[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @Darren_Mooney Darren Mooney Darren Mooney posts on X about superman, knight, marvel, superhero the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and 1745 posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::481216430/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXXXXX +161% - X Month XXXXXXXXXX +1,026% - X Months XXXXXXXXXX +28% - X Year XXXXXXXXXX +42% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::481216430/posts_active)  - X Week XXX +25% - X Month XXX +166% - X Months XXX +51% - X Year XXX +14% ### Followers: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::481216430/followers)  - X Week XXXXXX +1.40% - X Month XXXXXX +2.60% - X Months XXXXXX +4.20% - X Year XXXXXX +9.60% ### CreatorRank: XXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::481216430/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::481216430/influence) --- **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) [finance](/list/finance) [stocks](/list/stocks) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) **Social topic influence** [superman](/topic/superman) #92, [knight](/topic/knight) #474, [marvel](/topic/marvel), [superhero](/topic/superhero) #459, [fantasticfour](/topic/fantasticfour) #289, [captain america](/topic/captain-america) #175, [barbie](/topic/barbie) #3, [james gunn](/topic/james-gunn), [harry potter](/topic/harry-potter) #218, [yep](/topic/yep) #33 **Top assets mentioned** [Array Technologies, Inc. Common Stock (ARRY)](/topic/$arry) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::481216430/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "(Im curious if it was actually twelve or hes describing an assembly cut and/or exaggerating. Both are fine. The point is that the scene is relatively long by the pacing standards of the movie. But The Dark Knight spends about the same time on the Jokers interrogation.)"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1946686919435559127) 2025-07-19 21:41:43 UTC 12.8K followers, 1147 engagements "Fandom warriors are going to wage their fan wars but its a reasonable observation that Gunns Superman didnt perform better than Man of Steel and that even Man of Steel didnt perform well enough. Neither was a cultural/commercial smash like Superman should be"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1944452336291820004) 2025-07-13 17:42:17 UTC 12.8K followers, 2324 engagements "@cineviewflix I think Winter Soldier is about fine. But it is a sharp slope downhill from there"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1947784021439877525) 2025-07-22 22:21:13 UTC 12.9K followers, XXX engagements "It is a little funny that shared universe shenanigans mean that even on a parallel Earth #FantasticFour has to treat Mole Man as somehow an amalgam of Mole Man Namor *and* Doom. That said I loved Mole Man in Fantastic Four. Paul Walter Hauser is really great"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1947631371393876252) 2025-07-22 12:14:38 UTC 12.9K followers, 7758 engagements "There is a very credible argument for this as the best movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1947039372039057528) 2025-07-20 21:02:15 UTC 12.9K followers, 78.6K engagements "In its own way this cold mechanised world produces robots. One of the great well-observed ironies of Aliens is that Carter Burke is far more of an automaton than Bishop far more of a machine than an actual person"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1946323323291394146) 2025-07-18 21:36:55 UTC 12.8K followers, 1057 engagements "It is insane anybody considers "go woke go broke" to hold any intrinsic logic less than a decade after (say) "Black Panther" "Wonder Woman" "Captain Marvel" "Coco" etc. But because the studios waited so long these diverse characters shouldered inevitable superhero fatigue"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1944362467162784121) 2025-07-13 11:45:11 UTC 12.8K followers, 3265 engagements "@rhartman Off the top of my head Miller/Bendis/Brubaker Daredevil Morrison New X-Men Milligan/Allred X-Statix Hickman Fantastic Four Avengers X-Men Claremont X-Men Gerber Defenders Steranko S.H.I.E.L.D. Brubaker Captain America Moore Miracleman"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1946983069463838871) 2025-07-20 17:18:31 UTC 12.9K followers, 42.5K engagements "Revisiting Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow and thinking about how cool it could be that were (hopefully) getting a superhero version of True Grit. Done right it could be as good as Logan. (Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow #1.)"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1945933592711868899) 2025-07-17 19:48:16 UTC 12.8K followers, 7176 engagements "@rhartman This is my point. Marvel doesnt have any comparable apples and in this case apples are just things that are better. (I say that as somebody who also loves oranges but nothing Marvel has published is comparable to Watchmen or Dark Knight Returns.)"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1946985239131443584) 2025-07-20 17:27:08 UTC 12.8K followers, 11.4K engagements "The Donner Cut of Superman II is a minor miracle"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1947787648128716956) 2025-07-22 22:35:38 UTC 12.9K followers, 624.2K engagements "Unfortunately #Superman is Gunns worst theatrically released film - and to be honest maybe his worst directorial effort at all - by a considerable margin. A mess of a movie that seems like its been taken apart and stitched back together so often its lost in its own head"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1942682208336294216) 2025-07-08 20:28:26 UTC 12.9K followers, 594.2K engagements "The important thing to remember is that Warners put Barbie on the same weekend as Oppenheimer in the hopes that it would crush Nolans film at the box office to punish Nolan for daring to leave them. Warners built Barbie as a spite house like a jilted lover"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1947920798129311784) 2025-07-23 07:24:43 UTC 12.9K followers, 3.8M engagements "@Jacksaysgo I dont know. I think its clumsy but its clearly doing Miracleman in terms of its references. I think the opening scene of Batman vs. Superman is one of the most haunted depictions of urban carnage the genre has ever done. (And one of the most heroic reactions to it.)"