The Reel Rejects - SUPERMAN: UNBOUND (2013) MOVIE REVIEW!! First Time Watching!!

Episode Date: June 2, 2025

SUPERMAN VS. BRAINIAC!! Superman: Unbound Full Reaction Watch Along:   / thereelrejects   With James Gunn's SUPERMAN coming up, Coy & John are BACK to continue their newly-revitalized DC Animated... Movie journey giving their Superman: Unbound, Recap, Commentary, Analysis, & Spoiler Review!! Visit https://www.liquidiv.com & use Promo Code: REJECTS to get 20% off your first order. Superman: Unbound pits the Man of Steel (Matt Bomer, White Collar, Chuck) against one of his most formidable foes when the alien collector Brainiac (John Noble, Fringe, The Lord of the Rings) arrives on Earth with plans to bottle Metropolis just as he did Krypton’s capital, Kandor. When a Brainiac drone’s assault on Metropolis forces Superman to trace its signal to the Fortress of Solitude, he teams with Supergirl (Molly C. Quinn, Castle, Castle Rock)—who reveals her own harrowing history with Brainiac—and uncovers the villain’s mission to amass infinite knowledge by destroying every world he visits. Iconic moments include the breath‐stealing rescue of Superman inside Brainiac’s ship, the climactic showdown as Brainiac attempts to implode Earth in a miniaturized bottle, and the emotional reunion in Kandor under the red sun. Don’t miss Coy & John’s breakdown of every explosive Brainiac trap, Superman’s breathtaking power display, and the emotional core that underpins this adaptation of Geoff Johns’ celebrated Superman: Brainiac arc—proving why Superman: Unbound remains a standout in the DC Universe Animated Original Movies! Follow Coy Jandreau:  Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@coyjandreau?l... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coyjandreau/?hl=en Twitter:  https://twitter.com/CoyJandreau YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwYH2szDTuU9ImFZ9gBRH8w Intense Suspense by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Follow Us On Socials:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/  Tik-Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@reelrejects?lang=en Twitter: https://x.com/reelrejects Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ Music Used In Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Happy Alley by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM:  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:23 this video more on them in just a bit I'm excited. You ready to go?
Starting point is 00:00:31 I am always ready, Coy. Roll the thing. Let's get unbound. In three. Two. All right, gang. So, as stated before,
Starting point is 00:00:45 we're going to answer some questions regarding this film from the patrons, and then we're going to hop into our comprehensive review and thoughts. just got the text. Coy is not a liar. True. All right. Sci-fi extremist.
Starting point is 00:01:01 Thanks for contributing an inquiry. Let's see if we're brainiacs enough to have an answer for you. What's a DC comic storyline or arc that you'd love to see get an animated adaptation, specifically an animated? Specifically animated. I want to see this live back. Specifically animated. I would love to see Superboy. and knockout in Hawaii.
Starting point is 00:01:27 Oh. That's a little arc that got me into Superboy in a big way. I would love to see, oh, no, no, I take it back. I take it back. I take it back.
Starting point is 00:01:33 I take it back. I got two. Okay. I want to see Kyle Rainer Green Lantern and his whole journey of becoming Green Lantern. Fun.
Starting point is 00:01:41 And I think his, so his power, like the willpower the green lantern is essential. Like, that's the whole thing. But he's the most creative Green Lantern because he's an artist.
Starting point is 00:01:51 So his, his fabrications are always like extra like, interesting versus just like punches and weapons. So I think that'd be fun for animation to like make it, you know, that that lean into the creativity. So I'm gonna go Kyle Rainer, uh, his origin and, and some of his early stuff. Okay, Kyle Rainer. I see you out here riding for the less, uh, name, you know, recognizable supers. You know, I know you're also a big Ben Riley for you. I gotta earn my street cred. So, uh, not bad. Okay. I mean, you guys know me. Obviously it's gonna be something like man spider or man bat. But I will say if I'm thinking of a comic book that I have read, uh, or a graphic novel that I would love to see translated into an animated film. I think it would be really cool to see one based on thrill killer.
Starting point is 00:02:31 Oh. That's sort of like Elseworld Z art deco like noir story where the Joker's like this woman who heads up a nightclub and stuff like that. And yeah, like I'm a real big fan of like, you know, aesthetics crashed together and comic books that yeah, like obviously jump into like cinematic terrain and borrow from stuff like that.
