r/movies • u/Reptarxking • 2d ago

Trailer Superman | Sneak Peek

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u/RJE808 2d ago

If there's one thing Gunn has damn near consistently gotten perfect, it's the characters. Every single time.

I didn't know who the hell Yondu was before I watched Guardians. And yet his funeral got me so bad. He knows what he's doing.

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u/Reznor_PT 2d ago

Oh no, he didn’t! Don’t get me wrong—and I believe this is your point rather than whether he’s doing the characters justice—James Gunn writes really great characters, but compared to what they were before, especially in the MCU, it’s a total shift.

Just read the pre-MCU Guardians of the Galaxy comics, and you’ll see what I mean. The tone, the personalities, and even the team dynamics were quite different.

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u/RJE808 2d ago

That's what I meant, that he does the characters justice that nobody really cared about before. He's a great character writer is what I mean.

I mean, did anybody, ANYBODY care about Peacemaker?

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u/ball_fondlers 2d ago

Alan Moore, sort of - Watchmen was originally going to be about preexisting, recognizable heroes, with Peacemaker as what would become the Comedian, but DC editorial wanted those characters in their universe.