Trailer is so bad. Eisenberg makes me cringe. Plus, it's so dark. Synder has fucked over Superman to a degree that is painful....and wasted an actor that could well have rivaled Reeve with better material. The comic con trailer almost turned me around, but this? Ugh. Awful.
Eh. Marvels not so much better. Good at universe building perhaps. But quality is meh. Watched the last several films courtesy of the Internet.
Really? I'm the opposite: I think this looks like it's gonna be great. (I am a little annoyed that the trailer gives the resolution of the Batman versus Superman dilemma away, not that we all didn't know how that was going to go down.)
Lex has three settings. 1) Cool, chessmaster businessman 2) Property magnate with access to nukes. 3) Full-on mad scientist nutter who builds a warsuit to fight someone who can punch out Darkseid. Sometime's we get a Reese's Pieces mix of two of the above. Eisenburg seems to be taking from boxes 1 and 3, and that's fine. Even John Shea's version got a little crazy (frog based clones?).
actually liked the competitive egos bit, a more amped version of the same thing they did in the Timm-verse...but yeah, count me among those who think that this version of Luthor sucks. Someone should tell Jesse he's not playing the Joker.
Hate to pile on but I'm not liking the new Luthor so far either. Granted it's just snippets but the purpose of trailers is to excite the fan base.
someone on io9 speculated that possibly this was Luthor doing a "play the fool" masquerade in the same fashion as Bruce Wayne's "Playboy" facade rather than being obvious about his megalomania
Yeah, that was my thought, too. Trailers almost never reveal what the truth of the scenes we see. That desert fight scene, for example, is apparently a dream sequence, but you don't learn that from the trailer that showed it to us.
Fuck off. I'm still very much looking forward to the movie, but that trailer wasn't anything spectacular.
I'm also less thrilled to see the movie with this trailer. There isn't really anything in it to make me think "Wow!! This is going to be good!".
Sort of. It wasn't exactly a wow moment, if it had been in the earlier trailer I would have definitely liked it more. My first thought was Batman was using kryptonite to weaken Superman. I'm still looking forward to the movie though.
The critics were definitely mixed on Man of Steel, but it made over $650-million worldwide at the box office and audiences rated it 76% fresh. That's hardly a poorly-received film. But I appreciate the fact that you'll never be happy vis-a-vis Superman until they dig up the corpse of Christopher Reeve and fly him around on wires while playing John Williams' iconic score.
It amuses me that your definition of what is good and well received is purely based on summer box office receipts. By your logic, all the Transformers movies, Twilight movies and so on are absolute masterpieces.
Obviously you're easily amused. A combination of critic reviews, audience reaction and box office are generally a good indication of how popular and well-received a movie is. On that front, most of the Transformers and Twilight movies fail.
