June 30, 2026

Supergirl Review

Supergirl Review
Supergirl Review
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Supergirl Review

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This is a dyna Mic network podcast.

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Hi, and welcome to the Dynamic Dual Podcast, a Rotten

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Tomatoes approved show that reviews superhero films and series through

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the lens of the DC and Marvel fandoms. I'm Joseph

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and I'm his twin brother Jonathan, And in this episode,

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we are reviewing Supergirl, which was released in theaters this

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past weekend. And yeah, that sums it up. It's not bad.

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Don't act like it is. Everyone's acting like it is.

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It's not bad. It's not bad. I mean, is it

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a masterpiece? No? No, it's saying it's a masterpiece. No,

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I'm definitely not saying that. But let's talk more about

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the movie later on in our non spoiler review. Before that,

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we have a quick message from our AI co host

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the shows in the Dynamite podcast Network. Pit Pip Cheerio, Thanks, he.

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Jane and Kay. If you listen to our last episode,

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you know that we reviewed the Marvel one shot Punisher

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One Last Kill. Yeah. During that review, we discussed a

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lot of the characters so we're in that one shot

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that appeared in the comic books, and then we asked

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you guys, who you thought would make a good matchup

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for some of those characters. We didn't get a whole

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lot of answers. We got just a few, actually from

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Devin on Discord, and one of his best suggestions I

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thought was a duel with Micro, who is the Punisher

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sidekick for a long time. He's a hacker basically, Yeah,

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he's a hacker. He's a tech guy. He was featured

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pretty heavily in the first season of The Punisher on Netflix,

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played by Ebon Moss Backrock Yeah, and he was also

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in Punisher Warzone played by Newman new Mean Yeah. Micro's

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real name is David Lieberman in the comic books. He

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was a former hacker who became the Punisher's technical partner

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after the Kingpin murdered his nephew. He's a genius, a programmer,

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an engineer. He's the guy in the chair. He built

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the Punisher's Punisher Van and all of his gadgets. He

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maintained his entire arsenal and gathered intelligence for him and

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managed his safe houses. Does the Punishers Van not have

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a name? It's not called like the Punisher Mobile. No,

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it's the Punisher Battle Van. Okay, that works well. Going

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up against Micro is DC's own man in the chair,

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the Calculator aka Noah Cutter, who evolved from this gimmicky

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armored thief went up against Batman to the Underworld's answer

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essentially to Oracle. He's a genius, strategist and info broker

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for supervillains. He has criminal contacts, he has predictive gear,

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he has gadgets, he has hacking abilities, and he even

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has tech manipulating powers. I did not know that he

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has technopathy. You've seen it described as technopathy or mechkinesis cyberpathy.

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Ew what I guess Micro's going down? Let's get these results.

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Ajank the results please, Hey you are sir all right.

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The winner of the matchup between Calculator and Micro is

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Calculator to No, it's surprised because who cares about Micro.

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He's some fat dude that sits in a chair all day. Jonathan,

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you are a fat dude in a chair right now.

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You got to say, like it is Marge anyway. Calculator

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one six and forty four out of the one thousand matches,

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or sixty four point four percent of the time, compared

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to Micro, who only won thirty five point six percent. Wow,

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that's even incorporating microchips, arsenal and everything. So that was

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kind of a mismatch. I guess you went some, you

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lose some, You learned some, and I learned the DC's

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over parod as usual. Anyway, let's even learn that after

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ten years of duels. Come on, Yes, that was my

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main takeaway. Yes. With that out of the way, before

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we get into the review, let's give a quick breakdown

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of the comic book histories of the characters that appear

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in Supergirl in a segment called Who's Who. So In

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the last review that I did for Supergirl, the eighties version,

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I already went over Supergirl. Let's go over it again.

