We Saw the New Superman Movie — And It’s NOT What You’re Expecting

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Hello everyone, this is not a normal day. We

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post videos, but we're posting one. Anyway, why

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why are we posting on a Tuesday? It's very simple

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Jay, and I just got back from an early screening

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today, July 8th of Superman So we went and saw

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Superman today And we have thoughts and so we're

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gonna do this in two parts this video right here

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that you're watching This is our spoiler free

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review no spoilers we are going to avoid all

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the spoilers so you can hear our thoughts fully

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on the movie from us and octokitty and uh we'll

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tell you what we thought about superman by james

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gunn uh the the kind of the hard launch of the

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dcu um as it is now uh and then we will do another

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video right after this so you can look at on

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the channel uh to get our full spoiler review

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so if you've already seen the movie or you don't

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care about spoilers you can come see all our

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spoilery thoughts too but we'll do that in a

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separate video so again spoiler free review um

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let's take it away jay what did you think of

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this rebooted brand new superman film look i

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you know I'm pretty sure I've made it very clear

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that I've never been a Superman fan and this

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is fucking why this is just complete garbage

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bullshit Batman's better. No, I'm kidding. I

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Okay, so to sum up my thoughts of this movie

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very simply to me This is the best superhero

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movie since endgame. Oh that's That's saying

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something yeah, yeah, that's Okay, I don't know

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if I'm gonna go that far We talked about this

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a little bit just as we were walking out of the

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theater tonight about a little bit about an hour

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ago We got a theater. We came back to our our

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lovely messy home studios so we can record this

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for you guys tonight I've got it at a solid seven

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and a half out of ten so don't Don't get me wrong,

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audience, dear audience, I'm recommending this

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movie. I think it is a solid, solid superhero

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film. And we're going to get into the details

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about the different stuff that we saw in the

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movie here in a few minutes. Best one since Endgame?

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I don't know if I go that far. Again, I thoroughly

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enjoyed the movie. I thought it was well made.

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I enjoyed it. But I don't know if I go quite

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as high as Jay. Why? Why are you that high on

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this movie? Because so I was thinking about this.

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I'm on the drive home. Because we unfortunately

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did not see this at AMC. Very sad. But so I was

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thinking about this. I really liked the Batman.

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I was a huge Batman fan, really liked the Batman,

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right? The Batman to me is very dark and gritty.

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When I left the Batman, I wasn't inspired to

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be a better human being. I don't know. Like I,

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I left like the Superman movie and I was like,

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holy shit. Like for the first time in my life,

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I want to be like Superman. which I've never

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been like that. So I'm like, this movie was uplifting.

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It was. I don't know, it was very refreshing.

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I loved it. It was funny. There was romance.

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It was witty, very action packed. You saw Superman

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be very relatable to me for like really kind

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of the first time, a very relatable Superman.

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So, yeah, I'm going to say since in game, I mean.

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Yeah. Just walked out feeling better about everything.

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I was like, fuck, yeah, like, I'm going to make

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mistakes tomorrow, and that's that's going to

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be OK, because so does Superman. He does. He

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absolutely does. Let's talk the cast, because

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I think one of the absolute highlights of this

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film was the cast. David Coren sweat as Superman.

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I. I really think that he kind of knocked it

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out of the park. He projects that earnestness

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very, very well. And also in the moments where

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he's Clark, he doesn't look like Superman. That's

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very true. I appreciate that, like when he's

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walking to the city, you kind of see the trailer

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and he's kind of bumbly and he comes into the

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Daily Planet and he's like, you know, he he does

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they he plays both roles. Well, Clark is not

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in this movie very much. though. This is very

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Superman -centric. You can actually go back on

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this channel and look from a long, long time

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ago. When they announced Rachel Brosnahan as

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Lois Lane, I was over the moon about that cast

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and choice. I was a big fan of hers from The

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Marvelous Mrs. Maisel on Amazon Prime, which

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I thought she crushed that show. And if you haven't

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watched it, I can't recommend it enough. She

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was just solid as Lois. Yeah. Was there any other

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ones that really stood out to you? I mean, all

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of them to me were good. Oh, shit. Yeah, all

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of them were good. Nathan Fillion, who's in this

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movie more than I thought he was going to be.

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Yeah. He's not you get the impression from the

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trailer that he's only in it for a few minutes,

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and that is not the case. No, yeah, I That is

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something I was a little worried about going

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into this movie to be completely honest I thought

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from all the trailers I was like this looks like

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there's way too much shit going on I think they're

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trying to pack too much shit in one movie. I

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think they actually pulled it off. I think it

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was really great But casting I they were all

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amazing. I mean Yeah, I I don't know like Corn

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sweat. Amazing. The guy that played Lex Luthor.

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Amazing. Yeah. He is he is a great villain. God,

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yeah. He he I mean, he plays it to the nine.

