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Superman reboot

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Saturday, July 12, 2025 2:35 PM

Anyone hoping for this one to fail is in for a letdown this weekend.

This thing just blew Avatar 2 out of the water on preview Thursday and opening night.

I couldn't recall seeing a preview Thursday of $22.5 Million before, so I checked the only other movie in recent memory I thought that could have gotten that and Avatar 2 only had $17 Million.

Preview Thursday: $22.5 Million
Opening Night: $34 Million

It's got an A- Cinemascore, and they're thinking somewhere between $120-$130 Million US opening weekend, and well over $200 Million worldwide.

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But then after reading some threads on reddit while I was there, I started second guessing how well this actually did do. I didn't start paying attention to movies until well after it was clear that Comic Book movies were all taking a nose dive.

Avengers: End Game had $60 Million in previews on Thursday, and another $97.5 Million on Opening Night, with an opening weekend of $357 Million domestic. Granted, End Game cost twice as much as Superman with a $400 Million budget (not adjusted for 6 years of high inflation).

So...

Relatively speaking, post-covid / post superhero-fatigue, this one is doing really well so far, but nowhere near the levels we were seeing when Comic Book movies regularly grossed over $1 Billion worldwide.

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Saturday, July 12, 2025 4:24 PM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

The reason why this movie cannot match past movie ticket sales is because Superman [2025] is available for free. Why drive miles to a stinking theater, pay $11.75 plus 8.25% sales tax for each ticket, plus over priced snacks? And you don’t know when movies start because of all the advertisement before the show. You do know that you will have no control over when.
https://baytown.showbizcinemas.com/movie/superman

Here is the link you need to download the show.
Bittorrent Link: D78492E6550EE3CAB4790ECBC091E563B7A60E09
You will need a bittorrent client to download Superman. I use a free one https://www.qbittorrent.org/

The official trailer starts exactly where the movie begins.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Saturday, July 12, 2025 6:11 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK

Shut up, faggot.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

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Saturday, July 12, 2025 10:30 PM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Shut up, faggot.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

Other copies of Superman have arrived. Don’t see it in theaters. See it on your TV!

https://yts.mx/movies/superman-2025

Superman (2025) [720p] [YTS.MX]
Bittorrent Link: 380C050DCB40DAF5AB018E9825850328F26E321C

Superman (2025) [1080p] [YTS.MX]
Bittorrent Link: 1E4443E10E3A714D05B0AB5993F2C424F07508CA

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Saturday, July 12, 2025 10:30 PM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Shut up, faggot.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

Can Superman Win the Culture War?

A right-wing backlash erupted when James Gunn described the hero of his new film as an “immigrant” who models “kindness." But the Man of Steel has faced these attacks before—going back to 85 years.

By Anthony Breznican | July 11, 2025

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/superman-backlash

Have you gotten a load of this new Superman? He’s an obnoxious do-gooder, meddles in international affairs to stop wars from happening, and isn’t even really from here. That sums up the Fox News–stoked media uproar that’s already swirling around James Gunn’s new take on the DC hero. It was sparked by a remark the filmmaker made about the hero being an “immigrant” in a movie “that says basic human kindness is a value and is something we have lost.”

Since Gunn has long gone on record saying such things, the Fox News uproar denouncing the film as “superwoke” seems more like fauxtrage than actual outrage. Most of the network’s speculation about the movie is simply incorrect. The hero in Gunn’s Superman does not undertake any kind of left-wing activism, and the movie does not comment on divisive current events from real life. Instead, Corenswet’s Man of Steel could only be accused of overdosing on optimism. He’s explicitly grateful to his adoptive country and planet, and sees it as his mission to safeguard their people—an impossible task even with phenomenal cosmic powers.

“If you tell that story with passion and with earnestness, if you tell an unvarnished story of heroism, then I think it still works,” Bernardin says. “Everybody wants to believe they would do the right thing. Superman is a difficult character to write, to dramatize, because he’s a Boy Scout. But man, that’s what makes him so great.”

The movie itself features some skeptical characters who might find themselves rolling their eyes right along with the Fox News over Superman's moral code.

