Honestly it's time for GAF curmudgeon club. We have more money and power than these little shits. Plus we already made all the same idiot mistakes they're making.
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Honestly it's time for GAF curmudgeon club. We have more money and power than these little shits. Plus we already made all the same idiot mistakes they're making.
SCULLIBUNDO
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MisterHero
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BAH
oh good so jor-el will explain everything that's happening
but no red trunks
it's faaaake
no they're lying
to prepare the audience for aquaman cameo
faaaake 3D
SCULLIBUNDO
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Gravity was supposed to be out already
November, bruh. I can feel it this time!
Of course that means it will be delayed in Australia by six months.
"Well ahoy, well ahoy, well ahoy my friends!"
KidGalactus
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Can Crusher
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lol that one got me
Hot Coldman
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Biggest box office splash in history.
Triple Oceans
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I gotta be honest that despite it being a minor detail, I'm pretty excited about Supes cape being CG.
Hero_of_the_Day
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Why would that excite you?
speculawyer
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I think there is still a lot that can be done with the space setting.
But fine . . . fuck space. Do the Bioshock movie. An underwater city. Just something besides another fucking crop of summer super-hero movies. I can't take it anymore. I don't need to see the same fucking super-hero's rebooted for the third time.
Superman's from space. This movie has everything!
Triple Oceans
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Because I think it'll add more to Supes persona with him being majestic and they can make it look cooler or more livelier however they want.
Hero_of_the_Day
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Why would Nolan give a shit if Zack Snyder's Superman was in 3D?
Wait, what? I thought it was October 6?
There would be no Nolan Batman trilogy (and thus Man of Steel) without Bryan Singer. He revived the super hero genre and set the modern standard with X-Men and X2. Singer is basically the father of the modern super hero movie genre. He is far from a dope.
His name is all over this film as much as Snyder's. Considering he has been very outspoken against 3D and WB obviously does not force it upon him, I would think that he not exactly thrilled with a post 3D conversion.
You're giving Singer way too much credit. WB was working on rebooting Batman for years.
arts&crafts
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I liked the somberness in the trailer, I hope it doesn't stray to far away from a "serious" tone.
Hero_of_the_Day
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Yeah, they're using his name as promotion. I don't think he's really involved much at all, and has made it 100% clear it's Snyder's movie.
I love the first two X-Men movies (especially part two), but this statement seems a little far fetched. WB was always keen to do another Batman movie, even after B&R sucked so hard. Darren Aronofsky's pitch for Year One was to make it a more grounded in reality universe also, and that was a couple years before X-Men. I believe he wanted it to be an R-rated movie, so WB backed out after the script. Goyer had already had success with adapting comics with Blade a couple years before X-Men as well.
Bobby Roberts
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Aronofsky's "Year One" was going to be Rated R at one point, and the script (co-written with Frank Miller) was fucking terrible. You can read it. They were simultaneously developing a live action Batman Begins, and according to Paul Dini, that too, was a clusterfuck.
Warner Bros working on something for years didn't mean it was going to happen. Hell, technically, they're STILL working on making a Superman movie, and that's after they got the guy who made the first to X-men movies to MAKE a Superman movie.
Considering Warners headhunted Singer for their movie, I think the argument that Singer played an important part in setting the stage for the era of the modern superhero movie holds SOME weight.
BruceLeeRoy
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Dios Mio!!
All he had to say was imagine perfection.
He gets some credit for making a great movie in X2. That's about it.
The rise of the superhero movie was inevitable as CG effects improved.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Well it is said that it's "Nolan + Snyder effects and action" so it's probably there.
Bobby Roberts
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Yeah, NOW.
but remember back to like, 2004-2005. Dude had made Usual Suspects. Apt Pupil was thought of as a solid follow up. He succeeds with X-Men even after Fox took away a large chunk of his budget WHILE he was filming, and then followed it up with a movie that many, at the time, were putting up there as one of the best superhero films ever made.
X-Men-to-X2 was the first template a lot of studios were following, before Begins-to-Dark Knight gave them a different template to work from.
Yeah, it was inevitable that WB would make another Batman/Superman movie. It'd be financial suicide not to. But looking at how long it took to make those movies - it wasn't inevitable they would take the shape they did, and part of that has to do with Fox's success w/ X-Men
Bobby Roberts
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Of course there's Slo-Mo in it. Every fucking action movie ever made has slo-mo in it.
BruceLeeRoy
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I like you
I don't know who you are Raptor but lets hug.
The direction WB went with the Batman franchise had far more to do with the failure of Batman & Robin than X-Men.
ETA: Funnily enough, Man of Steel is just as much a reaction to the dull, pacifist Superman Returns as Batman Begins was to the camp of Batman & Robin. Similarly equal and opposite reactions to creative failures.
evil solrac v3.0
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yeah and it turned out good so what's the problem?
i'm cranky too but Superman deserves a good, no, great sumemr film. it's Superman!
Hero_of_the_Day
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Oh, I do agree with this. But, going from this to "there would be no Nolan Batman films without Singer" is the leap I can't make.
This I agree with also. I mean, Spider-Man was already well into pre-production with Sam Raimi before X-Men was released. I think if X-Men and Spider-Man bombed, we would have gotten less super hero movies, but we were definitely still getting a new Batman and Superman, and there was at least a 50/50 chance Batman was going to be the more grounded tone we wound up with since that was something WB was exploring for years before X-Men.
BankaiZaraki
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I'm really really really hyped for this movie.
What?
Rice-Eater
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Then release it now, I will pay double, no wait make that triple to watch this. GIMME GIMMME GIMME
Batman voice, AIDS Gordon and Nothingness Robin. And Posh Bane.
Simo
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To add some fuel Slashfilm posted this...
http://www.slashfilm.com/early-buzz-man-of-steel-is-an-action-packed-great-time/
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