Starting point is 00:02:54 just remember. Again, I'm a sucker for like interesting art. And that book also has a lot of interesting art. So yeah, that's... I like that question. That's how extreme is... That's probably what I would choose off the dome, Mr. Extreme. But thanks for contributing. And hey, gang, if you're playing along at home,
Starting point is 00:03:10 you're watching this video and you're still here paying attention, leave your ideal animated adaptation down in the comics. Because yeah, comments and in the... Go pick up a comic and leave a comment on the comics. But too, yeah, like if you brought that art style. Again, in our previous Superman video, I called out, like, those Marvel's
Starting point is 00:03:29 comics, those like old, again, like 50s style, like very like painted looking comics or serious house on serious earth, the Arkham Asylum book. I love. Yeah, books that have like a really crazy wild art style I would love to see made in that art style. In that art style. Yeah, into a moving thing. But I feel like if you, if you gave me the budget right now for one, as much as I would love to say like, oh yeah, make Arkham or whatever. I'm like, I think Thrill Killer would be the one I would agree with first. But that's just where I'm starting
Starting point is 00:04:02 out. Let's see. Who's else? We got DJ Kento. Thank you for chiming in and taking an interest. It's a two-part question. Oh? So part one. Who has the better hideout now? Superman with his menagerie of creatures and the fucking Titanic, fully recovered and
Starting point is 00:04:17 restored from the bottom of the ocean or Batman with his giant penny and T-Rex. I gotta go Batman always. Superman has a Titanic. When did this happen? Fairly recently in the grand scale of 70 years. What is the purpose of it?
Starting point is 00:04:31 It's like it's using... Is he the James Cameron of superheroes? He's like, I've got really had a soft spot for this. Also the menagerie of all the creatures and stuff. But to me, Batman having the coin and all the costumes and like, there's something really interesting about the psychology of Batman taking like totems. Like, there's something interesting about. like claiming prizes from his yeah i've also kind of seen it as batman's innocence lost like when he was a kid
Starting point is 00:05:01 he never got the chance to collect because he was so busy learning so now as an adult he collects and it's like those are like totems of adulthood so they're like more sophisticated but it is the same as a kid collecting stuff so instead of like a coin collection it's a giant penny instead of dinosaurs is a full skeleton so i've always i've always seen that as like batman psychology externalized i mean batman the bat cave at all is really hard to beat. Yeah, just of anything. You know, in true Gemini fashion, partly I'm like, it's just, you know,
Starting point is 00:05:30 one for each mood. If I'm like, you know, if I want to hunker down and get dank and like, you know, mess with some cool gadgets, I'm going to the back cave. If I need some solitude and I need to kind of be in that pristine, crystalline aesthetic, if I need to bring myself up that way
Starting point is 00:05:46 and sort of center myself, I would go to the fortress of solitude. I guess just for contrast, I'm going to say Fortress of Solitudes so that we have different answers. Fair. But Menagerie of Creatures, the thing is, like,
Starting point is 00:05:57 I mostly know the Fortress of Solitude from the glimpses we've gotten in these movies, and the glimpses we've gotten in the... Wow! There it is. I want to deep dive on this. Read All-Star Superman first.
Starting point is 00:06:11 All right. And that's one in your street before the movie... I am actually, yeah, I've got my copy. Titanic. Yeah, okay. You'll see. What is it? His menagerie of creatures?
Starting point is 00:06:18 He's got a lot of creatures? They're in the way that can be. is, you'll see. Okay. But, like, it's a similar vein to the candor thing. Okay.
Starting point is 00:06:27 All right. Depending on the day, Fortress of Solitude, but I think we're, I'm a good back cave. I think we're both truly in the back cave. I bet Bat Caves got great speakers too. Probably.
Starting point is 00:06:36 Oh, my God. He's got tweeters and subwoofers in every, dark corner. Every shadowy corner you can't see it to speak. Blop, blah, yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:06:46 Yeah. He brings Alfred down there every few weeks. Check out this new record I got. Listen to the base. Danny Elthman. Follow-up question. What are your thoughts on the very alien,
Starting point is 00:06:56 very brilliant version of Superman we see here? He's not the big, dumb blue Boy Scout here. He's kind of a genius. In this? I assume in this. That's what I'm getting.
