I've been a superhero fan basically since I could hold a comic book in my hands. My dad read them to me when I was little. I learned to read from superhero comics. I've been collecting them on my own for close to 40 years at this point. You could say I'm a dyed-in-the-wool superhero fan. And so, I've seen just about every superhero movie in theaters since 1989's Batman (even Shaq's notoriously awful '90s Steel movie). But I've never seen anything on the big screen like James Gunn's Superman.
I could gush about the pitch-perfect performances from the entire cast, the love story at the movie's core, the way the cinematography breathes life into the action sequences - but what really makes James Gunn's Superman reboot so unique, and what makes me so hopeful for the direction of the DC Universe, is that it's the superhero movie that feels the most like reading a comic book of any I've ever seen.
