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

http://www.theonion.com/articles/economically-healthy-daily-planet-now-most-unreali,28718/

I laughed every time ihop appeared but ihop definitely taking liberties with canon.

H4A that smile is consistently the best thing about this movie don't knock it

do they do some awful update where he works for the huffington post or something

yeah i might see this tonight

as with every time i go see one of these mega-blockbusters in the theater, there will probably be a few moments while watching the movie when i get the existential shudders and wonder why i am spending part of my brief existence watching a movie i don't even expect to be good

What HfA said about the ending. It's not Reeve, but it's quiet humor that works. I actually really liked the fact that they make Lois Not An Idiot because she doesn't fall for the glasses thing for a second.

Reeve is fantastic! The moment in Superman II when he says "I blew it" in the vacant Fortress of Solitude makes my chin tremble. He was a whiz at switching from dork to hunk without losing his wits.

do they do some awful update where he works for the huffington post or something

Haha there's this Neil Patrick Harris guy who works for some sort of TMZ style site who plays a role. But not at the Daily Planet, which is still planeting.

Without spoiling it, the huffpo blogosphere stuff is part of the movie

Supermans smile pretty cute too Xps

he was so swoony as Superman. and his Clark was true dork

Without spoiling it, the huffpo blogosphere stuff is part of the movie

― Philip Nunez, Sunday, June 16, 2013 1:31 PM (10 seconds ago) Bookmark

*gets excited*

he was so swoony as Superman. and his Clark was true dork

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, June 16, 2013 1:31 PM (31 seconds ago) Bookmark

qft

it's astonishing how he never got a part so suited to his talents. The only time he ever summoned the same lightness again is in Switching Channels, the DOA remake of The Front Page.

Yeah I'm thinking of all the things I saw him in, and they just all never quite worked. I mean... Somewhere in Time, Deathwish, Anna Karenina.

reeves as superrake in 3 is good too. nusuperman is weirdly summoning quinto's Spock throughout.

Meanwhile, accident of history and casting but over on Twitter a friend pointed out that Superman's dads in this new one are both Robin Hood.

Thinking about this movie gives me a sense-memory headache

Michael Shannon might have made an interesting superman since they were going the brooding intense route anyway. His accent feels more farmy than britstraterrestrial anyway

He also looks kind of like an Alex Ross superman

Really hated the second half of this movie. There's only so much superpunching my eyes can take.

he was so swoony as Superman. and his Clark was true dork

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, June 16, 2013 12:31 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

some pretty good slapstick in first two movies, esp. in #2.

and ned the thing how nobody realizes clark is superman, including lois, doesn't make her or anyone else stupid! it's just a wonderful conceit that i'm sure a movie as Serious as this one hasn't the imagination for.

i always loved that conceit, back to when i was a little kid. "it's superman, can't you see?" --yelled gleefully at the TV.

loved the bit with Lois and the juicer and the sight gag of the choked-with-cigs ashtray.

reeve was great. he was perfect in a way that's difficult to describe - he's just great to look at, this big broad-shouldered guy in a nylon body suit, hands on his hips and wry smile on his face. he radiates decency, but somehow isnt dull or dreary. the lightness of touch is there but you know you'd still feel a little nervous if you were standing next to him. he's the best thing about superman '78

if they do a sequel to man of steel and they try to add a comic element with bumbling clark kent, it's gonna be a disaster because cavill's a huge liability as an actor

Meanwhile over in Zimmerworld:

Zimmer found a couple of things about Superman that were relevant to him, mainly the idea of being a stranger in a strange land and, always being a foreigner, how does one then look at America?

"Especially throughout the last few years of working on Dark Knight, etc., we've been looking at America in a rather sort of grim way," Zimmer explains. "The thing that has been left out of any conversation is just to honor hard-working folk. I thought, 'Wow, I just want to use this movie to celebrate the endlessness of the Midwest, the farmers, the people who leave their doors unlocked because they trust in the people who invite the stranger in and give them a cup of tea and coffee.'

