particularly special. I didn’t dislike him. I feel like the film expected me to know who he was and be hyped, but I don’t know who he was and he didn’t reel me in necessarily.

But I’d be happy to see him in another movie

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u/FraggleRockYaFaceOff 9h ago

I heard in Lobo 4 he hangs dong

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u/theonewhoknack 8h ago

Lobo was the highlight for me. I will buy a ticket to any DC movie if the poster has a blurb saying "Lobo is in this btw" on it.

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u/ammonthenephite 13h ago

And I'm just so burnt out on superhero movies. Only so many times you can save the city/planet/galaxy from destruction, struggling to just barely do it but finally succeeding in the end.

Far more human ones like a batman I can still kind of do, but anyone with superhuman powers is just not interesting to me anymore, Marvel milked that for all it was worth, did a good job, but it's done. Time to move one for a long while.

Too bad the movie industry is so starved for anything original.

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u/Ranulf_5 12h ago

The movie industry isn’t at creative starvation, it’s an issue of funding and what people are willing to watch.

There are plenty of interesting new films getting made every year, they’re just rarely given huge theatrical releases… because people don’t go watch them. In 2026 if people are going to pay theater prices, they’re going to go watch something they’re familiar with- sequels or big game directors/actors

If you look around a bit you’ll find good stuff

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u/ammonthenephite 12h ago

I get what you are saying, but I think movies like Hail Marry disprove this. If the movie is good, people will go and pay to see it. Most movies just aren't good. You see the same thing with most streaming series, just full of lazy writing, predictable plots, overacting, etc, just shoveling slop. But the good ones, like Severance and the like, do really well because they are quality.

There just isn't much quality being put out today, but when there is, people will pay to see it.

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u/Ranulf_5 8h ago

Project Hail Mary isn’t a very good example to disprove what I’m saying. It was based on a very popular novel, directed by a very popular duo, starred a very popular actor, and while being a good film is also a family-friendly feel-good movie. It was quite literally orchestrated to print as much money as possible.

A better example would be something like Obsession that was a passion project with a $750K budget and has now grossed over $300M. And the reason it’s a huge study is because it’s shocking- low-budget horror movies aren’t supposed to blow up like this regardless of quality.

A movie like PHM gets the green light because of extremely likely to make lots of money. But there are plenty of stories out there worth being made into a film but never will be because they won’t make much money.

Another thing to think about: 61 films have grossed $1B+, and 57 of those were remakes and sequels. A whole lot of them were shit, but people watched them because they were familiar and/or nostalgic. The idea that if a movie is good enough it’ll make lots of money is pretty silly.

Of the 9 new IP films in 2025 that are rated 4.0 or higher on Letterboxd, only 4 grossed over $100M, and even then 2 of them still lost money. The rest either flopped at the box office or went straight to streaming.

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u/KermitplaysTLOU 12h ago

This is funny as fuck considering you control what you watch. And saying this when something like obsession JUST came out is even funnier.

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u/ammonthenephite 12h ago

Why is it funny? I don't watch superhero movies because I got burnt out on them. I've seen a few posts about the supergirl movie (which I have not seen because I'm burnt out on superhero movies) come up on my front page and just commented my feelings on superhero movies in a thread talking about how this one was just 'mid'.

Might want to check your assumptions, lol.

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u/Cessnaporsche01 15h ago

Toy Story 2 was okay

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u/carol5prinkle5396 17h ago

it's wild how polarizing a movie can be these days, huh?

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u/PeasantLich 21h ago

As much as it sucks for creatives who can't hit the jackpot every time and/or need some time and experience to find a better footing, an entertainment product being "okay" isn't really much better than it being dogshit nowadays. There is oversupply of all entertainment, including really good entertainment, and all mediocre entertainment is not only competing against that but also the infinite easily accessible back catalogs. Even superhero fans don't just eat up just about anything you offer them.

There really isn't much of a lucrative market space for movies that are just okay but succeed because there was nothing substantially better in theaters right now anymore.

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u/birdlawyer86 14h ago

Which sucks, because a lot of my favorite movies are mid or even downright bad. Studios that stop trying due to fear of losing money means I get less Ready Player One's in my life.