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1944425396419670051) 2025-07-13 15:55:14 UTC 12.8K followers, 2867 engagements "Coming to release Warners scheduled press screenings of Barbie against with press screenings of Oppenheimer trying to force critics to have to choose the more commercial picture over Nolans film. They were also at the time holding residuals they owed Nolan for TENET"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1947921622599450859) 2025-07-23 07:28:00 UTC 12.9K followers, 183.9K engagements "If this is the case the genre really is in trouble. Lets say the film hits $500m which is a very fair estimate Id suggest. Highest grossing comic book film of 2024: $1.3bn Highest grossing comic book film of 2023: $846m Highest grossing comic book film of 2022: $955m"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1946824307059155300) 2025-07-20 06:47:39 UTC 12.9K followers, 197.5K engagements "@rhartman @Calypso_Benthos My line hasnt moved to be fair. In the original tweet I put Watchmen and Dark Knight Returns on a separate tier. And Ive just explained why that is. You asked me to list things not on that tier from both publishers and I did. And Ive explained why"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1946997788220498166) 2025-07-20 18:17:00 UTC 12.8K followers, XXX engagements "I do love that he seems to be working his way through his own films. In The Nolan Variations a few years back he similarly sort-of positions Interstellar as his most underrated film and obviously that films reputation seems have undergone a substantial revision since"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1947767002665251085) 2025-07-22 21:13:35 UTC 12.9K followers, 4781 engagements "The Roald Dahl books while hugely culturally important did not have the single-minded and rapidly-moving machinery of several international conglomerates working behind them to craft movies theme parks and online spaces to turn them into an augmented reality - or a lifestyle"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1946625129510776892) 2025-07-19 17:36:12 UTC 12.9K followers, 1.8M engagements "Honestly as much as I hate the particulars of that twist - how hard it leans into right-wing talking points - I do respect the extent to which Gunn refuses to back down from it in the text going out his way (repeatedly) to stress that the message has not been doctored"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1946607366088126655) 2025-07-19 16:25:36 UTC 12.8K followers, 27.1K engagements "I dont know if I expected a new take on Harry Potter. I dont know that its a text that supports a rich array of interpretations. But still. I imagine the money helps but how must it feel to know youre not being hired as an actor but a living themepark animatronic"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1945124263553323142) 2025-07-15 14:12:17 UTC 12.9K followers, 100.6K engagements "Central to All-Star Superman is the question of Have I done enough And the answer is No. But you did the best you could. Thats all that anyone can hope to do. As Morrison put it themselves Its not Hope Comics its Action Comics"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1947295219214377284) 2025-07-21 13:58:53 UTC 12.9K followers, 47K engagements "As somebody who lives the idea of the American superhero as a mediated figure I really loved the closing credits of Thunderbolts*. Not the post-credits scenes but the actual credits themselves about the construction of a mythology around these characters"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1945486456991908205) 2025-07-16 14:11:31 UTC 12.9K followers, 15.1K engagements "Goodness remember when things were allowed to end"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1946871143258038391) 2025-07-20 09:53:46 UTC 12.9K followers, 850.5K engagements "@Zelkiiro Well now just ones as that achieve a base level of popularity comparable to Roald Dahl. So the books have to be successful. But if the books are that successful in say the fifties this doesnt happen. (Just ask Disney about their Narnia franchise.)"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1946639312864632962) 2025-07-19 18:32:33 UTC 12.8K followers, 21.3K engagements "The best DC stuff - the truly iconic stuff from Watchmen to Dark Knight Returns to All-Star Superman - handily clears the best Marvel stuff because it realises that continuity is far less important than actually telling a good proper story"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1946946308801208625) 2025-07-20 14:52:27 UTC 12.9K followers, 3M engagements "The the particulars of the twist itself are a fundamentally bad idea in any form. But trying to back away from it or retcon it or reverse it so that it's not only a weirdly charged right-wing talking point but also completely narrative inert would be even worse"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1946607843605356560) 2025-07-19 16:27:30 UTC 12.8K followers, 1667 engagements "The truth is that any Marvel movies after "Endgame" were going to enter a sharp slump even without COVID. Even then "Wakanda Forever" was the best-performing Marvel Studios film between "Endgame" and "Deadpool and Wolverine." "Aquaman" the last DC movie to break a billion"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1944362957862740193) 2025-07-13 11:47:08 UTC 12.8K followers, 1709 engagements "One of my favourite little details is that Star Trek includes that distinctively lighting in part because NBC was owned by RCA a company that made colour television sets and so was encouraged to add colour where it could on otherwise grey sets"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1947776685224694098) 2025-07-22 21:52:04 UTC 12.9K followers, 169K engagements "I mean it *is* a valid point. The original Superman is still the highest grossing film in the series and its staying power is demonstrated by its cultural ubiquity which no subsequent film comes close to. (This includes Id contend Man of Steel and Superman (2025).)"