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Here's Supergirl's comic book history. She's Carralzrel when she was

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born in Argo City, which is a surviving fragment of

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Krypton that drifted through space after the planet's destruction. Raised

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by her parents, Zarel and Alura, Car lived a happy

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childhood until a meteor shower pierced Argo's protective led shielding,

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exposing the citizens to deadly radiation. To save their daughter,

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Kara's parents sent her to Earth, where she was meant

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to be raised by her cousin Superman. Upon arriving, Kara

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displayed the same powers as Kalel under Earth's yellow sun.

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Like Superman, she has super strength, speed and durability, enhanced senses, heat, vision, freeze, breath,

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and of course flight. She also shares her cousin's loss

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of power under a red sun, as well as his

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vulnerability to kryptonite and green sun radiation. So green sun

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radiation is a thing. It is in the Supergirled Woman

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of Tomorrow source material. Okay, okay, I'll accept it then.

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Also appearing in this film is Ruthie nary Knowl. Ruthie

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is a headstrong and honorable young girl from a rock

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farm on an unnamed planet under a red Sun. After

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a Krem of the Yellow Hills kills her father, she

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enlists Supergirl's help in traveling across the galaxy to get

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her revenge. She doesn't have any powers, but she does

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carry a coppice sword that formerly belonged to Krem. It

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was the one that was used to kill her father.

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So in the comic books, it was KREM's sword that

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she used. Yeah. Actually, in the comics, Ruthie's father was

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not a swordsmith, he was just a rock farmer. Interesting.

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Speaking of Krem of the Yellow Hills, he is a

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king's agent from the same Red Sun world as Ruthie.

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After killing her father, kram fled in Kara's spaceship and

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traveled the cosmos, infecting innocent planets with his selfish and

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cruel ways before joining a band of space pirates known

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as the Brigands. Now he's a skilled archer and swordsman,

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as well as an accomplished hunter who uses potent custom

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poison in his travels. He also acquired knowledge of necromancy,

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which he uses to produce more drew globes capable of

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teleporting someone across the galaxy, though he needs to kill

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a thousand souls to produce one. Finally, we're going to

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touch on Lobo, who we pit in a duel against

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Carnage a while back, right, and we pit Supergirl against

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Captain Marvel. Now. Lobo is an alien bounty hunter from

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the planet Zarnia, and he's responsible for killing every last

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member of his race for fun. Essentially, he's a mercenary

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and bounty hunter who clashes with heroes and villains alike

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as he searches for his targets across space. He's insanely shrunk,

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and he has a healing factor that can resurrect him

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from a single drop of blood. He also carries with

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him a vast arsenal of blades, guns, and explosives, though

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his signature weapon is a hook and a chain and

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he's rarely seen without his space hog capable of interstellar travel.

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Fun character, he's kind of like the Deadpool of DC

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in a way. Eh yeah, but like not as good

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version because it's DC. Deadpool wishes he was half as

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cool as Lobo. I'm just saying Lobo is the main man.

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I would say we put him in a duel, but

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of course DC would be overpowered, so I'm not even

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gonna bother That's right. But now let's go ahead and

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move on to our remain event, in which we review

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the latest DC Studios film to hit the screens, Supergirl. Okay.

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Supergirl stars Millie Alcock, E Ridley and Matthias show Narts.

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I think is how you pronounce it. It's directed by

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Craig Gillespie, who also directed Corolla and Itania. The film

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revolves around the murderous briggand Cram of the Yellow Hills,

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who poisons Kara's dog Crypto, so Supergirl reluctantly joins forces

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with a young, orphaned girl named Ruthie on an interstellar

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journey of vengeance and justice. The film is based on

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a twenty twenty one comic mini series, Supergirl Woman of Tomorrow,

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written by Tom King and beautifully illustrated by Bill key Evely.

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It's an incredible book, like easily one of DC's top

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ten graphic novels of all time, and I say that

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as someone who's never really been a big Supergirl fan.