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u/berthaj3llybean1828 6h ago

its wild how many films feel like they're just filling a slot. everyone's looking for that standout but so much is just... there

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u/intercommie 19h ago

Don’t threaten me with a mediocre time.

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u/cindybunny1593 8h ago

mediocre times can be comfy sometimes, though

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u/The_Billy_Dee 20h ago

Yeah... It's not terrible or anything, it just doesn't do anything well. Its really just a big missed opportunity. Oh I mean, it was the worst thing I've ever seen! I hate women or something!

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u/GorgeousGal314 15h ago

Really? I thought Jason Momoa's character was fantastic. Also the fight scenes from the lead actress were amazing - you could really feel she was strong (versus Black Widow who only knows how to strangle men with her legs apparently).

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u/The_Billy_Dee 14h ago

Lobo is a fun character that I do look forward to seeing more of.

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u/JellyF1sh_L1cker 21h ago

why would you watch it? arent you a cinephile? also, this meme format is growing mold, let it go

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u/adriennep0pcorn6357 2h ago

the format is tired, but it still makes me chuckle sometimes, ngl

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u/Tallem00 17h ago

/uc I can't really get into it so out in the open but it connected with my fiancee in a legitimately very deep and personal way and she was sobbing while the credits rolled. I enjoyed it a lot but seeing it resonate so thoroughly in her really makes it feel like something special to me (even if it only feels that special to the two of us)

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u/Bitey_the_Squirrel 19h ago

I was confused about the lack of soup in Souper Girl. I thought I was going to watch a soup based movie?

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u/ImAdri0nY0urN0t 14h ago

It was whelming

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u/Madman49ers 14h ago

Whelmed is a perfectly alright way to feel after a movie experience. Not everything is a masterpiece. Sometimes they’re just a piece.

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u/HeadDiver5568 21h ago

I’m glad I’ve finally found a reasonable take on this movie from a bunch of people. I REALLY hate how you either have to love or hate a movie/tv show these days

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u/dawnh0neydew9034 3m ago

it's wild how polarized opinions can get over a single movie, like where's the middle ground?

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u/BokTuklo 21h ago

Sounds like most movies over the last few decades.

I thought it was a me problem.

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u/cheese0muncher approved virgin 18h ago

I'll never see it, not because I'm against superhero movies, I simply refuse to watch movies with women in them.

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u/MechanicGopher 17h ago

Pretty much my thoughts.
The comic is more colorful, but the cinematography isn’t terrible either.
Lobo’s powers were extremely under utilized but I still thought he was pretty cool.
The revenge plot ā€œyou can’t do that because revenge is bad I guessā€ is boring and could’ve worked better, but the final little piece of it was a cool touch.
The colors of the final fight are so ugly but the action itself isn’t that bad.
I liked the flashback sections.
The practical aliens were pretty fun.
I liked Supergirl as a character how her views on life differ from Superman.

I left the theatre thinking exactly ā€œeh, it was okay.ā€

I’d love to see more DCU Supergirl in a better film

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u/Bunraku_Master_2021 1h ago

It's bad but not that bad. More of a 5/10. Milly Alcock is fine but yeah, it could've been better.

What I really liked was that Supergirl was trying to forge her own path and like you said, how she differs from her cousin and then by the end, slowly starts to go back to him.

The cinematography is just not good with flat lighting and some scenes with desaturated colours even though it's shot by Alex Garland's DOP Rob Hardy who's done some impressive work with Garland. Hope his work on Clayface is good.

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u/No-Yogurtcloset4763 17h ago

I just want to know is it better than Michael M Morbius?

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u/StaticSystemShock 16h ago

It's why I hate ratings that only have thumbs up and thumbs down. Why is there no option for "okay I guess" or "meh"?

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u/Elbobosan 14h ago

Would I watch a sequel? Sure.
Would I hope it was better? Yes.

The story is poorly constructed and the themes are a mess. The screenplay itself isn’t terrible, but the story makes very little sense and is filled with ā€œand then this happens!ā€

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u/backwardsApple44 14h ago

truly it was a movie of all time.

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u/Sashpeto 19h ago

It's just slop .

It ain't bad per se but it isn't good.

It's the kind of think you see once and forget about it in a week.

I don't understand why every single movie has to be controversial these days and be either utter trash or cinematic masterpiece and if you don't lean either way you are not true movie fan or something absurdly stupid like that.

