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Superman 2025

Full Spoiler Review!!!!

Let’s get into it

Having seen this fantastically beautiful film 3 times now, I am officially ready to talk about it in depth.

Starting off with that beautiful soundtrack and those awesome needle drops, the sound in this film made me emotionally invested from literal beginning to end.
The story is extremely easy to follow, and we finally have a first Superman Movie in a Franchise that isn’t an Origin Story. Instead we get a quick and wonderful worded intro sequence immediately followed by non-stop on screen action.

Sure, there are definitely moments of that are more dialog heavy than action, but that is all part of a general and generic Superman Story through and through and Gunn understands this.
The cast is a Home Run completely. Rachel Brosnahan is an OUTSTANDING Lois Lane (most definitely my Lois Lane, Bitsie Tulloch), Nicholas Hoult is an Incredible Lex Luthor. Representing a younger and more emotionally driven Luthor, Hoult really knew how to hone in on Lex’s motivations towards hating The Blue Boy Scout. He’s literally throwing tempertantrums and acting like he deserves to be treated like “The Gift to Mankind”, He literally makes a rift in the fabric of reality to the point of almost erasing everything just because of his envious rage towards Superman and GUESS WHAT GUYS,

🗣”That’s exactly how I wanted to him to be treated as a Character!! If you read any Superman Comic with Lex Luthor as the central Villian, you’ll know that that is EXACTLY HOW HE ACTS!!!”

I finally have a Lex Luthor that I can genuinely Love to Hate, so very VERY good job to Hoult and everyone else who had something to do with his Character.
And David Corenswet himself has DEFINITELY fit into the shoes most gloriously as Superman. He 100% understands the Character of Superman. Gunn, the writing team, and the Actors, every single person involved with every single one of these Characters, definitely understood the material they were given

(I mean James Gunn literally has a CURRENT COMIC BOOK WRITER in his ears right now, so yeah everyone knows what they are doing ESPECIALLY JAMES GUNN).
Every single supporting character, from the Daily Planet, to Ma and Pa Kent, to The Justice Gang, was absolutely brilliant, but the BEST was Krypto, he is the MVP next to Mr. Terrific.

The cameos were spot on for anyone who caught ’em. Bradley Cooper as Jor El, Michael Rooker as one of the Robots, Michael Rosenbaum as one of the Luthor Raptors, and too many more for me to add here.
Basically, this movie knocks it out of the park as an introduction to a brand new universe with James Gunn at the Helm. I truly do not think there is any argument anyone can make to get me to not like/love this Movie or to not trust James Gunn at all.

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P.S.
If you don’t like the Movie, that is completely ok, I’d love to hear why you don’t like it. Just know that your reasons for not liking it, will not change my viewpoints as to why I LOVE it.

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Just Juicin’ Around is full of plenty of thoughts dedicated to this new DC Universe Film… Let’s get into it.

“I’ll be whoever you want me to be.”

Yet another beautiful example of NOT needing Batman in a Batman Villian Movie.

This was never going to be a Big Blockbuster, or “The Best Horror Film of the Year” which is what a lot of people and trades are making this out to be. I was expecting a sort of “Live-Action take on my favorite Batman Animated Series Episode” biasness included. This very much met that expectation, even more so than I had considered.
Tom Rhys Harries absolutely kills it in this role, Naomi Ackie, Eddie Marsan and the guy I’m more impressed with seeing get more work, Max Minghella. Everyone in this absolutely shows up firing on all cylinders and as the film plays, you get the horror tones, but you also get the tones of Dread, Remorse, Hopefullness, Empathy, Envy, and Vengence and Rage. This is a Movie where the main character is literally changing his appearance through his emotions and when he finally embraces that, we get a beautiful combination of emotions while watching some gruesome body shots and images.
If you’re a Horror fan, you’ll definitely love this, but this IS NOT HORROR, honestly it is more gross than it is scary but I would argue that this is far from gross, it’s sad in a beautful art style way.
I am so ready for where James Gunn and the folks at DC Studios want to take the DC Universe.

