I saw “Supergirl” in IMAX. It wasn’t a “superhero movie” about saving the Earth through self-sacrifice as “justice” confronts “evil.” It was a coming-of-age story about saving oneself, Kara, as she struggles with her own trauma. Structurally, it feels less like “Mad Max: Fury Road” (2015), where everyone is driven purely by survival instinct beyond notions of good and evil, and more like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), where heroes, villains, and scoundrels all converge.
tomorrow when the farm boys find this freak of nature, they will wrap his body in newspaper and carry him to the museum. but tonight he is alive and in the north field with his mother. [...] and as he stares into the sky, there are twice as many stars as usual
Doakes: "Funny how whenever Superman is fighting a motherfucking monster, your ass ain't nowhere to be seen, Kent"
Clark: "That's just a coincidence"
Doakes: "Fuck coincidences, I don't believe in 'em"