The team behind “Superman” is responding to the backlash after director James Gunn said the DC tentpole is the story of “an immigrant that came from other places.”
When asked about the reaction to his comments, James Gunn explained that the movie is for “everyone” and that he doesn’t have “anything to say to anybody” spreading negativity around “Superman.”
“I’m not here to judge people,” he told Variety at Monday night’s “Superman” premiere at Hollywood’s TCL Chinese Theatre. “I think this is a movie about kindness and I think that’s something everyone can relate to.”
I have more than a few things to say to the face of those people.
To the limbo ‘how low can you go’
How dumb can you get? How dumb can you get?
I only know the Ludacris version. Somehow it’s still fitting.
But he’s white! How can he be an immigrant!
Shame they did stick with a white actor. Imagine the chuds losing their minds over a Superman played by Pedro Pascal or Michael B. Jordan.
Wasn’t there a comic where Superman renounces his US citizenship ?
The Man of Steel’s declaration, “I’m tired of having my actions construed as instruments of U.S. policy,” follows accusations that he caused an international incident in Tehran. Superman flew to the country during a huge protest, where he stood silent for one day, to show his support for the demonstrators. The 24 hours pass with a mix of appreciation (flowers and flags) and fear (hurled Molotov cocktails). But the government of Iran sees Superman as an agent of the United States and feels his action is an act of war. “Truth, justice and the American way – it’s not enough anymore,” Superman tells the president’s national security adviser. “The world’s too small. Too connected.” He then makes the decision to go before the United Nations and renounce his American citizenship.
Party of “fuck your feelings” huh? MAGA biggest cry babies out there. Guess it makes sense.
Apparently it’s “fuck your feelings (only mine matter because I’m special.)”
Network anchor Kellyanne Conway said of the film, “We don’t go to the movie theater to be lectured to and to have somebody throw their ideology onto us.” Jesse Watters added, “You know what it says on his cape? MS13.”
MAGA is so fucked up it’s impossible to tell if they’re serious or not.
It’s only a matter of time before someone photoshops MS13 on his suit. Then Trump will sue the movie company for hiring illegals.
Then don’t fucking go and see it, Kellyanne. Problem solved.
I bet you didn’t mind being preached to for ‘God’s Not Dead’ 1-4 or whatever. Or ‘Sound of Freedom’. Or whatever Ben Shapiro’s dumb school shooting movie was called.
Fuck off with your hypocritical bullshit.
Conservatives unable to grasp basic plot points of a story thats been around nearly 100 years. Color me unsurprised.
they don’t get Jesus message, even though they say Jesus is the most important thing in their lives.
“When did Star Wars become woke?!”
“SuperMan is an immigrant” I thought that was an alien. In which world we do live where is worst being an immigrant than an alien.
When I was a kid, immigrants were called aliens. Illegal immigrants were illegal aliens.
They really do live in their own little bubble huh? Like dude is a literal alien, and they think he is a home grown hero.
I hate everyone in this story. I hate MAGA by default. I hate the director for deciding to associate a fictional character with societal issues. He decided to make it political and I hate it when people decide to make something that once was not political and shouldn’t be political - political.
How dare we suggest that Superman doesn’t reflect the full Aryan image? Sorry, I misspelled MAGA
If he was Aryan he’d have the common decency of having blond hair like a real Übermensch. The dark hair makes him look like someone from the middle east!
Goddamn it, now I feel like I have to see it even if it’s not a good movie.
I’m not a DC movie guy (I used to like the comics when I was young) and I’m pretty burned out on superheroes in general, but I’ll watch it both for this and because I tend to like James Gunn.
I’m with you. I own hundreds of comic books and yet even I grew tired of the superhero movie thing years ago.
Except for Deadpool and Wolverine because fuck yeah.
It’s James Gunn, so it will be good.
Did they forget they were mad at James Gunn for comments he made about Trump in 2018? It’s not like they were going to see this movie anyway since they don’t like any form of entertainment that’s not explicitly pandering to them.
Lol, they can’t remember all the things they are outraged about. If you’re expecting consistency and logic, you’re talking about the wrong group.
Everything upsets MAGA. They’re petulant children in desperate need of a nap. Sadly, they are using that energy to ruin lives, and destroy a country.
MAGA are mentally ill from propaganda… mainly with narcissism, but your critical thought needs to be corrupted to listen to Trump speak and think “that’s my guy”.
A dirt nap
I can’t help but feel like when Hollywood switched to ME villains instead of nazis, it really had a large sociological effect.
Not that it was intentional propaganda, just that 20 years of “anything to stop poor brown people in the desert” had an effect different than “anything to stop the genocidal fascists”.
It’s because the scary Boogeyman has to be relevant. USA needed people to get onboard with current wars, not old wars.
There were also plenty of movies about the scary Russians too in that specific political time.
Also they’re a fairly small market. Which is also why there are few Chinese bad guys.
One of the recent Marvel movies had the ‘Japanese’ government as a minor antagonist that was very obviously a stand-in for the Chinese.
I confess to having given up on marvel a while ago.
So you’re saying it’s time for a new war against Nazis.
All these things haven’t suddenly become woke, YOU JUST BECAME A RACIST BIGOTED XENOPHOBIC ASSHOLE!!! AKA MAGA.
