[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, 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. ### Engagements: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::481216430/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXX -XX% - X Month XXXXXXX -XX% - X Months XXXXXXXXXX +134% - X Year XXXXXXXXXX +31% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::481216430/posts_active)  - X Week XX -XX% - X Month XXX +38% - X Months XXX +30% - X Year XXXXX -XXXX% ### Followers: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::481216430/followers)  - X Week XXXXXX no change - X Month XXXXXX +0.33% - X Months XXXXXX +6.50% - X Year XXXXXX +7.50% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::481216430/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::481216430/influence) --- **Social category influence** [finance](/list/finance) XXXXX% [stocks](/list/stocks) XXXX% [gaming](/list/gaming) XXXX% [social networks](/list/social-networks) XXXX% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) XXXX% [celebrities](/list/celebrities) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [money](/topic/money) 4.55%, [warner bros](/topic/warner-bros) #333, [acquisition](/topic/acquisition) #580, [make a](/topic/make-a) 2.27%, [playstation](/topic/playstation) 2.27%, [f1](/topic/f1) 2.27%, [star wars](/topic/star-wars) 2.27%, [rise of](/topic/rise-of) 2.27%, [wars](/topic/wars) 2.27%, [ares](/topic/ares) XXXX% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@darrenmooney](/creator/undefined) [@finnishmiikka](/creator/undefined) [@niklander3](/creator/undefined) [@sashotodorov1](/creator/undefined) [@darkjaysonvr](/creator/undefined) [@imaxenthusiast](/creator/undefined) [@xeverythingap](/creator/undefined) [@danielrpk](/creator/undefined) [@suitekid](/creator/undefined) [@secondwindgroup](/creator/undefined) [@mikeisnt](/creator/undefined) [@ussoplover](/creator/undefined) [@donny_v](/creator/undefined) [@jessiblady](/creator/undefined) [@matan_vilensky](/creator/undefined) [@batsight1](/creator/undefined) [@spaghettikozak](/creator/undefined) [@trick_question7](/creator/undefined) [@cpthreeio](/creator/undefined) [@sharintaint](/creator/undefined) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::481216430/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "Nolan did all three with Oppenheimer" [X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1981404453346693524) [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) 2025-10-23T16:56Z 13.1K followers, 116.5K engagements "In this climate you do if you demand final cut" [X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1981473820495213034) [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) 2025-10-23T21:32Z 13.1K followers, 3420 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](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1977173431755194690) [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) 2025-10-12T00:44Z 13.1K followers, 5199 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](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1978240151412236663) [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) 2025-10-14T23:23Z 13.1K followers, 1479 engagements "(I also find it interesting how it often seems like to even its fans "Superman (2025)" is not especially good on its own merits. It can feel like the only selling point is it wasn't made by the other guy. Which is fine - people like what they like - but not a robust argument.)" [X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1978749540728516911) [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) 2025-10-16T09:07Z 13.1K followers, 2267 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](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1975686741408239704) [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) 2025-10-07T22:16Z 13.1K followers, 590.8K engagements "Honestly as somebody who loved TRON: Legacy Im much more interested in seeing Joseph Kosinski carry what interested him about that project through Oblivion and even F1 than I am in seeing him make TRON but for Gen Z or whatever the mandate would have been" [X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1978521543903678590) [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) 2025-10-15T18:01Z 13.1K followers, 3197 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](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1978550559964598681) [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) 2025-10-15T19:56Z 13.1K followers, 19.2K engagements "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](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1978746463669658063) [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) 2025-10-16T08:54Z 13.1K followers, 23.6K engagements "Four. Words. Somehow Ben Solo returned" [X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1980401530382741830) [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) 2025-10-20T22:31Z 13.1K followers, 5032 engagements "New episode of The Backdrop up at @SecondWindGroup. Where I look at TRON: Ares and the literal emptiness of the modern summer blockbuster where urban landscapes are reduced to big empty LEGO sets to be smashed on film. WATCH:" [X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1980650821898608826) [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) 2025-10-21T15:02Z 13.1K followers, 2770 engagements "It seems I was entirely correct when I predicted the greatest threat to James Gunns nascent DCU wasnt fans or box office but the likelihood of a change of management and ownership completely unrelated to the work he is doing" [X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1980771217054249137) [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) 2025-10-21T23:00Z 13.1K followers, 7595 engagements "More seriously on this thats two of the remaining five major studios gone this year. Three of the six majors gone in the past six years. And thats without factoring in MGM" [X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1980773861541970300) [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) 2025-10-21T23:11Z 13.1K followers, 10.9K engagements "I just think it's interesting that these are the same people who often insisted that they were so fundamentally different from "the Snyder Cult" or whatever. Having interacted with them not really. In reality it's just a universal reality of all modern media fandoms I guess" [X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1978748299625570797) [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) 2025-10-16T09:02Z 13.1K followers, 2547 engagements "To be fair this is end result of Hollywood shutting down its production and release pipeline twice in five years (once by greed) after killing everything but the most expensive movies. If you let people get out of the habit of seeing films of course they dont see films" [X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1980398808950624661) [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) 2025-10-20T22:20Z 13.1K followers, 16.3K engagements "Slightly offended that the YouTube algorithm picked up my reference to future Tom Cruise protg Glen Powell but not veteran character actor Brent Briscoe" [X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1980981333100003518) [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) 2025-10-22T12:55Z 13.1K followers, 1696 engagements "Wait wasnt there an actually good crossover comic pre-dating Kirkmans work that they should probably be drawing from instead" [X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1981076552281403647) [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) 2025-10-22T19:13Z 13.1K followers, 2260 engagements "No. A western is not just a hat and a horse. It is things like the American wilderness the claiming of Native American land industrialisation often through railways mass death to sustain that modernity saloons. Oh all that *and* a hat and a horse bruh" [X Link](https://x.com/Darren_Mooney/status/1981492198358007872) [@Darren_Mooney](/creator/x/Darren_Mooney) 2025-10-23T22:45Z 13.1K followers, 2148 engagements
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@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.
