You Want Superman Revamp? [Also the Man of Steel (2013) thread]

max i think it will be that, except its gonna be 'father... other father... always u wrestle inside of me'

lol @ comparing Zack Snyder to Terence Malick

I like how now there are at least two pretty intriguing trailers for next June...and the final products rest on M Night Shyamalan and Zack Snyder

well we survived the mayan apocalypse so anything's possible now i guess

wait no we haven't yet

DON'T FUCK IT UP, YOU DOOFS

may you live to see the spawn (of will smith)

lol @ comparing Zack Snyder to Terence Malick

― Twerkin in a coal mine (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, December 11, 2012 5:06 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

agreed, such an insult to Snyder

Synder's Dawn of the Dead remake was p good, i thought, especially the first twenty minutes or so, but nothing he's done since has filled me w/ much hope.

From Hell is far more of a travesty of the source material than Watchmen is, but then part of the problem w/ Watchmen is its literal-minded fidelity

still, this can't be any worse than Superman Returns, which has to be one of the most disastrous superhero movies of all time. bryan singer is the fucking worst.

Bryan Singer is no Uwe Boll

I grew up with Margot Kidder, who had a raspy chainsmoker's voice and was brusque and bitchy and exactly the right Lois imo.

"malick/levi's commercial" was the devastating part of that post, not that it was re: a snyder movie

margot was so rad as lois

lol valerie perrine, wherefore art thou

Snydy's Dawn of the dead is fantastic

Lois is v much a Katherine Hepburn/His Girl Friday-prototype in my mind

not sure that archetype works in 2012 though

i kinda wish the need to do the whole backstory deal wasn't a prerequisite for getting these things made. of all the super heroes, do we really need an hour's worth of SUPERMAN: WHEREFROM DID HE COME FROM AND WHAT DOES HE DO?

Lois was inspired by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torchy_Blane. Never seen any of the movies but they sound close enough to the His Girl Friday model

The first 20 minutes of Zack Snyder's "Dawn" were great, but then it settles into pretty pro forma/mediocre from there on out. It's everything he's done since then that gives me little hope for this, though I guess I didn't totally mind "Watchmen." Certainly the director I wouldn't go to for pensive mood pieces and internal struggle, though.

JOR-EL IS YOUR DADDY, AND WHAT DOES HE DO? xp

god i keep forgetting snyder did the dawn remake, that was fine

300 (2006)—“Theron”
DW: Yeah, that worked out well, didn’t it? (Laughs.) That worked out fine! Zack (Snyder) was hilarious. I mean, what a guy. He’s got about a hundred kids, Zack, and he’s the biggest kid of them all. He’d go, like, “Well, damn, what if a giant took on a midget, and they just went, ‘BOOM!’ Wouldn’t that be cool?” And I’m like, “Uh, okay, sure!”

every Zack Snyder movie would be better if it starred talking owls

ga'hoole.

ga'hoole could easily be a kryptonian name

i guess it'd be ga-hoole

yeah, Ga'hoole is a dragonrider of Pern

i was gonna make a tortured ga-hole joke and then realized i was conflating this thread with the rimming thread

DOTD was pretty rad, i mean considering the shitty '70s horror remakes that came along in its wake i think it looks even better. watchmen was semi-ok when i watched it but the more i thought about it over time, it felt particularly cold and gloomy and not in the good way. opening credits sequence was killer though. 300, whatever.

Dawn benefitted by falling right in the middle of tons of glossy remakes of grimy '70s drive-in fare and not totally sucking. And having the dramatic action-movie sense, I suppose, to speed up the zombies, albeit a little too much and following in the footsteps of "28 Days Later," but it's a trait that's stuck. Even Romero's zombies have gotten more agile, and they're fast on "Walking Dead," too.

The rest of the Snyder oeuvre has been like one long exercise in filters and ramping.

i kinda wish the need to do the whole backstory deal wasn't a prerequisite for getting these things made. of all the super heroes, do we really need an hour's worth of SUPERMAN: WHEREFROM DID HE COME FROM AND WHAT DOES HE DO?

― the oral history of (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, December 11, 2012 5:29 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You are John Byrne and I claim my $5.

once you stop pretending it's a movie, 300 becomes kind of hilarious

They should have Superman emerge from the center of the earth like the aliens in the "War of the Worlds" remake.

DOTD was pretty rad, i mean considering the shitty '70s horror remakes that came along in its wake i think it looks even better.

otm

doesnt hurt that it had a pretty nice james gunn script too

300 is a movie i would love to find as badass and kewl as everyone else but its just a big whatever to me

Superman the Musical. (Not the sixties Broadway thing.)

Anyway, I want the version of Lois that really doesn't care for Clark or Superman at all because she has a job and stuff.

http://www.harkavagrant.com/nonsense/loislanesm.png

300 is an extended videogame trailer with obscene amounts of bullet-time

plus abs

love how beaton drew lois like in the fleischer cartoons

xp: oh right, combination videogame trailer/Bowflex testimonial

i kinda wish the need to do the whole backstory deal wasn't a prerequisite for getting these things made. of all the super heroes, do we really need an hour's worth of SUPERMAN: WHEREFROM DID HE COME FROM AND WHAT DOES HE DO?

― the oral history of (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, December 11, 2012 5:29 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You are John Byrne and I claim my $5.

― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 09:55 (8 minutes ago)

uh the same John Byrne that did one six-issue miniseries, then a four-issue miniseries, then another four-issue miniseries, then a fourth, four-issue miniseries, all about WHEREFROM DID HE COME FROM AND WHAT DOES HE DO?, in two years?

And of course:

http://io9.com/5967542/what-secrets-does-the-man-of-steel-trailer-hold-our-shot+by+shot-breakdown

Xp yes and then got a little butthurt over "Superman:Birthright" iirc.

i've been called a lot of things on this board but john byrne might be the worst

300 and Watchmen were terrible, but they didn't prepare me for Sucker Punch, which was literally one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Dude is THE WORST.

oh god, i am so sick of superhero movies for adults, i guess TDKR finally pushed it over the edge for me, but this shit has got to stop it just has got to stop

Sucker Punch was totally terrible, but also hilarious in its ineptitude

I loved that they never once showed her dancing, because she was manifestly terrible at it given her inability to sway in tempo

s1ocki otm

christopher nolan presents a film by zack snyder is just the worst thing i could ever imagine seeing at the front of a movie, you people who are all like "hmmm! could be neat!" are fucking crazy