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The book is this epic space odyssey about morality and

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justice where characters speak with this poetic elegance. If you

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haven't read it, I highly recommend it. So a Supergirl,

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Woman of Tomorrow a mini series or was this just

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an arc from a longer series? Oh no, it was

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a mini series. It's good, and I was really excited

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when I heard that they were turning it into a movie,

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and even more excited when I heard how much the

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studio execs loved the screenplay. James Gunn has made a

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big deal about his DC universe only making films when

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the script is complete, as opposed to the MCU method,

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where they have this overarching, interconnected story idea and we'll

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finish the script while shooting. But for all the boasting

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about how good the Supergirl script was, I was expecting more,

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at least something much closer to the masterpiece that is

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the graphic novel. I would agree the story itself didn't

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seem like anything special, or at least didn't seem like

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anything that we haven't already seen before, which is weird

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because the book is actually pretty unique. The movie definitely

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was nowhere near as good as it should have been

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or I thought it would be, and I felt kind

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of disappointed in the film early on. I would say,

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because it starts off kind of rough, but you know,

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by the time we learned about Car's backstory in Argo City,

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as Kara connects with Ruthie's grief over losing her family,

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that's when we really get into the thematic heart of

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the film, and that's where the film shines, or would

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I would say if it weren't for the ending, which

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I'm not going to say what happens, but it does

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undercut the entire moral lesson of the film and the book.

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They essentially man of Steeled Kara. Yeah, I think the

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variety of review had mentioned that for as much as

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Superman wants to claim that he's punk rock, Supergirl is

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actually punk rock. I would say she's definitely more befitting

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of that punk rock descriptor because she's a reverent and

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you could say that about the entire film, like it's

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a reverend of the character's comic history, of the source material.

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Of the fans, I would say, perhaps in an attempt

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to garner new fans for the character, though I guess

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time will tell if they'll be successful at that. I

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took my daughters to see the movie and they liked it,

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though I honestly really hope they don't look to this

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version as any kind of role model. Like once we

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got home from the screening, immediately I was like, go

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clean your room right now. For some reason, the filmmakers

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really went out of their way to deglamorize Supergirl, like

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she's living in squalor just getting sloshed every night, letting

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Crypto piss all over and lick it everything. It's like,

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for lack of a better word, pretty trashy, and well,

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I get it's in service to depicting Kara as depressed.

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The comics have always treated the character with a lot

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more respect, like letting the subtext of her trauma unfold

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naturally in the story rather than showing her pissing with

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the door open in front of company. Yeah, I wanted

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to give her some dry shampoo or something. The entire

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movie kind of felt like an extended version of the

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Star Wars canteena scene, which was something that I told

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you after we saw the film, and then I saw

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that repeated in the Variety article, so it was nice

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to have that validation. But it's dirty, grimy. We go

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from a grungy bar scene to a grungy bus scene,

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to a grungy gas station scene to a grungy bar scene.

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The entire film is borderline gross, but I will say

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that the creature designed was something to behold. And I

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think that's one of the standout aspects of the film,

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is that, like when you first see Star Wars, you're

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just kind of like in awe of the imagination it

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took to produce these weird alien features. I think Supergirl

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kind of brought that magic back in how it was

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able to depict these strange new worlds. Possibly, I feel

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like it just kind of did what Guardians of the

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Galaxy did with aliens. Again, not surprising because gun is

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largely responsible for both films. Now, you mentioned this Variety

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article a few times. I've heard that their review is

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pretty scathing. I haven't read it because I didn't want

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to be influenced by it. Huh, but is it bad? Yeah,

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they didn't like the film. I actually liked it more

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than I think they did, because I'm not fucking cynical.

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to superhero films looking to see spectacle, which I got,

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looking to have a good time, which I kind of had. Yeah,

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you and I both went to go see this together

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for the first time, and when we were walking out,

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film for me is the action. Seeing Supergirl just cut

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loose and take out large groups of bad guys. That

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was a lot of fun. It was like she was

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playing good video game on god mode. Yeah, the film

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editing was fantastic in the way depicted the action, even

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improving on some shots that I saw on the trailers.

