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@Darren_Mooney Avatar @Darren_Mooney Darren Mooney

Darren Mooney, a film critic, has been active on social media, sharing his thoughts on various movies and comics. He recently expressed his disappointment with James Gunn's Superman film, calling it a "mess" and stating it's Gunn's worst theatrically released film. Mooney also praised other films and comics, including All-Star Superman, The Dark Knight Returns, and Watchmen, highlighting their impact and storytelling.

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"Always fascinated by how insecure in their opinions fans of "Superman (2025)" are and how they act like spoiled children throwing weird tantrums at the mildest criticism of the movie. "Not all fans" obviously but it's interesting. Gives the MCU fans a run for their money"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-16T08:54Z 13.1K followers, XXX engagements

"What really cements this is that the same episode gives us the alternate Vigilante as a clear point of contrast"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-03T18:01Z 13.1K followers, 456.3K engagements

"Heres the thing. Slop is not about accuracy. Its about form and function intentionality and cohesiveness. Its about purpose. Its not slop because it looks bad. Its slop because its a bunch of things thrown in a blender and regurgitated based on pattern recognition"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-06T12:16Z 13.1K followers, 6175 engagements

"@Niklander3 I think Lanterns could be great. It has the hook and the pedigree"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-11T13:35Z 13.1K followers, XXX engagements

"With #Peacemaker wrapping this week it's a good time to look at what makes James Gunn such a distinctive superhero filmmaker. How Gunn puts himself in his work how "Superman" & "Peacemaker" are about the internet and what Gunn gets about superheroes as a genre. Video below"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-07T15:16Z 13.1K followers, 11K engagements

"DISNEY EXECUTIVE: We cast that new TRON movie just like you said boss. BOB IGER: Thats not what I meant when I said find me a cult actor"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-08T16:09Z 13.1K followers, 4479 engagements

"If TRON: Legacy came out today half the internet would complain that the extended digital Nurumberg sequence was too heavy-handed that CLU had some good ideas and why are politics in everything now"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-11T15:01Z 13.1K followers, 33.4K engagements

"Really enjoyed the second season finale of #Peacemaker. But also - as somebody who thought Superman was overstuffed with superfluous characters who crowded the hero out of his own movie - extremely wary of what it potentially sets up"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-10T12:02Z 13.1K followers, 3755 engagements

"On my way to #TronAres and idly thinking about how the entire point of the ending of TRON: Legacy was that the older generation needs to let their children have the future rather than allowing those kids to be haunted by their monstrous computer-generated digital ghosts"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-08T16:03Z 13.1K followers, 8768 engagements

"Really enjoyed #Roofman. Helped by charismatic lead performances from Channing Tatum and Kirsten Dunst Roofman strikes an impressive tonal balance between absurdist comedy and earnest character drama. A sweet and sincere look at the art of trying to find a gap in a system"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-09T21:21Z 13.1K followers, 1970 engagements

"It might turn out to have incredible legs but due to the combination of splitting box office with cinemas and the fact that the budget doesnt include publicity (including advertising and a global promotional tour) the rule of thumb is a film needs to make 2.5x its budget"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-11T21:15Z 13.1K followers, 3522 engagements

""That doesnt sound like a shredder. Its an incinerator." On that ". do we even believe we're the good guys anymore" point it's telling that one of the early establishing beats for the director of the CIA in "Thunderbolts*" is loading a bunch of people into an incinerator"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-11T16:22Z 13.1K followers, XXX engagements

"#NowPlaying #GhostofYotei"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-10T19:25Z 13.1K followers, 1672 engagements

"Great news coming this week for people who were completely chill about my opinion on James Gunn's "Superman.""
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-06T10:40Z 13.1K followers, 2308 engagements

"Interesting"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-11T20:56Z 13.1K followers, 12K engagements

"It does feel like we're about five years away from a "Halloween" sequel that involves a subplot about the US military trying to weaponise Michael Myers"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-15T18:24Z 13.1K followers, 1730 engagements

"Cineworld Dublin didnt screen this in their 4DX"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-07T21:11Z 13.1K followers, 1888 engagements

"#NowWatching "Thunderbolts*" Easily the best superhero movie of the year. And it's not even especially close"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-11T15:46Z 13.1K followers, 11.8K engagements

"Playing Ghosts of Yotei. Enjoying it. Memories of the Zelda games on the N64. But I got a strangely large kick out of the realisation the Kitsunes secret code is just a PlayStation controller mapping buttons to the d-pad. Triangle/up. Square/left. Circle/right. X/down"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-14T23:23Z 13.1K followers, 1376 engagements

"One day I hope to enjoy something half as much as Michael Sheen enjoys his five minutes of screentime in TRON: Legacy. Where he does David Bowie by way of Charlie Chaplin while ejaculating lasers to a DJ set from Daft Punk"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-08T14:32Z 13.1K followers, 5824 engagements

