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Paul Anleitner's avatar

The guy that talks about metamodernism a lot, here.

What’s metamodernism? Here’s the simplest answer:

It’s the feeling you get when something makes you go, “Wait…that’s clearly not postmodernism anymore.”

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Paul Anleitner's avatar

Also, the best live action Lex was Michael Rosenbaum from Smallville, but that might just be a very on brand Millennial perspective.

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Sid Davis's avatar

"Literal mustache twirler myself" Hahahahaha

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Parker Settecase's avatar

Haha it's true

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Virgin Monk Boy's avatar

Parker, this review slapped harder than a Kryptonian heat vision blast.

Calling it “low-effort” is rich. It reads like a midrash for nerds who think in panels and paradox. Your breakdown of metamodernism nailed it. Saving animals without a wink? That’s spiritual cinema.

Lex as a jealous techbro with a god complex is perfect. The mustache twirl is earned when the ego is that fragile. And you're right, we didn’t need Goku and Mark Grayson’s origin stories folded into Clark’s. The replies were already better. No need to remix the remix.

Still, Gunn pulled it off. Hope with a bite. Soft sci-fi done right. Superman didn’t save the world. He saved sincerity.

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Parker Settecase's avatar

This comment made my morning, bro 🫡 good to find another kindred spirit

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The Dude Who Reads Books's avatar

Good review! I personally loved it. Also, small typo. It’s Mr. Terrific, not Fantastic (super genius’s so common mistake lol)

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Parker Settecase's avatar

Hahah I fixed that mistake like 3 times last night in other posts too. Forgot one. Thanks!!

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Michael Barros's avatar

This was a very interesting read. I go back and forth on metamodernism as a phenomenon.

I don’t know what the criteria for epochal shifts are, but I feel like the oscillations between sentimental and cynical were often present in postmodernism.

Like I get the sense that Baudrillard was a sentimentalist, and I wouldn’t be shocked if Derrida was too.

That said, it does seem that the digital age is something unique and idk any better theory. I really like Performatism, but Metamodern integrated it already!

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Matthew Carey Jordan's avatar

Great review. “I don’t think they’ve ever cast Lex right in a movie before” is objectionable, however. The late, great Gene Hackman would like a word.

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Parker Settecase's avatar

Lol I was thinking of him as a not great casting decision 😅 don't hate me

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Matthew Carey Jordan's avatar

Parker Settecase is dead to me.

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