Yi Hui Tan

David returned the character to its core, and while I liked Henry Cavill's Superman, a different time calls for a different character. I have noticed that a lot of laymen or laywomen to be pedantic.. eg. wives and girlfriends who accompany their other halves to this show, seem to be more entertained by James Gunn's version. Just by appealing to the mass market I think they've succeeded from an investment viewpoint. If we want to get into the pantheon nitty gritties, I love how Gunn returned Superman to his boyscout and slightly goofy roots. The struggle to be kind in a complicated world, and the almost naive need to simply want to do good and save as many lives as he can, is an overarching and endearing thread that is Superman. Clark's simple connection to his adopted parents who taught him his humanity, and in those scenes the slow version of the stirring, emotional score we've all come to know since Christopher Reeves donned the suit, tugs at heartstrings. For all his powers, Superman, in a beautiful ironic way, represents the weakest of us, always trying to be the strongest we can be. That's Superman.