DC Cinematic Universe ( The James Gunn era)

[Mage]

Also, this is only a teaser. I'm sure the trailer will be a little more on the serious side.

Yes, but you forget, if you're not judging a whole movie by a 2 minute teaser trailer you're not an internetknowitallgodlikecreationmovieexpert. You know, the best kind of awesomeness people around there!! They have the god power of having seen an entire movie from just a trailer!! We should all wish to be like them.

 

[Grendelsbayne]

But he's the guy in charge and sets the tone. I may hate the specific comic this movie is based on, but I know Supergirl isn't a drunken party girl in it, thats all on the people making the movie. The music stuff is 100% inspired by Gunn's work and approved of by him even if he's not directly responsible for it, although maybe the actual movie doesn't have a specific Gunn style needle drop even if the trailer makes it seem likely.

Also, since he had Supergirl in his movie first Gunn is almost certainly responsible for her personality, especially since he's running the DC stuff in general. Without Gunn, I don't think we're getting such a terrible version of Supergirl. I'm sure the writer/director of the movie are all on board with that version of Supergirl, but it almost certainly had to have come from Gunn first, and if nothing else he definitely approved of it.

The comic does, in fact, begin with Kara getting drunk on her birthday. Obviously she isn't drunk for the whole story. Equally obviously, even the 2 minute trailer clearly shows she's not going to be drunk for the whole movie.

Her personality honestly doesn't feel significantly different from the comic, either, based on what little we can see here.

And if we're being serious a straight Hollywood adaptation of WoT would pretty much always have had a high chance of taking major inspiration from the GotG because they have major commonalities in both setting and theme. Better to have it actually overseen by Gunn so that it's done well than end up with a poorly thought out, shallow copycat like Suicide Squad.

 

[theenglish]

This is definitely not Helen Slater or Melissa Benoit’s Supergirl but since we already have those, why not something different? I’m not overly familiar with the comic character but this looks entertaining and that works for me.

People don't seem to realize that Kara has a significant character arc in this story. It is going to be very much a coming of age story, an origin story of sorts.

 

[Skipper]

Something something something.

You know, a movie is an entertainment product. If you think it doesn't, well, entertain you, move on to something else. You don't write four paragraphs about why it didn't. I mean, that's antithetical to the concept of "entertainment," right?

 

[King Bob!]

And the way the ship was landing at the bus stop set up, makes me curious this version of Earth is regular part of the interstellar community at this point.

I’m not sure that was Earth.

 

[The Realist]

Someone commented elsewhere that it’s unfortunate the movie didn’t try to replicate the dazzling, baroque, colorful visuals of the comic, and I have to agree with that. It looks very standard-issue Hollywood “grungy outer space,” when it could have gone for something much more distinct and striking.

 

[Ovation]

Someone commented elsewhere that it’s unfortunate the movie didn’t try to replicate the dazzling, baroque, colorful visuals of the comic, and I have to agree with that. It looks very standard-issue Hollywood “dirty outer space,” when it could have gone for something much more distinct and striking.

Possibly cost related?

 

[Set Harth]

Go baroque, go broke?

 

[DEWLine]

This thing may not be for me...and that's okay.

 

[Santa Kang]

I’m not sure that was Earth.

I think there is alien writing at the bus stop.

 

[Set Harth]

Sounds like Earth to me.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

It's funny, whenever I hear "Call Me" by Blondie used in a trailer/movie, I'm reminded that it was the opening theme song to the 1980 movie "American Gigolo", which had Richard Gere walking around his apartment naked and you saw his penis on full display, and the minor controversy it caused.

 

[kirk55555]

You know, a movie is an entertainment product. If you think it doesn't, well, entertain you, move on to something else. You don't write four paragraphs about why it didn't. I mean, that's antithetical to the concept of "entertainment," right?

People are allowed to criticize things, I'm not obliged to just quietly ignore something that pisses me off. I like DC properties, so I'll continue to have opinions about DC stuff. You don't have to be on a public discussion forum if you don't like people having other opinions.