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He really chews up scenery when he's there. He's

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like, ah, like he eats in this movie. Yeah. And

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he can go. Frickin eat some and I'm just heat

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and he stands. He does toe -to -toe Superman,

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right? It's not fear That's the thing is this

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Lex Luthor is not coming from a place of fear.

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He's coming from a place of anger He's coming

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from a place of I don't like this guy, but he's

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not afraid of Superman Yeah, I've he's aware

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of his limitations like I don't think he's stupid

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where he'd like I could punch Superman, but he's

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like I I can beat Superman. Yeah, the whole movie.

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And you believe it like it doesn't come off cheesy.

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It doesn't come off like he's an idiot. Like

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he does it well. Yeah, I I've seen like all the

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Superman movies. I am. I think he's like the

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best Lex Luthor we have seen on the screen. to

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be honest. Yeah. Yeah, I really do. Stand under

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this one was for me was and I'm going to say

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his name wrong, Edie Gethigi, who plays Mr. Terrific.

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He has a substantial role in this movie, again,

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much more than what you're getting from. From

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the trailers. But not in a bad way. He was really

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solid. Yeah, all the way to the end credit scene.

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I really enjoyed his. His character. Yeah, another

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amazing, amazing character, amazing cast choice,

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I think. I mean, there's like I really like honestly,

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I can't find. anything wrong with this movie?

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Wendell Pierce is Perry White and I don't know

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why, but I thought Wendell Pierce was dead. He's

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a great Perry White. The kid they got to play,

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Jimmy Olsen, who I wasn't super familiar with.

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His name is Skyler Gazzando. Solid. Like, you

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believe it. They tie in so much. You can get

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this from a lot of the the interviews and stuff.

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So I don't think that this is a spoiler But it

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is You know James gonna said this is not an origin

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story and it's not okay So if you're like, oh,

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we're gonna see baby cow come to the thing, right?

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That's not happening. Um This is a Superman who's

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been Superman for a little bit This is very much

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a world where heroes of villains. It's very obvious

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are well entrenched on this planet. Right. Like,

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there is a lot of metahumans and superheroes

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and crazy stuff running around. And you get that

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sense right from the jump. Solid holdout, MVP

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crypto, the super dog. I love crypto. Oh, my

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God. Cryptos, the MVP. Yeah. Can't can't do the

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spoiler yet, but. oh my god that's crypto was

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great crypto's in again a sizable chunk of the

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movie um crypto is solid um okay so the biggest

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negative i have and the reason this didn't quite

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get me to that end game level when i watched

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end game like from the minute the movie started

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till the end of the film like it was edge of

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my seat like the pacing was just go go go go

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go I thought that the first 15 to 30 minutes

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kind of dragged um again without getting into

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spoilers there's a lot of it's not setting up

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superman and it's not setting up the world but

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what they do is they spend a lot of time in the

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first 30 minutes and again it's not Wasted but

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they're trying to set up the central conflict

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of the movie And it takes him a little longer

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to get there than I would have liked right As

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to to how Lex's little thing is gonna happen

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His plan to defeat Superman in this film and

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so That was the only part where I was like, what

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are we doing like Come on James, so that was

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the only thing I didn't like was there anything

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you saw that you were like no Or even like No,

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not not really like everything So for me the

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movie like the first 15 20 minutes of the movie

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Was really interesting not to get into spoilers,

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but I was able to kind of see a different side

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of Superman that like other than like what I've

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seen Previously or like what they typically like

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they open the movie How I didn't expect them

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to open it which is really weird because like

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we all watch like the first five minutes of the

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movie Yep So, yeah, I don't know. I I liked it.

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I liked all of it. Like I like Dog Dad is going

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to be so happy when he watches this because like

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I legit I don't know if it's accurate to the

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comics. To be completely honest, I only read

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I think like one comic book issue when I was

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a kid, like literally just a single issue. But.

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Yeah, I loved it. I loved everything about it.

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I was like, damn, like. This is a This is amazing

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superhero movie like the DC is back Is like really

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like what I thought this is and it's a it's a

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good and here's what I will say in its absolute

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defense It is a solid launch like hard launch

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We had the soft launch of the dcu with pacemaker

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peacemaker season two And creature commandos

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those those are in world They're kind of setting

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things up This is the hard launch for the dcu

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And I thought they did a great job with it. And

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I think it sets up their universe very, very

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well. So there you go, folks. That's our overall

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review. We both enjoyed it. Right. Jay saying

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best since end game. I'm saying not quite there,

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but still a solid watch. Definitely a good time.

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You should check this one out in theaters or

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Lex Luthor will come get you. He will come get

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you. you will get you. And that's okay, because

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we have Superman right here. Superman is right

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there to protect you. All right, thanks folks.