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1944451595502043627) 2025-07-13 17:39:21 UTC 12.9K followers, 30.7K engagements "Looking forward to digging into the best Captain America movie of 2025"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1944714146865430786) 2025-07-14 11:02:38 UTC 12.8K followers, 1229 engagements "@geoffcockwill Figuratively the example that immediately comes to mind is all those old men waving their proton packs and energy streams around in Ghostbusters: Afterlife"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1946670935970283572) 2025-07-19 20:38:13 UTC 12.8K followers, XXX engagements "All-Star Superman is a mirror to The Dark Knight Returns a story that was (originally) designed to function as the last Batman story. But its often reduced to shallow aesthetics. Superman and Lois has a better read on All-Star Superman than James Gunns Superman"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1947294159473123736) 2025-07-21 13:54:41 UTC 12.9K followers, 49.5K engagements "There is be a thesis to be written on the autocannibalism of pop culture. The evolution of pop culture from new things based on old things (Star Wars) to new takes on old things (Tim Burtons Batman) to new versions of old things that look just like the old things"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1945123626652414061) 2025-07-15 14:09:45 UTC 12.9K followers, 3.3M engagements "As a non-American whose mentions were flooded by Americans over the past couple of weeks lecturing me on how (a.) Superman isnt quintessentially American (false) but (b.) cynicism of American foreign policy translates to a hatred of American pop culture (false) this irks me"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1947574651720187973) 2025-07-22 08:29:15 UTC 12.9K followers, 2348 engagements "@MasterMastermnd Its not the Trump effect. Brave New World performed pretty well overseas and the President is a character in that one"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1946855602627711433) 2025-07-20 08:52:01 UTC 12.8K followers, XX engagements "@c0dy_allen Doesn't release here until late August. But I am so very excited"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1946865682773143814) 2025-07-20 09:32:04 UTC 12.8K followers, XX engagements "Yep. This is wild. Ive rated every previous theatrically released James Gunn film four stars or higher. I enjoyed My Adventures with Superman and Superman and Lois. I have a shelf of Superman comics. And goodness the amount of nonsense I got for disliking Superman"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1946853855297441905) 2025-07-20 08:45:04 UTC 12.9K followers, 10.1K engagements "@rhartman Its not likes and its not shorter runs. Im not talking about personal preference Im talking about cultural impact. There is no Marvel run on the tier of Watchmen or The Dark Knight Returns. Its a simple statement fairly indisputable"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1946993693292109986) 2025-07-20 18:00:44 UTC 12.8K followers, 1334 engagements "@rhartman @Calypso_Benthos Neither The Dark Knight Returns nor Watchmen were published as Vertigo books"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1946998894358827166) 2025-07-20 18:21:24 UTC 12.8K followers, XXX engagements "@rhartman @Calypso_Benthos I mean Dark Knight Returns was a hugely inventive comic in terms of style and form not just in terms of content. And it is very obviously in conversation with say the Adam West Batman television show as much - if not more - than any actual Batman comic"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1946997142192525537) 2025-07-20 18:14:26 UTC 12.8K followers, XXX engagements "I love that the early Alien franchise is less like an interconnected series than it is a set of vignettes from different directors with distinct viewpoints. Ridley Scotts Alien is closer to Blade Runner than Aliens which is closer to Terminator 2"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1946326208834044403) 2025-07-18 21:48:23 UTC 12.8K followers, XXX engagements "Just watched Materialists and people were angry over this It feels like what Id expect the director of Past Lives to make as a starrier follow-up. Were people expecting Wedding Crashers I liked it. Its charming and moving - but with just a little edge to it"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1947772065148182786) 2025-07-22 21:33:42 UTC 12.9K followers, 6620 engagements "Yep. The day of the week week on the life structure is one of the most interesting things about the film and while the film itself ostensibly didnt change too much removing the title cards retreats from that to something designed to feel more conventional"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1947552498795089945) 2025-07-22 07:01:14 UTC 12.9K followers, 19.2K engagements "@rhartman @Calypso_Benthos (Plus you know more broadly Reagans America eighties science-fiction media and so on. Theres a reason that book broke out into the popular consciousness in a way that say Millers Daredevil did not to get back to this not being an argument about personal preference.)"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1946997360112144655) 2025-07-20 18:15:18 UTC 12.8K followers, XX engagements "@LaCivilian @rhartman But is there anything comparable for Marvel is my point Its not like Im being unfair. Im not disqualifying them theyve just chose not to compete so they concede. People mentioned Marvels but if you can use that title for a Carol Danvers title I think youre out"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1947000884635824146) 2025-07-20 18:29:19 UTC 12.8K followers, XXX engagements "Given they reportedly cut Ultraman hitting Kryto out of Superman very curious if theyll retain this inciting beat from Woman of Tomorrow. (Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow #1.)"