New trailer for Man of Steel:
I was not at all interested in this movie after the last one a few years ago. Superman is also my least favorite superhero. But the last 2 trailers now have me stoked to see this movie! This may be heresy but I think I may like this one better than Iron Man and Into Darkness for popcorn summer flicks this year
Wow! I haven’t read much about it, so this is the first time I’ve seen that the gist of the story is Zod looking for Superman on the Earth. Now those scenes of him shackled & surrounded by military guards make sense. Does this mean that he doesn’t even reveal himself at all until Zod shows up? That also makes sense, plot-wise and ‘real-world’ logic-wise.
Can’t say I’ve been much of a fan of ***any ***of the Marvel films, they’re just too comic book geeky/silly. The only one I could take seriously was Nolan’s Batman films (and Burton’s first two). Heck I even liked Superman Returns, for what it was…
This certainly looks better than the prior trailers of Superman as indecisive wuss, dealing with existential problems.
I"ll withhold judgement on that until Kick-Ass 2 comes out. Superman Returns was so bad that is unlikely I’ll see the new one unless people are just blown away and I become curious.
To me, Burton’s were always silly, just a dark kind of silly - which, if you think about it, has always pretty much been his specialty. No one seems to have gotten the blend of serious/silly right since the Donner Superman movie. The Marvel films work because they throw aspirations for mixing in some gritty reality out the window and shoot a comic book.
I feel that right there was the whole problem with Superman Returns. Singer tried to be Donner, and failed.
But as a Superman fan, I’m really excited to see this one. I’ve been trying to stay unspoiled, but some of the concepts emerging from the trailers look like an interesting new take–such as Lois trying to track Clark long before he became “Superman.” It’s hard to mess too much with the Superman story because (and I can say this because I’m a rational human being, even though Superman is my favorite ever) Superman is honestly kinda boring.
Batman isn’t Marvel.
So, uh, that’d be the one with Danny DeVito’s army of penguins with missile launchers strapped to their backs? You’re right, that’s not silly at all.
If Man of Steel lives up to the trailers, it’s going to kill it.
When Aaron Sorkin came up with “The West Wing,” the original concept called for never showing the President. As it neared production, they started thinking “okay, we’ll at least need someone for the occasional cameo.” If you’ve seen the pilot, you’ll note the POTUS didn’t appear until the final act to pretty much make a sweeping pronouncement that resolved the conflicts. But Sheen made such a strong impact that the focus shifted completely and the role was made a fixture.
The original concept would work for Superman. The real story is always what leads up to the appearance of the guy in tights, or the impact around his very existence. “Lois and Clark” knew this. “Smallville” knew this, early on. Heck, Donner knew this - Superman doesn’t show for the first hour and a half and the movie is still interesting and entertaining.
Exactly. Put simply, Superman fixes things, but the story is really in seeing how they got broken.
I suspect he takes a really long time to put the tights on in this movie as well.
Looks like lots of bad stuff happening on earth. No problem though, Supe can just fly around and around the planet, reversing time so everything is okay again.
Yeah I know. I also knew that someone would have to point that out, but I wrote it like that anyway! 
Sure, but DeVito’s genuinely sadistic, nose-biting-off, child-murdering-plan villain made up for it (as did Christopher Walken being, well, Christopher Walken). In fact Batman Returns was so dark, that’s why the studio fired Burton from the third one. And look what that gave us.
But the thing is, the Donner film wasn’t silly. It had some humor, but he wisely stopped at outright silliness. All the silliest stuff in Superman II was because of second director Richard Lester, who replaced Donner after he was fired for not making it silly enough! And, once again, look what that gave us (III and IV!)
I maintain that the recent Marvel films’ silliness mostly works because the big-budget special effects distract from it enough (though not for me).
Any word on how Zod came to survive, and to make his way to Earth? It doesn’t look like they’re going with the “released from the Phantom Zone” angle with this one.
From the trailer, it looks like they’re going with “Zod was off-planet with a spaceship and an army when the planet exploded.”
Or more intriguingly, that Krypton wasn’t destroyed at all, but rather conquered by Zod.
Ohhhhhhh, hadn’t thought of that. Kinda destroys the whole “Last Son of Krypton” theme though.
Well, maybe Krypton can be seen as an ideal as much as an actual planet.
There’s been a bit of ‘prequel’ material put out already. According to those, the prisoners are sent into the Phantom Zone on a prison ship, which they eventually conquer and escape the Zone with.
Yeah, because Zod must still have been *sentenced *there by Jor-El else why would he be going to such great lengths to get revenge on his son.
Least favorite? Wow. He’s had plenty of great stories and arcs over the years. You seriously characters like, say, Jubilee over him?