"The dignity of the blue-collar man – wouldn't that be nice to celebrate? Just stop with all the dark stuff for a second."

"i guess i'll try to find a film that's about that, after i'm done writing the 'man of steel' score"

There's a kind of superhero reboot grocery bag I could live without.

Sir, that journalist is here, with the...... Superman.

There's this guy wreaking havoc around town. Calls himself...... The Joker.

My first name, since you asked for no reason? It's...... Robin.

They did this in the trailer!

This was staggeringly poor. Half of the populations of Smallville and Metropolis must be dead by the end of this and Superman just does not give a fuck. Not even a throwaway line of dialogue to acknowledge the carnage or even express concern for the people he's supposed to be protecting. It's particularly infuriating since they wanted to make a 'realistic, grounded' Superman, and then Snyder deliberately plays with 9/11 imagery and then completely ignores the consequences of an atrocity several times its magnitude.

I went in expecting it to be bad, but it's worse than I could possibly have imagined. No-one involved in this seems to understand a single thing about what makes Superman work as a character.

nah it's cool larry fishburne got out in time

There's a kind of superhero reboot grocery bag I could live without.

Sir, that journalist is here, with the...... Superman.

There's this guy wreaking havoc around town. Calls himself...... The Joker.

My first name, since you asked for no reason? It's...... Robin.

― sjuttiosju_u (wins), Sunday, June 16, 2013 6:59 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

just to expand on this it's not the stupidity of making a big deal of naming the character that's lame, it's the stupidity of making a huge deal of NOT saying the character's name for the rest of the movie.

"See nobody actually calls her catwoman in the whole movie because even though she really is catwoman she kind of isn't catwoman she's just an ordinary anonymous criminal who dresses like a cat for literally no reason" haha no offence nolan but for real I think you might actually be brain-damaged m8

I think only 3 people died onscreen? So everyone else is just scrapes and sprains

yeah that's great when supes kills the guy responsible for the hundreds of deaths he doesn't give a shit about and he's all "BAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGHH"

"The building I was in collapsed when Superman smashed General Zod through its foundations. I broke a nail and my bus home was 15 minutes late." xp

it's the gi joe school of "if you didn't see the death, it's not a death"

The thing that really bothered me about that is a super scream should take out a block as well, no? like what he should really do is scream into a kryptonite pillow

i kept waiting for the moment when superman would show an iota of concern for the # of people being put in harms way by fighting in densely populated areas, was a little weird that it never came, also made his anguished post-zod scream seem unearned

H4A that smile is consistently the best thing about this movie don't knock it

― sjuttiosju_u (wins), Sunday, June 16, 2013 1:29 PM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark

not knocking it, love amy adams. kinda have mixed feelings on her in this... she might be too cute for lois. but she also gets saddled with an ungenerously written character and a lot of the movie's clunkiest lines

http://images.tcj.com/2013/06/tcj_0003.jpg

what the hell is that

^

a panel from ernie colon's underworld that inexplicably uses a clark kent lookalike(?)

I'm surprised it only got 1 vote and my brother the cow got 3.
--Herman G. Neuname

Cocaine presents..
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--Algerian Goalkeeper

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--utilizing my famously feline agility to seek managerial succor (forksclovetofu)

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--乒乓

also
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--i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu)

batman returns would've been great if it had the confidence not to be a bunch of noisy obnoxious toy-selling bullshit. its best scenes cant be touched by any other superhero movie though:

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--i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass)

what the hell is that

Wtfdaniel

Cocaine DOES present it. Not as thoughtful as discussions of utility data though.

that should be in the opening credits for top gun...

jerry bruckheimer, don simpson, and cocaine present

a film by tony scott

TOP GUN

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_GFHMS-OSeSo/TQBIv9z434I/AAAAAAAADJo/TBpRwgVGkcI/s640/Oeming+%25281%2529.JPG

Someone tell me what this is from?

Danger Diabolik

The Invisibles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RG0nWG8FSs

forgot to mention nolte in pantheon of superhero movie perfs