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Man of Steel - Official Trailer #2

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Wow. Routh just looks phony in comparison.

Ur joking right? Wut looks phoney about dis:

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I still liked Routh a good deal for a bunch of reasons, but he's definitely part of that 2000's school of "younger is better" that Cavill will hopefully be able to conquer.
 
Now that I see it more, Routh's Superman looks more cartoony. I'm sure it worked for Donner's Superman, it just doesn't work here.
 
I see a lot of John Byrne Superman in Cavill. The curly hair, jawline, forehead, etc. I know that Snyder didn't exactly base his casting on comparing Henry to comic book artwork, but he rings of that late 80s familiarity all the same.

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I'd laugh my ass off if the trailers have just been super mis-leading about the tone of the film and we really get Cavill announcing 'Up, up and awaaayyyyy!' before his flight in that trailer.
 
I'd laugh my ass off if the trailers have just been super mis-leading about the tone of the film and we really get Cavill announcing 'Up, up and awaaayyyyy!' before his flight in that trailer.

I'm imagining Cavill watching the news and seeing Zod's forces destroy Metropolis.

"Great Krypton."

 
Sucks that Synder isn't giving us any monthly webisodes showing the production like Singer did. Those videos are still available on iTunes if anyone is interested
 
Sucks that Synder isn't giving us any monthly webisodes showing the production like Singer did. Those videos are still available on iTunes if anyone is interested

Man, those were the days. I loved watching those trickle out. Snyder did some vlogs for Watchmen, right? With the intentional release delays and so forth, maybe blogs for Man of Steel just weren't in the cards... plus, WB probably wants to have a lot of control over the messaging of Man of Steel's marketing.
 
And if it soars you will have quite the egg on your face, old boy.

Perhaps, but I think I'm still on the more reasonable side of the fence pre-release. There are an awful lot of people here lining up to kiss the feet of a director who has never done anything great.

I'd even exchange "great" with "half-decent", but I don't want to go down that path again.
 
Perhaps, but I think I'm still on the more reasonable side of the fence pre-release. There are an awful lot of people here lining up to kiss the feet of a director who has never done anything great.

I'd even exchange "great" with "half-decent", but I don't want to go down that path again.

I was pulling my hair the day WB announced Snyder. Since then, there's been pretty much nothing but good news from the movie. The entire cast and crew, the trailers, the look of the movie, etc. Snyder is still worrisome, but both trailers make the film look exceptionally different and superior to his other works.

I'm cautiously optimistic. It's looking good.
 
I'm looking forward to Solo's concession post almost as much as I am the film itself. In fact, we should campaign to have his name in the title of the OT
 
I do. I think the movie will be saved for the archives, and labeled classic. Capsulized if you will. And I am not saying that to be funny, I mean it. I think its better than the God father trilogy, and put this movie up against any classically regarded film.

What the hell I am reading here?
 
This will be a glorious thread to re-read if the movie stinks.

At this point that statement is true of any big summer movie. Though (for me) Man Of Steel is admittedly one of the biggest 'question marks' of the summer at the moment alongside Pacific Rim and Star Trek Into Darkness.

Personally I'm there day one for all three but realistically they could go either way.
 
At this point that statement is true of any big summer movie.

True, but this is much less of a sure thing than a number of others. And as 2012 showed, a lot of the "sure things" themselves ended up being anything but. Hard to say what will happen, but fucking no one would have predicted a year ago that Dredd would be the best Hollywood action film released in 2012.
 
True, but this is much less of a sure thing than a number of others. And as 2012 showed, a lot of the "sure things" themselves ended up being anything but. Hard to say what will happen, but fucking no one would have predicted a year ago that Dredd would be the best Hollywood action film released in 2012.

I guess you're not counting John Carter as an action film.
 
True, but this is much less of a sure thing than a number of others. And as 2012 showed, a lot of the "sure things" themselves ended up being anything but. Hard to say what will happen, but fucking no one would have predicted a year ago that Dredd would be the best Hollywood action film released in 2012.

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Too true. Man, did Dredd over deliver. I might catch flack for saying it, but Dredd was my 2012 comic book film of the year. Looked like hot garbage initially.

I just dont get the Routh hate :(

I love him, but I see some people's issues with him. They don't seem big enough to ruin him for me, though.
 
The only real worry I have about Man of Steel is the script, since I remember something about them doing rewrites halfway through shooting..
 
The only real worry I have about Man of Steel is the script, since I remember something about them doing rewrites halfway through shooting..

Goyer & the Nolans are a strong team, and it seems to be taking influence from all the right places in modern Superman lore. It could go wrong, but I'm assuming the rewrites are more for the over-arcing DC Universe/Justice League stuff Warner Brothers really, really wants post-Avengers.
 
Goyer & the Nolans are a strong team, and it seems to be taking influence from all the right places in modern Superman lore. It could go wrong, but I'm assuming the rewrites are more for the over-arcing DC Universe/Justice League stuff Warner Brothers really, really wants post-Avengers.

That would be even worse.
 
The only real worry I have about Man of Steel is the script, since I remember something about them doing rewrites halfway through shooting..

That's nothing. I hear the script for Pacific Rim was constantly being rewritten all the way through production by loads of different writers.

Someone said to be something along the lines of "....., it would be easier to list who didn't work on the Pacific Rim script..........., " which may be how Del Toro works but a little worrisome none the less.

Goyer & the Nolans are a strong team, and it seems to be taking influence from all the right places in modern Superman lore. It could go wrong, but I'm assuming the rewrites are more for the over-arcing DC Universe/Justice League stuff Warner Brothers really, really wants post-Avengers.

Doubtful. For all we know it could be character work and have nothing to do with the script's FX or set pieces etc.

Robert Downey Jnr is notorious for this and likes to almost rewrite huge chunks of the script as it's in production.
 
That would be even worse.

Yeah, I'm not really a fan of meta "this movie is actually just a commercial for another movie" writing. Couldn't stand Iron Man 2, good amounts of Captain America, etc.

For all we know it could be character work and have nothing to do with the script's FX or set pieces etc.

That's more likely the case, for sure. Almost all major hollywood films go through small script alterations during production.
 
Most rewrites on any big-budget summer blockbuster are likely done because most big-budget summer blockbusters are put into production without a finished script. They get 2 drafts or something pre-production, and then they just rewrite to fit as they shoot.

It used to be a worst-case scenario, and now it's just considered how you make these things.
 
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