this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2025
16 points (94.4% liked)

DC Studios

334 readers
22 users here now

Lemmy

Welcome to DCStudios, a community for discussing all things related to DC TV/Film productions including,

This community is a place to discuss, share and generally have fun with all things DC Studios.

Upcoming DCU Film:

Upcoming DCU TV:

Upcoming other projects:

DCU Discussion

Batman Epic Crime Saga Discussion

Elseworlds Discussion

Community Guidelines

  1. Be constructive. As a community this is place for discussion, things you liked, things you didn't like, any everything in between. Low effort comments don't add to the discussion.
  2. Be civil. Disagreements happen. Don't attack others. Take a moment and reconsider before you post an inflammatory comment in all caps.
  3. No spam. Please don't post spam, trolling or other low effort content. If you're a human and you saw something interesting or had an interesting thought, you're probably fine.
  4. Memes are allowed. We're a small community, feel free to post memes or similar content. Funny things are good. If it becomes a problem we can discuss changing the rules.

In addition like any community we follow the Lemmy.World content policy rules. In short, don't attack people or groups.

Spoiler Guidelines

When should something no longer be considered a spoiler? In general use your best judgement. If want something more specific,

Related Communities:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
amoretpax199@lemmy.world
MimicJar@lemmy.world
SkeetsBot@lemmy.world
16
[SPOILERS] James Gunn confirms that The Message in "Superman" is real (thedirect.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by TheImpressiveX@lemmy.today to c/dcstudios@lemmy.world
4 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

"How can someone not think it's real? I don't understand. In the test screenings people said, 'With AI, no one trusts anything.' So, okay, in the movie Mister Terrific says, 'I know those computer forensics guys, there is no way.' That's Mister Terrific, he's as smart as Lex Luthor. Then I have Mori, the Secretary of Defense, say, 'Think whatever you think about Luthor, but it's real.' And then the clincher is that Ghurkos and Lex are walking together and Ghurkos say, 'Ahh you doctored the message. This is great.' And Lex says, 'It's not doctored. It's real, and who thought it would be his own parents to bring him down?'"

top 4 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Wytch@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I remember watching it and thinking they were really hammering it home, almost to the point I started to suspect a rug pull. They may have gone too far trying to defend the authenticity.

I didn't mind the change from previous versions. Celebrating adoptive parents over birthright expectations is a very James Gunn theme.

[–] TheImpressiveX@lemmy.today 6 points 2 weeks ago

Celebrating adoptive parents over birthright expectations is a very James Gunn theme.

Yeah, the same thing happened in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago

I don't know much about Superman's lore so I thought maybe this was a real twist from the comics. But either way, I believed it was real because the movie was very clearly trying to communicate to the audience that it was. The amount of characters who just so adamantly said it so firmly felt very clear. It even felt a little heavy handed. Like they were worried people would think it was fake actually. So at some point I was like well I guess I'm meant to believe it's real so I'll believe that and stop worrying about it.

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

My immediate thought while watching was "Brainiac". No matter how many people on Earth confirm the message, Brainiac could have messed with it.

But the more I've thought about it, I expect it's going to just be more a matter of context. It still might be a case of Brainiac involvement. Maybe the message was recorded while under Brainiacs's influence. Maybe Brainiac misled on the details of Earth.