It is funny how movies can be more favorable in the lewd, gross and humor category over a full on serious movie. Feige knows that his films require humor in some fashion.
Anyway. Loved the movie. 9/10. Better than the first and better than half of DC movies out.
I think it’s best when WB just does it’s own thing and doesn’t try to build on something. I like how this was a self contained movie and the teammates die.
Also loved starro. I want more of this energy from DC. Just make a good movie. Don’t try and set up anything
With superhero movies you generally have two options: pretentious rubbish or unpretentious rubbish.
For a superhero movie to present itself as 'serious' it has to be exceptionally good, like
Batman Begins or
The Dark Knight, otherwise it just ends up pretentious and boring, like (any version of)
Justice League.
The alternative, of course, is not to take itself too seriously. In
Black Widow, for example, Florence Pugh's Yelena, who steals the entire show, is a meta character highlighting the ridiculous cliché of the 'hero landing pose'.
In essence these are mostly just silly superhero movies that have very little relevance because the characters have had multiple incarnations, deaths and rebirths in the comic books.
Burton killed The Joker and Nolan killed Two-Face. It's inconsequential since these are just one of many representations (or misrepresentations) of the lives of comic book characters.
That's why it doesn't matter who lives or dies in TSS, since the characters are never truly dead.
TSS is as inconsequential as a Monty Python sketch, but it did what it set out to do. It's unpretentious rubbish, but much more watchable than most of the comic book movies that tried to take themselves too seriously.