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1945937986903777744) 2025-07-17 20:05:44 UTC 12.8K followers, 1301 engagements "Ill be joining @tomhappens on @NewstalkFM in about an hour to talk about the state of late night television and streaming. What We Watched on Netflix the end of Stephen Colberts The Late Show"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1946466079879868594) 2025-07-19 07:04:11 UTC 12.8K followers, XXX engagements "It is darkly funny that this trend really cements itself at the point where streaming theoretically makes the classic material more accessible than ever. So of fans want Robbie Coltrane as Hagrid they can watch it on the same service - for the same price - as Hagrid at Home"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1945124802164850911) 2025-07-15 14:14:26 UTC 12.8K followers, 92.7K engagements "Having noticed this too I think its because people tie so much of their identity in intellectual property these days that any criticism - even polite considered even-handed criticism - becomes a weird personal attack to them"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1945913049644154952) 2025-07-17 18:26:39 UTC 12.8K followers, 14K engagements "It is entirely possible for franchises to keep pace with inflation by the way. Batman XX makes $412m in 1989 which is $730m in 2008 less than The Dark Knights $1bn that year. Which incidentally is equivalent to that $1.4bn figure for Superman (1978) today"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1944453613901754586) 2025-07-13 17:47:22 UTC 12.8K followers, 1555 engagements "Rewatching The Batman for reasons and goodness the level of craft on display in this superhero blockbuster is stunning. Im always amazed by how quickly how cleanly and how confidently the movie establishes itself as a piece of top-shelf filmmaking"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1948121063646236771) 2025-07-23 20:40:30 UTC 12.9K followers, 10.8K engagements "There was legitimate cause for concern about the health of these movies in 2022 when four of these movies earned over $750m. Theres a very real chance that the new Superman movie - a film based on *the* superhero - wont catch up to Venom: The Last Dance from last year"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1946825127431168051) 2025-07-20 06:50:55 UTC 12.8K followers, 15.7K engagements "Captain America: Brave New World came out less than six months ago and we have two Russo Brothers Avengers movies coming up"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1947768329738870785) 2025-07-22 21:18:52 UTC 12.9K followers, 37.9K engagements "As ever I remain absolutely fascinated by the movies (particularly blockbusters) are too long now argument that I see get trotted out regularly. Theres been a real trend in the past couple years to get these films in under/around two hours to squeeze in more showings"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1945523646706995687) 2025-07-16 16:39:18 UTC 12.8K followers, 7810 engagements "@Imravnos @MasterMastermnd Nah. When Pam Abdy and Mike DeLuca came in the first thing they did (wisely) was try to smooth things over with Nolan paying him what he was due for TENET and inviting him to use post-production facilities on the lot"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1947945017332600997) 2025-07-23 09:00:57 UTC 12.9K followers, XX engagements "@geoffcockwill Off the top of my head literally: the Palpatine has a granddaughter and Lando is possibly flirting with his own daughter in Rise of Skywalker come to mind as does Picard suddenly has a son in the third season of Picard and the closing shot of Dial of Destiny"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1946669927361867969) 2025-07-19 20:34:12 UTC 12.8K followers, XXX engagements "we are seeing for the first time him being a proper Spider-Man The characters has had three solo movies and appeared in three crossovers"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1947044223376621650) 2025-07-20 21:21:31 UTC 12.9K followers, 41K engagements "@LaCivilian @rhartman and they are what Ruins Strikeforce Morituri Squadron Supreme Dont get me wrong I like some of those but its wild to even suggest they compare to say Watchmen or The Dark Knight Returns"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1947002087956742456) 2025-07-20 18:34:05 UTC 12.8K followers, XXX engagements "Yep the Vader stuff is the worst stuff about that movie and the most indicative of where the franchise and the culture was going"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1945080610411745317) 2025-07-15 11:18:50 UTC 12.9K followers, 8035 engagements "Oh I reviewed "Eat the Ones You Love" the new novel from Sarah Maria Griffin at @IndoReview. Adding "Darren Mooney literary critic" to my bow"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1946328749881847817) 2025-07-18 21:58:29 UTC 12.8K followers, XXX engagements "Been thinking a lot about All-Star Superman recently and how so much of what people get from it misses what it is. Essential to what it does is the idea of it being an ending. Superman is given roughly a week to live and his response is to wonder whether he has done enough"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1947293254682116558) 2025-07-21 13:51:05 UTC 12.9K followers, 870.9K engagements "It is so wild to me that Hollywood hasnt looked at the success of Christopher Nolan and been like We should be trying to produce like ten of these sort of filmmaker"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1945879184821113311) 2025-07-17 16:12:05 UTC 12.9K followers, 41.1K engagements "#FantasticFour is fine and