Superman: Man of Steel Catch All

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Well with the release of the first still I think its safe to start this thread.
Man of Steel on IMDB

Current release date is 14 June 2013 so we've still got plenty of time.

This photo is crazy big... and i can't access a way to shrink it while at work... so i'll just link and then re post later.

(this may or may not be my wallpaper right now...at work)

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So rubbery!

Yeah, can't tell yet if his underwear is still outside, but it does have paneling like the armor for the re-launch...

From comingsoon.net:

Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures have provided the first look at the new Man of Steel, revealing star Henry Cavill as Superman in the film from director Zack Snyder.

The film also stars three-time Oscar nominee Amy Adams (The Fighter) as Daily Planet journalist Lois Lane, and Oscar nominee Laurence Fishburne (What's Love Got to Do with It) as her editor-in-chief, Perry White. Starring as Clark Kent's adoptive parents, Martha and Jonathan Kent, are Oscar nominee Diane Lane (Unfaithful) and Academy Award winner Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves).

Squaring off against the superhero are two other surviving Kryptonians, the villainous General Zod, played by Oscar nominee Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road), and Faora, Zod's evil partner, played by Antje Traue. Also from Superman's native Krypton are Lara Lor-Van, Superman's mother, played by Julia Ormond, and Superman's father, Jor-El, portrayed by Academy Award winner Russell Crowe (Gladiator).

Rounding out the cast are Harry Lennix as U.S. military man General Swanwick, as well as Christopher Meloni as Colonel Hardy.

Man of Steel is being produced by Charles Roven, Emma Thomas, Christopher Nolan and Deborah Snyder. The screenplay was written by David S. Goyer, from a story by Goyer and Nolan, based upon Superman characters created by Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster and published by DC Comics. Thomas Tull and Lloyd Phillips are serving as executive producers.

I hadn't realized David Goyer and Christopher Nolan were involved in this. /snooze

I like the Nolan/Goyer connection, that's all I'm hanging my hat on with this one. Snyder makes pretty but sometimes doesn't seem to get what he's depicting.

And if anyone shouldn't need armor, it's Supes, right?

Slumberland wrote:

I like the Nolan/Goyer connection, that's all I'm hanging my hat on with this one. Snyder makes pretty but sometimes doesn't seem to get what he's depicting.

And if anyone shouldn't need armor, it's Supes, right?

Unless they are going to make him slightly less powerful, he has increased in power SO much since inception that maybe they've decided with the re-launch to scale it back slightly..give him so challenges. Or so he is ready for Kryptonite.

Superman might be the single worst comic book character.. with soooo many other better and interesting characters I cant figure even it today's risk aversion Hollywood how they can't figure that trying to create a story around a character that is essentially invulnerable except to a stupidly easy and moronic substance can be made interesting.

TheGameguru wrote:

Superman might be the single worst comic book character.. with soooo many other better and interesting characters I cant figure even it today's risk aversion Hollywood how they can't figure that trying to create a story around a character that is essentially invulnerable except to a stupidly easy and moronic substance can be made interesting.

I completely agree with you. Superman isn't interesting because he's perfect.

TheGameguru wrote:

Superman might be the single worst comic book character.. with soooo many other better and interesting characters I cant figure even it today's risk aversion Hollywood how they can't figure that trying to create a story around a character that is essentially invulnerable except to a stupidly easy and moronic substance can be made interesting.

Superman is only fascinating from a historical perspective, but not as a character.

+1 to the "Superman is the most boring comic book character ever" people. I've never understood the fascination. Just don't get it.

Thin_J wrote:

+1 to the "Superman is the most boring comic book character ever" people. I've never understood the fascination. Just don't get it.

Super Penis?

Well, I think he is AWESOME. I'm openly admitting I'm an idealist, and seeing someone being Ideal and an example to live up to is OK with me. You won't change my mind and I won't argue.. I love the big guy.

also, here is a pretty good breakdown of the suit.

My wife calls Superman a giant red and blue P*$$y

Rainsmercy wrote:

My wife calls Superman a giant red and blue P*$$y

There's a mental image.

I have to agree that Superman just doesn't work. I remember watching the scene in Superman Returns where he watches TV and sees war going on in some other country...then he goes on to save a woman driving poorly in Metropolis. It just didn't make any sense.

This seems fitting, giving all the Clocking

Superman is aces. Spidey's the boring one.

They need to revert to the times when he no fly, he jump good.

Danjo Olivaw wrote:

They need to revert to the times when he no fly, he jump good.