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Just Readin’ Around

Not only does Juice watch a shit ton of Movies on a daily basis. But he also reads. I read Comics, I’m in the middle of just about every issue in the Absolute Story Run in DC comics and re-reading Batman: Knightfall to prep for the Animated Movie Trilogy that is currently being released inside these next few months. But I’m also reading Novels and I want to talk about the ones I just recently finished…

I’m re-reading the Harry Potter book series. Audible has been releasing the “Full Cast Audio Editions” of The Harry Potter Series. And I’m so ADHD that I am also reading along physically while listening to them on Audible.

I finished Book 1 (Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone) last year (⭐⭐⭐⭐) and immediately followed it with Book 2 (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets) (⭐⭐⭐⭐).

The full length of passion in the Dialogue of not just the Narrative throughout, but the cast as well is absolutely stunning. There were parts in both books that made me realize, yeah they shouldn’t have put everything in the Movies, it makes sense, they’re long books and they would have been way longer Movies. But regardless, it reignited a love for Physical Book Reading and I was inclined to keep going.

And now presently, I have successfully finished Book 3 (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐). This may end up being my Favorite book in the series. It, funnily enough was my Favorite of the Movies growing up, but looking back now as I went through the story, I wondered why? They cut almost all of the best parts of the Book from the Film. There is an entire Chapter dedicated to Remus Lupin’s accounts for the time he and Harry’s Father, along with Black and Wormtail were “strutting about the Castle” as Severus Snape would say, and how the Whomping Willow was purposely planted to help Lupin with his Werewolf problem.

And not for nothing, but where the HELL is the prequel Series called “Hogwarts” that starts with all of the Older Generation going to school and literally following events all the way to the events of Godric’s Hollow where it ends with us seeing Harry Potter receive his Scar? THAT’S the show I want.

We get details that I completely forgot we get in this Book. And I have a feeling that this will just keep being a theme as I continue to re-read this amazing Series.

But we finally get to the actual Present, where I have just this morning, started Book 4 (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) and so far… Shit is STILL different from what I remember 😂😂😂😭😭😭. My goal in this re-read endeavor is to “TRY” and them all read by the release of the New Series on HBOMax.

I am so very much looking forward to completing this endeavor and knowing that there are people out there who would follow along with me as I write about my feelings about what I’m reading or watching, makes me quite hopeful that there are good people in the world amist all the chaos.

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Street Fighter Movie Review

“Mmmmmmm Psycho Power”

Again I say, Movies are BACK!!!! This movie is soooo much fun!!!! Having never played a single Street Fighter game, only maybe a handful battles with friends but nothing more than that, I knew right away before seeing this that it may end up not being for me.
The minute this film starts, all the way to the very end, I was SOLD.

This movie is DUMB, this movie is flooded with Gay Innuendos, this movie has characters who ONLY walk around Barefoot and the feet in this movie would kick through Brick Walls. This movie KNOWS exactly what it is and every single character in this is being played to the most ridiculous extent of their in game characters, which is something I was WANTING from Mortal Kombat (not to compare but…) and the Music selection is outstanding, THIS MOVIE IS GREAT!!! It’s not the best movie of 2026 at all, but I can definitely pick like 6 other movies that have come out this year that are worse than this, but maaaaan the script is absolutely atrocious. Major shout out to David Dasmaltian, he is KILLING it.

⭐⭐⭐1/2

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Just Juicin’ Around on 5ocialAnarchist. First of many Movie Reviews. Verity (2026) starring Anne Hathaway, Josh Hartnett and Dakota Johnson.

The pacing of this film is all over the place, but other than a couple times of me checking my phone, everything and everyone in this is freaking great.

I loooove seeing more of Josh Hartnett (callback vibes to 30 Days of Night and Halloween:H20), and his chemistry with Dakota Johnson and Anne Hathaway is out of this world. It just feels really slow in some parts and I couldn’t help but pin point all of the plot holes. Definitely great to watch in a Crowd cause if you’re a loner Guy and you go see this alone?… Good luck sir 😂😂 A VERY fun time in Theaters

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