drizzle wrote:It kinda sounds like you guys want a Dr Manhattan movie more than you want a Superman movie. I do too though
I don't necessarily think that going darker would be a bad thing for the franchise, I just don't want it to be a retread of how Nolan went about it. But that's exactly what the trailer brings to mind. There are many other ways to portray moral conflict
The problem is that, in theory, they're using the Nolan Batman flicks and this as a jumping off point for the Justice League flick. As bad as a dark, Nolanish superman might be, it would look much worse if they didn't stick to the same look and there was a crazy jarring difference between the two styles in the same movie. Part of the reason that Avengers worked as well as it did is because all the solo flicks that came first all looked like they took place in the same world, more of less. Can you imagine trying to make bright ass Brandon Routh from Superman Returns work alongside a Nolanized Batman? It would look B movie level laughable.
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ric wrote:in the shower the other day i thought up a list of things i hope this franchise starts to get rid of in the superman lore/cannon (let me say that i am not actually a fan of the franchise and the communist russian superman is the only one i have ever cared about because it is very stylish);
1. superman cannot shoot lasers from his eyes. this is retarded and i have no idea why anyone would think this is reasonable for a guy who was just kind of housed in a space ship surrounded with crystals. flying is one thing - shooting laser beams from eyes? really?
2. superman cannot fly into outer space. very very high i am willing to accept but literally flying into outer fucking space where everything else in the universe except those mysterious asteroid bacteria turns necronymous in less than an instant is really fucking insane and stupid
3. superman cannot turn back time. apart from the outer space thing that is really super obviously retarded
4. when get shot at its not like superman feels nothing. fucking guns are shooting bullets at what is still soft fleshy material with a nervous system im pretty fucking sure hes gonna feel it even if they dont penetrate the skin. not getting sick, cool, i can buy that; no pain when a legion of soldiers is shooting at you; not so fucking buyable even for a superhero
5. the see through vision thing must be toned down in a major way; all that 'stand aside while i super-beam-gaze into this impenetrable door' shit is retarded as well as the whole thing villains do like 'i lined this door with lead' bullshit. how about he can sort of barely see through/sense shit that is not behind super manufacted material (ie not bank doors, not tanker ship hulls, not airplane shells, etc etc)
6. the flying thing. make it better. hes got to discover how to do this shit and there has to be better limitations. its one thing to jump up high in the air with superhuman strength and deflect a car from smashing huddling people; its quite another to fly up in the air and catch a nuclear missile flying at 200mph like you were playing baseball and then hucking it into space. birds are designed to fly and a good number of them die before they can do it. it is retarded that superman can just jump up into the air and master gravity-defiance more naturally than any other species in the universe. some things are perfectly acceptable like flying over or under airplanes to save them but mostly i am talking about catching and redirecting things like no big deal. superhuman strength does not extend to natural mastery of time and space (gravity) such that literally anything is possible with great ease
there is more action and epicness in the 30 second trailer for 'Man of Steel' than there is in the entire 'Superman Returns' movie
but did an actor have to possess a round-shaped head to get in this movie? (with Kevin Costner making the cut early for giving a round of head to the execs)
yeah i hate Russell Crowe more than most actors who think they are elite human beings but are actually nothing special in the grand scheme of the universe... but he looks like a decent Jor-el
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