There's already an awesome jumping superhero out there:
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The key to good Superman is to simply not make him perfect. Everyone just generally assumes that he is. You can see this in Superman: The Animated Series and the JLA cartoon. He's not indestructible, he doesn't just shrug off every hit. He gets sent reeling by all manner of enemies (even a giant robot duck once, ugh). His speed is a bit inconsistent -- in one episode he's just as fast as Flash, but generally he never uses super speed when it would be most useful. He's constrained by his moral code in ways that his enemies are not. Batman's life is complicated by his refusal to kill but Supes has it even harder than that.

Interesting Superman stories take advantage of his weaknesses, like Kingdom Come. What does he do when brute strength isn't an effective strategy? How does he deal with an opponent who's a lot smarter and/or plays to Superman's ego or superiority complex? Make him really really angry and watch him break his moral code then have to deal with the fallout.

I'm not a big Superman fan either, but I think people sell the character short because they focus on poorly written stories.

Also Amy Adams, rowr.

Which Superman enemy was it that, when they were fighting, Superman said:

"With everyone else on this planet, I have to be careful. I don't with you."
WHAM!!

I remember seeing a screenshot of that a couple years ago and it always struck me as being a nice vision into the core of Superman.

The last episode of Justice League Unlimited against Darksied.

Quintin_Stone wrote:

The key to good Superman is to simply not make him perfect. Everyone just generally assumes that he is. You can see this in Superman: The Animated Series and the JLA cartoon. He's not indestructible, he doesn't just shrug off every hit. He gets sent reeling by all manner of enemies (even a giant robot duck once, ugh). His speed is a bit inconsistent -- in one episode he's just as fast as Flash, but generally he never uses super speed when it would be most useful. He's constrained by his moral code in ways that his enemies are not. Batman's life is complicated by his refusal to kill but Supes has it even harder than that.

Interesting Superman stories take advantage of his weaknesses, like Kingdom Come. What does he do when brute strength isn't an effective strategy? How does he deal with an opponent who's a lot smarter and/or plays to Superman's ego or superiority complex? Make him really really angry and watch him break his moral code then have to deal with the fallout.

I'm not a big Superman fan either, but I think people sell the character short because they focus on poorly written stories.

Also Amy Adams, rowr.

This. A thousand times this. (Except maybe the rowr bit).

This guy isn't Superman. It's just some guy in a cheap knockoff costume. What the comic and screen writers over the last 20 years or so have done to him is so bad.

But that's a much longer post, and I've already written that once here.

Upon further contemplation, he's decidedly uncharming and menacing in this still. Are we sure he isn't a villain in the Nolan-verse? I mean, look at him, he's breaking into a vault! This Superman likes to eat gold bars and wipe himself with Benjamins, and keeps the lamentations of our women on his ipod.

Slumberland wrote:

Upon further contemplation, he's decidedly uncharming and menacing in this still. Are we sure he isn't a villain in the Nolan-verse? I mean, look at him, he's breaking into a vault! This Superman likes to eat gold bars and wipe himself with Benjamins, and keeps the lamentations of our women on his ipod.

I just worked out what was bugging me about his suit.... This is not superman! It's aquaman with his hair and suit dyed (and with a cape attached)!!!

Slumberland wrote:

Upon further contemplation, he's decidedly uncharming and menacing in this still. Are we sure he isn't a villain in the Nolan-verse? I mean, look at him, he's breaking into a vault! This Superman likes to eat gold bars and wipe himself with Benjamins, and keeps the lamentations of our women on his ipod.

Have you seen the guy playing General Zod in this one? Terrence Stamp looks heroic by comparison.

Slumberland wrote:

Upon further contemplation, he's decidedly uncharming and menacing in this still. Are we sure he isn't a villain in the Nolan-verse? I mean, look at him, he's breaking into a vault! This Superman likes to eat gold bars and wipe himself with Benjamins, and keeps the lamentations of our women on his ipod.

I'll try to find it later, but Stephen Tobolowsky was on the /Flimcast a while back when they discussed this movie, and his worry was that Superman requires Good and Evil, and he isn't sure Snyder believes in Good and Evil. My worry, based on that still, is it looks like Snyder's typical muted color palate. Superman should be striking colors.

Whoops

It's tough. Reeve just seems more and more perfect the older I get, and Routh basically doing a Reeve impression actually made sense to me, 'cause what can you do in the face of that.

I'm eager to see some footage of Adams though... with Snyder at the helm, she's going to look fetishistically amazing, I suspect.

Tanglebones wrote:

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Looks like Superman has been skipping on leg days at the gym

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