Starting point is 00:07:06 I love that he thinks outside the box. I really like the way he fights is tactical. I really enjoy that it's being a very world aware. I mean, I've always loved that the difficult part about being Superman is you're always hearing everything. It's choosing your battles.
Starting point is 00:07:21 like everyone someone's always in peril you can't save everyone and he wants to do just that so the constant overwhelm of those powers and weaponizing that I love so yeah tactician and all that stuff here is fantastic I dig this Superman I thought this was a fantastic take yeah I mean I really like a lot of the takes that we've seen
Starting point is 00:07:37 on the characters through these animated movies especially this one I really liked a lot partly because there's stuff about him that feels a little I like the endearing sort of clumsy Clark Kent And yeah, I like the dichotomy of that.
Starting point is 00:07:53 This one, there's a little less awshucksonness to Clark. Like, Clark seems pretty competent. And there's something about the way they tempered Clark, Superman, at all here that was like a nice middle ground. He told Brady Act to go to hell, which I feel like not every version of Superman would do. That I agree with. And I feel like that's a choice that could easily ring sour. sure and I kind of bought it here and yeah like I feel like this it's funny going off last week where we had you know the interrogation of like what is Superman for a modern era like this watching this just felt like I was beholding the characterization of a Superman begat by a modern era yeah it doesn't feel like it's trying to fit into today it just is today yeah it doesn't feel like it's trying to subvert or shun the classic tenets of the character but it's also doing something a little more more mature or a little bit more, yeah, sharp in terms of the detective and the out-of-the-box
Starting point is 00:08:54 thinking side of things, which I'm sure there's a lot of two Superman anyway. Superman is also clever. But, yeah, I really like the characterization here. And I thought it was a nice middle ground because there's still, like, a couple lovely beats with Ma and Paw Kent. I really liked his back and forth with Lois. You know, it's not full-on, like, edge-lord Superman, but I feel like people who want an edge-year Superman and people who like a classic Superman. could both get into this.
Starting point is 00:09:20 2008, the comic came out. The original comic, and then this, I think this adaptation is from 2013. Yeah. So, yeah, I think you're exactly right. Like, it's applicable, but not too edgy, but it does suit both fandoms. Yeah, and without having to be a, like, I like a commentary. I like a deconstruction, but we don't always have to do that. We have to construct sometimes to deconstruct.
Starting point is 00:09:39 Yeah, yeah, totally. I, to talk about the actual film itself, now that we're through the questions. We've already started a bit, but I really... Thanks to Preper for cutting down these highlights once again. Sorry, and then we'll go. And then also, rejectnation shop.com. If you want some cool teas and all that good stuff, leave us a rating on Spotify, leave a like on the video,
Starting point is 00:09:56 subscribe, click the notification bell for more, leave a comment, all that good stuff. Ruby, Superman. Superman Unbound. I think this is my favorite Superman animated. Because I really think my love of the comic, I haven't read it since probably 2008-2009. I don't know if I picked it up weekly back then
Starting point is 00:10:15 or if I picked it up like when it was done. I don't remember when I read it, but I know I haven't read it recently. And I remember loving the, uh, the art. And I remember learning about Geiger and not putting together that it was Jeff Johns and Gary Frank. I didn't know Gary Frank by name in 2008.
Starting point is 00:10:32 Uh, I'm really good with artists now. And I was really good with a lot of artists then, but I didn't know Gary Frank then. So I didn't go, oh, a Gary Frank work. And I remember thinking like, this art is so good and not knowing the person's name.
Starting point is 00:10:44 So then when Geiger came out, looking into the duo and I was like, wait, that comic that I liked, the Brainiac one. So that all came piece together in the last like three years and then seeing this was cool because I wasn't sure this would be a one-to-one. And obviously a few things change here and there, but it was really cool to revisit this now. I can't wait to reread it again.
