# New "Man Of Steel" Superman Movie Teaser trailer **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 22, 2012, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-man-of-steel-superman-movie-teaser-trailer/629031 "2012-07-22T08:43:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-man-of-steel-superman-movie-teaser-trailer/629031/21 "2012-07-23T03:12:12Z")
I typically enjoy Nolan’s films (and Terrence Malick’s films, too) and yet that trailer did nothing for me. In fact, it realised my worst fears. Donner’s _Superman_ was note-perfect, as was Burton’s _Batman_. Tom Mankiewicz mentions on the commentary of one of the Superman movies that you need different approaches for the two characters, and Donner and Burton were right in their respective roles. Nolan’s Batman films work because that character is somewhat of an anti-hero, and the grittiness of Nolan’s approach fits that nicely. Superman, OTOH, is a hero is the truest sense of the word; his humanity comes from the tension between being both man and “god” and having to serve a higher purpose despite having human emotions. Everything is in broad, archetypal strokes: Smallville is small town middle America; Metropolis is a glistening, bustling hub. Superman should be bright, bold, four-colour action with a soulful core, not gloomy introspection. Also, the “Clark Kent with a beard” sequence looked too much like Bruce Wayne’s spiritual trek in _Batman Begins_. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-man-of-steel-superman-movie-teaser-trailer/629031/22 "2012-07-23T03:25:52Z")
It’s Zack Snyder, really. Chris Nolan is just producing. ---
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-man-of-steel-superman-movie-teaser-trailer/629031/23 "2012-07-23T03:26:10Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Wait… the trailer clearly shows Superman with a beard. _How does he shave?_ He’s been hanging out with Thor. ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-man-of-steel-superman-movie-teaser-trailer/629031/24 "2012-07-23T03:32:52Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > It’s Zack Snyder, really. Chris Nolan is just producing. Yes, but he’s producing, co-writing the story and acting as “godfather”–he was put in charge by WB in order to make his version of Superman via a surrogate director. It seems to me that Nolan is making _Man of Steel_ in the same way Lucas made _Return of the Jedi_. ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-man-of-steel-superman-movie-teaser-trailer/629031/25 "2012-07-23T03:41:50Z")
At my screening of TDKR there was widespread snickering at the end of the trailer when it became clear what it was. I don’t think that was the intended reaction. ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-man-of-steel-superman-movie-teaser-trailer/629031/26 "2012-07-23T07:55:43Z")
Zack “Watchmen” Snyder? I’m in. Watchmen was far, far better than I thought it would be - and with Nolan involved, that just sweetens the pot. It could miss the mark, it could be lame, it could be BAD, but they’ve earned my confidence. The trailers were not so great, but they’re teasers, and I’ll wait before I worry. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-man-of-steel-superman-movie-teaser-trailer/629031/27 "2012-07-23T08:19:04Z")
I have to say, the shot of the kid placing his fists on his hips made me shiver a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-man-of-steel-superman-movie-teaser-trailer/629031/28 "2012-07-23T09:05:07Z")
My first thought: they’re going to do his origin story _again_? ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-man-of-steel-superman-movie-teaser-trailer/629031/29 "2012-07-23T09:09:22Z")
> [@Student\_Driver](#): > > My first thought: they’re going to do his origin story _again_? Well, it’s not as if we’ve seen it since 1978. ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-man-of-steel-superman-movie-teaser-trailer/629031/30 "2012-07-23T09:11:05Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Well, it’s not as if we’ve seen it since 1978. Unless you count 10 seasons of _Smallville_. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-man-of-steel-superman-movie-teaser-trailer/629031/31 "2012-07-23T12:26:46Z")
It’s a year-in-advance trailer, so I don’t put much stock in it. But what the hell is the fishing boat? ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-man-of-steel-superman-movie-teaser-trailer/629031/32 "2012-07-23T13:01:55Z")
> [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](#): > > It’s a year-in-advance trailer, so I don’t put much stock in it. But what the hell is the fishing boat? It looks to me like they took some inspiration from Kurt Busiek’s Superman: Secret Identity in which, if I recall, Clark spends time trying out different careers while trying to figure out his place in the world. He doesn’t just take a bus to the Daily Planet, J-degree in hand. It’s a very promising move in my view. It is interesting to see a comic book character outside of the confines of the Saturday morning cartoon world. The most epic movie parts of the recent Batman movies where when Bruce was traveling abroad, fighting in a Chinese prison, and fighting on frozen lakes and glaciers. It opens up the world so much, and I hope they’re in no particular rush to get him in his familiar bubble. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-man-of-steel-superman-movie-teaser-trailer/629031/33 "2012-07-23T13:27:19Z")
