Well, the film has been released.

Statistically, most of you didn't see it, and probably are not really very excited to. It didn't perform poorly over the weekend, but it certainly was not a blockbuster, and not what Warner Brothers was looking for. That said, after the weekend box office (which was below projections with the film on the path to break even), WB head David Zaslav said this new DC Comics "universe" of films will go ahead and he was happy with the box office.

For some reason, before the release of the film, director James Gunn decided to attack his own film release by announcing that Superman is "an immigrant story." This caused many people to believe the film was woke, and refuse again to pay $15 for a moral lecture.

If this film was actually woke, it still wouldn't have made sense for him to say that, but it really isn't woke. The wokest thing about the film is that they cast a Mexican who looks like a literal satanic ape as the Engineer.

In principle, I am not even against having a Mexican and a black. These big blockbuster CGI fest children's films are intended for wide audiences and I think there might be some data-backed truth to the fact that people from these races will be more likely to see a film if they feel they are "represented." (Although the thicc Mexican bitch who played Hawkgirl seems like enough Latina representation?) This was the original idea of having a black character in films. In old slasher films, blacks actually loved the trope that "the black guy always gets killed first" (maybe they related to it, I don't know, but they certainly always went to see these films and cheered when the black died first). I don't expect these films to be full-Nazi, or whatever. So a bit of diversity in the casting, if it's not an overload, isn't "woke," as this has always been a thing. I do think it is woke to pick a bitch with that face.

But everything else was fine. The black guy was fine. Literally the only political thing in the film at all was a surprisingly heavy-handed Palestine analogy with the Boravia plot line. The Jews are freaking out about that. I guess woke people do support Palestine, but Israel is so despised by the right, that doesn't really count. And though Gunn made it way obvious what he was talking about, it wasn't a huge part of the story. Though getting the actor who looks the most like David Ben-Gurion to play the leader of the racist oppression nation was funny.