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.
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!
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.”
Also, the best live action Lex was Michael Rosenbaum from Smallville, but that might just be a very on brand Millennial perspective.
"Literal mustache twirler myself" Hahahahaha
Haha it's true
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.
This comment made my morning, bro 🫡 good to find another kindred spirit
Good review! I personally loved it. Also, small typo. It’s Mr. Terrific, not Fantastic (super genius’s so common mistake lol)
Hahah I fixed that mistake like 3 times last night in other posts too. Forgot one. Thanks!!
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!
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.
Lol I was thinking of him as a not great casting decision 😅 don't hate me
Parker Settecase is dead to me.