Superman

for the entire duration of this film, with all the promotions and advertising, the most I've seen of the social media responses was that they were constantly comparing it to snyder's man of steel. which, okay, is understandable. i loved the movies then, too. but the thing was that snyder's was SUPER man. gunn's was super MAN. cavill was a great superman, but he's not the superman I know. cavill was great, but snyder made him out to be this... god. this untouchable, all powerful god. someone so incredibly strong and very obviously above humans and barely has any weaknesses. gunn's showed clark kent. he showed the human in superman—and isn't that technically all there is to him? besides the obvious supernatural powers, superman is just as human as everyone else. that's just it. he IS human. in fact, i'd argue that he had more humanity than human themselves. he was just so kind and he represented NO ONE but himself and his ideals of being a kind person who helps save people, animals, and maybe even things. and that's my favorite genre ever: hope and kindness and niceness. i held back tears throughout the movie not purely out of angst from the movie but because I was in AWE. i was just SOOOO TOUCHED. in a world that keeps telling us that cynicism is realism, this movie had the guts to say, “no. you can still choose to care.” and superman did and he showed up and he fought with his heart and he HAD a heart. "I'm as human as anyone. I love, I get scared. I wake up every morning and despite not knowing what to do, I put one foot in front of the other and I try to make the best choices I can. I screw up all the time, but that is being human. And that's my greatest strength." he reminds me of optimus prime honestly. how can people who weren't born human—who weren't people at ALL—have more humanity and faith in humanity than humanity itself.