The comic does, in fact, begin with Kara getting drunk on her birthday. Obviously she isn't drunk for the whole story. Equally obviously, even the 2 minute trailer clearly shows she's not going to be drunk for the whole movie.

Her personality honestly doesn't feel significantly different from the comic, either, based on what little we can see here.

And if we're being serious a straight Hollywood adaptation of WoT would pretty much always have had a high chance of taking major inspiration from the GotG because they have major commonalities in both setting and theme. Better to have it actually overseen by Gunn so that it's done well than end up with a poorly thought out, shallow copycat like Suicide Squad.

To be clear I hate that comic and barely finished one issue, so I'll concede that making Supergirl a drunk party girl probably came directly from Tom King, a guy famous for character the assassination of 90% of the pre established characters that he has written.

I guess the core problem is using one of the most overrated comics of the last decade from one of the worst writers in mainstream comics to make a movie with one of the worst versions of Supergirl.

 

[Samurai8472]

So via HBO Max’s usual end of year teaser for next year’s projects, we get our first glimpse of Lanterns in motion. It’s at 1:35

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And our first footage, of course, shows nothing involving any Green Lantern activity.

 

[King Bob!]

And our first footage, of course, shows nothing involving any Green Lantern activity.

They want to save that for as long as possible, to build anticipation.

 

[King Bob!]

Is Kara wearing a Blondie tshirt in the trailer?

 

[The Realist]

Is Kara wearing a Blondie tshirt in the trailer?

It’s hard to see, but I just read an interview with Alcock, Gillespie, and Gunn that mentioned she wears one.

 

[King Bob!]

It’s hard to see, but I just read an interview with Alcock, Gillespie, and Gunn that mentioned she wears one.

I submit to your superior GoogleFu!

 

[Dick Whitman]

Someone commented elsewhere that it’s unfortunate the movie didn’t try to replicate the dazzling, baroque, colorful visuals of the comic, and I have to agree with that. It looks very standard-issue Hollywood “grungy outer space,” when it could have gone for something much more distinct and striking.

Also file that complaint under - it’s just a teaser. I have read the comic. We have not seen significant characters, locations and events from the story yet. That teaser barely tells us what the overall look and style will be. The little we saw of Krypton tells us barely much more than what Superman did this year. Curious if they use the crystals in architecture of the Fortress. The assumption is that was Kryptonian. But the robots probably are Superman’s own design.

I saw an artist say the trailer left them feeling “Meh”. But they felt that way for Superman (2025)’s trailer and really enjoyed that movie. In contrast to Man of Steel which they loved the trailer but were completely disappointed in.

Not aimed at you or anyone in particular- we put way, way, way too much stock in teasers and trailers. At this point I have felt that way for decades now!
The reactions to various movies of all genres are let’s say... curious!

Obviously they create a first impression. Good or bad. No denying that. But often trailers do not at all reflect what makes a good movie or story. Endless debates of too much info vs versus too little. Much is said how much films are made by committees these days and not filmmakers. But it’s totally true of the marketing. If any of the companies who specialize in marketing evaluate their work online - it would drive them mad! There is no consensus on what “good marketing” is. It’s as much a total crapshoot as what a “good movie” is.

 

[Christopher]

Also file that complaint under - it’s just a teaser. I have read the comic. We have not seen significant characters, locations and events from the story yet. That teaser barely tells us what the overall look and style will be.

Right. Initial teaser trailers tend to be released before the bulk of a movie's CGI work is completed, so they tend to focus more on the live-action portions and show little of the big action and spectacle that isn't yet screen-ready. So if there are exotic or spectacular landscapes in the comic, the FX shots for those settings may not have been completed yet.

Really, by now, we've seen countless times that films tend to have three main trailers that each emphasize different facets of the film, so by now we should take it for granted that you can't judge the whole from any single trailer, especially the teaser. My go-to example is the 2016 Ghostbusters reboot, whose teaser trailer made it look like a tense supernatural action thriller and gave virtually no indication that it was a comedy.