re: 'Superman' Megathread: Spoilers Allowed! DC News. Releases on Digital on August 15.

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I just walked out of James Gunn’s Superman and I don’t even know who I am anymore. The CGI action sequences are so flawless, so mathematically divine, that I swear at one point the atoms in my popcorn stopped vibrating just to watch.

There’s a scene where Superman punches a black hole *into another black hole*, and the audience audibly gasped as the laws of physics packed up their bags and left the theater. People were sobbing. People were *floating*.

At one point, the CGI was so perfect that I started doubting reality itself. A bird flew past the screen and I reached out to grab it. I couldn’t tell if I was alive, dead, or inside Unreal Engine 6.

The dust particles… had *dust particles*.
The heat vision melted not just steel beams but also my childhood trauma.
When Superman flew through Saturn’s rings, NASA issued an official statement apologizing for getting it wrong all these years.

There was a 12-minute fight sequence that was so beautiful, the man next to me proposed to his girlfriend mid-punch. She said yes and the entire crowd erupted into applause — but no one could tell if it was real or just part of the movie anymore.

James Gunn has created something that isn’t just a movie. It’s a religious experience. The CGI is so good it accidentally cured my astigmatism. I walked in human, I walked out Kryptonian.

If you think you’ve seen good action before… you haven’t. This isn’t just cinema.
It’s cinema, quantum-entangled with God’s own Photoshop.

Thank you, James Gunn.
We were not ready.

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