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

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"

ah come on, you can't compare the nazis to this film

Movie will probably kill 6 million brain cells

Making it that much easier to enjoy the third installment

https://www.reddit.com/r/DC_Cinematic/comments/3ytdgv/saw_bvs_last_night_in_la/#spoiler

Bullshit? Real? Who cares!

This Batman will come across as a villain to some viewers; he enjoys inflicting pain on criminals. There was a scene where he was branding a criminal, and he had the biggest smile on his face.

look at this pasty motherfucker

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--qYlORJFZ--/oufv9pl3vesnldnpuc4q.jpg

Me am Bizarro!

Glad to see Snyder's apparently doubling down on ignoring every previous depiction of Superman as a generally benevolent dude.

edward superhands

Superman v Batman: Come At Me Bro

face looks like Ted Cruz

The capitalised 'Of' is enough to ensure I will never willingly watch this.

You misunderstand. 'Dawn Of' is the name of

ONE MORE TRAILER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cle_rKBpZ28

As Oliver Wang put it, "Some trailer editor got really coked up before sitting down to make this."

The Lego sets are out:

http://brickset.com/sets/theme-DC-Comics-Super-Heroes/subtheme-Batman-v-Superman-Dawn-of-Justice

They are...Enh. The forklift & kryptonite assembly looks neat, and here's your Jesse Eisenberg rendered into Minifig form:

http://images.brickset.com/sets/AdditionalImages/76046-1/76046_alt11.jpg

legos are so angry now

Possibly, but minifigs had blank smiles for their first 20+ years of existence, so any chance from that would be considered as dramatic.

Plus he's a bad guy, cmon, in a grunt Zac Snyder movie. The odds of him showing those pearlies are not high. Lex Luthor is a character not given to beautific demonstrations, even when successfully stealing 40 cakes.

Well, Snyder-related Legos, anyway.

It just occurred to me that pre-propecia Lex is kind of a perfect Lego figure.

How so? I kinda dig that they were able to communicate his rumbled suit coat & shirt, and the wrinkle lines of his body piece match those in his face.

Plus he's a bad guy, cmon, in a grunt Zac Snyder movie

yeah it's not out of place for him but it just reminded me of how the majority of lego faces now are angry (or come with two versions - angry AND smirky!)

xpost Pop off his hair and you instantly have the next movie's iteration of LL (presumably).

He smiles in the previous trailer! A really creepy high-energy one, but Lex has always struck me as pretty cheery when not focussing on Superman (which admittedly is 99% of the time). He's basically Trump's self-image.

lol, otm

Yeah, the post-Crisis Lex has generally been depicted as someone who enjoys the life, not a frowner.

purple & green power suit Lex also loved flying around and fucking shit up when Superman wasn't around to bring out his baldness resentment

The best thing about this film so far is that I still want to see it even after three trailers. I can't remember the last movie where I felt like that.

OTOH, these trailers seem to indicate that Snyder is doubling down on his refusal to acknowledge the way these characters (or Superman, at least) have been historically represented and the reasons why those depictions have appeal, so he can take another long walk off a short pier AFAIC. Sorry for the harsh invective, but that's just how I feel.

I hope this bombs so hard

but it probably won't

It's an fx-heavy action movie with "Batman" in the title. It'll more than make back its budget and advert campaign no matter how terrible it is.

Batman and Robin
Production Budget 125M
Domestic 107M
Foreign 131M

probably didn't make a profit. but then again the international market is bigger now.

my understand is that when the film started to run into financial trouble, arnold just went to get some more diamonds, from his hideout.

The intl market is what I'm referring to. Flick could make like only("only") $150-200m in America and will still pull in more than $300-400m everywhere else even in it's uncontesably shite.

I'm kinda curious how high the returns have to be and still be considered "underperforming" by idiotic yet terrified studio execs staking their entire "hot-shotting a universe" maneuver on this flick not tanking so hard it kills any DC cinematic outing for 5 years.

Hey hey hey the international market is larger but not less discerning - The Dark Knight made most of its money in the US, for example.

snyder:

Over the last two years he’s basically been Superman as pop culture would know him. He’s been righting wrongs, there have been floods, mines have collapsed, bridges have collapsed, churches have caught on fire. He’s basically been a hero.

When we find him, he’s been dealing with the everyday world of being a superhero, but there’s a paradigm shift happening, in that the unintended consequences of some of those rescues are starting to come into fruition. He’s starting to see that every action has a reaction. Like, if you’re just taking a cat out of a tree, you can’t touch anything or the arborists will say, ‘He damaged the tree branch when he got the cat down.’ Or, ‘The cat wasn’t neutered, so now there’s thousands of cats.’ There’s no winning any more for Superman.

so basically we're going from seeing inexperienced hero who levels a city and kills his opponent to a movie about the public turning against him and skipping over entirely all the fun heroic stuff in the middle? another fantastic creative decision from visionary director zack snyder

Although I was already planning on skipping it, nothing has made me want to see the movie less than that passage. Not even just for the fact that he seems hellbent to suck allllllll of the fun out of Superman (for which, fuck him) but largely because...does he think that's a compelling framework around which to build a story? Really? That's like a one-off issue of the comic, dealing with the annoyances of unintended consequences, and then you get the fuck on with the good shit next month.

Like, if you’re just taking a cat out of a tree, you can’t touch anything or the arborists will say, ‘He damaged the tree branch when he got the cat down.’

oh yeah this is brilliant. i definitely want to give the mind that thought this up my money. /s

xp seems like a hangover from watchmen really - 'c'mon guys real superheroes would be terrifying monsters!' the idea that superheroes can work on any other level seems utterly alien to him. i wonder what he thought of ant-man or gotg?

Zach Snyder on Ant-Man:

But I feel like Batman and Superman are transcendent of superhero movies in a way, because they’re Batman and Superman. They’re not just, like, the flavour of the week Ant-Man – not to be mean, but whatever it is. What is the next Blank-Man?

arborists

I want a Superman movie that is just rescuing cats from trees. Was that really ever a thing? My cat climbs trees, then climbs down. He should rescue dogs from trees, because what the hell?