Starting point is 00:11:03 I love how much lore it covers with like the Lois and Clark story. And like, you know, they're trying to fit in each other's lives in the right way that supports each other. I love how much it has the Daily Planet staff as, as an important supporting characters. I love how much Kara is like the young, new to Metropolis, Kara. It definitely is the Michael Turner outfit. It reminds me also of like the nature, nurture of them too.
Starting point is 00:11:30 I talk all the time about Supergirl Woman Tomorrow. I love in that comic it shows the difference between why Superman is the wholesome one and she has rougher edges. And this did that in a really great way without sacrificing that she's still good. And I like that she was still able to be afraid whilst still being strong. And I think they did a great job. with Lois and Supergirl here. And those are two characters
Starting point is 00:11:50 that are often written poorly. I also think Lombard was spectacular. My man. Lombard. I'm glad you got to introduce. Lombard. And Beck Bennett's going to crush, dude. Oh my God.
Starting point is 00:12:00 He's going to be, yeah. Yeah. We interviewed him. And it was so funny because, like, we were pronouncing Lombard. And I was like,
Starting point is 00:12:06 I think it's Lombard. Like, we were back and forth pronouncing on camera, Lombard, Lombard. Because it's like in writing. You don't hear it a lot. And the animation,
Starting point is 00:12:16 like sometimes they have different pronunciations, but just back talking about his mustache, I was like, correct. I was going to say, how many iterations are there of Lombards? I mean, the animation. Or is that pretty, is he pretty much always that guy? Oh, he's that guy. Okay. But I don't seem an animation nearly as much as I'd like to.
Starting point is 00:12:31 And what's cool is Kat Grants in here, kind of two sides of a similar coin of she's the gossip columnist that plays her dumbness up when she's actually smart. Sure. And so people. Was she the Daphne looking one, I assume? So she didn't really get a moment, but she's a talk, but. She is usually blonde, but I think in this one, they made her that. But basically, she'll use people thinking less of her as her strength, whereas he's the inverse, where he thinks he's smart and he's dumb.
Starting point is 00:12:58 So those two are really fun at The Daily Planet. And like this used one of them really well to build out the planet, I think. Yeah, totally. And I like when they take the time for those additional characters and stuff like that. And when they make, I don't know, it seems like a hokey thing maybe to say now. But when you get those, those things are like classic comic books to me is sort of. like you have the ensemble of like, here are the people at the day.
Starting point is 00:13:19 I feel like it's easier in this day and age and in movies to be like, we don't need to spend time at the Daily Planet very much. We don't need to spend time with the Kent's very much. We wouldn't have the Murta's if they made Lethal Weapon today.
Starting point is 00:13:29 Like the whole Murta family. Sure. Is you've seen them? Do we get a deep know? Oh, that's right. You get a deep dive into the family life of... Every lethal weapon has 20 to 30 minutes
Starting point is 00:13:40 of just Danny Glover's family. Let's go. The cast stays throughout four films. So even the smallest supporting character. We see grow up over 15, 20 years. And you're so connected to this family. And that's the point of the movies. It's about like found family. And you actually get to know that family. And like there's, um, there's like a stickers and magnets on the fridge that affect the next storyline. Like there's world building about a family that isn't our leads. Now, Danny Clever's obviously
Starting point is 00:14:06 lead with, with rigs. But like that's group, they don't have to focus on that. And they do. No. And this feels like that. And that stuff goes a long way. And two, in a superhero environment, I always feel like, Doing a couple things to help the people down on the streets. And, yeah, like spending time if it's a Superman story or a Spider-Man story at the paper. Yeah. Like, that stuff helps to build out the whole conversation that superhero stuff, I think, is always kind of involved in. And, too, yeah, it's just the kind of the classics, the vibe. Perry White, Jimmy old, Jimmy Pants.