functional handily their best theatrical outing. It struggles with Johnny and Ben and could give its beats more room to breathe. But theres something endearingly Freudian in this superhero movie about babies docking rockets death and black holes"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1947625187135950853) 2025-07-22 11:50:04 UTC 12.9K followers, 14.2K engagements "During the Bush era and the Iraq War as Americans where serving freedom fries with freedom mayonnaise France was giving Clint Eastwood the Csar for Gran Torino while the Oscars refused to even nominate him. Captain America X did more than half its business overseas"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1947573051580944702) 2025-07-22 08:22:54 UTC 12.9K followers, 39.7K engagements "@Deppwifebeater I do love that people think David Zaslav the man who cancelled Ta-Nehisi Coates Superman because it was woke and binned a finished Batgirl movie because he feared it would damage the brand was all-in on Barbie from day one and not riding a wave of happy coincidences"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1948007818176401581) 2025-07-23 13:10:30 UTC 12.9K followers, 76K engagements "Oh the Red Riding trilogy is on Netflix. Great stuff well worth a look if youve never seen them"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1947012469919977652) 2025-07-20 19:15:21 UTC 12.9K followers, 3623 engagements "@JedIsOverParty @GlushingPower @DoomPraetorian They did once with Secret Wars but even that was modest compared to Crisis on Infinite Earths or The New XX closer to the tweaking of Zero Hour or Infinite Crisis"  [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) on [X](/post/tweet/1947044538490429716) 2025-07-20 21:22:46 UTC 12.8K followers, XX engagements
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"(Im curious if it was actually twelve or hes describing an assembly cut and/or exaggerating. Both are fine. The point is that the scene is relatively long by the pacing standards of the movie. But The Dark Knight spends about the same time on the Jokers interrogation.)"
@Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-19 21:41:43 UTC 12.8K followers, 1147 engagements
"Fandom warriors are going to wage their fan wars but its a reasonable observation that Gunns Superman didnt perform better than Man of Steel and that even Man of Steel didnt perform well enough. Neither was a cultural/commercial smash like Superman should be" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-13 17:42:17 UTC 12.8K followers, 2324 engagements
"@cineviewflix I think Winter Soldier is about fine. But it is a sharp slope downhill from there" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-22 22:21:13 UTC 12.9K followers, XXX engagements
"It is a little funny that shared universe shenanigans mean that even on a parallel Earth #FantasticFour has to treat Mole Man as somehow an amalgam of Mole Man Namor and Doom. That said I loved Mole Man in Fantastic Four. Paul Walter Hauser is really great" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-22 12:14:38 UTC 12.9K followers, 7758 engagements
"There is a very credible argument for this as the best movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-20 21:02:15 UTC 12.9K followers, 78.6K engagements
"In its own way this cold mechanised world produces robots. One of the great well-observed ironies of Aliens is that Carter Burke is far more of an automaton than Bishop far more of a machine than an actual person" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-18 21:36:55 UTC 12.8K followers, 1057 engagements
"It is insane anybody considers "go woke go broke" to hold any intrinsic logic less than a decade after (say) "Black Panther" "Wonder Woman" "Captain Marvel" "Coco" etc. But because the studios waited so long these diverse characters shouldered inevitable superhero fatigue" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-13 11:45:11 UTC 12.8K followers, 3265 engagements
"@rhartman Off the top of my head Miller/Bendis/Brubaker Daredevil Morrison New X-Men Milligan/Allred X-Statix Hickman Fantastic Four Avengers X-Men Claremont X-Men Gerber Defenders Steranko S.H.I.E.L.D. Brubaker Captain America Moore Miracleman" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-20 17:18:31 UTC 12.9K followers, 42.5K engagements
"Revisiting Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow and thinking about how cool it could be that were (hopefully) getting a superhero version of True Grit. Done right it could be as good as Logan. (Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow #1.)" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-17 19:48:16 UTC 12.8K followers, 7176 engagements
"@rhartman This is my point. Marvel doesnt have any comparable apples and in this case apples are just things that are better. (I say that as somebody who also loves oranges but nothing Marvel has published is comparable to Watchmen or Dark Knight Returns.)" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-20 17:27:08 UTC 12.8K followers, 11.4K engagements
"The Donner Cut of Superman II is a minor miracle" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-22 22:35:38 UTC 12.9K followers, 624.2K engagements
"Unfortunately #Superman is Gunns worst theatrically released film - and to be honest maybe his worst directorial effort at all - by a considerable margin. A mess of a movie that seems like its been taken apart and stitched back together so often its lost in its own head" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-08 20:28:26 UTC 12.9K followers, 594.2K engagements
"The important thing to remember is that Warners put Barbie on the same weekend as Oppenheimer in the hopes that it would crush Nolans film at the box office to punish Nolan for daring to leave them. Warners built Barbie as a spite house like a jilted lover" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-23 07:24:43 UTC 12.9K followers, 3.8M engagements
