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Speaker 3: It's Later with Mo Kelly. I'm k F I A
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Speaker 3: Mark Ronner. This is the Runner Report and this portion
Speaker 3: of the show is live because Superman's brand new in theaters.
Speaker 3: I was on board with this Superman movie from the
Speaker 3: first trailer that showed him after he'd just got his
Speaker 3: ass kicked and called Crypto the super Dog for help,
Speaker 3: and it doesn't disappoint. Here is some of the trailer
Speaker 3: featuring Lois and Clark.
Speaker 4: Talking, are you being serious right now? Yeah? You've let
Speaker 4: me interview you as Superman? Sure, ready, let's do it. Cronkite, Superman,
Speaker 4: Miss Lane. Recently you've come under a lot of fire
Speaker 4: for some it's a lot. Today.
Speaker 1: The Secretary of Defense said he was going to look
Speaker 1: into your actions.
Speaker 4: That's funny. My actions.
Speaker 3: I stopped a war.
Speaker 1: Maybe not, maybe I did.
Speaker 4: In effect, you illegally entered a country.
Speaker 1: This is how you're going to be I'm not the one.
Speaker 4: Being interviewed Superman.
Speaker 1: Did you consult with the president?
Speaker 4: Now you seemingly acting as a representative.
Speaker 1: And doing good. I would question.
Speaker 4: Myself in the same situation and sider the consequence.
Speaker 1: People we're going to die.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's all you get. I don't want to spoil anything.
Speaker 3: This Superman reminded me of the more whimsical era of
Speaker 3: Superman comics. However much I liked Henry Cavell, the movies
Speaker 3: they stuck him in were weirdly dark and just not
Speaker 3: suited to the character. This one's lighter, but still has
Speaker 3: plenty of action. It's from James Gunn, who gave us
Speaker 3: the Three Guardians of the Galaxy movies from Marvel Peacemaker
Speaker 3: Suicide Squad, and he's now the boss of the DC universe.
Speaker 3: He seems to get this stuff. This isn't the story
Speaker 3: I would have written. It doesn't have the characters I
Speaker 3: would have used. It's not even I'm not even sure.
Speaker 3: I liked every bit of the casting, particularly Ma and
Speaker 3: Pa Kent. But it's well done. It's lots of fun,
Speaker 3: It hits some strong emotional notes, and David corn Sweat,
Speaker 3: who's only thirty two, is terrific in it. I hope
Speaker 3: he's Superman and a bunch more movies and doesn't get
Speaker 3: short changed like Cavill did. Rachel Brosnahan from The Marvelous
Speaker 3: Missus masl Is Lois Lane spunky and cynical. This is
Speaker 3: not her movie. Nicholas Holt is Lex Luthor. Nathan Fillion
Speaker 3: is a green lantern. Not the green lantern the Hal
Speaker 3: Jordan that we grew up with, but Guy Gardner, the
Speaker 3: ahole green lantern with the bowl cut. Kind of an
Speaker 3: inspired choice. Gun throws us some curves with this movie.
Speaker 3: We also get a hawk girl or a hawkwoman or
Speaker 3: a hawk lady who shrieks like a hawk whenever she's
Speaker 3: in battle, which is hilarious yet also kind of cool.
Speaker 3: There is a mister Terrific who's a super genius with
Speaker 3: lots of little flying balls that do stuff. And I
Speaker 3: never thought I'd see Metamorpho the element Man in a
Speaker 3: movie because he's just too silly, but we get one here.
Speaker 3: This movie is unashamed of being from a comic book.
Speaker 3: It's got Superman, robots in the Fortress of Solitude, lots
Speaker 3: of things you never thought you'd see or wouldn't have
Speaker 3: seen in the nineteen seventy eight Christopher Reeves Superman movie
Speaker 3: that we all love, even if they had the special
Speaker 3: effects at the time to do it. Remember the tagline
Speaker 3: for that one in nineteen seventy eight, it was You'll
Speaker 3: Believe a Man Can Fly. That was a message for adults.
Speaker 3: That was the director, Richard Donner and the studio telling
Speaker 3: grown up movie goers, we know you have a problem
Speaker 3: with the bill suspension of disbelief and the Superman you
Speaker 3: grew up with who jumped out a phony window onto
Speaker 3: a mattress. With the special effects in this movie, won't
Speaker 3: be so awful that you'll walk out. You'll believe a
Speaker 3: Man can fly was more like, hey, you won't see
Speaker 3: the wires, okay. And by the way, the flying sequences
Speaker 3: in this Superman movie are really good. They convey speed
Speaker 3: and wind and urgency. They're the best of any so far.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to tell you much about the plot.
Speaker 3: It's not an origin story, thank god. Superman's been around
Speaker 3: for a while now. He's dating Lois, but it's a
Speaker 3: little shaky, and he's getting involved in a war between
Speaker 3: a couple countries on the other side of the world.
Speaker 3: Lex Luthor, of course, hates him and gets the world
Speaker 3: to distrust him, and he puts himself in a position
Speaker 3: to take advantage of that and go after Superman with
Speaker 3: the help of a couple of his own super henchmen
Speaker 3: and the government. The stakes get bigger with some kind
Speaker 3: of dimensional rift thingy that threatens New York real estate.