Starting point is 00:14:38 Jimmy Pants. But, yeah. A young Joe Pateliano. Yes, if only, man. If we can only get a baby Joey pants in a... Is he acting young? I mean, like he's like Morgan Freeman. I wonder. I think he's been 45 since I've known
Starting point is 00:14:48 and then it's last of us now he's 60 but it took a while. Part of me was like cast him as Jimmy Olson now and just never acknowledge that he's not like a fresh-faced kid. Joey Pan. Make it hello fellow children. Yeah, this was really, really fun though. And yeah, this had a really nice blend to me of
Starting point is 00:15:04 yeah, modern sensibility mixed with some classic iconography and some classic ideas combined with a really cool sci-fi edge been reading some like 80s paperback sci-fi novels lately and I'm generally like kind of enamored with that aesthetic
Starting point is 00:15:22 the various sort of future retrofuturistic you know types of arts that certainly have been alive in comics and here yeah like seeing what um what is the Kryptonian city called candor like seeing candor like seeing candor and seeing even glimpses at the other
Starting point is 00:15:37 cities that he's plucked up and everything just like a really fun design sense I really loved again the translation as you've showed me the of the artwork into this you know not live action but moving medium and two as like uh we've probably seen something along the road where brainiac is factored in somehow but i feel like this is my kind of first major brainiac experience all right rejagnation summers here in between workouts filming traveling stain hydrated has never felt more important i actually get really excited to talk about these guys because i use them every single day yes i've mentioned it
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Starting point is 00:18:00 All right. I'm excited because this was so, this was really fun and Brainiac, at least as of this story, is a great villain to give you. yeah, you have the hordes of his like skeleton Terminator robots that are scary and give you means to have cool action. But like as a presence and as a motivation, Brainiac was really cool and gripping and I was always drawn in by his layer. And the fact that when you're in the layers, like he's in total control and everything Superman is trying, no matter how confident he is, seems to only work for a minute if it works at all. And bringing it down to this idea that yeah, you have all this knowledge that you've acquired from,
Starting point is 00:18:37 these specific slices of worlds that you've then removed from their natural environment. You've made them unnatural now by doing what you're doing. And you've left this sort of gaping a hole in your knowledge, which is the nuance of experience. And yeah, when he brings him down into the swamp and it's like the buzzing and the car horn and the kids playing and just everything is getting louder and louder. And, you know, he's experiencing life for the first time. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:19:06 Yeah, and becoming engulfed in this mud, like literally being engulfed by the natural world and then shorting out due to that. And like, yeah, instead of Superman's brain being scrambled by the weight of, you know, a thousand worlds being pumped through it. It's just the sensory experience of one world to bring this guy to his knees. It's the thing he said to him. Even one world would sludgeify your mind. And did it. And, yeah, and two, yeah, like balancing that stuff with the Kara story. I really liked her struggle, her motivation.
Starting point is 00:19:38 Like, I bought both, I think it was really smart to do like, yeah, who's saving the day at the top of this? It's Kara. She's coming to save Lois, cool action with the helicopters and stuff. And then, yeah, after that, we get the stakes heightener of her going, I know who's coming and this is really bad. And I don't want any part of this. And I believed, yeah, like you said, her attitude is different and her sensibility is certainly not Clark's, not Superman's. but that and like she's the kind of character that can be written in a fashion that is annoying and I was never I was always in her perspective I was always sympathizing with her I really liked the characterization here and yeah like the fact that Lois in that moment after being like you know you can't just run away from this she takes the time to be like you know what I can't even imagine how terrifying and horrible that was and like you have every right to feel the way that you do and I'm not going to chastise you right now for not just jumping into it. to the fight. They did that really good job with everyone's arcs, I think, having, like, Superman, the reason he realized how much he needed Lois to feel protected, but also not smother her and, like, using a planetary scale. Lois, realizing that Clark needs to protect her, but also she needs to be able to be her own woman and, like, how her independence is important to her, but, like, they have to play each other's levels. Kara being afraid of something and, like, using that as animosity, but then finding a softness in it and, like, using her fear and not letting fear ruler. Like, everyone's arc here was really solid, and it never betrayed the character.
Starting point is 00:21:02 And I also want to give flowers to the directing, which was so captivating and interesting. There were so many. I mean, John jumped like six times. I did. And there was really effective. The directing. The background background. And the sound design, we both clocked a few times.
Starting point is 00:21:16 Yeah. So the score, the sound design, the directing, all this stuff that makes it different than a comic. Like, you know what I mean? I love the comic story. It's already there. But the things that elevate this into this medium and change it from that medium, they did a really good job. Um, you know, that medium has strengths.
