No. People are just far more sensitive these days to anything political. The past decade has absoulely cooked people's brains to the point where they now see red everywhere. This ain't exclusive to one side btw. The internet has turned so many people into fucking pyschos who can't relax and enjoy something anymore.
It's a cause/effect thing.
Movie writing (and this applies to game and even journalist writing now) has largely eschewed nuance and subtlety in their viewpoints to instead bash viewers over the head with their intended point.
Yes, 20 years ago you had movies, games, and shows with political messages and themes all over the place, but they largely focused on writing a good story with the message to compliment the story.
The Sopranos is an excellent example, Tony is a character with a lot of charismatic attributes but is ultimately a murderous criminal, but he's so subtlety written that you can't help but want to like him sometimes. He's sort of racist, sort of homophobic, but he's actually significantly more accepting than most of his crime family. Plus with his real family, he genuinely tries to be good to his kids. He's a bad person, but he's written in a way where he's likable.
Nowadays, though, you'd never have a character written like that, because writers seem to think that likeable characters need to be morally upstanding and preachy (and also snarky which is fucking annoying) and any socially negative attribute immediately means they need to be a complete unlikable jerk. It's basically like every "good" character has a Lisa Simpson complex without having any genuine character flaws of their own. There's just no depth and it's usually an obvious mouthpiece for whatever the writers were intending. So the preaching and shallowness of said preaching has gotten so annoying that it has birthed the "woke" response.
I hate the term woke but it's ultimately what shit-tier writing deserves.
On topic with Superman: I really was not sold on the whiney interpretation I saw in the trailers (that interview with Lois Lane is honestly cringe), I really liked the idea of a more humble and lighthearted Superman but it seems like the film kinda takes the piss out of the character a bit which is disappointing. I might go see it, but I'm let down.
Richard Donner's Superman and Sam Raimi's Spider-Man still seem to be unbeatable in properly characterizing comic book symbols of hope. Please, enough of this tired insincere jokey shit.
i don't want to spoiler it more