Speaker 3: I was a little unclear about that. This Superman's a
Speaker 3: little powered down, which you might have gotten from what
Speaker 3: I open with about him getting his ass kicked. This
Speaker 3: is not a Superman I think could be ab to
Speaker 3: turn back time or push the earth. That makes for
Speaker 3: better storytelling him not being quite so godlike. The movie
Speaker 3: makes ample use of the John Williams score from the
Speaker 3: nineteen seventy eight movie, which is one of the most
Speaker 3: beautiful scores of any film ever. Man that I listened
Speaker 3: to that a lot when I was a kid. Some
Speaker 3: media heels and I don't want to spend too much
Speaker 3: time on this, have been trashing this new Superman for
Speaker 3: being woke, which is almost too imbecilic to bother responding to.
Speaker 3: For one thing, they hadn't even seen it, to my knowledge,
Speaker 3: and having just watched it myself, I couldn't find anything
Speaker 3: to take a fence at I think some of the
Speaker 3: whining was because James Gunn referred to Superman in an
Speaker 3: interview as an immigrant. Well he is, He's from another
Speaker 3: planet and he landed in the United States. An alien,
Speaker 3: maybe even an illegal alien. If you can't cope with that,
Speaker 3: go soak your head please. Not long ago, I went
Speaker 3: on a binge watching the old FBI show with the
Speaker 3: one with efrem Zimbalist Junior. I needed it. It nourished me.
Speaker 3: You remember that show. It was about unambiguous, good guys
Speaker 3: in suit with responsible haircuts, who upheld the law. They
Speaker 3: couldn't be bought or intimidated, always did the right thing,
Speaker 3: always put bad guys away. I think it was similar
Speaker 3: to what Ted Lasso did not long before that, which
Speaker 3: was to give something to people who were just starved
Speaker 3: for kindness and decency and somewhat of a darkening time.
Speaker 3: So I can see why some people might feign anger
Speaker 3: about this Superman. You look at him and it affects
Speaker 3: how you see yourself. You think Superman's a liar or
Speaker 3: a cheater or a sore loser. You think Superman's greedy
Speaker 3: and uses his powers for self enrichment. You think Superman
Speaker 3: spends his time talking crap about immigrants or the homeless.
Speaker 3: Of course not he probably help him. And this isn't new,
Speaker 3: by the way. Notice I didn't mention any names when
Speaker 3: I said those things, So if you think they apply
Speaker 3: to you or who you follow, that's on you. Superman's
Speaker 3: always been an aspirational fantasy character who exemplifies what we
Speaker 3: always used to be able to agree was the good
Speaker 3: in us, and he fought what we always used to
Speaker 3: agree was the bad. The kind of stuff I just mentioned,
Speaker 3: as well as cruelty, bullies, tyrants. We don't seem able
Speaker 3: to agree on all that stuff anymore, but Superman hasn't changed,
Speaker 3: no matter what any dopes can consider to be woke.
Speaker 3: There's an old Superman Andy Bigotry ad you may have
Speaker 3: run across. It's from nineteen forty nine, and it shows
Speaker 3: Superman talking to a group of kids. He says, and remember,
Speaker 3: boys and girls, your school like our country is made
Speaker 3: up of Americans of many different races, religions, and national origins.
Speaker 3: So if you hear anybody talk against a schoolmate or
Speaker 3: anyone else because of his religion, race, or national origin,
Speaker 3: don't wait tell him that kind of talk is Unamerican.
Speaker 3: What a shock Superman doesn't punch down is that woke.
Speaker 3: It's Superman have to be kind of an a hole
Speaker 3: to disagree with it. We may fall short sometimes, but
Speaker 3: it appeals to our better natures. In this new movie,
Speaker 3: Superman goes out of his way to save people and
Speaker 3: animals in harm's way during his super battles. You want
Speaker 3: to call that woke? I think a character like this
Speaker 3: in a movie like this can help give us the
Speaker 3: kind of super reset we need. Why wouldn't you want
Speaker 3: to be like that? And by the way, for anyone
Speaker 3: listening to those trying to gin up something about Superman
Speaker 3: not saying truth, justice and the American way, I just
Speaker 3: kind of covered the American part. Superman is here for
Speaker 3: all humanity, but ask yourself why they aren't focused on
Speaker 3: the truth part. Superman's civilian occupation is reporter. Spend some
Speaker 3: time thinking about why that is, and then and then
Speaker 3: imagine how satisfying it would be in the next movie
Speaker 3: to see somebody call him fake news and then he
Speaker 3: kind of slyly uses his super breath to blow their
Speaker 3: hair off or something. That's your honor report for tonight,
Speaker 3: Superman's fun go see it now. I want to talk
Speaker 3: with Moe about it when he's back, because the movie
Speaker 3: hit him a little differently. I didn't want to know
Speaker 3: any more than that before I saw the movie myself
Speaker 3: last night. So I'm looking forward to hearing what he
Speaker 3: thinks and then impugning his taste, his intelligence, and his patriotism.
Speaker 3: That's their honor.
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