There’s a rival superhero group—including the techno-genius Mister Terrific (Edi Gathegi), a Green Lantern named Guy Gardner (Nathan Fillion), and the brawler Hawkgirl (Isabela Merced)—that considers Superman a hopeless Pollyanna. When a monstrous kaiju attacks Metropolis, Superman tries to brainstorm ways to safely relocate it rather than destroy it. The other heroes are irked by his attempt at over-the-top altruism.

It’s a stark change from the version of the character Henry Cavill played in director Zack Snyder’s DC films. That Superman was guilt-stricken over the collateral damage from his battles to save the world in 2013’s Man of Steel. Corenswet and Gunn’s Superman, on the other hand, is obsessed with avoiding bystander deaths. He doesn’t kill anyone—not even the flying, militarized henchmen of Nicholas Hoult’s Lex Luthor, who, instead of being obliterated, end up writhing on the ground after their defeat.

“He even rescues a squirrel,” Gross notes. “He scoops up the squirrel and drops it off, and the squirrel’s looking around like, What the hell just happened? Then he goes back to the big battle he was dealing with.”

The central conflict of the new Superman comes down to cynicism vs. idealism. “You are not punk rock,” Rachel Brosnahan’s Lois Lane tells him in one scene. “My point is, I question everything and everyone. You trust everyone and think everyone you’ve ever met is, like, beautiful.”

Clark shrugs. “Maybe that’s the real punk rock,” he says. It’s a cringey line. But that’s the point.

“I think we need it,” says Gross. “Every day I’m faced with a world that seems to be getting worse and worse. The idea of a hero who is hopeful, who is saying things are going to be okay—as corny as that may sound, I can’t think of a better time for this version of Superman.”

Greenberger agrees, which is why he suspects the Fox News outrage will ultimately fizzle. “I doubt it’s going to keep people out of the theaters,” he says. “Kids are going to want to see the movie. Parents may not, but I still expect to see some record numbers this weekend.”

One former Superman has come out against the movie—Dean Cain, star of the ’90s-era TV show Lois & Clark, now an outspoken Donald Trump supporter. “I think that was a mistake by James Gunn to say, you know, it’s an immigrant thing,” he said in a TMZ interview. “And I think it’s gonna hurt the numbers on the movie.”

Cornet holds the most optimistic of beliefs—that the success of this Superman project might nudge the cultural discourse in another direction. After years of indulging antiheroes, she says, audiences are yearning for hope, if only from an escapist popcorn movie.

“The only antidote to where we’re headed is individual people challenging themselves to find the Superman within them,” she says. “‘How do I fix it without being mean, without being cruel, without hating the other side? How do I move forward without dehumanizing someone because they made a vote that I wish they didn’t?’ That’s really the challenge of the moment for us, and what I hope this character would inspire—rather than us just sitting back and going, ‘Wouldn’t it be nice if he showed up?’”

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Sunday, July 13, 2025 2:18 PM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

The New Superman Movie Has an Unlikely Inspiration — and It’s Not Superman

Yes, James Gunn makes the character an “immigrant,” but the real twist comes from his own 2019 horror film, Brightburn.

By Sam Adams | July 13, 2025 10:00 AM

https://slate.com/culture/2025/07/superman-2025-movie-new-james-gunn-b
rightburn-1978.html

. . . That movie is Brightburn, and although Gunn’s name only appears as its producer, it was written by his brothers Brian and Mark and features several actors drawn from his previous projects, including a brief appearance by his wife, Jennifer Holland. (The director, David Yarovesky, also worked with Gunn for more than a decade.) More to the point, the movie’s gruesome, subversive take on superhero mythology is very much in line with the sensibility of Gunn’s early career, before middle age and the success of the Guardians of the Galaxy movies softened his resentments and his penchant for provocation. In Brightburn, a superpowered infant crash-lands outside the home of a kindly Kansas couple, who, like the endless iterations of Ma and Pa Kent before them, take him in and raise him as their own. But the story diverges drastically once the boy hits puberty, and his impulses turn dark, and, in every sense, uncontrollable. This version of the character was sent not to save Earth but to conquer it. One night, he hears strange sounds coming from the family’s barn, where the spaceship that carried him has been, like the true nature of his parentage, hidden away for years. The jagged, twisted hunk of metal pulses with a dark-red light, along with an ominous, snarling voice that eventually resolves into a three-word command: Take the world.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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