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BoxTrick: Ep 105 - Superman Review - With The Flannel Wizard

·1 hr 33 min·2 clips

James Gunn opens with "three decades ago" Superman and skips a full origin story.

Matt and Ez open by saying they both just watched Superman and are ready to talk spoilery. The timing matters to them, because one saw it at four, like about five o'clock my time, and the other stayed up late enough that they were still messaging around two in the morning. They treat the movie like a big deal. A lot is riding on it for them, not just as a Superman movie but as a possible turning point for DC and for Warner Brothers as it goes through another restructure. James Gunn comes up early. They talk about him as the person now in charge of DC, along with Peter Safran, and that kind of accountability matters when one creative lead is expected to pull off a reset and keep the whole thing from drifting again. The movie itself stays at the center. Matt and Ez say they will get into what they liked, what they did not like, how this Superman compares with earlier Superman movies, and whether David Cornswet feels like the right Superman for the role. The conversation is loose and familiar. It sounds like two people who already know the franchise well enough to argue about it in real time, using quick memory checks, small corrections, and a lot of shared context instead of polished review language. They also look backward. The episode pulls in the long stretch of DC confusion before this reset, including the sense that the brand kept restructuring and never really settled on who was in charge or where the story was heading. Then it turns to what comes next. Peacemaker comes into the discussion as a sign that Gunn is not wiping the board clean so much as folding existing pieces back into the plan, which gives the whole thing a more hopeful shape. That hope keeps coming back. They keep returning to the idea that this movie can make the universe feel readable again, because somebody at the top is clearly responsible for the direction and can be held to it. They also note the multiverse angle. DC's history of crossover and alternate-world storytelling comes up as part of the argument that this franchise has handled big shared-universe ideas before Marvel settled them into a template. By the close, they are still talking it through. The ending circles back to the larger DC future, with both hosts sounding cautiously energized and ready to keep the conversation going later.

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A spoiler-heavy Superman discussion that widens into a larger DC reset conversation.

Matt and Ez use Superman as a way into a wider talk about comic-book franchises, moving from first reactions to what this DC reset might mean next. The tone stays loose and easygoing, with both hosts still working out where they land while the movie is fresh.

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