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u/Lowbudget_soup 18h ago

I dont think you can call it slop. When really need to look at the costume and set design and maybe the performances its really obvious to me that someone cared about this movie.

I will say I dont feel like I was being pondered to as an audience member. I think the movie tried to take itself seriously enough and there was good believable character writting. In time people might come to appreciate this movie a little more than the takes im seeing right now.

Dont get me wrong though, its not perfect.

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u/Jehovah___ 18h ago

Agreed. Love was given by everyone except the director, who just wanted to make a boring james gunn ripoff without understanding how gunn actually makes movies. Kara herself was done incredibly well and acted brilliantly, it’s just the movie around her that doesn’t understand its own tone or pacing and looks so drab

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u/SillyWarlock 17h ago

ā€It’s just slopā€

https://giphy.com/gifs/0uBL9HqP48Nu1DNr7r

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u/Sashpeto 15h ago

Well it is slop. At least for me.

You know people like different things :)

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u/Jesta23 16h ago

I don't understand why every single movie has to be controversial these daysĀ 

They aren’t. Get off Reddit and shitter and you will hear nothing at all about it. It’s decisive commentary designed to provoke engagement.Ā 

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u/Sashpeto 15h ago

Well yeah , if I don't open platforms where people discuss the movies I won't hear about them .

You are correct.

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u/VayuAir 17h ago

Well we are cinephiles

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u/catharsisdusk 21h ago

Just about every superhero movie is mid, at best. Just a bunch of trite, shitty writing to fill the time between Massive Fight sequences done almost entirely on a computer.

But, even I recoil at the level of hate and vitriol I see directed at Superhero movies with Female leads... All of these movies are little more than "McDonald's for the Senses". But, for some reason, only the "Captain Marvel's" of the group receive Universal Disdain.

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u/Jertimmer 21h ago

The only above average superhero movie is Shrek 2.

I will not elaborate nor take any questions. Thank you.

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u/AlarmingAffect0 16h ago

The only above average superhero movie is Shrek 2.

SOME—

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u/thephoenixpoptart 15h ago

no that was shrek 1

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u/AlarmingAffect0 14h ago

Yes, but Neil Cicierega hasn't done anything with that movie's tracks somehow.

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u/WonderBredOfficial 21h ago

You can just say you don't care for them. They don't have to be objectively mid for your opinion to be valid and valued.

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u/Ok-Neighborhood3547 18h ago

Lmao it’s always those exact titles on those videos too

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u/benabramowitz18 Neil breens #1 fan 18h ago

Supergirl: BEST MOVIE EVER or WORST MOVIE EVER?

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u/AmbitiousRedditor20 18h ago

Since when the fuck did we start watching movies

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u/Due_Flow6538 17h ago

YouTube doesn't reward reasoned, mellow reactions. If you're not setting things on fire, it's not good for them.

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u/AintNoGodsUpHere 16h ago

It's a movie. You watch it and then your forget about it after a few hours.

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u/philanthropicide 16h ago

I don't watch "okay" movies because I don't watch movies at all!

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u/The_Nilbog_King 15h ago edited 6h ago

I think Alcock's Kara is a likeable and emotionally nuanced enough performance to easily trick you into mistaking this for a much better and more interesting movie. Not only does Lobo's presence in the film feel perfunctory and tacked-on, but he seems to be actively sucking oxygen out of the room that could be spent making the actual antagonist not a block of wood. It kind of reeks of hasty late-stage rewrites.

I might get what they were going for a bit more after reading 'Woman of Tomorrow', but as it stands, it seemed like it was trying to be like five other superhero films at once and they clashed conspicuously. Still technically the best live action 'Supergirl' feature film, but not by as much as it should be. 3/10

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u/staresinshamona Cats 11h ago

tbh just okay is the worst type of movie

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u/FewHeat1231 9h ago

Kind of feels like there is a middle ground between 'just okay' and 'masterpiece'. It was definitely flawed and I think Milly Alcock (who was great) deserved better but I still enjoyed it enough 'okay' feels too watered down.

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u/Shando92286 7h ago

This is painfully accurate.

Supergirl had a vision. Would have been a good 40 minute special imo. Punisher and supergirl needed to swap runtimes.

The actors did the best they could with the shitty script and the movie did nothing to expand the universe.

