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

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.

Lois Lane is one of the most thankless 'iconic' characters anyone could ever play, i don't even know what the best case scenario for playing LL is

i'm kinda scared clark will be this emo dude in glasses pouting at her from behind

like at this point in AA's career it almost feels a little beneath her (xp)

i can see this being pretty good, i know it was said before about the teaser but the first 45 seconds or so of the trailer give off a heavy malick/levi's commercial vibe, mystical voiceover + gorgeous midwestern scenery

tree of life but about superheroes is a movie i would really like to see so im just going to pretend this will be that

Lois Lane is one of the most thankless 'iconic' characters anyone could ever play, i don't even know what the best case scenario for playing LL is

― some dude, Tuesday, December 11, 2012 5:03 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

no way, lois is awesome

oh there have been some decent takes on lois in various comics. i mean, it's not the "iconic" reading, no, where she's a ballbuster to clark and a slavish super-dick devotee otherwise, but there's places you could go.

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.