DC Cinematic Universe ( The James Gunn era)

[theenglish]

That is what's fun to watch with what our heroes can do, unlike Supes getting nerfed again and again and again and again.

We already had that, in Superman Returns which was a film that I actually enjoyed apart from the stalker vibe. I know that wasn't the intention of the film but the way it was edited was just creepy.

What I loved about that film is that Superman didn't have to battle anybody--didn't have to throw a punch. All of the suspense was built around how he was going to save people.

 

[Christopher]

We've had heroes "struggling" for years in CBMs. That is what bores me. I want Superman to be absolutely untouchable unless it's a big villain like Brainiac, Darkseid or Metallo.

How do you know it isn't? We have no context for the scene. We don't know where it is in the movie or what precipitates it. But we do see shots in the trailer of Superman battling a kaiju, so that's at least one adversary potentially powerful enough to injure Superman. There's also that mysterious glowing orb glimpsed out the window in that early publicity shot and briefly in the trailer. It looks powerful and alien -- it reminds me of Solaris the Tyrant Sun from All-Star Superman, and might potentially be that. Maybe that's what hurt Superman, and the scene of him pulling on his boots is the moment where he psychs himself up for a rematch.

 

[StarMan]

Showed Mum the preview and she loved Krypto.

"He's not real is he?"

I looked at her and was like "yeah!"



Last film I saw at the theatre was Barbie. I'd say this is lining up to be the next.

 

[Mudd]

Showed Mum the preview and she loved Krypto.

"He's not real is he?"

I just looked at her and was like "yeah!"



Last film I saw at the theatre was Barbie. I'd say this is lining up to be the next.

I get just a touch of a Barbie vibe from this one. Nothing specific about it, other than it looks like it just may be all kinds of fun in goofy and heartfelt ways that most viewers aren't expecting, and might therefore become A Thing.

 

[StarMan]

300M WW is the ceiling.

I'll see your 300M and raise you 500M.

More like ~300M domestic.

As for complaints re: Supes reacting in agony to the yellow sun ...

a) half his organs are damaged along with a dozen broken bones (11 of which thanks to Krypto),

b) it's hardly a stretch to imagine this supercharged process of fusing bones, muscle and cartilage back together in half a minute would be an uncomfortable experience and,

c) 99.999% (being generous) of the moviegoing public won't think twice about it (I certainly didn't until I started reading comments sections).

 

[Christopher]

Showed Mum the preview and she loved Krypto.

"He's not real is he?"

I looked at her and was like "yeah!"

I dunno, it did look like a CGI performance in at least some shots.

 

[Mudd]

At his core, Superman is a comic book, pitched at 6 to 9 year-old children.

Keeping that premise in mind whenever you watch any superhero movie makes them all a lot more enjoyable and easy to appreciate. None of these stories is Rendezvous with Rama.

And when you see filmmakers lose sight of it, you can expect them to crash and burn.

 

[Mudd]

Hollywood has perfected the art of portraying CGI animals. You need the right talent involved - there are plenty of bad examples. But whether or not these creations are always "realistic," they can successfully be made emotionally engaging characters that audiences fall in love with. That's what matters.

 

[StarMan]

I dunno, it did look like a CGI performance in at least some shots.

Well Christopher, you have proved that, not only as an avid consumer of sci-fi, but as an author in the field, you have a more discerning eye for CGI than my completely non-geeky 71-year-old mother (who fell asleep when I tried to show her Fellowship of the Ring and Star Trek: First Contact).

 

[Mudd]

All-Star Superman?

 

[Set Harth]

"He's not real is he?"

(leans in whispering) "Superman's not real"

 

[Christopher]

I merely said it looked that way to me. I do not cite personal observation as proof of anything. I'm sure that someone more familiar with dogs than I am could be a better judge of whether Krypto's movements were realistic.

 

[BillJ]

I simply don’t understand the complaints. Movie looks like it is going to be a ton of fun.

 

[Mudd]

I merely said it looked that way to me. I do not cite personal observation as proof of anything. I'm sure that someone more familiar with dogs than I am could be a better judge of whether Krypto's movements were realistic.

He's mostly CG. They've made no secret of it.

 

[Awesome Possum]

My brother's dog flew once although I could be mistaken.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

I simply don’t understand the complaints. Movie looks like it is going to be a ton of fun.

It really does. I’m a mild Superman fan at best, but I’m really interested in this film.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Yup, last 50 years or so all the heroes got severely nerfed.
In the MCU what I loved was that Captain Marvel could one-shot entire fleets of battleships.
Scarlet Witch can 1v1 Thanos, stripping him of armor, that he had to order rainfire.
Thor, in the frst movie, literally broke miles of hard iced rock into pieces by hitting the ground with Mjolnir.
That is what's fun to watch with what our heroes can do, unlike Supes getting nerfed again and again and again and again.

Nerfed? They're three-dimensional characters with storied histories.. Not video game avatars.

 

[Aragorn]

I simply don’t understand the complaints. Movie looks like it is going to be a ton of fun.

There are the Snyder Bros, which is strange since Snyder is nothing like them.

Then there's the group that is destroying all of fandom, the "this doesn't match the story I came up with in my head so it sucks and I will never stop complaining" non-achievers.

 

[FreezeC77]

There are the Snyder Bros, which is strange since Snyder is nothing like them.

Then there's the group that is destroying all of fandom, the "this doesn't match the story I came up with in my head so it sucks and I will never stop complaining" non-achievers.

Superman Returns came out the year after Batman Begins (i think) and you had all the "Can't do hokey Superman anymore. Needs to be dark. Needs to be gritty"

So then you got the Snyder version. This has more of a classical Superman feel to it.

Who knows what the performances will be like, just talking about how the images and presentation of what we've been shown has been.

 

[Firebird]

I simply don’t understand the complaints. Movie looks like it is going to be a ton of fun.

[patrickstewart]We are NOT here to have FUN![/patrickstewart]