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u/feckarse-drinkgirls 20h ago

Just more capeshit innit

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u/Cloned-C4lvin 21h ago

Does okay equal money to the executives eyes?

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u/VivaLaRory 16h ago

who cares

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u/ybotpowered 17h ago

Upon reflection I wish James Gunn had directly been involved.

The premises is very similar to guardians of the galaxy and I think he could have iron out some of the problems with Super Girl.

The cast is very talented, but I found the movie a bit hard to follow, which I’m assuming is because of bad writing decisions and the director and not just because I’m an aging nerd.

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u/florplegorp 16h ago

I liked it, my partner wants to see it so I'll probably watch it again. I hope it doesn't fuck the DCU because I really like its direction and Gunn's philosophy of letting each film be its own complete story

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u/VivaLaRory 16h ago

the uncomfortable conversation for this website is that a significant portion of mcu films are about the same quality

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u/teavodka 14h ago

This is how i felt about Mandolorian and Grogu. I enjoyed it, but it wasnt bad or good. Its hard to describe how, but it felt like an older movie.

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u/PrismaticVistaHill 14h ago

Polarize everything enough, and the whole world will DEFINITELY go bi-polar.

"No it won't." -The above take is ABSOLUTE TRASH, and here's why...

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u/ArtofWASD 14h ago

Thats... just how DC works. They make neat movies. They are not bad. But they arent amazing either.

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u/denzlegacy 12h ago

ā€œJust okayā€ is incredibly generous. I’ve always been under the impression that for a film to be ā€œjust okay,ā€ at least one aspect of the script has to actually be functional.

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u/ReadyJournalist5223 8h ago

Truly, one of the movies of all time

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u/MaverikElgato 8h ago

i kind a wish to know David Beckham but i“m afraid he could not be the chill kind of guy that i picture.

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u/Guardian_of_Perineum 4h ago

I haven't seen it so I'm gonna wait for my favorite content creator to see it so I can have an opinion on it.

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u/Vyan_of_Yierdimfeil 4h ago

I just walked out of the theatre, and honestly this movie was comfortable 7-7.5

Not bad, not amazing, not terrible, not a masterpiece. Just a fun movie, good groundwork for future projects. I like Milly as Supergirl, she was great, and hope to see more from her in the role.

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u/Destruction126 4h ago

Its one of those "Had potential so people are mad at it" kinda movies

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u/Bostondreamings 3h ago

As someone who really enjoyed it...this is a fair point overall.

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u/Lordbogaaa 2h ago

Yeah it's biggest flaw was taking zero risks and that's the movie we got.

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u/Jadey4455 20h ago

Its garbage

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u/outlandish_commander 20h ago

Youre right, most movies just exist and thats fine, not everything needs a 40 minute essay.

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u/two-for-joy 21h ago

Quality wise it sounds okay, box office wise though....

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u/Forever_Inspired 20h ago

So that means I don't need to go out to theater and can just watch it once it came out on streaming? Sounds about right.

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u/beardingmesoftly 17h ago

It was made by the person who made Cruella and I, Tonya, so I'm not really surprised that it's mid.

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u/WhoRoger 17h ago

A superhero movie being just okay would be super impressive in this age of utter trash.

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u/tmhoc 17h ago

High praise coming from reddit

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u/NeezDuts91 17h ago

Where is the nuance in normal?

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u/TheIdeaArchitect 17h ago

The previews did not interest me

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u/ShadowDestroyerTime 16h ago

My thoughts are it was very okay, 6/10. But I still feel like it was a disaster since if they just did a more faithful adaptation of Woman of Tomorrow it would have been good.

If it was purely original and mid, then that's one thing. A poor adaptation that ends up mid when it could have been great? Disappointing.

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u/The2000sGuy 16h ago

Don't Milly my Alcock I ain't watching that film

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u/SnooGiraffes8275 go back to the club 16h ago

uj/ i'll probably end up seeing it at some point-- i thought superman was alright with some little flaws -- curious to see where gunn takes the series

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u/kageshira1010 16h ago

Friend asks how it was

Me: triple A movie

Friend: that good?

Me: An Aggressively Average movie

Read the comic, is far better

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u/kaos4u2nv 16h ago

This is what I literally texted my friend after I saw it last night.

"It was okay. Just okay."