"@Jacksaysgo I dont know. I think its clumsy but its clearly doing Miracleman in terms of its references. I think the opening scene of Batman vs. Superman is one of the most haunted depictions of urban carnage the genre has ever done. (And one of the most heroic reactions to it.)" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-13 15:55:14 UTC 12.8K followers, 2867 engagements
"Coming to release Warners scheduled press screenings of Barbie against with press screenings of Oppenheimer trying to force critics to have to choose the more commercial picture over Nolans film. They were also at the time holding residuals they owed Nolan for TENET" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-23 07:28:00 UTC 12.9K followers, 183.9K engagements
"If this is the case the genre really is in trouble. Lets say the film hits $500m which is a very fair estimate Id suggest. Highest grossing comic book film of 2024: $1.3bn Highest grossing comic book film of 2023: $846m Highest grossing comic book film of 2022: $955m" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-20 06:47:39 UTC 12.9K followers, 197.5K engagements
"@rhartman @Calypso_Benthos My line hasnt moved to be fair. In the original tweet I put Watchmen and Dark Knight Returns on a separate tier. And Ive just explained why that is. You asked me to list things not on that tier from both publishers and I did. And Ive explained why" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-20 18:17:00 UTC 12.8K followers, XXX engagements
"I do love that he seems to be working his way through his own films. In The Nolan Variations a few years back he similarly sort-of positions Interstellar as his most underrated film and obviously that films reputation seems have undergone a substantial revision since" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-22 21:13:35 UTC 12.9K followers, 4781 engagements
"The Roald Dahl books while hugely culturally important did not have the single-minded and rapidly-moving machinery of several international conglomerates working behind them to craft movies theme parks and online spaces to turn them into an augmented reality - or a lifestyle" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-19 17:36:12 UTC 12.9K followers, 1.8M engagements
"Honestly as much as I hate the particulars of that twist - how hard it leans into right-wing talking points - I do respect the extent to which Gunn refuses to back down from it in the text going out his way (repeatedly) to stress that the message has not been doctored" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-19 16:25:36 UTC 12.8K followers, 27.1K engagements
"I dont know if I expected a new take on Harry Potter. I dont know that its a text that supports a rich array of interpretations. But still. I imagine the money helps but how must it feel to know youre not being hired as an actor but a living themepark animatronic" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-15 14:12:17 UTC 12.9K followers, 100.6K engagements
"Central to All-Star Superman is the question of Have I done enough And the answer is No. But you did the best you could. Thats all that anyone can hope to do. As Morrison put it themselves Its not Hope Comics its Action Comics" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-21 13:58:53 UTC 12.9K followers, 47K engagements
"As somebody who lives the idea of the American superhero as a mediated figure I really loved the closing credits of Thunderbolts*. Not the post-credits scenes but the actual credits themselves about the construction of a mythology around these characters" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-16 14:11:31 UTC 12.9K followers, 15.1K engagements
"Goodness remember when things were allowed to end" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-20 09:53:46 UTC 12.9K followers, 850.5K engagements
"@Zelkiiro Well now just ones as that achieve a base level of popularity comparable to Roald Dahl. So the books have to be successful. But if the books are that successful in say the fifties this doesnt happen. (Just ask Disney about their Narnia franchise.)" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-19 18:32:33 UTC 12.8K followers, 21.3K engagements
"The best DC stuff - the truly iconic stuff from Watchmen to Dark Knight Returns to All-Star Superman - handily clears the best Marvel stuff because it realises that continuity is far less important than actually telling a good proper story" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-20 14:52:27 UTC 12.9K followers, 3M engagements
"The the particulars of the twist itself are a fundamentally bad idea in any form. But trying to back away from it or retcon it or reverse it so that it's not only a weirdly charged right-wing talking point but also completely narrative inert would be even worse" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-19 16:27:30 UTC 12.8K followers, 1667 engagements
"The truth is that any Marvel movies after "Endgame" were going to enter a sharp slump even without COVID. Even then "Wakanda Forever" was the best-performing Marvel Studios film between "Endgame" and "Deadpool and Wolverine." "Aquaman" the last DC movie to break a billion" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-13 11:47:08 UTC 12.8K followers, 1709 engagements
"One of my favourite little details is that Star Trek includes that distinctively lighting in part because NBC was owned by RCA a company that made colour television sets and so was encouraged to add colour where it could on otherwise grey sets" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-22 21:52:04 UTC 12.9K followers, 169K engagements
"I mean it is a valid point. The original Superman is still the highest grossing film in the series and its staying power is demonstrated by its cultural ubiquity which no subsequent film comes close to. (This includes Id contend Man of Steel and Superman (2025).)" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-13 17:39:21 UTC 12.9K followers, 30.7K engagements
