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

dr casino otm re superman = jesus, but jesus questioning his purpose. that for me is the appeal of superman. it's not what he can do with his powers so much as his powers giving him a false sense of self

Would love a film about Supes retiring from crimefighting and becoming host of The Late Show

I guess I can accept Superman being boring in the way that for me Super Mario World is also boring.

comic book stories feature absurd, inexplicable things (like a guy who can stop power locomotives)

these things totally happen in The King Canute Crowd and Who Will Cut My Hair and Minnie's 3rd Love

Super Mario World is also boring.

Out.

When's the last time you played it?

3 and 64 both much better but i mean, yoshi

the one thing that sticks in my mind is the ending, when Zod is shooting his heat blast at the family, and it is inching closer and closer to them, all while struggling in a headlock with Superman. physically it just wouldn't work like that, the heat blasts would be flying all over the wall. as it is Zod would have to stay stationary and veeeerrry slooowly turn his head towards the family, at fractions of an inch.

movie was full of dumb stuff but that was like cartoon logic.

Henry Cavill sucks

WHY DON'T YOU SAY IT TO MY COMPLETELY NORMAL FACE

https://www.thewrap.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/justice-league-henry-cavills-mouth-superman.jpg

This week's episode of Legends of Tomorrow sees Brandon Routh grow a moustache for spurious trivial plot reasons then try and disguise it for most of the episode by holding bits of paper in front of his face.

lol for real?

https://comicbook.com/dc/amp/2018/12/04/henry-cavill-mustache-brandon-routh-legends-tomorrow/

I should also point out Legends of Tomorrow is absolutely killing it this season.

heh, that's good

brandon routh really deserved a better shot at superman than superman returns :(

Ha, I look forward to seeing that when we catch up on the DC shows (halfway through last season so that's only collectively like...um, 100 episodes...jesus). I like him but he is such a dork on Legends that it's difficult to remember he was ever Superman.

I should also point out Legends of Tomorrow is absolutely killing it this season.

Couldn't agree more. The writers and actors are hitting a perfect tone of light and serious, and obviously having fun with plots requiring going undercover at Woodstock and at a summer camp. Best of the Berlanti crowd, by far.

Can i skip the earlier seasons and just start this one then?

Given that I've seen everything up to about a year ago and still strain my brain trying to remember how certain pieces wound up arrayed across the board in this particular arrangement, I'd go with 'no'. Although it's also total froth of no real consequence, so I might also go with 'yes'.

i could just dive right in, like i used to read comics!

Well, sure! I guess, yes, that approach probably isn't advisable for general audiences, but for life-long comic fans it's probably like sinking into a warm bath.

(If only they would occasionally have a '*See Arrow Season 4, Episode 15' text box pop up, the experience would be complete.)

https://news.avclub.com/ray-cyborg-fisher-now-refusing-to-be-in-any-movies-ma-1845970504?

This was not a good movie. But Superman learning to fly was fun, and I appreciated not being asked to laugh every thirty seconds.

It's possible that my low expectations helped out. I didn't even mind Superman shouting "noooo" while disappearing into skull-quicksand.

still nothing that tops Superman destroying dick bar patron's semi-truck off-screen and then chucking it on top of a telephone pole and nobody questioning it, like sometimes you find shoes on top of telephone poles, sometimes you find wrecked semi-trucks, nothing to see here folks

i was genuinely surprised by how great this movie was and will be arguing about it forever i guess

I'm on Brad's side, I find a lot of the criticism of this movie weird, as if Superman specifically is a sacrosanct character that can only be portrayed one way.

i just had a problem with Snyder's directorial style and storytelling.

Superman "killing" someone didn't really bother me so much. he should kill more people IMO

This is really good on that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38Cy_Qlh7VM

i did appreciate that the action sequences that looked like handheld footage from a natural disaster. And Superman and Zod punching each other at Mach 3. And Jor-El was great. There was a lot to like, I just didn't think the end worked at all.