re: superman 2025

quoting @capn_cooks: 'comics like 'all star superman' and 'superman: for all seasons' were constantly cited as huge inspirations for this movie but i never got that impression both visually and narratively'

that was one of the things that bothered me the more i thought about the movie and how it was pitched/promoted to be honest. i love All-Star and For All Seasons (because who doesn't), and neither of them really felt like actual inspirations outside of "these are the books that people recognize are really good so we're going to namedrop them in the promos".

All-Star in particular feels really misused as an "inspiration". i'd say the thematic core of that book is wrestling with one's own mortality, and trying to be at peace with yourself and your place in the world before you die, and that's just... entirely not what the movie is remotely about. i guess i could kind of see the inspiration in how "episodic" it is? but even then, that's just any multi-issue arc collected into one story.