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Posted on 07/02/2026 11:22:09 AM PDT by Billie Bud
Went and saw Supergirl with my comic loving teenager. Don’t know why other than the actresses comments in an interview this movie is being dissed around here. Nothing political. Comic loving son said character was pretty accurate. Go see it. Even pluggedin online said it was fine.
We should support the efforts toward normality. Last year’s Superman was really good and sort of old school hero. Same with this movie.
Nothing woke that I could find in it.
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I remember that.
Are you talking about George Reeves or Christopher Reeves?
I forget which freeper to thank who said the same thing I was thinking. “She looks like the ape kid from “land of the lost.””
I suppose she is cute. Just not my taste.
it has to contain a pro China message
I give mad respect to Tom Cruise for not backing down and wearing the Taiwan flag badge when China cried.
Sydney Sweeney broke big with a couple of nudie projects that showed off her two great acting assets. (I'm not saying she can't act; that's just not what made her a hot tamale to the casting directors.) Since then, she's been trying to rebrand herself as a serious actress, with very mixed results. Her problem is that she has a huge fanbase that watches to see her get nekkid, and that's what the studios want to cast her for. She obviously fights for roles now in which she doesn't have to take her clothes off, but that fanbase doesn't turn out for those.
Emilia Clarke had the same problem after Game of Thrones. Production of GOT stretched over ten years, during which she was 23 to about 33. The first couple of seasons, HBO relentlessly sexualized her. She didn't like it, cried a lot, but was young, felt powerless, and felt that she was bullied into it. She finally rebelled, and the male actors backed her up. Two brain aneurisms also probably put her in the "whatever Emilia wants, Emilia gets" category. HBO backed off considerably in the later seasons. But now there's nekkid 23 year old Emilia out there, and that's what a lot of fans come to see. Her career has drifted since GOT. She's done some nudity since, but she's been trying to tone it down.
She is actually very good in Ponies, a Peacock show that released in January. It's a spy vs. spy action drama set in Moscow in 1976-77, broadly comic with enough drama and character development to keep it grounded. She's right-aged for the role, and she keeps her clothes on -- even in her very dangerous sex scene, when she's running a honeytrap operation on a KGB villain.
That's the kind of role Sydney Sweeney seems to want to find. But will the studios hire her for that?
There’s no history of Supergirl doing well in theaters. Heck, Superman’s history itself is iffy. Wonder Woman did well (the first one) because it had never been done before, and it had strong word of mouth. But for DC, its always gonna be Batman that sells. That’s just the reality.
While I don’t disagree with you that some people are chronically on-line, I don’t believe most movies are fine. This one isn’t and the post says she brought a child to see it which makes me think it’s a democrat troll.
https://www.pluggedin.com/movie-reviews/supergirl-2026
*****SPOILERS****
“Kara Zor-El has just turned 23. But as she wakes bleary eyed after yet another night of drunken booze-swilling on some red-sunned planet, she feels so, so much older.
Kara may be known back on Earth as the cousin of Superman—you know, the guy who fights for truth, justice and all that junk—but out here she’s just another creature from some distant planet. Leave her alone and let her get blitzed, night after night.
Of course, Kara’s cousin, Clark, may regularly call and encourage her to finish up her birthday celebration and head on “home,” but that’s the rub for Kara. Earth isn’t her home.
Kara’s home was destroyed. She watched the only people she ever cared about die from kryptonite poisoning. Kara saw it all before her father sent her rocketing off to follow in Clark’s path. And her pain and loss doesn’t fade, no matter how “super” she may be under Earth’s yellow sun.
So out here, a red sun reduces Kara’s ability to leap a tall building with a single bound. It keeps her grounded. It lets her get drunk enough to forget. Well, if not forget, it lets Kara numb herself at the very least.
