So what are your thoughts on the Supergirl movie? Heard some criticism regarding music used in one scene, as well as it not being very faithful of an adaptation of the Woman of Tomorrow comic.
I haven't read the Woman of Tomorrow comic, so I can't comment on how faithful of an adaptation the movie is. (I actually haven't read any American superhero comics . . . ever, I think. I keep meaning to get around to reading ones like Batgirl or Supergirl or Wonder Woman and then I just never get around to it.) I'm also a lot less concerned with "faithful" adaptations nowadays than I used to be when I was a little baby nerd. Things have to be changed to adapt book (even comic book) to screen, or game to screen, or whatever. It's less about making everything 1:1 and more about keeping the themes accurate between both adaptations. And sometimes adaptations can be even better than the source material. (See: Project Hail Mary.)
I liked Supergirl quite a bit. I'm not going to it was THE MOST AMAZING MOVIE EVERRR, because, well, it's a superhero movie, lol. In my opinion, you don't go to superhero movies to see high art. You go to superhero movies to have fun, and maybe feel things if the movies do their job. And I think that Supergirl did its job on both counts.
Of course, I'm biased because I a.) love women, and b.) have a rowdy dog that I love very, very much and absolutely would go on a quest to find antidote if anything ever happened to her. Kara's bond with Krypto is something that I could empathize with very strongly, having been there in the past. So I already had a leg up when it came to enjoying this movie.
But I also just love to see female-forward stories, especially superhero female-forward stories, so I also had a good time on that front. I loved that the movie focused on Kara, Ruthye, and their journey. I do think that Lobo didn't really need to be there. He was funny, and you can tell that Jason Mamoa had a blast playing him, but he didn't really contribute very much and I think his scenes could have been better spent developing the relationship between Kara and Ruthye a bit more.
As for the music in one scene, I guarantee that the complaints are about the use of "The Middle" (or rather a cover of "The Middle") during the climactic final battle. And honestly, I agree with those complaints. The cover was way too mellow to work as fight music, and on top of which . . . while it could work as like, a message to Ruthye (who was focused on a lot while the song was playing), it really just doesn't work for Kara, or for the battle going on. And even with Ruthye, to be honest; her problem isn't that she's not worried about fitting in, her problem is that she watched her family get slaughtered right in front of her and doesn't know what to do with her feelings of anger and grief. "The Middle" doesn't work for that.
I think what happened here is the director / producer / whoever knew and liked this song, and thought, "Hey, this is a song being sung to a girl, let's put it in our girl superhero movie!" It's the same thing that happened with the inclusion of "Just a Girl" in Captain Marvel. "It's a girl song so put it in the girl movie." Great! So glad no further thought went into the inclusion of these songs. Love it. (Can you detect my sarcasm? I hope you can.)
So yeah, I didn't like the use of that song either, but it's not enough to ruin the movie for me. It's more just to make me roll my eyes and wish they'd chosen a different song. Hell, bring back "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted" from the trailer; that song didn't get used at all in the movie that I noticed, and it sucks because it's a banger that fits so much better thematically.
But all in all, I liked it. I think it's much more of a personal story than last year's Superman was, but that's okay; not all stories need to work on a macro level, you know? It's okay to have things on a more micro level. And I loved Milly Alcock's performance as Kara. Again, I haven't read any comics so I don't know how similar she is to her comic counterpart, but I do know that I love this version of her.
And Krypto just is my dog. Period. The only differences are the superpowers, the all-white fur (my dog is tri-colored), and he can only lift one ear. But otherwise? He's my dog. The behavior is a 1:1.
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