James Gun's Superman made me like the character (again)

I mean, I wasn't a huge Superman fan. My favorite DC hero has always been the Flash. But I've watched all the Superman movies, starting from the earliest ones. I was never a fan of this character because I thought he had too much of a "boy scout" personality—having to help everyone and everything with a smile on his face. Then the Snyder Cut came along and... well, that movie is cool, but it's heartless, and so much destruction was annoying, and watching the new Superman (2025) I realized how empty Snyder's Superman was.

A little more context outside of this: I started watching tokusatsu a while ago. And well, at base, they're also costume heroes, and I was having a lot of fun with that, even though it often seemed silly, although in the end it has some depth and reflection.

I saw this a bit in the early MCU stories. Although now the movies are more lost in plot and kind of soulless too.

 But whatever cinematic universe it is, I missed this one... Well, they're heroes in costumes, what do you expect from all that? The comics are colorful, they're fun, and yet they still tell something profound in the end.

James Gun made me revisit that feeling I used to love so much about the comics, and the '79 Superman movie.

Of course, there are different types of heroes; I'm not saying Batman should be so colorful. But you also don't need to distort a world so much and bring it into our reality; that doesn't fit in fiction. You can only accept the madness of that universe, within the limits that universe has shown you as rules.

And that's why I've come to like this character again, because that's where the foundation of a hero story lies. Stories that are fun to watch.