Then the girl shows up. This teen stomps into the grimy space pub where Kara is drinking and declares that she is Ruthye Marye Knoll and she seeks revenge on one Krem of the Yellow Hills, a murderous brigand who killed my family! Kara couldn’t care less about brigands or local tragedies. “Not my monkeys, not my circus,” Kara mumbles to her ever-faithful dog, Krypto.
But then some huge alien thug slaps the girl aside and takes the finely crafted sword that she’s offering as payment for her revenge quest. And that just feels rude. So Kara gets up and, after some, uh, discussion, she pulps the muscular alien’s face and gives the slapped-down girl her sword back.
Back to the drinking.
However, Ruthye Marye Knoll isn’t so easily dissuaded. It seems that she has decided upon her champion: the valiant woman with gold, tangled hair who’s about to vomit over in the corner.
Does Kara have even the slightest inkling to help this long-winded girl? Nope. Does Kara feel sorry for her? Not much. But after a turn of events where this “Krem of the Yellow Hills” ends up poisoning Krypto and stealing Kara’s ship, well, it looks like she and Ruthye are heading in the same direction anyway.
Besides, this kid is bound to get herself killed while waving that sword around and calling for revenge. So Kara decides she should take this girl under her wing long enough to keep her alive—and get her to pipe down.
I mean, it’s not following truth and justice or anything, but it seems like the right thing to do at the moment. Kara just needs to stay sober for a little while.
(Belch.) At least she can try.”
>>Who made the law that every male superhero had to have a female counterpart?<<
You mean like Captain America?
Wonder Woman did well because Gal Gadot is beauty pagent gorgeous in a traditional way, and because the film dealt with a well-established comic book franchise in an action film genre in which acting was kinda secondary. As an actor, she’s been good in some things, and not very good in some others. She’s a classic case of an actor who needs to stay within her limits.
Her problem now is that the lefties have realized that she’s Jewish, Isreali, served in the IDF, is pro-Israel and opposes the extermination of Jews. This makes her a political pariah to the left. She’s also married with four children, so the gender benders don’t like her.
At age 41, she needs to be careful about age appropriate roles, and studios have to be careful about using her properly. There are many, many actors with limited range who have had fine careers because of careful choices and good direction.
Dear Lord…
Democrat troll? Maybe you are. All you have to do is use the search button to see my participation over the years on FR.
If you don’t agree with someone, you can just scroll on.
“’Critical Drinker himself churns out the same tired review and opinion about everything . . .His schtick is as formulaic and repetitive as most of the movies he reviews. .’
. . . Are you stepping up or are you simply content to criticize the efforts of others?”
So, your defense of a critic who makes a living being a critic the efforts of others is to demand I also make content?
Do you also demand that the Critical Drinker write, produce, and direct movies like the one he “reviews”?
How about, instead, we agree to disagree?
If his schtick is not tired and repetitive to you as it is to me, you watch him, and I do not.
Not you, the author. She brought a child.
Supergirl should be a statuesque white hot chick. Not chokee from Land of the Lost.
It’s warmed over puke.
if you actually watched Critical drinker you would know he has made movies and written screenplays on his characters Ryan Jake. but you come off as the usual hater of the drinker, you probably haven’t seen many if any of his videos.
I will continue to watch The Drinker and I guess I’ll never get the chance to give your content a try to see if you could do it better.
I enjoy Nerdrotic’s and Critical Drinker’s takes but I very rarely see anything they review. Not because they warn me off films and shows, but because they are pop culture oriented. That’s not my genre preference. They follow Star Wars, the MCU, and the other big franchises that are home ground for the prequel, sequel, spinoff thing. Not my interest.
The big franchises that have have turned into the Hollywood tentpole properties all originated with a stunningly original movie that became a huge success. By and large, I regard the initial films as works of genius. But the decline curve is steep. I lost interest long ago.
“and nothing sells clips like getting mad at those pesky kids and their rock and roll music.”
Rock and roll musice is boomer music. Those pesky kids don’t like rock and roll.
You need to get out more. If you do, you won’t be saying hackneyed crap like, “Now get off my lawn.”
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