Spoilers Superman (2025) Grade and Discussion

[Kai "the spy"]

Why would she be the one from the TV show? Superman clearly isn't.

Some people just don't pay much attention. Kevin Smith told the anecdote of how he went to see the movie with his wife, and afterwards she said something along the line of #finally Henry Cavill got it right'. She hadn't realized that this actually was a different Superman to the Cavill version.

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

Why would she be the one from the TV show? Superman clearly isn't.

Well I meant same universe but yeah that probably wouldn't work either

 

[Nerys Myk]

Well I meant same universe but yeah that probably wouldn't work either

It being a very different take on the character should be your first clue.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Honestly, more to the point is that they can't keep describing Lois as a world class, award-winning investigative reporter who can't gauge risks, press interview subjects, spell or take a helicopter ride without falling out a door.

Amy Adams was the one bright light in all the Snyderman movies.

I like the terrible spelling.

Quite frankly that could be played with after 20 years IRL of spell checking by MS word and all our browsers. Younger people all know when a squiggly little red line is coming, but there's no possible way to avoid it, since we never bother reading the fixed spelling after two clicks brought the correct order of letters into being.

Yes Liquid paper was a revelation, but it's hardly the same thing.

If Mike was the heir to the liquid paper billions, then why did he have to become a Monkee to make ends meet?

(Google says that Mike Nesmith inherited 25 million in 1980.)

 

[Set Harth]

Kevin Smith told the anecdote of how he went to see the movie with his wife, and afterwards she said something along the line of #finally Henry Cavill got it right'.

She was probably doing a non sequitur about Warhammer miniatures.

If Mike was the heir to the liquid paper billions, then why did he have to become a Monkee to make ends meet?

I guess the Monkee business was just for fun?

Honestly, more to the point is that they can't keep describing Lois as a world class, award-winning investigative reporter who can't gauge risks, press interview subjects, spell or take a helicopter ride without falling out a door.

Any notion that it's implausible for a reporter to not know how to spell can be easily refuted by simply reading a newspaper.

 

[The Realist]

I like the terrible spelling.

I do think that’s a cute quirk, and not necessarily incompatible with being an ace reporter.

Granted, most reporters are probably good spellers, if only by dint of years of professional experience. But as a comedic character touch, it’s fine.

 

[Christopher]

Granted, most reporters are probably good spellers, if only by dint of years of professional experience. But as a comedic character touch, it’s fine.

Reporters don't need to be good spellers, because that's what copyeditors are for -- to handle things like spelling and grammar so the reporters can focus on the important stuff.

 

[The Realist]

Reporters don't need to be good spellers, because that's what copyeditors are for -- to handle things like spelling and grammar so the reporters can focus on the important stuff.

Which was my point about professional experience. After your copy editor corrects your spelling of “X” a few times, you probably learn how to spell “X,” even if you’re not a strong speller by nature.

I also do tend to think that most people who care about words and language — including writers of any stripe — would also be good spellers and grammarians, since those are the building blocks of verbal and written communication. But again, as a character quirk for Lois, I’ve always found it amusing.

 

[Christopher]

Which was my point about professional experience. After your copy editor corrects your spelling of “X” a few times, you probably learn how to spell “X,” even if you’re not a strong speller by nature.

Or, you continue to misspell it because you know you don't need to learn it, since it's the copyeditor's job, not yours. Some people notice spellings more than others. For me, it's reflexive, but I know others struggle with it more. (My best friend in college wasn't a very good speller, and in my experience, the only times she was convinced she'd misspelled a word were the times she got it right.)

I also do tend to think that most people who care about words and language — including writers of any stripe — would also be good spellers and grammarians, since those are the building blocks of verbal and written communication.

Not always; I'm pretty sure I've heard of writers who were perennially bad spellers. Again, it comes more easily to some people than others. Different brains work different ways.

 

[Turtletrekker]

I'm a good speller, but a terrible typist.

Thank god for spell check.

 

[Christopher]

I'm a good speller, but a terrible typist.

Thank god for spell check.

I rarely need spell check, but I'd be hopeless without the backspace key.

(I was a 2nd-place spelling bee semifinalist in 6th grade, and I still have the trophy. I still feel I could've won if the presenter hadn't overpronounced "ultimo" so that I thought she was saying "altimo.")

 

[Guy Gardener]

Which was my point about professional experience. After your copy editor corrects your spelling of “X” a few times, you probably learn how to spell “X,” even if you’re not a strong speller by nature.

I also do tend to think that most people who care about words and language — including writers of any stripe — would also be good spellers and grammarians, since those are the building blocks of verbal and written communication. But again, as a character quirk for Lois, I’ve always found it amusing.

As a terrible speller, let me explain how it works.

Older memories from when our brains worked better are the most vivid and far harder to lose.

New memories that our smarter, yet spent, tired and rotting brains create have a laughable half life.

It's far easier to remember how to spell a word wrong from when you were 11 years old, then to remember any of the 25 times after that where you fiddled through an actual dictionary to see how every other bastard in the world collectively agreed that you were completely and entirely wrong, about one more thing that you hold sacred.

I'm also a shitty typist.

 

[JD]

Well I meant same universe but yeah that probably wouldn't work either

This is a brand new universe, so these are all new versions of everything in the movie.

 

[Anwar]

Honestly, more to the point is that they can't keep describing Lois as a world class, award-winning investigative reporter who can't gauge risks, press interview subjects, spell or take a helicopter ride without falling out a door.

Amy Adams was the one bright light in all the Snyderman movies.

Just be happy she isn't the chain smoking scatterbrained nutbag that the Margot Kidder Lois was.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Just be happy she isn't the chain smoking scatterbrained nutbag that the Margot Kidder Lois was.

Considering the era, we're lucky that Superman wasn't chain smoking too.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Considering the era, we're lucky that Superman wasn't chain smoking too.

Late Seventies. The word was getting out.

 

[Set Harth]

It's far easier to remember how to spell a word wrong from when you were 11 years old, then to remember any of the 25 times after that where you fiddled through an actual dictionary to see how every other bastard in the world collectively agreed that you were completely and entirely wrong, about one more thing that you hold sacred.

What drives me nuts is when one guy in a thread insists on spelling a word wrong while you can see the correct spelling in every other person's posts in the same thread. Just look up...

 

[Guy Gardener]

What drives me nuts is when one guy in a thread insists on spelling a word wrong while you can see the correct spelling in every other person's posts in the same thread. Just look up...

It took me 15 years to figure out that I spelt my own name wrong.

 

[the G-man]

If Mike was the heir to the liquid paper billions, then why did he have to become a Monkee to make ends meet?

(Google says that Mike Nesmith inherited 25 million in 1980.)

Nesmith was 24 years old when the Monkees first aired. Before that, he spent about four years trying to make it as a professional musician. Unless you're implying that his mother should have bought him a career, or that he should have gone into liquid paper business, he had to do something to make it as a professional musician.

(Nesmith is a fascinating character, btw. Arguably invented both country-rock and MTV, produced Repo Man and ended up suing PBS--and winning $48m--for breach of contract/rights issues)

 

[Dee1891]

James Gunn needs another writer to create screenplays with. He's not that much of a screenwriter when he's on his own.