So just for some context, I actually really liked the movie Man of Steel which if you don't know who that is, where oh where have you been the past like 70 some odd years? ITS SUPERMAN
Now ever since I was a young boy, growing up with the Christopher Reeve Superman saga from the 70's, I always thought that Superman was an indestructible alien that could kick a lot of ass, which he can, but I also always thought that he was too powerful and that he couldn't be beat...
*ACCORDING TO THE MOVIES, NOT THE COMICS*
... plus I always thought that most hero's in the DC universe had absolutely NO character development, due to the generic and boring style of comic book writing (up until Stan Lee saved the whole genre and created Spiderman). Well, then I saw Man of Steel and I actually really liked the character of Kal-El (Superman), I thought that he was a well fleshed out character and that's the one thing I want DC to copy from Marvel.
I want DC to take character's that people either remember from their childhood when they read them in the comics, or the newer generation doesn't know anything about them and make separate movies to make everybody care about the hero's before they have to unite as a team and take on a huge baddie that requires everybody to defeat. What I am seeing is that character's are getting their movies after the Justice League movies are done with, mainly looking at Green Lantern and Cyborg
And for me that's pretty much every character in the entire DC universe except for Batman and Superman.
SO anyway, back to the trailer, I really like the vibe that this gives. It turns out that in the Snyderverse (a reference to Zack Snyder because he's basically creating this universe with DC) the Gotham City and Metropolis are neighboring cities, where Gotham is the slums, the not so nice part of town and Metropolis is the rich country.
The trailer shows a building being burned to the ground with the fight between Superman and Zod in Man of Steel and Bruce Wayne is on the ground, he runs into the developing cloud dust and then the camera shows him hugging a little girl (his daughter? I hope so cause then Batman got really creepy really quick) and looking up at the destruction
And with the near destruction of the entire Metropolis area, Superman is to blame for all the destruction and is put on trial
There are a couple things that I find a little unsettling. The fact that Wonder Woman is in the trailer and Aquaman, The Flash, and Cyborg are supposedly in the film, I just don't want this movie to suffer a Spiderman 3 with too many character's all clustered together, I do hope that Snyder can pull it off.
My biggest gripe about this trailer is Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor. Remember when the casting rumor's were first hitting the internet, there was a lot of rumor's that Bryan Cranston (who was on Breaking Bad) was casted as Lex Luthor, I WISH THAT WERE TRUE! I'M SORRY MR. EISENBERG, BUT YOU AREN'T ACTING LIKE A BAD BALD VERSION OF BRUCE WAYNE BRYAN CRANSTON WOULD'VE MADE A BETTER LEX
ok wow sorry, I tend to get really enthusiastic about a subject. um wow
Anyway, they could and should recast Eisenberg as Lex because even Kevin Spacey did better in the awful Superman Returns movie.
The trailer even shows Superman and Batman fighting, well it's actually Batman dodging a heat blast by Supes, but anyway.
From what I can see in this movie, I'm excited for it. Not as excited for it as I am for Suicide Squad, but I want to see how DC builds it's own universe to compete with the insanely successful MCU.
So, here's a link to the trailer:
Also, if it seems like I wrote this at two o'clock in the morning and is sloppily written, I'm sorry, but I wanted to get this out of the way so I can review Antman tomorrow.
Have a good day/night guys :)
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