It's got a terrible script and a "punk rock" attitude of corporate pretension.
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©Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection Last summer’s reboot of “Superman” was a movie that provoked reactions all over the map. Some liked it, some didn’t, but even if (like me) you were in the positive camp, the movie was trying to be so many things at once that your appreciation for how close it came to echoing the vibe and style of comic books might have scraped up against your feeling that it was all a bit…busy. That said, there was one thing about “Superman” that perhaps the whole world could agree on: In that 12-minute-long argument between Clark Kent and Lois Lane (mostly a very good scene), the moment when Clark made the case that Superman’s wholesome valor was “punk rock”… well, that was cringe. The second you call anything “punk rock,” it has ceased, in that moment, to be “punk rock.” (It has instead become lame.) And Superman calling what he does “punk rock” is super-cringe.
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