Engagements: XXXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXX -XX%
- X Month XXXXXXX -XX%
- X Months XXXXXXXXXX +134%
- X Year XXXXXXXXXX +31%
Mentions: XX #
- X Week XX -XX%
- X Month XXX +38%
- X Months XXX +30%
- X Year XXXXX -XXXX%
Followers: XXXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXX no change
- X Month XXXXXX +0.33%
- X Months XXXXXX +6.50%
- X Year XXXXXX +7.50%
CreatorRank: XXXXXXX #
Social Influence #
Social category influence finance XXXXX% stocks XXXX% gaming XXXX% social networks XXXX% technology brands XXXX% celebrities XXXX%
Social topic influence money 4.55%, warner bros #333, acquisition #580, make a 2.27%, playstation 2.27%, f1 2.27%, star wars 2.27%, rise of 2.27%, wars 2.27%, ares XXXX%
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @darrenmooney @finnishmiikka @niklander3 @sashotodorov1 @darkjaysonvr @imaxenthusiast @xeverythingap @danielrpk @suitekid @secondwindgroup @mikeisnt @ussoplover @donny_v @jessiblady @matan_vilensky @batsight1 @spaghettikozak @trick_question7 @cpthreeio @sharintaint
Top Social Posts #
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"Nolan did all three with Oppenheimer"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-23T16:56Z 13.1K followers, 116.5K engagements
"In this climate you do if you demand final cut"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-23T21:32Z 13.1K followers, 3420 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, 5199 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, 1479 engagements
"(I also find it interesting how it often seems like to even its fans "Superman (2025)" is not especially good on its own merits. It can feel like the only selling point is it wasn't made by the other guy. Which is fine - people like what they like - but not a robust argument.)"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-16T09:07Z 13.1K followers, 2267 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, 590.8K engagements
"Honestly as somebody who loved TRON: Legacy Im much more interested in seeing Joseph Kosinski carry what interested him about that project through Oblivion and even F1 than I am in seeing him make TRON but for Gen Z or whatever the mandate would have been"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-15T18:01Z 13.1K followers, 3197 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, 19.2K engagements
"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, 23.6K engagements
"Four. Words. Somehow Ben Solo returned"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-20T22:31Z 13.1K followers, 5032 engagements
"New episode of The Backdrop up at @SecondWindGroup. Where I look at TRON: Ares and the literal emptiness of the modern summer blockbuster where urban landscapes are reduced to big empty LEGO sets to be smashed on film. WATCH:"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-21T15:02Z 13.1K followers, 2770 engagements
"It seems I was entirely correct when I predicted the greatest threat to James Gunns nascent DCU wasnt fans or box office but the likelihood of a change of management and ownership completely unrelated to the work he is doing"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-21T23:00Z 13.1K followers, 7595 engagements
"More seriously on this thats two of the remaining five major studios gone this year. Three of the six majors gone in the past six years. And thats without factoring in MGM"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-21T23:11Z 13.1K followers, 10.9K engagements
"I just think it's interesting that these are the same people who often insisted that they were so fundamentally different from "the Snyder Cult" or whatever. Having interacted with them not really. In reality it's just a universal reality of all modern media fandoms I guess"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-16T09:02Z 13.1K followers, 2547 engagements
"To be fair this is end result of Hollywood shutting down its production and release pipeline twice in five years (once by greed) after killing everything but the most expensive movies. If you let people get out of the habit of seeing films of course they dont see films"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-20T22:20Z 13.1K followers, 16.3K engagements
"Slightly offended that the YouTube algorithm picked up my reference to future Tom Cruise protg Glen Powell but not veteran character actor Brent Briscoe"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-22T12:55Z 13.1K followers, 1696 engagements
"Wait wasnt there an actually good crossover comic pre-dating Kirkmans work that they should probably be drawing from instead"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-22T19:13Z 13.1K followers, 2260 engagements
"No. A western is not just a hat and a horse. It is things like the American wilderness the claiming of Native American land industrialisation often through railways mass death to sustain that modernity saloons. Oh all that and a hat and a horse bruh"
X Link @Darren_Mooney 2025-10-23T22:45Z 13.1K followers, 2148 engagements