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

hahaha yup

this looks shit

plot twist: this is secretly the story of Aquaman

Man of Creel

Po-faced Singer Superman + po-faced Ang Lee Hulk=no fun. Superman has always been one of the least dramatically compelling superheroes because he is Superman. Sort of like Thor with no family squabbling. Annoyed that they thought they could remedy this by grafting on internal pain and torment.

The twist, obviously, is that Kevin Costner is super, too, but he has mastered the art of not saving people.

I love Superman Returns.

I spent the whole movie feeling sorry for Criss.

I want him to tell Clark that he does not belong on land, and that the ocean, his only home, calls to him.

― this will surprise many (Nicole), Tuesday, December 11, 2012 2:12 PM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol

ang lee's hulk is the greatest btw

I love Superman Returns.

Really? I thought it was clumsy and dull until Superman started peeping through Lois's windows like a stalker. Then I hated it.

there's 90% chance i will see this movie, but i do wonder how (or if?) all this "what kind of man do you want to be?" earnestness fits in with him being a dickless dork crushing on his co-worker

i'm so curious how all this fancy pants digital prestige camera biz works in a superman movie that there will have to a tidal wave of zzzz's from preview audiences for me not to see it

some people will really vigorously defend Superman Returns. its not really my bag, but it does do some pretty different things with the character

more like skeevy man returns

five years after knocking lois lane out with his super sperm...the man of steel is back to gaze at her longingly in his (still) secret identity.

it is a shame we won't find out whether he ever spoke to his son while the son was conscious

I anticipate having some very depressing conversations with my daughter about this movie (and, specifically, why we will not be watching it)

haha aww.

it just bums me out - my daughter (5 yo) is WAY into Superman and it's going to break her little heart that a) this movie is probably not going to be rated G and b) it is going to suck

"What was I supposed to do? Let them all die?" "Maybe."

god this is so fucking wrong URGH SMASH

maybe pa kent is the bad guy!

If the action sequences are going to be typical Snyder, then I'm going to hope 95% of it is Superman trying to get out of a sealed phone booth

careless talk costner lives

what I think would be great is if Superman did all of these great heroic things to offset the fact that every night he turns into a person-eating monster

this looks boring as fuck

Supermange

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I blame all of you that went and saw Watchmen for this btw

Jeepers Supers

Hey the trailer sucked me into Watchmen, didn't realize they were going to ratfuck the source mat

I still kind of liked Watchmen

because you are satan

I don't think that's the only reason

I'd be OK with any Superman movie that featured Mxyzptlk, Solomon Grundy, Bizarro and a Prince soundtrack.

it's only the fourth-worst alan moore adaptation, so i mean, comparatively, i enjoyed it myself.

Watchmen wasn't that bad. I enjoyed most of it. It was maybe a little lifeless. The ending was meh.

I should go back and re-read and then I can shit my pants over this movie, maybe.

i'm not impressed with what snyder did with watchmen but could have been soooooo much worse

"mindlessly recreate the book except take out the alien and add more slo-mo kicking" - we've seen more horrifying takes

Watchmen was definitely better than League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and I refused to see From Hell

lol From Hell is better than both of those!

primarily because Hughes Bros actually know how to make a movie

(not that it was actually that good or anything)

I'd be OK with any Superman movie that featured Mxyzptlk, Solomon Grundy, Bizarro and a Prince soundtrack.

see I would totally take my kid to see this

will only watch if Ursa makes an appearance

i've never read league so i could just sit back and think "man when i was a little kid at nerd camp, we would have loved this crap" knowing said nerd camp kids once ran outside and pretended to be characters from spaceballs

i despised watchmen

watching this trailer again, it's hard to tell if it's gonna be good or not. there's some stuff in it that looks promising, and stylistically Snyder has reigned himself in. Really dig the shots of Supes hugging his mom and holding lois' hand. love the Donner superman but its time to get out from under its shadow

michael shannon's gonna be awesome, that's for sure.

i actually just watched the trailer finally and i'm kind of cautiously optimistic!

Shannon is the only thing promising about this

maybe it'll go all miracleman in the final third and an entire city will get ultra-violently destroyed after which benign super-fascist takes over the planet

i mean that's what I'D do

whether as filmmaker or super hero

amy adams is going to be a totally awesome lois lane, if they let her cut loose.