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Originally posted by Tommy C:
Re: Supergirl. When she showed up in the final scene of the SUPERMAN movie last summer, drunk and cursing, that may have shocked alot of people.

Is that supposed to be "cool" ? More like a turnoff for me and my kids !

I haven't seen the last Superman, so until you posted this I had no idea she was even in it. If that's her film introduction, yuck. Who the heck wants to watch two hours of that?

I think one of the problems with Supergirl is that Milly Alcock is not especially pretty. She looks kinda like Bjork. Compare to Gal Gadot, Scarlett Johansson, Elizabeth Olson. People still want to see glamour and beauty when they go to the movies.

Yes, she shows up in the final scene at the Fortress of Solitude to pick up her dog, Krypto. She is staggering, obviously inebriated, and she uses the "B" word, which I thought was unnecessary. There was actually a good deal of cursing in the SUPERMAN film. The S word, A-hole, the D word (anatomy). Not sure how that added to the movie. Not kid friendly, in my opinion. Don't recall any of that in the prior Superman films.

Apparently the Supergirl film uses the S, B, and A words throughout. How does that attract an audience ?

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Originally posted by Ted Dastick Jr.:

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Originally posted by Tommy C:
Re: Supergirl. When she showed up in the final scene of the SUPERMAN movie last summer, drunk and cursing, that may have shocked alot of people.

Is that supposed to be "cool" ? More like a turnoff for me and my kids !

I haven't seen the last Superman, so until you posted this I had no idea she was even in it. If that's her film introduction, yuck. Who the heck wants to watch two hours of that?

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Originally posted by Bill Mullins:
I think one of the problems with Supergirl is that Milly Alcock is not especially pretty. She looks kinda like Bjork. Compare to Gal Gadot, Scarlett Johansson, Elizabeth Olson. People still want to see glamour and beauty when they go to the movies.

From what I have seen of her work in the past, she may be a good enough actress to survive this failure. I think there was an effort to tone down her looks for "Supergirl", and certainly the attitude she was supposed to project in the role was neither glamorous or beautiful.

In fact I recently read that Alcock was required to, shall we say, tie down her assets to be more Supergirl like. A wardrobe choice that she found uncomfortable and may have led even more to that pained expression always on her face.

To me, the studio mucked this one up more so than even Morphius or Captain Marvel or Madame Webb or The Flash, or any other comic book oriented film bomb that you can think of because it had the most potential to be a good movie. When the first installment disappoints it's pretty hard to pitch the trilogy. So does Supergirl do cameo appearances with her dog for the rest of the DC universe franchise? Maybe the real problem is James Gunn's vision.

Mortal Kombat, Supergirl, Masters of the Universe, Disclosure Day. I can't recall a summer with so many misfires (financially speaking, not necessarily in terms of reviews)

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Originally posted by Tommy C:
Yes, she shows up in the final scene at the Fortress of Solitude to pick up her dog, Krypto. She is staggering, obviously inebriated, and she uses the "B" word, which I thought was unnecessary. There was actually a good deal of cursing in the SUPERMAN film. The S word, A-hole, the D word (anatomy). Not sure how that added to the movie. Not kid friendly, in my opinion. Don't recall any of that in the prior Superman films.

Apparently the Supergirl film uses the S, B, and A words throughout. How does that attract an audience ?

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Originally posted by Ted Dastick Jr.:

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Originally posted by Tommy C:
Re: Supergirl. When she showed up in the final scene of the SUPERMAN movie last summer, drunk and cursing, that may have shocked alot of people.

Is that supposed to be "cool" ? More like a turnoff for me and my kids !

I haven't seen the last Superman, so until you posted this I had no idea she was even in it. If that's her film introduction, yuck. Who the heck wants to watch two hours of that?

The comic book series the movie adapted is 14+ although the curse words in it were given the "$#!&!"-type treatment. I was immediately concerned that they chose to adapt that particular series, but not because it was kid friendly story, which it isn't. It's for teenagers, at the youngest. Supergirl's state of mind at the end of the Superman movie and for the vast majority of this one is driven is her overwhelming sadness and anger at the loss of her family and planet, which happened when she was a teenager, so she didn't have the same experience as Superman did with that tragedy, as he was an infant at the time, meaning he has no memory of it.

Basically, she travels to worlds with red suns which damper her powers enough that she can self-medicate in a way she couldn't on Earth with its yellow sun which is the source of her and Superman's power.

It's essentially the greatest Supergirl tale ever written, certainly the best of the past 15 years or so, but it was a an epic tale, and too much so for a 2 hour movie, as it turned out, as it's missing so much of what made it so special.

Milly was a good Supergirl, but the actor playing her traveling partner, Ruthye, was too young. She is the narrator of the comic series which unfolds over the course of months, if not years, unlike the movie adaptation, the whole of which transpires over 3 days. Unfortunately, Ruthye's dialogue (and narration) was dumbed down quite a bit from the comic to the movie. There was also no reason for either Superman or Lobo to appear in this film, but I can understand why they did.

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Originally posted by Bill Mullins:
I think one of the problems with Supergirl is that Milly Alcock is not especially pretty. She looks kinda like Bjork. Compare to Gal Gadot, Scarlett Johansson, Elizabeth Olson. People still want to see glamour and beauty when they go to the movies.

Adam "AH!" Hughes and Stanley "Artgerm" Lau both have comic book covers with VERY popular versions of Supergirl and the movie did not choose to go that way. Here are some classic covers.

Hughes:



Artgerm:



Artgerm was just commissioned to do a special variant cover with Milly as Supergirl and this is what resulted:



At the end of the day, the movie was good, but there's not enough to it. It could've been great, but a TV series running at least 4 hours (or more) would've been necessary to tell the story as written, and no, that story isn't for little kids.

Seems like the only really successful films this summer will be the ones geared towards kids (Spider-Man, Toy Story, Minions) and the 2 horror films from back in May (Obsession and Backrooms)