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

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

I'm just going to keep bringing up Uwe Boll

shouldn't have swallowed so much

slocki i agree with you but i will still see this because emotionally i am 10 year olds

oh i'll see the fucking thing

sigh

we are what we are, man

*kicks dirt, storms off*

you guys are such gluttons for punishment. never fails to amaze me.

man what else am i gonna do with two hours? work? make a child i can't take care of? mow the lawn? lament all of the life choices that led to me to watching yet another shitty super hero movie?

otm

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

I knew there was a DVD version of Year One (ugh) but they've done Dark Knight too? Does it keep the other (non-Gotham) DC characters in?

i am pretty sure slocki meant the dark knight rises

but they DID do an animated dark knight returns

i assume he means dark knight rises

im not convinced that this is 'for adults' it looks like its about superman holding hands and being nice to his mom and playing in cornfields

its dark and he has a beard iirc

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

― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Tuesday, December 11, 2012 6:28 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark

brian singer presents a film by brett ratner

shit looks ass-y as hell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JMli3MopNs

Ghost217163 3 weeks ago
next step, gritty HBO series of Batman, one can only hope :D
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