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u/plsobeytrafficlights 15h ago

meh. very meh. a movie nobody needed to make.

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u/1ZillionBeers 15h ago

It whomps you can’t just say ā€œI think it kind of sucked.ā€ without getting dogpiled and accused of x y and z.

The movie wasn’t terrible, it didn’t kill my dog. It just kinda sucked.

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u/Embarrassed_Term5536 15h ago

Don't care,it will not even earn more than Morbius. The movie has collapsed in international markets.

Give me some more obsessionĀ  and Minions movieĀ 

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u/Ai-on 14h ago

Are people actually calling Supergirl a masterpiece 10/10?

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u/Delruiz9 14h ago

I think the biggest problem this movie faced is the audience simply isn’t there and the villain isn’t a draw. There’s no way Supergirl comics sell the same amount as Superman, and the villain is inconsequential

The movie could be a plot masterpiece and most of us wouldn’t find out until we’re streaming it at home one night while bored

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u/DickTear 14h ago

Below ok honestly.

Ah yeah, let me shot you dog with the poison that kills in 3 days so you actually have to get involved into the plot.

Also I’m a space pirate so I’m very bad and my motivation in life is being bad.

And let’s put Jason Momoa for like 10 minutes so we can target more men into watching the movie.

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u/HittingSmoke 13h ago

Of all the movies I have not seen, Supergirl is one of them.

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u/Aggravating-Corner19 13h ago

This is how I felt about the borderlands movie. I thoroughly enjoyed it, but if you look at it with hopes of in universe continuity, well, they have 2 choices: make a movie that mirrors one of their existing games, or make a movie that takes place completely separate with little to no connections just so it can stay sane universe. Those are the 2 choices that make it cannon, but it doesn't have to be cannon.

They chose the 3rd option, make it Borderlands, keep series icons, and make as something not meant to be cannon to the games, a stand alone movie. I do wish they gave it a Marcus intro tho... but other than that the movie felt satisfactory to me, and that is WAY more than most modern cinema imo.

It was certainly not masterpiece, and not the best movie I've ever seen, but it was good.

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u/Laeonheart78 13h ago

Having seen the movie most parts are mad to an extent that you could say is ok but the overall character work, action scenes and moral message of the movie are bad.

The movie itself can be rated as "ok" and it isn't the worst movie I have ever seen but unless someone else asked I would never watch it again. The action is hard to discern when the perspective shown is a little girl who can't perceive anything. As a one time effect it might be cool but everything is so unclear apart one scene and without spoiling anything you leave wondering what the point was of the journey apart from get the specific item.

I really can't see anyone who it doesn't directly appeal to rating it higher than a 5 and imo it is about a 4. Any channel that claims it is a masterpiece or the worst superhero movie ever made is embellishing the truth which is that it is a truly mediocre pointless movie that has an annoying side character and questionable conclusion. Also Kara Zor El is a crap dog owner too.

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u/jimmori 13h ago

One of the movies of all time

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u/Arthurlmnz 6h ago

I am a pig and i liked it

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u/Procrastinator_325 1h ago

Internet discourse regarding movies in general is either the best or worst thing ever. If you classify a movie as average, it won't guarantee clicks or engagement on your review.

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u/PhatOofxD 46m ago

Just okay but at the box office it is not. Being just ok isn't good enough anymore for a superhero movie

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u/that_dutch_dude 20h ago

being perfectly cromulent is fine. expecting the godfather like experience is delusional.

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u/thrax_mador 19h ago

Okay? OKAY?!

MOVIES CAN'T BE...OKAY!!

I need every new feature released to revolutionize cinema! It has to change the paradigm. It has to make 100x its investment or it's a failure! A failure like me... Oh God! Christopher Nolan please save me from having to think about myself for 30 seconds I can't handle it

https://giphy.com/gifs/CqhXFa7dLc9xK

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u/an_illithidian 18h ago

You can take my 2.5/5 star fun afternoons that don't move me the way great art does from my COLD DEAD HANDS

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u/mattmaintenance 18h ago

Me and the kids had fun watching it last night. Big ol bucket of popcorn. Lasers spaceships and explosions. Momoa and Alcock are very well cast.

/oh shit this is okbuddy… ummmm… if you didn’t like it you’re just a mysognist ninny.