"I dont know. Despite what Tarantino says Billy Wilder will always be remembered as the guy who directed Some Like It Hot The Apartment Double Indemnity Sunset Boulevard and so on. Nobody cares about Fedora or Buddy Buddy"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-15T07:18Z 13.1K followers, 42.1K engagements

"I did not care for #TronAres. A lot of nothing happening very loud and very quickly unfolding in a human world that somehow feels more like a digital wasteland than the Grid. A frustrating waste of a pretty great premise. Pretty good score though"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-08T21:25Z 13.1K followers, 4363 engagements

"I thought The Smashing Machine was solid. Johnson is great a reminder of how good he can be. Theres some interesting stuff here about the idea of a combat sport movies central romance being with the sport itself and combat being in the marriage. But its very on the nose"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-06T21:22Z 13.1K followers, 1459 engagements

""What is happening" "Youre not even my target. Youre mine." Small detail that I love about "Thunderbolts*." Every action sequence has its own game. The first one has its four leads each targetting another - a circular firing squad as it were"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-11T16:25Z 13.1K followers, XXX engagements

"Literally every James Bond movie has its own brand new theme song"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-15T16:43Z 13.1K followers, 8855 engagements

"A goofy little bit we couldn't quite fit into this week's "The Backdrop" on the nostalgic fetishism of the "Jurassic Park" sequels"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-07-15T16:11Z 13.1K followers, 9681 engagements

"Steven Spielberg has lost the plot with Raiders every single piece of media made by liberals these days is the same story/message. Its so boring how is this the same guy who did Jaws Cant wait for Schindlers List to be also somehow about Nazis too 🤣🤷🏻♂"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-06T12:07Z 13.1K followers, 3348 engagements

"#NowWatching #Roofman"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-09T18:15Z 13.1K followers, 1170 engagements

"My boring take is that these are both the weakest features from their respective directors and for largely the same reason - they feel the most impersonal of their films. That said at least Man of Steel has a take on the character beyond empty nostalgia and fan service"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-15T07:29Z 13.1K followers, 24.4K engagements

"Paul Thomas Anderson does something incredible with Hall in One Battle After Another an actor with one of the fastest mouths in Hollywood. He focuses on her eyes. Hall has these incredible expressive emotive eyes and so many of Deandras moments are just her watching"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-07T22:16Z 13.1K followers, 580.5K engagements

"Its worth noting that last week both altAuggie and Ads hit on the point maybe Nazi Earth isnt so different from our own. And the finale was about the US government effectively looking for a wide open space to which it could move undesirables on the basis of their genes"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-10T16:33Z 13.1K followers, 30.1K engagements

"Ah no. Rest in peace Diane Keaton. A true legend of the screen"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-11T20:53Z 13.1K followers, 1914 engagements

"Find a critic whose voice you trust and read their reviews. An aggregator cant tell you what a critic liked about a film. Rotten Tomatoes cant even tell you how much a critic liked a film. A critic might like a film for a reason youd hate it. Read reviews"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-15T19:56Z 13.1K followers, 6069 engagements

"#AfterTheHunt is unfortunately Trrible"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-13T20:07Z 13.1K followers, 1801 engagements

""What happened to 'bulletproof'" "Bulletproof-ish." "Thunderbolts*" is in conversation with the history and the iconography of the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe. The attack on the vehicle in the desert - with exploding humvees - evokes the opening of "Iron Man.""
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-11T17:14Z 13.1K followers, XXX engagements

"Wild that Superman ended up being the worst of these and by such a wide margin"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-11T12:26Z 13.1K followers, 7431 engagements

"The third season of "Fargo" is really great and it feels like a crystalisation of the themes seeded in the first two season about the dehumanising effects of the post-Cold-War globalisation. Systems and structures sapped of any humanity"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-12T14:13Z 13.1K followers, 2099 engagements

"Similarly the CIA's discovery of a god-like power source in a crater in the middle of the desert is evocative of Coulson's trip to Arizona in "Iron Man 2" and "Thor." "Thunderbolts*" is very overtly evoking the movies that led to the original "Avengers.""
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-11T17:16Z 13.1K followers, XXX engagements

"Flicked on the television and found Kong: Skull Island. Easily the best thing that the MonsterVerse has produced. Ape-ocalypse Now"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-11T12:37Z 13.1K followers, 3527 engagements

"Of course they are"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-14T16:23Z 13.1K followers, 4774 engagements

"Rewatched "Bring Her Back" with a friend and she noted that Sally Hawkins in "Aunt Gladys in a different font." And while both movies were produced independently I can't unsee it. (It is interesting that both movies are about abusive guardians.)"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-12T00:44Z 13.1K followers, 4810 engagements