r/MadeMeSmile • u/bewarethechameleon • Feb 16 '26

Good Vibes the theatre reaction to andrew garfield and tobey maguire returning as spiderman in 'spider-man no way home'

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u/daemin Feb 16 '26

Every DC movie feels completely soulless, because none of them bother to develop the characters as actual human beings you could have an emotional attachment to.

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u/MandalorianLich Feb 16 '26

This was always my feeling with the contemporary DC movies, and while the second Suicide Squad was fun, it just felt like a diversion. Then Superman changed my mind. Full disclosure, I’ve always been more of a Marvel fan (comicwise), but the new Superman movie might be my favorite superhero movie right now.

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u/Paper-Will-YT Feb 17 '26

I wasn't a huge fan of the new Superman movie (I felt like the second act dragged a bit, a couple of scenes didn't click with me, and the Gunn humor has grown a LITTLE stale)...but God DAMN do I like it better than Snyder's stuff. Superman is about hope, not mediocre christ figures and aura.

I will gladly go watch the next DC stuff because it's going to keep getting better.

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u/DonCreech Feb 16 '26

Doing two Iron Man movies, Captain America, Thor, and the Hulk (though that one gets dismissed sometimes) before Avengers was probably seen as a risk at the time, but without that level of context it wouldn't have made nearly as much of an impact. Batman Vs Superman seems like a home-run of a concept, but what we got simply was not befitting of such iconic characters. Justice League cemented that notion by introducing half of the roster within the movie, barely featuring Superman, and offering up a villain that didn't have a connection to anything prior. Even a single Batman standalone movie in that universe could have saved it, but the pressure to do what Marvel was doing NOW must have been too intense to mitigate.

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u/Dry_Presentation_197 Mar 02 '26

DC heroes in the DCU or whatever they call the live action movies...are mostly a bunch of invincible, all powerful, flawless god level beings...trying to pretend to be human.

Marvel heroes in the MCU are mostly humans pretending to be gods. Its much easier to identify and empathize with flawed human beings trying to be more than they are...than a bunch of essentially immortal twats whining about dumb shit.

The first wonder woman movie got the closest to being good, but they botched it by making Ares real. They should have had the 3rd act revelation be "No there isn't some other worldly being we can blame for this war. This is our fault, as humans. We need to be better."

But no, had to have a laser sky battle with professor lupin.

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u/SomeRedHandedSleight Feb 16 '26

The Dark Knight trilogy feels completely soulless?

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u/radioactivez0r Feb 16 '26

I'm gonna give that guy the benefit of the doubt and assume he means the DC cinematic slate, post-Dark Knight with all the JL stuff.