🎬 Superman (2025) | Everything Why Superhero Movies Aren't Great
My Superman History
When it comes down to the Superman Franchise especially the movies, I'm never really was a fan. I was too young to really watch the old Christopher Reeve movies and recently saw a part of one while it was on tv. I did kind of like the vibe in those as i love old movies and there was some kind of simplicity over it that new movies no longer have as everything needs to be bigger and bolder all the time. There have been 3 different Superman reboots ever since. I think I watched Superman Returns (2006) but I'm not even sure and it was totally forgettable if I did. The same thing I would say happened with the Man of Steel reboot and I just could not watch total garbage like Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and skipped on Justice League.
However, I do have extremely fond childhood memories of the tv series Lois & Clark, The New Adventures of Superman, and Smallville which I watched a bit later in life.
 |  |
|---|
Superman for me just works way better as a series as it allows for much better emotional connection building with the characters while it's fairly easy to make individual 40-Minute episodes where each season has a bigger story arch.
Superman (6.4/10)
So this is yet another reboot doing almost the same thing over and over again introducing the same characters played by different actors. It's all manufactured in a way where they start from things they want to include like a cute pet dog with superpowers, some cool villains, big spectacle and distruction, some romance, some modern day references with the influncer girl that takes selfies, and they pretty much try to build a story around that which for me rarely works as it tends to sacrifice one for the other.
While the movie kind of start off skipping all the 'how superman came about' which is a good thing as the audience has seen that too many times already. It also brings a world where I was full of questions as someone who is not caught up with any of the franchise or the source material. It feels like we are put in a world where everything and everyone now has super powers as sume guys manufactured by Lex Luthor start off defeating Superman, there are these robots in the fortress of solitude I have no clue where they came from, Superman had some allied super heroes I never even heard off and just felt utterly stupid. Some guy with a strange haircut, a girl with wings, and some cyber dud floating in a chair who all kind of felt like the avengers from the discount supermarket.
They also need to go bigger in scale on everything. Some expampler are the Giant monster that grows out of nowhere, the entire pocket universe story arch and the bigger fights with more and more enemies.
Inbetween all of this mindless entertainmaint, they also try to bring a message about being human and caring but it just felt like another obligated thing to include in the moivie like all of the other things.
Trailer
The thing I'm personally looking for in movies are interesting original stories, thought provoking ideas, emotions I relate to, great cinematograhy and not just 100% CGI, life lessons. In that regard, superhero movies in most cases just totally lack which is one of the reasons there are only a handfull that I really loved and the new Superman reboot for sure is not one of those.
Conclusion
In the end, I had an ok time with this movie and it kind of felt similar to Jurassic World Rebirth with the difference that I enjoy watching Dinosaurs on an Island way more than a Superhero in a city which made me much more forgiving. The thing about these movies is they are all backwards contructed starting off with things they need to include trying to build a story around it. In the best case, this brings about a movie that is very bad but still entertaining to watch so I still score it a 6.4/10.
| # | 2025 Watched Movies | Score |
|---|---|---|
| #01 | Heretic | 7.8/10 |
| #02 | A Different Man | 6.9/10 |
| #03 | Look Back | 6.9/10 |
| #04 | Caddo Lake | 7.5/10 |
| #05 | Sing Sing | 6.0/10 |
| #06 | Paris, Texas | 9.2/10 |
| #07 | The Greatest Night In Pop | 7.2/10 |
| #08 | Sometimes I Think About Dying | 7.3/10 |
| #09 | Memory Lane | 6.8/10 |
| #10 | Winter In Sokcho | 7.6/10 |
| #11 | On Falling | 6.8/10 |
| #12 | Carry-On | 6.9/10 |
| #13 | The Brutalist | 6.6/10 |
| #14 | Dune Part Two | 6.1/10 |
| #15 | Companion | 7.8/10 |
| #16 | Under The Silver Lake | 7.2/10 |
| #17 | After Life | 7.5/10 |
| #18 | Hit Man | 7.3/10 |
| #19 | The Edge Of Seventeen | 7.3/10 |
| #20 | Anora | 6.6/10 |
| #21 | Mickey 17 | 7.6/10 |
| #22 | Taste Of Cherry | 7.3/10 |
| #23 | My Old Ass | 7.7/10 |
| #24 | Drop | 6.4/10 |
| #25 | A Silent Voice | 7.9/10 |
| #26 | Conclave | 7.0/10 |
| #27 | Fandango | 7.5/10 |
| #28 | Sinners | 7.9/10 |
| #29 | Perfect Blue | 7.0/10 |
| #30 | Challengers | 7.1/10 |
| #31 | Bring Her Back | 7.0/10 |
| #32 | Ghost In The Shell | 7.6/10 |
| #33 | F1: The Movie | 7.7/10 |
| #34 | Jurassic World Rebirth | 7.0/10 |
| #35 | The Social Network | 7.0/10 |
| #36 | Jeanne Dielman 23 Quai Du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles | 8.9/10 |
| #37 | The First Slam Dunk | 6.9/10 |
| #38 | Das Lehrerzimmer | 7.4/10 |
| #39 | The Farewell | 8.0/10 |
| #40 | Weapons | 7.8/10 |
| #41 | Superman | 6.4/10 |
Posted Using INLEO
In short, you don't like or will never like or be attracted to any Superman movie, if none of them managed to reach your heart, then none of them will 😅
The only thing that caught my attention of your review were the series, they are good and I also remember them with pleasant nostalgia, seeing the posters of the series makes me want to see them again 😃.... then I remember that it's a long time and better to see something else hahaha 😅
The problem with rewatching old things aside from the time requirement is that it's more likely to be a dissapointment as especially when you watched it as a kid. At the same time it brings back so much nostalgia. Am I the only one who finds these new movies just way over the top as they always go bigger and more all the time.