It having finally dropped below the surface temperature of the sun I ventured to the park with the dog, where we met a really cute blue staffy and I ask the owner the dog's name, as is my wont.
Looking really rather embarrassed the owner says that the dog's called Elektra.
Cool name, says I, suits her.
She is then quick to add that she didn't name the dog, she had no idea that Elektra was some kind of hit-woman from the Marvel comics, she really should have changed it, but Elektra was named by an autistic six year old and she didn't have the heart to change it.
I'm like...sure, I am also an adult with a job who definitely did not have that information immediately to hand.
So later I'm telling a couple of my mates this story because I think it's funny and self-deprecating and whatnot, and immediately after I start listing all the dogs I know with comic book names (Loki x2, Rogue x2, Bane x1)
And then I realise that no one else has been able to get a word in edgeways because I have segued directly from a detailed issue by issue recap of one of my favourite comic books to just listing cool dogs I've met. Apparently despite being forty-three years old and just having had to buy my first pair of orthopedic trainers for the arch support I have the special interests of a six year old!
In my defence, the comic thing was not entirely irrelevant, I was talking about Woman of Tomorrow because I'd just seen Supergirl.
Supergirl - This was like if James Gunn's Superman, The Fifth Element, a bunch of abandoned Star Wars concept art, and Mad Max: Fury Road had a baby together, and that baby was played by Milly Alcock.
I understand that the internet's least normal men are mad about this, because they have noticed that Alcock is a woman, and they have forgotten what joy feels like, but fuck 'em, this was a hoot!
Milly Alcock is a great Kara, Krypto is fab. I was a bit worried about Lobo, because Lobo is a dogshit character, and Momoa can be a bit much, so I was worried he would overwhelm the movie, but all the Lobo stuff in the trailers? That's kind of it. The movie would actually play out the same if he wasn't in it, but what's here is fine, it's for flavour. Most of the fight scenes are great, I feel like the stunt team had a lot of fun with Kara's varying power level depending on what colour sun she was under. The last big fight, where she's fully powered up, suffers a little bit in comparison, whether because the movie is struggling with how to film to Kara's Kryptonian 'press triangle to win' powers in an interesting way, or because WB had been beating the visual effects team for ten months and morale had not improved.
I loved seeing Corenswet's Superman again, and I though the movie differentiated Kara and Clarke in an interesting way (kindness first/(reluctant)goodness first). It's all a bit frantic and it doesn't always come together. The brides, in particular, felt like a holdover from an earlier version of the script. Like, if you're going to include kidnapped child brides in your movie, that kind of has to be the thrust of the movie, yes? Not your main character's distant third motivating factor. Like, Fury Road* is a movie that already exists, you're not going to do that storyline better.
But, honestly, I think if you liked Birds of Prey you'll get a kick out of this.
*I rewatched Fury Road recently, and Goddamn, that's a movie. I always thought the reason I didn't much care for Furiosa is that I thought that Anya Taylor Joy was miscast, but on a rewatch, no, it's because, like, The Green Place, The Bullet Farmer, Guzzoline Town, The Vuvalini, those names are the perfect amount of information, tell me exactly nothing more about any of those concepts, you'll ruin it...oh no, you've ruined it.
The Sheep Detectives - I love the sheep detectives! They are my friends!
Weapons - I was a brave little toaster. Brave. Little. Toaster.
One Battle After Another - About half an hour too long.
Pretty Lethal - You are a troupe of American ballerinas. You are lost in the Generic Eastern European Countryside. You stumble across a sinister ballet themed inn. Run by ballet themed mobsters. Uma Thurman is there, doing an accent best described as 'A Dracula.' It is the best type of batshit.
Apex - Taron Egerton and Charlize Theron play The Most Dangerous Game in the Australian outback while narrating everything their characters do out loud, multiple times, because Netflix assumes that you are on your phone while watching this, which you should be, texting every ridiculous plot turn of the movie Apex to whichever one of your friends you most feel like bothering.
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