Starting point is 00:21:30 This medium has strengths. they use the strengths of animation really well here. Did you catch what year this movie came? 2012 or 2013? Because it also struck me that we, again, there's a lot of different approaches to animation over time, and I'm wondering where we are in terms of animation just as a medium technologically.
Starting point is 00:21:49 2013's 12 years ago. Because this one looked a lot nicer than some. This looked a lot layers and felt lived in. This looked a lot more classically animated to me, because again, it's like it had all those backgrounds that looked like, oh, great old, like great plate pastel drawings or watercolors or things that felt tangible and then you have the sort of classic animated movie looking quality of the characters with the occasional use of
Starting point is 00:22:13 CGI for like a big ship or a you know helicopter perspective shot or whatever and uh it was nice just as an animation fan to you know there are a lot of these movies that i've really loved and enjoyed and some have more detailed richer art than others and i feel like this movie made a few choices that were pretty interesting in terms of like doing slow frame rate or yeah just having these environments that you could take the characters out of and just like hang up on a wall as
Starting point is 00:22:41 a as a picture. I uh this came out the year after the last one we watched I was gonna say so this is like 12 was that one and then this one I was Superman elite so you said this one Superman Unbound is like one of your top 10 one of the top 10 of the DC animated I liked versus the elite but like I wouldn't
Starting point is 00:22:57 put in top 10 like it was good it's like middle 10 or bottom 10 low middle 10 we've watched a lot we have watched a lot but what's crazy is on letterboxed unbound as a 3.0
Starting point is 00:23:10 and versus the elite has a 3.5 wow so people like the other one quite a substantial amount more I mean versus the elite is certainly like I think a very
Starting point is 00:23:19 striking conversation about the concept of Superman which is very striking which like I just love me some brainiac well that's the thing though is like I'm sitting here going like
Starting point is 00:23:30 on the one hand I would rank Superman versus the elite in hindsight of all of a week you know like pretty highly because I liked what it was doing and especially at the here and now I was like oh wow this is like the conversation to have
Starting point is 00:23:43 especially in the current climate but also this felt like some I don't know they're like two halves of a two sides of a coin they're very different this one is very much yeah the conversation outside of super elite is very much the conversation outside of Superman encompassed within Superman
Starting point is 00:24:01 and then this felt like it was completely contained to the world. Yeah. It wasn't really like doing meta or breaking the walls or anything like that, but it was doing like a really interesting story about yeah, the nature of knowledge and experience among other things. Which is so Superman to me. And I get the
Starting point is 00:24:17 truth justice, the better tomorrow of the last one. But I feel like this is a harder story to tell or a less told story. No, I love this. And like as a story again, contained to the world and not asking the outer probing questions. Like, you don't always have to do that. And I thought what this did inside the world was like super
Starting point is 00:24:35 gripping and striking. And in a way, I appreciate that some, in some ways more, because it's just the thing being the thing. Right. If that makes sense. So like this, yeah, just felt like a Superman Brainiac story, being a Superman brain, brainiac story and communicating to me, the nube, sort of what that can be. And now I'm like, I'm excited to see another brainiac story. Because this was really, I love him. Striking. And I loved, yeah, like, there are, elements where you can go like oh it's kind of like galactus or like you know kind of reminiscent of like oh there's the silver shiny harbinger for the big planet eating dude uh but you know in different ways and then the the theme of the character who the actual character is the characterization was fun and striking and i bought the game of wits between them just as much as all the physical stuff and i like that both were important like they let the fighting be dynamic and they let the game of wits be dynamic um i uh what's it called uh we've watched 33 before our break. Now, two, we've watched 35. 35. That's what I was checking
Starting point is 00:25:35 up on. Not bad. Not too shabby. Well, we don't want this review to be as long as the movie. That's easy to do. We're approaching it now. But yeah, we've watched 35 of these now. I would put this one in my top 10. I believe this is a top of me. I would say. Yeah. And that didn't even have John Constantine
Starting point is 00:25:51 in it. And that's a lot of my top 10. You know, we love the Constance. We love the Constantine. And the Batman v. Turtles. Oh, so Batman eats pizza. Oh, man. That was, that still, still And then X-Men 97. He went on to do that. That is going to do it for this.
