itt: consternation and wailing about Zach Snyder's upcoming SUPERMAN/BATMAN film/sequel to MAN OF STEEL -- official title: BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE

for that kind of viewing i can wait for cable

yeah probably otm

This looks tonally all over the shop. Plus I can clearly guess the entire plot. But I had an awful lot of fun watching that trailer.

eisenberg is going for a career low here, judging by the trailers.

why so serious?

I dunno this kind of looks deliberately a bit silly and campy to me? Maybe that's just the trailer editing.

Yeah I was kinda heartened by how goofy it looks. I mean, it looks dumb as hell but it might be an enjoyable trainwreck.

I can well believe the two 'jokes' in the trailer are the only two in the film.

getting heavy pre-Riddler (as in the scientist before he is transformed) Jim Carrey vibes from him

really psyched to see the big alien thing in the sky shooting at skyscrapers, like that hasnt been in half a dozen of these damn movies already

Hah, if this establishes that Lex Luthor is the Riddler then I will forgive it much (but not enough to see it in the cinema).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc3wIAs3coU

this trailer kinda sucks and confirms my sense that the movie won't be any good, while sorta suggesting it might be slightly better than i thought? like at least they're running with "the destructive nightmare superman of 'man of steel' was uh, SUPPOSED to be scary and unsettling!" though just as obviously they won't follow through on it really because clearly superman will be good at the end and they'll team up. aka it'll be the dark knight rises, but without the very few things that movie did have going for it to elevate it above a dimly lit CGI-fest with some people growling at each other in dark slashes of rain, dust, and explosions.

when eisenberg first came onscreen i thought the idea was that he'd be the new jimmy olsen. and my assumption was that scary monster guy is bizarro (now a clone made by lex, playing up the batman-uses-special-technology-to-put-himself-on-equal-footing-with-superman idea from DKR)... but it makes as much or more sense for it to be doomsday - so the pointless destruction of whole cities to achieve narrow plot-related goals is going to be the running theme for DC. biff, pow, superheroes aren't just for kids. yay.

scary monster guy is bizarro (now a clone made by lex, playing up the batman-uses-special-technology-to-put-himself-on-equal-footing-with-superman idea from DKR)

fairly confident that this is a better idea/plot point than anything actually in the movie

Why is the batcave so boring it looks like an office building

yeah, could be bizarro? could be a bizarro/doomsday mashup? i guess it's hard to want to care.

also note that batman's motivation here, while basically understandable, also neuters the one non-toxic political idea from dark knight returns: that batman recognizes how superman's genial, badly-thought-out patriotism has led him to become a tool of a cynical military establishment and ronald reagan's central american policies specifically. never thought i'd be on here praising frank miller's politics but really.

not that i'd expect them to handle such an idea well - note the very lame have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too response to the post-9/11 police state in nolan's second two films. but stripping it down to "he's an alien and too powerful and no one controls him" repeats that exact problem while turning the whole thing into a ripoff of civil war. particularly ill-timed too: now batman's a donald trump xenophobe convinced that all immigrants are here to blow up our cities, and in a universe where the only immigrants we've seen do exactly that with unbeatable superpowers, the movie doesn't have much room to say "oh but wait, batman is wrong really." can't wait for the bumper stickers that come out of this one. i stand with batman: make america great again!

more like I Growl With Batman

also that is totally Doomsday, no way is that Bizarro

hoping Affleck gives Batman a shitty New England accent

this honestly looks like a stand-out contender for worst movie ever made - like i am considering seeing it to confirm that
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Thursday, December 3, 2015 3:18 AM (16 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i came here to make the same comment; this really does look like an atrocity.

in other words, the film zack snyder was born to make

in this one Batman and Superman destroy 75% of Metropolis and Gotham, displacing many from homes and killing 1.2 million, but each one learned a valuable lesson about themselves in the process and in the end, isn't that more important?

There was a bizarro doomsday who got crushed by bizarro justice league. Maybe this is that movie!

lol

i will watch the hell out of that on netflix at my house

This could not look worse.

Serious Slipknot/ICP/nu-metal vibe from all the footage we've seen - maybe I'm just being unfair because of the Zak Snyder involvement?

"I don't know why we fight,Supes. We'll all just trying to get to Shangri-La"

watching that trailer made me imagine a pair of glasses kinda like the ones from They Live: when you put them on you can no longer see CGI

As usual my post will state the obv, but man that trailer spoils so much for the poor fans.

also, looks terrible

and what the hell at the colour/contrast balance?

i'm like 95% sure that zack snyder has a serious visual impairment which he's somehow managed to conceal from the public and his coworkers for his entire career

really psyched to see the big alien thing in the sky shooting at skyscrapers, like that hasnt been in half a dozen of these damn movies already

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, December 3, 2015 10:22 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That is a flashback scene from Man of Steel.

i really hope they went to the trouble of getting michael shannon back for this one just to play a motionless corpse

this looks Joel Shumacher level bad

it reminds me of that simpsons with king arthur and the ninjas, except that might require some kind of creative leap.

surely they could have fitted harry potter in here...

this looks Joel Shumacher level bad

― akm, Friday, December 4, 2015 6:11 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

to be fair we're due

Enh, the Green Lantern movie already exists. All the Fantastic Four movies exist.

sure but those are merely bad movies

The preview seems to be saying "this movie will be kind of funny in Act I, absolutely godawful in Act II, and then Act III will be almost redeemed by the presence of Gal Gadot"

So basically if you really just want to see a few minutes of Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman you should buy a ticket, but otherwise you should not

BTW Gal Gadot? WS

So basically if you really just want to see a few minutes of Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman you should buy a ticket, but otherwise you should not

so torn...

this is gonna be a slash flick

Consider buying a ticket to another movie that starts 20 minutes before this one ends, then wandering in to the wrong theater by sheer accident.

I hope they can scare up a pair of shorts for Doomsday

Why is Ben Affleck doing Batman with a marble-mouthed Jimmy Stewart/Martin Sheen voice?

Terrible as it looks, it's a nice contrast to the increasingly risk averse cookie cutter Marvel shit that people still pretend is supposed to be exciting

I love that argument. It's basically - "say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, at least it's an ethos"