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in that it was a repeat scenario of finding some

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way to deepower Supergirl and then finding a way to

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power her and then having her overcome. That's a completely

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valid criticism because yes, it happens like three or four

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times in the movie. You know. That actually reminds me

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of a few plot holes I noticed in this film,

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such as if the Sun pretty much completely heals a Kryptonian,

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why didn't Supergirl just carry Crypto to a yellow son

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instead of leaving him on a red sun planet. That's

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a good question. It also begs the question like, anytime

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Superman gets hurt, why isn't he just flying to the Sun. Well,

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he kind of does, against Doomsday. Oh he's too busy

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getting punched by Doomsday to fly into the sun. That's right,

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that's right. I also didn't think this special effects in

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this movie were terrible. I like the action. I liked

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most of the special effects. Crypto was kind of fake,

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but you know that's in keeping with the Superman movie.

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You know what else was kind of fake Lobo's abs.

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I didn't notice it until the second time I watched

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the movie, after you told me how fake they looked.

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And you're right, they look hell of fake. Jason Momoa

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definitely wore rubber abs. It looks like a full on

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Spirit Halloween costume. I don't want to bad talk Lobo

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too much because I actually really liked Lobo in this movie.

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Jason Momoa, like, he doesn't do much in the film.

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kind of a glorified cameo. That said, Jason Momoa was

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born to play Lobo. I loved the look, I loved

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his voice, I loved the dialogue he had. I just

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wish he had more to do in the film. Yeah,

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if the best thing that comes out of this movie

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is a Lobo spinoff, then I will be grateful for

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this movie, because I think that'd be a lot of fun.

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I was afraid I was gonna just see Aquaman when

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he was on screen, but that totally wasn't the case.

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Loved his performance. Also, surprise, I really liked Millie Alcock's

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performance as Kara Supergirl. That was surprising to you. Yeah,

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I'd never seen her in anything. I didn't watch the

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Game of Throne show that she was in, so I

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didn't really know what to expect, and that's why it

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was surprising to me. I mean, she's nothing like the

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character of Supergirl from the comics, but she carried the film.

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I would say she embodied the character in a way

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that felt effortless. I would say, yeah, I'll admit I

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was ready to write Millie Alcock off as not having

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enough screen presence to lead a film like this, and

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I was gladly proven wrong by her performance. I think

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she was actually the best thing about this movie. The

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performances by the leads were really good, Yeah, including Eve Ridley,

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who plays Ruthie. She did a really good job as

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a foil character wise playing against Millie Alcock Supergirl, Ruthie

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was this refreshing blend of like noble yet fragile, kunning

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Gia innocent. The whole film really is a fight for

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Ruthie's soul. Thematically. The one actor who didn't do great,

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I would say, is Krem. He wasn't bad but great.

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to their villain, and in that sense, Krem did no

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favors for a supergirl. He was pretty generic, and I

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didn't like the look. It's really different from the look

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he had in the comics. And I wish the look

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of the Brigands was less space bikery, because I could

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see how some people could be confused that Lobo was

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not a brigand or was. Yeah, I can see that

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as well. Lobo kind of looks like how the Brigands

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were depicted. I think what added a large part to

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the genericness of Krem was that it was probably hard

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to act through all of that makeup and piercings and

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all that stuff. I was glad to see that the

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piercings formed some function. They weren't there just to make

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him look more alien. They turned his head into like

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a mace. Essentially, it hurts to punch him. It hurts

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to head butt him in the face if you're attacking that.

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So that was clever I thought. But yeah, overall, it's

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hard to find many good things to say about the character.

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He's super super forgettable. Honestly, my favorite performance of the

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entire film, though, came from David korn Sweat as Superman.

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I loved seeing him as Superman again. Though I will

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say one thing about the DCU is that Superman is

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not treated with the respect he deserves, like Superhero calling

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him a freaking nerd. How dare you, young lady? He

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is a freaking nerd. That's how they chose to present him.