"Looking forward to digging into the best Captain America movie of 2025" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-14 11:02:38 UTC 12.8K followers, 1229 engagements
"@geoffcockwill Figuratively the example that immediately comes to mind is all those old men waving their proton packs and energy streams around in Ghostbusters: Afterlife" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-19 20:38:13 UTC 12.8K followers, XXX engagements
"All-Star Superman is a mirror to The Dark Knight Returns a story that was (originally) designed to function as the last Batman story. But its often reduced to shallow aesthetics. Superman and Lois has a better read on All-Star Superman than James Gunns Superman" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-21 13:54:41 UTC 12.9K followers, 49.5K engagements
"There is be a thesis to be written on the autocannibalism of pop culture. The evolution of pop culture from new things based on old things (Star Wars) to new takes on old things (Tim Burtons Batman) to new versions of old things that look just like the old things" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-15 14:09:45 UTC 12.9K followers, 3.3M engagements
"As a non-American whose mentions were flooded by Americans over the past couple of weeks lecturing me on how (a.) Superman isnt quintessentially American (false) but (b.) cynicism of American foreign policy translates to a hatred of American pop culture (false) this irks me" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-22 08:29:15 UTC 12.9K followers, 2348 engagements
"@MasterMastermnd Its not the Trump effect. Brave New World performed pretty well overseas and the President is a character in that one" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-20 08:52:01 UTC 12.8K followers, XX engagements
"@c0dy_allen Doesn't release here until late August. But I am so very excited" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-20 09:32:04 UTC 12.8K followers, XX engagements
"Yep. This is wild. Ive rated every previous theatrically released James Gunn film four stars or higher. I enjoyed My Adventures with Superman and Superman and Lois. I have a shelf of Superman comics. And goodness the amount of nonsense I got for disliking Superman" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-20 08:45:04 UTC 12.9K followers, 10.1K engagements
"@rhartman Its not likes and its not shorter runs. Im not talking about personal preference Im talking about cultural impact. There is no Marvel run on the tier of Watchmen or The Dark Knight Returns. Its a simple statement fairly indisputable" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-20 18:00:44 UTC 12.8K followers, 1334 engagements
"@rhartman @Calypso_Benthos Neither The Dark Knight Returns nor Watchmen were published as Vertigo books" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-20 18:21:24 UTC 12.8K followers, XXX engagements
"@rhartman @Calypso_Benthos I mean Dark Knight Returns was a hugely inventive comic in terms of style and form not just in terms of content. And it is very obviously in conversation with say the Adam West Batman television show as much - if not more - than any actual Batman comic" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-20 18:14:26 UTC 12.8K followers, XXX engagements
"I love that the early Alien franchise is less like an interconnected series than it is a set of vignettes from different directors with distinct viewpoints. Ridley Scotts Alien is closer to Blade Runner than Aliens which is closer to Terminator 2" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-18 21:48:23 UTC 12.8K followers, XXX engagements
"Just watched Materialists and people were angry over this It feels like what Id expect the director of Past Lives to make as a starrier follow-up. Were people expecting Wedding Crashers I liked it. Its charming and moving - but with just a little edge to it" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-22 21:33:42 UTC 12.9K followers, 6620 engagements
"Yep. The day of the week week on the life structure is one of the most interesting things about the film and while the film itself ostensibly didnt change too much removing the title cards retreats from that to something designed to feel more conventional" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-22 07:01:14 UTC 12.9K followers, 19.2K engagements
"@rhartman @Calypso_Benthos (Plus you know more broadly Reagans America eighties science-fiction media and so on. Theres a reason that book broke out into the popular consciousness in a way that say Millers Daredevil did not to get back to this not being an argument about personal preference.)" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-20 18:15:18 UTC 12.8K followers, XX engagements
"@LaCivilian @rhartman But is there anything comparable for Marvel is my point Its not like Im being unfair. Im not disqualifying them theyve just chose not to compete so they concede. People mentioned Marvels but if you can use that title for a Carol Danvers title I think youre out" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-20 18:29:19 UTC 12.8K followers, XXX engagements
"Given they reportedly cut Ultraman hitting Kryto out of Superman very curious if theyll retain this inciting beat from Woman of Tomorrow. (Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow #1.)" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-17 20:05:44 UTC 12.8K followers, 1301 engagements
"Ill be joining @tomhappens on @NewstalkFM in about an hour to talk about the state of late night television and streaming. What We Watched on Netflix the end of Stephen Colberts The Late Show" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-19 07:04:11 UTC 12.8K followers, XXX engagements
"It is darkly funny that this trend really cements itself at the point where streaming theoretically makes the classic material more accessible than ever. So of fans want Robbie Coltrane as Hagrid they can watch it on the same service - for the same price - as Hagrid at Home" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-15 14:14:26 UTC 12.8K followers, 92.7K engagements
