BvS BvS Caught in a Culture War? Superman as Christ

[thorstone]

You might have noticed some critics don't agree with the audiences about BvS. You might have read some reviews that act like this movie was threatening to destroy the DC film universe-- that they not only didn't like its tone and direction but that they feel it was worse than X3, IM2, IM3, Daredevil, or Amazing Spiderman. It's laughable. But it smells of a petty attempt to bring down this franchise because critics recognize this film as a Christ film being released the week before Easter.

I can't really see why else critics super-hate this movie. They don't just think it's a fluff popcorn film (and it's an awesome splosion-filled popcorn-festival)-- they want to kill it with fire.

 

[LEVITIKUZ]

Stop making Superman Space Jesus. It didn't work for Anakin Skywaler and it ain't working here.

Superman has zero connection with humanity in BvS with every pose or shot of him looking like a God above men instead of a man helping out making sure everyone's alright.

 

[ThePhantasm]

 

[ThePhantasm]

Do you guys think Obama secretly told all the critics to hate BvS because TDK was such a pro-Bush film?

 

[Decepticonus]

Do you guys think Obama secretly told all the critics to hate BvS because TDK was such a pro-Bush film?

God you are so wrong and so behind the times, NO!






It was Mexicans and China who secretly told all the critics to hate BvS.

 

[ThePhantasm]

For the record, I really dug the religious themes in the film. I enjoyed that stuff in MOS too. But its silly to think that it caused the critical backlash towards this film, IMO.

 

[DKDetective]

Do you guys think Obama secretly told all the critics to hate BvS because TDK was such a pro-Bush film?

Seriously, has this entire subforum gone mad? What is going on around here?

 

[Reel-Man]

Seriously, has this entire subforum gone mad? What is going on around here?

How else to explain it?

 

[Robin91939]

If anything the film was an argument for good over God.

It was a meditation on the need for religion and the flaws of God and the goodness of man.

God can be corrupted just as easily as man.

It is a fair comparison to take one literary character (Superman) and relate it to another literary character (Jesus).

It's only natural that in a real world Kal-El would be viewed as a true Messiah.

-R

 

[ThePhantasm]

Not to mention the fact that these themes have been associated with Superman for like forever. I mean, the guy's origin story is a straight up Moses-allegory.

 

[thorstone]

Stop making Superman Space Jesus. It didn't work for Anakin Skywaler and it ain't working here.

Superman has zero connection with humanity in BvS with every pose or shot of him looking like a God above men instead of a man helping out making sure everyone's alright.

I liked that it was showing how some people saw him as a messianic figure (as millions of people would if Superman were real). And it showed how that was making him feel uncomfortable and detached from this world. But it's all to do with his character arc. In the end he says this is his world and he describes himself as a farmer from Kansas. That's who Superman really is. He is a kid from Kansas with the power of a demi-god.

 

[redhawk23]

If anything more of the reviews slam the film not for having Superman being too Christlike but for Superman being a largely selfish character and the film overall having a fairly twisted moral stance.

 

[danoyse]

Seriously, has this entire subforum gone mad? What is going on around here?

Were you here the night Obama was elected and someone started a thread asking how TDK’s success made that happen?

He called it “his generation’s Woodstock”. I kid you not.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Were you here the night Obama was elected and someone started a thread asking how TDK’s success made that happen?

He called it “his generation’s Woodstock”. I kid you not.

That thread still exist I believe.

 

[ThePhantasm]

Were you here the night Obama was elected and someone started a thread asking how TDK’s success made that happen?

He called it “his generation’s Woodstock”. I kid you not.

Yeah, and before that there was some thread about how TDK was a pro-Bush political film or something. Craziness.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Seriously, has this entire subforum gone mad? What is going on around here?

 

[danoyse]

That thread still exist I believe.

I think we keep it around just to remind people that yes, some of you ARE THAT BAD.

 

[TheDreamMaster]

That thread still exist I believe.

I must find this.....

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I think we keep it around just to remind people that yes, some of you ARE THAT BAD.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I must find this.....

http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=314264

Enjoy.

 

[Jaxon]

I never once make this comparison in my mind when watching MoS or BvS. People just through it out there because it's easy. I don't think there's ever a though to do it by the creative team.

 

[DKDetective]

Were you here the night Obama was elected and someone started a thread asking how TDK’s success made that happen?

He called it “his generation’s Woodstock”. I kid you not.

No, I was not on here, but I can't say I am shocked now.

 

[thorstone]

If anything more of the reviews slam the film not for having Superman being too Christlike but for Superman being a largely selfish character and the film overall having a fairly twisted moral stance.

I think the content of the negative reviews (trying to portray this film as something on the level of FF) are completely bogus and dancing around the SJW/left wing agenda that's really driving the negative emotional response from these journalists.

We all know they are 90% liberal. We've been dealing with this leftist bias with critics for years now-- look at how they trashed Oblivion and Prometheus (with the latter they were straight forward about hating it because of design theory). Look at how they review a pro-witch/neo-feminist film like The Witch. Look at how they swoon over Mad Max Feminist Road. Politics are driving reviews of any film that steps over the line of SJWs. I'm sure the idiots over at Gawker are going to have to change their underwear from adoration of Ghostbusters and how it "rights the wrongs" of the original Ghostbusters (because it was an all-male team and anti-EPA/gov't regulation).