Looks like the new film is playing it for laughs. Good move. The whole gritty, dark overly-serious superhero film seems so last year at this point. Hope Adam West has a funny cameo.
One problem I’ve always had with Batman in live action is that the eyes are wrong. In the comics and in cartoons his eyes are always just drawn as white slits. Actually seeing the actor’s eyes through the mask just doesn’t feel right.
It looks like they’ve finally solved that problem.
Ye cats, that’s dark! I do want to see it…but I also don’t want to believe it. I can only think of it as an “Elseworlds” story, not occurring in the “real” DC universe.
Wonder Woman looks good. (Always!)
I feel like I have been hearing about this movie forever (like years).
My care-o-meter just doesn’t have much care left.
I have a feeling I’ll miss it in the theaters, then a few years from now see it on iTunes or Netflix, and wonder when it finally came out.
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Looks like the new film is playing it for laughs. Good move. The whole gritty, dark overly-serious superhero film seems so last year at this point. Hope Adam West has a funny cameo.
[/QUOTE]Um, whoosh?
DC has made it so that they can’t make light and funny movies. Just as Marvel has painted themselves in the opposite corner.
Which is why I’m happy to have an alternative to Marvel, because ‘light and funny’ is not my personal preference when it comes to these movies. Not sure why some people want EVERY comic movie to be that way.
While not technically movies, The Flash is very much of a light show, particularly in stark contrast to the Arrow, while Daredevil is most certainly not “light and funny”.
Good lord, if that entire trailer had been played in slow motion I’m not sure I would have noticed a difference. Three-and-a-half minutes of trailers and how many shots of Superman-as-deity?
Count me as the exact opposite. “Dark and gritty” bores me to tears. That’s why DC isn’t getting any of my movie money. Like sparky! I’ll probably catch it on Netflix sometime when I’m really bored.
OTOH, Supergirl fascinates me. I’ve been a Kara fanboy for decades, and it looks like they are going to take a nicely light approach to the character.
I honestly don’t think that trailer looks dark or gritty, though. Serious, yes. But standard superhero action stuff.
The leaked trailer for Suicide Squad, on the other hand, looks dark and gritty. As it should.
Looks pretty dull to me. Nothing I haven’t seen a million times – fight scenes, impotent angst, snarky villain – all with the look of every Superhero trailer ever made. And it’s clear the Snyder does really understand Superman.
Not all of them. Just the bad ones.
Call me crazy but they seem to be course correcting for the things that bugged me about Man of Steel. I am liking what I see so far.
Suicide Squad’s trailer looked good too.
That’s true. Apparently all the civilian casualties that resulted in the fight between Zod and Supes are what compels Batman to get involved in this new film.
I can’t wrap my head around how early they are releasing trailers for this movie. The teaser was what, 15-18 months ahead of the opening? This is a 3 minute trailer almost a year before the movie comes out.
I know they are trying to get a foothold for DC universe movies and catch up to Marvel but Jesus, if they keep putting out trailers for the next 12 months we’ll see the whole movie before it comes out.
I agree, I actually like a lot of what’s here. They’re taking on the whole “Superman causing untold amounts of destruction” angle and seems like there should be some good themes at play. Lots of cool, intriguing details too… the suit that Joker(?) has spray-painted is a Robin suit; the military guys attacking Batman in the desert are wearing Superman logos, the desert seems to have Grecian buildings in the background.
My main worry is that the movie will try to cram too much in…
Remember that we’re going to have Aquaman and Cyborg showing up as well.
I’m also not sold on Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor. He certainly seems like he’ll be a good villain, but he still feels like he’s in Mark Zuckerberg mode, not Lex. He’s not even bald for crying out loud!
Gene Hackman’s Luthor didn’t seem to be bald…
AT FIRST!!
Archer said it best.
Eh… I dunno, to me the set-piece Supes-Bats battle lifted from Frank Miller’s DKR is too identified with an *ending/closing *myth, not with a start. This way it becomes just another asskicking contest.
(“It took a lifetime and a fortune, Clark… and I had both”)