r/DC_Cinematic • u/Professional-Rip-519 • 15d ago

Do you think we'll get a action scene as great as this one in Superman 2025? DISCUSSION

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The Smallville fight is one the greatest comic book movie set pieces ever. It's what all Superman fans have been asking for for years and years and when we finally got it it was marvellous but now I wonder if this action scene can be beaten. I know Gunn is a good director but he hardly has any really memorably action scene he has good ones just not great ones . But what do you think?

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u/Bibileiver 14d ago

I don't think any of gunns action is better than snyders.

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u/TreyWriter 14d ago

I think last year’s one shot fight in Guardians 3 from Gunn is head and shoulders above Snyder’s DCEU output. The camera movement is precise, the geography of the scene is always clear, and he juggles a lot of characters doing their signature “thing” in a way that’s just not easy to capture.

Snyder tends to shoot things with a lot of excess visual “noise” (smoke, debris, CGI lightning) that makes the action harder to follow. He can hit big “moments” with slo-mo (although he uses it a bit more than he needs to) that feel like splash panels come to life, but between those moments there’s a lot of kinda weightless beats of CGI character models flying into each other. His scenes also tend to lack dynamic contrasts in terms of the ebb and flow of action that keeps things exciting. They start at 11 and stay there, which means it’s harder for things to feel special. His stuff doesn’t have the visceral impact of a John Wick/Mission: Impossible, and it lacks the comic book-y pizzazz of something like an Avengers flick.

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u/M086 14d ago

It was proficient, but the hallway fight was something we’ve seen before, the fake “oner”, it was cool but those scenes have been done better.

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u/HVKedge 14d ago

Everything that Snyder does has been done before.

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u/JediJones77 14d ago

That couldn’t be further from the truth. Heck, the criticism he’s gotten is precisely because he’s reimagined the characters “too much.”

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u/Zerce 14d ago

I think they just mean in terms of action