"Having noticed this too I think its because people tie so much of their identity in intellectual property these days that any criticism - even polite considered even-handed criticism - becomes a weird personal attack to them" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-17 18:26:39 UTC 12.8K followers, 14K engagements
"It is entirely possible for franchises to keep pace with inflation by the way. Batman XX makes $412m in 1989 which is $730m in 2008 less than The Dark Knights $1bn that year. Which incidentally is equivalent to that $1.4bn figure for Superman (1978) today" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-13 17:47:22 UTC 12.8K followers, 1555 engagements
"Rewatching The Batman for reasons and goodness the level of craft on display in this superhero blockbuster is stunning. Im always amazed by how quickly how cleanly and how confidently the movie establishes itself as a piece of top-shelf filmmaking" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-23 20:40:30 UTC 12.9K followers, 10.8K engagements
"There was legitimate cause for concern about the health of these movies in 2022 when four of these movies earned over $750m. Theres a very real chance that the new Superman movie - a film based on the superhero - wont catch up to Venom: The Last Dance from last year" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-20 06:50:55 UTC 12.8K followers, 15.7K engagements
"Captain America: Brave New World came out less than six months ago and we have two Russo Brothers Avengers movies coming up" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-22 21:18:52 UTC 12.9K followers, 37.9K engagements
"As ever I remain absolutely fascinated by the movies (particularly blockbusters) are too long now argument that I see get trotted out regularly. Theres been a real trend in the past couple years to get these films in under/around two hours to squeeze in more showings" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-16 16:39:18 UTC 12.8K followers, 7810 engagements
"@Imravnos @MasterMastermnd Nah. When Pam Abdy and Mike DeLuca came in the first thing they did (wisely) was try to smooth things over with Nolan paying him what he was due for TENET and inviting him to use post-production facilities on the lot" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-23 09:00:57 UTC 12.9K followers, XX engagements
"@geoffcockwill Off the top of my head literally: the Palpatine has a granddaughter and Lando is possibly flirting with his own daughter in Rise of Skywalker come to mind as does Picard suddenly has a son in the third season of Picard and the closing shot of Dial of Destiny" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-19 20:34:12 UTC 12.8K followers, XXX engagements
"we are seeing for the first time him being a proper Spider-Man The characters has had three solo movies and appeared in three crossovers" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-20 21:21:31 UTC 12.9K followers, 41K engagements
"@LaCivilian @rhartman and they are what Ruins Strikeforce Morituri Squadron Supreme Dont get me wrong I like some of those but its wild to even suggest they compare to say Watchmen or The Dark Knight Returns" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-20 18:34:05 UTC 12.8K followers, XXX engagements
"Yep the Vader stuff is the worst stuff about that movie and the most indicative of where the franchise and the culture was going" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-15 11:18:50 UTC 12.9K followers, 8035 engagements
"Oh I reviewed "Eat the Ones You Love" the new novel from Sarah Maria Griffin at @IndoReview. Adding "Darren Mooney literary critic" to my bow" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-18 21:58:29 UTC 12.8K followers, XXX engagements
"Been thinking a lot about All-Star Superman recently and how so much of what people get from it misses what it is. Essential to what it does is the idea of it being an ending. Superman is given roughly a week to live and his response is to wonder whether he has done enough" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-21 13:51:05 UTC 12.9K followers, 870.9K engagements
"It is so wild to me that Hollywood hasnt looked at the success of Christopher Nolan and been like We should be trying to produce like ten of these sort of filmmaker" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-17 16:12:05 UTC 12.9K followers, 41.1K engagements
"#FantasticFour is fine and functional handily their best theatrical outing. It struggles with Johnny and Ben and could give its beats more room to breathe. But theres something endearingly Freudian in this superhero movie about babies docking rockets death and black holes" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-22 11:50:04 UTC 12.9K followers, 14.2K engagements
"During the Bush era and the Iraq War as Americans where serving freedom fries with freedom mayonnaise France was giving Clint Eastwood the Csar for Gran Torino while the Oscars refused to even nominate him. Captain America X did more than half its business overseas" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-22 08:22:54 UTC 12.9K followers, 39.7K engagements
"@Deppwifebeater I do love that people think David Zaslav the man who cancelled Ta-Nehisi Coates Superman because it was woke and binned a finished Batgirl movie because he feared it would damage the brand was all-in on Barbie from day one and not riding a wave of happy coincidences" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-23 13:10:30 UTC 12.9K followers, 76K engagements
"Oh the Red Riding trilogy is on Netflix. Great stuff well worth a look if youve never seen them" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-20 19:15:21 UTC 12.9K followers, 3623 engagements
"@JedIsOverParty @GlushingPower @DoomPraetorian They did once with Secret Wars but even that was modest compared to Crisis on Infinite Earths or The New XX closer to the tweaking of Zero Hour or Infinite Crisis" @Darren_Mooney on X 2025-07-20 21:22:46 UTC 12.8K followers, XX engagements