Starting point is 00:26:06 Superman Unbound Experience. Please leave a comment below. We're back in this journey. We've watched 35 of these very many, many DC animated films. So let us know in the comments below. 50. 100 of them. 100 of.
Starting point is 00:26:18 Maybe we'll do the animated series. I think at 50 we should re-rank them. Let's do it. I'm going to have to do some revisiting. I'm going to have to, yeah. Because I think we did it at 30. Yeah. I think 40 might be too soon.
Starting point is 00:26:30 50. 50 is a nice round number. So send us some comments in the below and let us know what you want us to watch. We'll see you next week. Most likely for more of this. We'll see you tomorrow. And the next day, in the next day, and the next day. For more goodness, just in general on Reject. What do we got this week? We got...
Starting point is 00:26:46 Oh, goodness. What do we got this week? It's June. That's coming out. That's dropping? Yeah. You're going to reveal the drop schedule? I was going to tease people that waited two hours into an hour-long movie. I was giving them a little gift. Let me pull up. Just say one thing. Don't give too much.
Starting point is 00:27:00 here let me pull up the grid i tell you what you guys at the end get a secret all right one you get one drop i mean i know there's probably going to be a final destination movie going up this week like four uh probably part four as you're seeing this as all right as the pro flies you get one more um let's see let's see how do i check this from the phone maybe you don't maybe you just get final destination four coi i was just trying to add we're getting there we're getting there what do we got hold on hold on guys the watch time on this this is going to be an incredible watch time you guys are loving the stalling on the phone how much you watched it uh hold on i have i have one solution to this we're going to go on to my computer really quick and we're going to trim this part down we're
Starting point is 00:27:41 going to give the no no it all this stays we're giving the people what they want we're given the people a hint at what's to come just i want one i think it's fun to be right all right this is what there it is i see some thumbs get ready for next week all right what is next week so what it's just you pick which one you want to reveal oh oh oh well that There will be another Chris Reeve this week for sure. All right. For sure. I mean,
Starting point is 00:28:06 that could be enough. We're doing a couple part fours this week. If you can put those together. We are doing, if it drops, we might just be doing a recent vampire movie. That might even already be out. Well,
Starting point is 00:28:21 well, well, that's the big exclusive. Who knows? I always like when I watch a channel to know what is coming up. So that's why I thought it'd be fun. So watch those other videos,
Starting point is 00:28:30 We'll see if this rings true. Who knows? The schedule could always change. It's crazy out here in these streets. Allegedly, allegedly, allegedly. Allegedly next week, this week. We'll see you guys very, very soon. Bye all.
Starting point is 00:28:44 David. David. David. David. Mommy. What to say about David. Guy's been here for years now. And he's never left. He's our surrogate father. We are like in some ways it feels that way.
Starting point is 00:29:00 you're one of the first people out of people who follow us and support us to like actually drive down to come see us and uh to hang out with you actually take you out to lunch and i i get when i think of you i think of sitting across from you and watching you listen and finding this like some people have a surreal experience when they meet like a celebrity like oh my god they're looking at me like i had that recently when i was fortunate enough to meet me Harrison Ford, thanks to Roxy. And it's kind of that, but not like a celebrity way. It is just, I remember that was that feeling of, you were like,
Starting point is 00:29:40 this is someone who, like, contributes money to us and follows us and has been so kind with his time and messages. And he's sitting across from me right now. And so I have his, like, surreal emotion associated with it. And appreciate you for never leaving us. You have been faithful and unconditional. for many years now, so thank you. And too, I mean, not only are you generous with us and, you know, our interactions directly,
Starting point is 00:30:07 but I don't know, like, especially for all the people that I do catch glimpses of just out here in the world. Like, I don't know, you're an inspiring guy, you know, you're a bit unassuming, and I remember when we first met thinking, like, oh, does this guy even like us? And yet, you know, you're someone who's quietly out here doing so many different things and being creative with so many of your different interests, and that inspires. me to want to just be more creative and to be more of a citizen of whatever group I find myself in because you are absolutely good at doing that at being like an actual sort of citizen of this little group that we have built and you know it wouldn't be possible to
Starting point is 00:30:46 have built it without folks like you who are again so just generous and also you know you have such a dedication I guess I would say and it's an honor to be subject to that dedication, so thank you.

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