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I think they're at least doing it endearing. Liso. No, Joseph,

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he's the real punk rock. No he's not. He's not

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punk rock. Jonathan, He's the real punk rock. I beat

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the shit out if you say that again. Final thing

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I want to touch on is the music. Now. Music wise,

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the score, like Krem is forgettable. In fact, I literally

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can't remember it at all, though I do remember some

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very distracting jazz numbers that have no business being sung

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in alien b and bizarre renditions of modern rock songs

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that unfortunately take you out of the movie. In certain places.

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Are you talking about Jimmy Eat World? I am yeah.

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I didn't like that and I like that song. I

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know they kind of ruined it for me, Yeah, kind

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of yeah. I feel like we have been harping on

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this film this entire review, because it's just easy to do.

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That said, I do want to emphasize that I liked

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this movie, like the action is great again Millie Alcock,

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can Evewardley carry the emotional core well? And I love

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seeing Lobo on the big screen. But as an adaptation

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of the book Supergirl, Woman of Tomorrow, and more importantly,

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as a story about grief, essentially, the ending undercuts the

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lesson Kara is supposed to embody. The graphic novel understands

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that Supergirl's strength is not just that she can defeat evil,

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but that she can show someone else a better way.

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The film comes close to understanding that, but then compromises

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it in a way I found super frustrating when I

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was walking out of the theater. But overall, it's a fun,

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rough edged cosmic adventure with superb action and a strong

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emotional core exploring themes of grief, vengeance, and innocence. I'm

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giving it three and a half out of five stars,

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still a fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. I think overall

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a good quality comp for the Supergirl movie was Captain Marvel,

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and that's what we rated the first Captain Marvel film

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three and a half stars, so I would agree with that.

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Here's the big question, though, which Supergirl did you like more?

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Millie Alcox or Sasha Kaya from the Flash movie? Oh? Well,

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I mean Milli Alcock's Supergirl just had more character, so

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I think I definitely prefer her. Was that the wrong answer?

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Why are you looking at me like that? I'm not

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looking at you any what way. I'm tired you were

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looking at me like I gave the wrong answer, Like

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what a fool? Sasha Kaya is so much hotter than

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Milli Alcock. I'm sorry. The correct answer was they both

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suck because they're DC. I think we're gonna see Supergirl

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again though in the upcoming Man of Tomorrow film. Yeah

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we will, And actually Jam's Gunn and Peter Saffern have

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said we'll see her again even after that, which is good.

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It'll be nice to see her character growth as she

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continues appearing in these films. Yeah, I agree. So we

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went through our non spoiler review. But, Jonathan, are there

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any spoilers you can give us from the Supergirl movie?

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Even out of context ones? In Supergirl you'll see Supergirl

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and Ruthie eat shit. Well, that's not even out of

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context because there was no context for it. In Supergirl,

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you'll also see Supergirl barf op titty milk. And finally,

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in Supergirl, you'll see Seth Rogen to make a cameo

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in which he talks about his balls. That was Seth Rogen.

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It was. It didn't even sound like him, totallyast it did. Yeah, fascinating.

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Well that does it for our review of Supergirl. AJ

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nine K close us out.

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All right, our next episode of the podcast is going

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to be our review of Spider Noar Season one, which

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is out in its entirety right now on Amazon. I

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have not started watching it yet, so I got to

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make sure to do that over these next coming weeks.

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Same it looks good. I ever heard anything about it.

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I've been trying to avoid all spoilers, but I'm looking

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forward to it. Same with Spider Man Brand New Day,

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because that trailer was off the hook, and all the

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marketing for the Spider Man movie has been top notch,

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And the most surprising thing is that I'm like compelled

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to see it because of the personal story. I don't

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even know really who the villain's gonna be yet, I

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can't really make heads or tails of it, so it'll

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be an interesting mystery going in. But the movie comes

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out in just about a month, on July thirty first, right,

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We'll be reviewing that film in August, so stay tuned.

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It's gonna be a fun couple of months until then. Guys,

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up up and away, true believers

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Hey, ladies, Unlike Lobo, I don't have fake abs, but

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I do have real ibbs, as in I B S.