First Look at Henry Cavill as the Man of Steel

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charsace said:
Looks good

Though I thought Joe Manganiello would have been a better choice.

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Not with his nose.
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Nesotenso said:
WB has plenty of time to not mess this up.
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The fact that someone is at the helm that likes and cares about comics should help a ton. It might be a bit paint by numbers adaptation, but that is far better than someone who is 1) In love with Richard Donner and not Supes 2) Some old dude who doesn't know or care what a green lantern is and has never worked on a CG heavy film before.
 
Tom_Cody said:
Eh, not loving it. I don't like the costume at all and the background seems to indicate syfy-level production values.

I love the shots of him as Clark though:

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Completely agree on his Clark. It's giving me a Superman 2 vibe...as far as the suit goes it will grow on me...nice to see him bulked up tho!
 
That suit on Routh would have been perfect :(
Im still hopeful because Cavil looks good in other pics but in that picture he does not look like Superman - what have they done with his hair?! I like the suit though
 
Those are not shots of Cavill as Clark. Those were taken from comic-con and he happened to have the S-curl thing going on when he was outside. Not sure why anyone thought that was him portraying his version of Clark.
 
Not digging the hair. And that suit looks uncomfortable as hell.

It's fine.

EDIT: He looks great as Clark oddly enough.
 
jett said:
I disagree heavily on the 89 theme being representative of what Batman is about. It's classic Elfman tripe and it sounds like it belongs in a circus act(meaning it's appropriate for Burtman movies).

Batman has never had a more heroic theme than this one.



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I like the music in The Dark Knight and Batman Begins, but it doesn't feel like Batman in an iconic sense. The 89 score does and has for some time. Batman The Animated series sorta proves that as it fits beautifully there. A lot of people will hear the 89 music and instantly associate it with Batman. A lot less people will do the same with the newer music.

The 89 score is sorta like the John Williams score. Everyone knows that's Superman and it's iconic. It really is on a similar level to that were as Batman Begins and The Dark Knight isn't even close.
 
The Int3rsect said:
Is it just me or does the Superman logo look abnormally big?
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I always thought that the logo in "Superman Returns" was way too small. I actually like the big logo. The weird reptillian suit texture? Uh, not so much. It looks like Snake's nanosuit from MGS4.

Superman set in the modern day just won't work all that well, IMHO. The character is from a simpler time. Any attempt to make him more "relevant" seems contrived. I'd rather see a 1930's period piece Superman movie like in the Fleisher cartoons. Now that would be nifty. It worked pretty well with the Captain America movie.
 
brucewaynegretzky said:
Clark is all about the performance, not the wardrobe.
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That might have been true in the Christopher Reeve movies, but aren't Superman and Clark Kent basically the same in the comics these days?
 
...IS TOO FUCKING LONG!!



I THOUGHT THIS WAS SUPERMAN, NOT SPAWN.





Also, the texture of the costume looks like it's all scales. Smh.
 
B.K. said:
That might have been true in the Christopher Reeve movies, but aren't Superman and Clark Kent basically the same in the comics these days?
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No... I mean Clark might be more assertive, but I feel like that's gonna change with the reboot, and even then they were still pretty different. If anyone ever wants to see the difference between Clark and Superman I will continue to point them to Lois and Clark: The New Superman Adventures.
 
The Wise Old Man said:
I always thought that the logo in "Superman Returns" was way too small. I actually like the big logo. The weird reptillian suit texture? Uh, not so much. It looks like Snake's nanosuit from MGS4.

Superman set in the modern day just won't work all that well, IMHO. The character is from a simpler time. Any attempt to make him more "relevant" seems contrived. I'd rather see a 1930's period piece Superman movie like in the Fleisher cartoons. Now that would be nifty. It worked pretty well with the Captain America movie.
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Ever read Superman: Birthright? Although it's not canon(because nerds would be up in arms about the smallest of details like
Supes being a vegetarian
), the series does an excellent job of making Superman relevant to modern day. I do agree that a 1930s Superman movie done right would be pretty cool.
 
sebajuNujabes said:
Ever read Superman: Birthright? Although it's not canon(because nerds would be up in arms about the smallest of details like
Supes being a vegetarian
), the series does an excellent job of making Superman relevant to modern day. I do agree that a 1930s Superman movie done right would be pretty cool.
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Superman needs to eat?
 
brucewaynegretzky said:
That's just a set photo with his normal posture and no glasses. Clark is all about the performance, not the wardrobe.
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It's a comic-con photo of him walking down a street. No one has seen how Snyder's version of Clark will look. Ain't it cool news posted those pics saying first images of Cavill as Clark and it's not true. I think they edited the website cause now it's say Cavill looking very Supemanish walking down a street.

I think this needs to be repeated because people keep saying I like his Clark look better than his Superman look. Now take that S-curl he has going on in the comic con shot and put that on his Supes and it's a perfect Supes IMO.
 
B.K. said:
That might have been true in the Christopher Reeve movies, but aren't Superman and Clark Kent basically the same in the comics these days?
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They experimented with him being more Kal-El than either Clark or Superman in recent years. Clark got benched for quite a while.

For the sake of New Krypton, he was even serving under General Zod.

In any of the 3 aspects of his character, they will probably play him as an 'outsider', even if he retains his Earth-born heritage.
 
MisterHero said:
They experimented with him being more Kal-El than either Clark or Superman in recent years. Clark got benched for quite a while.
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I see. My only real exposure to Superman outside of the Christopher Reeves movies is the animated series. In it, there really wasn't any difference between Clark and Superman.
 
B.K. said:
I see. My only real exposure to Superman outside of the Christopher Reeves movies is the animated series. In it, there really wasn't any difference between Clark and Superman.
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There wasn't a ton of Clark in that series, but I would say that there were small differences. Its hard to portray things like confidence and posture in a cartoon. But Clark did back down a hell of a lot more when he was talking to someone like Perry even in the cartoon.
 
Absolutely love the cape. Unfortunately the texture looks horrible. And it seems like they've skipped on the red underoos and instead made some silver strip along the side of his leg. It actually reminds me of Andrew Garfield's Spider-Man costume where the belt was omitted for a red strip on the legs.
 
Looks fantastic!

The red seam and lack of underpants seems like a potentially great design alteration

He also has some kind of stripes on the sides of his torso, above the belt
 
sebajuNujabes said:
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it was said that he doesn't need to but he does it out of habit.
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The Sun feeds his energy requirements, so he doesn't need to. Eating is part of being Clark Kent though.

His favorite food used to be Beef Bourguinon with ketchup
 
Please don't make it a stupid love interest story. It's all I ask.
 
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