> [@Lobot](#): > > Unless you count 10 seasons of _Smallville_. I don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-man-of-steel-superman-movie-teaser-trailer/629031/34 "2012-07-23T13:31:37Z")
Death of Gandalf music wa neat. All they needed was a modified “Fly you fool!” and we’d be set. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-man-of-steel-superman-movie-teaser-trailer/629031/35 "2012-07-23T13:43:51Z")
> [@drastic\_quench](#): > > It looks to me like they took some inspiration from Kurt Busiek’s Superman: Secret Identity Clark’s world travels were canonical well before Buseik wrote Secret Identity, which is non-canon, and based on Superboy-Prime (before he was brought back as a mad man-child). I’m pretty sure it goes back to the 80s reboot. (It doesn’t seem to have survived into the current relaunch, where a young Clark seems to have come straight to Metropolis, with the intent of making it a better place.) ---
**Author:** ![Lightray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightray/32/391_2.png) [@Lightray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightray)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-man-of-steel-superman-movie-teaser-trailer/629031/36 "2012-07-23T14:11:48Z")
Wow, those things were a total buzzkill. Another superhero-as-lonely-ordinary-guy movie, whoopee. Thank goodness they figured out no one wants to see super action in a superhero movie. DC is going to continue to be pounded by Marvel’s movies. ---
**Author:** ![Yodalicious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yodalicious/32/8195_2.png) [@Yodalicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yodalicious)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-man-of-steel-superman-movie-teaser-trailer/629031/37 "2012-07-23T16:21:47Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > Interesting. The trailer I saw was the one with his earth father. Didn’t know there was a second narration. > > According to YouTube, music of from Lord of the Rings. > > It’s funny because both of Superman’s fathers had some of my favorite lines in the original movie. > > Jor El: “They can be a great people, Kal-El, they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason above all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you… my only son.” > > Whoever is making this movie should read that line over and over again because I think that sums up Superman perfectly. > > And this: > > Pa Kent: “No! No, now you listen to me. When you first came to us, we thought that people would come and take you away because if they found out about the things you could do, well that worried us a lot. But then a man gets older and he thinks very differently better, starts to see things very clear. And there’s one thing I do know, son. And that is, you are here for a reason. I don’t know whose reason it is, or whatever the reason… maybe it’s… I don’t know… but I do know one thing: it’s not to score touchdowns.” > > I can’t believe this but the act of finding those quotes so I could reproduce them accurately is making me miss my Dad… I think the line that sums up Superman is: Pimp: “Say, Jim, that is a bad outfit. Woooo!” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![planetcory](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/planetcory/32/1032_2.png) [@planetcory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/planetcory)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-man-of-steel-superman-movie-teaser-trailer/629031/38 "2012-07-23T16:31:45Z")
> [@Lightray](#): > > Wow, those things were a total buzzkill. Another superhero-as-lonely-ordinary-guy movie, whoopee. Thank goodness they figured out no one wants to see super action in a superhero movie. > > DC is going to continue to be pounded by Marvel’s movies. I’ve seen the Comic Con footage. Trust me. There’s big, BIG action. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-man-of-steel-superman-movie-teaser-trailer/629031/39 "2012-07-23T16:35:24Z")
> [@Daddypants](#): > > I think the line that sums up Superman is: > Pimp: “Say, Jim, that is a bad outfit. Woooo!” 😉 “No. [chuckles] Not that. The other thing. Come on, I know it’s dangling on the tip of your tongue. Let me hear it just once, please?” “Superman will never-” **“WRONG!”** ---
**Author:** ![Victor\_Charlie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7ea924/32.png) [@Victor\_Charlie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Victor_Charlie)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-man-of-steel-superman-movie-teaser-trailer/629031/40 "2012-07-23T16:57:08Z")
> [@Ashley\_Pomeroy](#): > > So now Clark Kent’s the son of a trawlerman? Does this mean the film will have Aquaman in it, perhaps as his super-mentor? No, Clark still grows up in Kansas. Looks like he takes a job on a crab boat once he leaves Smallville. The trailer’s a bit confusing on this. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-man-of-steel-superman-movie-teaser-trailer/629031.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-man-of-steel-superman-movie-teaser-trailer/629031.md?page=3)