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

innate aptitude

just gonna assume he meant ineptitude here

It's only Nolan, he thought that last Batman film actually made sense

Sad we're not going to get that movie with Batman and Superman chilling together, but I wouldn't want to see these guys hang out anyway

First review by Glenn Kenny is a good one:

http://movies.msn.com/movies/movie-critic-reviews/man-of-steel.2/

Shakey-bait: directed by admittedly somewhat audacious blockbuster engineer Zack Snyder

at least he doesn't make the mistake of calling him a filmmaker

http://manofsteelresources.com/

lol touché

The thing that bothers me most about this movie is the color palette, to be honest. Not nearly bold and comic-y enough.

i feel like that font is intended to remind us that nolan is involved. also, you have to have eagle vision to read the title.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-o4ZmF_PjQxE/UalCGYQXLDI/AAAAAAABGXU/5TR8hxk986U/s800/man+steel+billboard.jpg

it's like an eye test

Halls Cough Drops: The Movie

do we get special glasses in the mail so we can read the fucking thing or

by we I mean you because obv I am not in the greater LA area

at local screening last night, critics were horrified, if their FB posts this morning are any indication.

how so?

5 minutes in, the print they were watching jumpcut to "A Serbian Film"

It's a risky move, the implications of which are fully realized in the movie's tense climax, in which Superman is compelled to act in a way that none of the other prior screen incarnations of the hero would ever have even considered.

gonna go out on a limb here and guess that Superman kills some innocent people

FINALLY the grim and gritty superman movie that no one was asking for

cool, we're getting pre-Crisis Superman

in bone-snapping 360-degree rotating slowmo

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY BY

CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

DAVID S. GOYER

THAT "SUPERMAN IS A DICK" WEBSITE GUY

Superman goes on a PCP binge and eats off Lex Luthor's face

Wait, he eats off of his face, or eats his face off?

he eats a tasty calzone off Lex Luthor's face, yes that's exactly what I was saying

"Oh hey Kal-El would you like a tasty calzone?"

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/verger.jpg

Why didn't I go with "Kal-elzone?" WHY?

As punishment, you will be banished to endless imprisonment in the Phantom Kalzone: the eternal void, which you yourself discovered.

Damn, Nietzsche really DID invent it all.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/jun/11/man-steel-hollywood-break-superheroes

Yes, yes, yes again.

wow joe queenan got old huh

You wake up awesome. Not because you did something special like beat Hitler or cure polio. All you did was wake up. And suddenly you were awesome. It is the dream of the fame-hungry X Factor generation.

Yes, it's true. Superheroes have never been popular with any other generation.

I do, however, love "Is nothing sacred? No."

Superhero movies are made for a society that has basically given up. The police can't protect us, the government can't protect us, there are no more charismatic loners to protect us and the euro is defunct. Clint Eastwood has left the building. So let's turn things over to the vigilantes.

this is a joke, right?

I have not been able to figure out whether the Dark Knight can actually fly

out-denbys denby. pray you avoid it.

it's weird tho bc queenan didn't used to be insane i don't think

the vigilantes are finally welcome now that dirty harry is gone

http://manofsteelresources.com/

Not all superheroes are Republicans, but most of the movies are. Republicans, that is.

http://www.charlierose.com/images_toplevel/content/11/1153/clip_11531_460x345.jpg

"Superhero movies are made for a society that has basically given up. The police can't protect us, the government can't protect us, there are no more charismatic loners to protect us and the euro is defunct. Clint Eastwood has left the building. So let's turn things over to the vigilantes."

uh, Eastwood freq played a vigilante w/ a badge

othwise Queenan otm

also stop going to these fucking movies

Man of Steel didn't sexualize Superman enough.

the vigilantes are finally welcome now that dirty harry is gone

― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Wednesday, June 12, 2013 1:23 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark

lol i was gonna say

I guess Dirty Harry did manage 3 weeks at #1, after all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_1971_box_office_number-one_films_in_the_United_States

But so did And Now for Something Completely Different.

I'm more amazed that said Monty Python film did that well!

I just seriously don't get how someone can decry the fascistic potential of the superhero-as-savior concept and in the same breath lament that "there are no more charismatic loners to protect us." What is he even asking for?

wait, who's saying that

"Superhero movies are made for a society that has basically given up. The police can't protect us, the government can't protect us, there are no more charismatic loners to protect us and the euro is defunct. Clint Eastwood has left the building. So let's turn things over to the vigilantes."

I know it was already quoted twice but since you asked

Dirty Harry was not a "vigilante" as such. He was a pissed-off cop, and after the first movie he was a very by-the-book kind of guy. Magnum Force is about him stopping other guys from doing just what he did in Dirty Harry!

Paul Kersey in Death Wish was a vigilante.