Zack Snyder to direct next Superman film

[tk13]

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Nolan and Zack Snyder, definitely an interesting team. There are already rumors now that Zod is going to be the villain.

I have to say I'm excited that it "appears" they aren't going to go totally out of left field and do something stupid and out of character for Superman.

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by Sure-Oz

I'd rather listen to the ST after i see the flick/

Can't wait

Yeah, I'm with you. What I heard of the score was extremely uninspiring to me. I'll wait to hear it in context.

[keg in kc]

I guess it hasn't been posted on here yet, but warners has already locked up both Snyder and Goyer for the sequel, and it's already fast tracked. They think MoS is going to be huge. Then after MoS 2 they'll do Justice League (Goyer's already signed for that as well).

[keg in kc]

Originally Posted by DoucheMcCloud

Yeah, I'm with you. What I heard of the score was extremely uninspiring to me. I'll wait to hear it in context.

There are several tracks I'm familiar with from the various trailers, so I think i was predisposed to like it. Stylistically it's in my wheel-house as well.

[Tribal Warfare]

Originally Posted by GordonGekko

Lol, also how does he eat? And are his shits indestructible, too? For realz bro, for realz...

and is he like the Xenmorphs and pisses molecular acid?

[CoMoChief]

I didn't like the villain(s) chosen for Iron Man 3. Just thought it was done half assed.

Kinda reminded me of Batman Forever and Edward Nigma (Riddler)

[Al Bundy]

Well 30 years for a good Superman. I hope it's really good.

[Gravedigger]

Originally Posted by CoMoChief

I didn't like the villain(s) chosen for Iron Man 3. Just thought it was done half assed.

Kinda reminded me of Batman Forever and Edward Nigma (Riddler)

Two face was done more half assed than Riddler. Riddler fits with the shtick mantra of the Shumacher Batman movies, Two Face did not. But yes Iron Man 3 was a cluster****.

[Sure-Oz]

71% on rotten tomatoes so far with 31 total reviews

[keg in kc]

Most of the negative reviews read like people trying to generate hits by being the dissenting voice.

[Pepe Silvia]

Amy Adams will make the movie watchable.

[siberian khatru]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

Most of the negative reviews read like people trying to generate hits by being the dissenting voice.

"This movie's too big! It's got too many big moments!"

[Sure-Oz]

Originally Posted by siberian khatru

"This movie's too big! It's got too many big moments!"

Lmao...its dark and too much! Is one I saw on Twitter. Can't wait to see it

[Bowser]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

Most of the negative reviews read like people trying to generate hits by being the dissenting voice.

Originally Posted by siberian khatru

"This movie's too big! It's got too many big moments!"

Originally Posted by Sure-Oz

Lmao...its dark and too much! Is one I saw on Twitter. Can't wait to see it

Nailed it.



It has been a black eye to Hollywood that throughout this, the unending and increasingly repetitive age of the superhero blockbuster, the comics' most iconic son has eluded its grasp like a bird or, if you will, a plane.

New hopes of box-office riches and franchise serials rests on Zac Snyder's 3-D "Man of Steel," the latest attempt to put Superman back into flight. But Snyder's joyless film, laden as if composed of the stuff of its hero's metallic nickname, has nothing soaring about it.

Flying men in capes is grave business in Snyder's solemn Superman. "Man of Steel," an origin tale of the DC Comics hero, goes more than two hours before the slightest joke or smirk.

This is not your Superman of red tights, phone booth changes, or fortresses of solitude, but one of Christ imagery, Krypton politics and spaceships. Who would want to have fun at the movies anyway, when you could instead be taught a lesson about identity from a guy who can shoot laser beams out of his eyes?

"Man of Steel" opens with the pains of childbirth, as Lara Lor-Van (Ayelet Zurer) and husband Jor-El (Russell Crowe) see the birth of Kal-El, the first naturally born child in years on Krypton. The planet — a giant bronze ball of pewter, as far as I can tell — is in apocalyptic tumult (the disaster film has gone intergalactic), and General Zod (Michael Shannon) attempts to take over power, fighting in bulky costumes with Jor-El.

His coup is thwarted (though not before killing Jor-El, who continues on in the film in an Obi-Wan-like presence), and he and his followers are locked away, frozen until Krypton's implosion frees them. Baby Kal-El has been rocketed away with Krypton's precious Codex, an energy-radiating skull.

Kal-El rockets to Earth, setting up not a Midwest reprieve to the lengthy Krypton fallout, but a flash-forward to more explosions. Our next glimpse of Kal-El is as a young adult Clark Kent (the beefy Brit Henry Cavill) aboard a fishing vessel on stormy seas, where he — shirtless and aflame — saves the crew of a burning oil rig.

At this point, your Codex may be spinning. Working from a script by "Blade" scribe David S. Goyer and a story by Goyer and "Dark Knight" director Christopher Nolan, Snyder has clearly sought to avoid some of the expected plotlines and rhythms of the familiar Superman tale. There's a constant urge to push the story to greater scale — a desperate propulsion that will surely excite some fans but tire others.

The film hops back and forth from Clark's grown-up life and his Smallville, Kansas, upbringing with Jonathan (Kevin Costner) and Martha Kent (Diane Lane). Costner, back among the corn stalks, makes the strongest impression of the cast as a severe father urging Kent to hide his gifts.

We're meanwhile introduced to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lois Lane (Amy Adams), fresh off a stint embedded with the military for the Daily Planet. Adams, as she usually does, helps animate the film, as she plunges into a bulldog investigating of Clark and spars with her editor (Laurence Fishburne).

Snyder brings to the film a sure hand for overly dramatic compositions that take after comic strip panels. He has a clearly sincere reverence for the source material (originally created in 1938 by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster). He's a filmmaker who, even with his last film, the abysmal "Sucker Punch," seems to precisely make the movie he intended.

Eager fans will likely thrall to the film's many overlong action set pieces, as Superman battles with Zod and his minions. There's little creativity to the fight sequences, though, which plow across countless building facades.

But Snyder doesn't have the material or the inclination to make "Man of Steel" as thought-provoking as Nolan's "Dark Knight" trilogy. Superman wrestles with his allegiance to humans or his home planet, but the quandaries of a superpowered man betwixt worlds doesn't have any real resonance. The gravity that cloaks "Man of Steel" is merely an en vogue costume.

While Snyder has succeeded in turning out a Superman that isn't silly (not a small feat) and will likely lay enough of a bedrock for further sequels, it's a missed opportunity — particularly with a bright cast of Shannon, Adams and Lane — for a more fun-loving spirit.

Cavill's performance is less memorable for his introspective brooding than for his six-pack (a fetish for Snyder, the director of "300"). He's handsome and capable, but one can't help missing Christopher Reeve's twinkle. At least he smiled.

The awkward acrobatics to modernize "Man of Steel" are most evident with its new explanation of Superman's shield. The "S," we are told, doesn't stand for Superman, but is a Krypton glyph meaning hope. But if "S'' doesn't stand for "Superman," ''Man of Steel" is the one with the identity issues — not to mention a spelling problem.

"Man of Steel," a Warner Bros. release, is rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence, action and destruction, and for some language. Running time: 144 minutes. Two stars out of four.

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I get the feeling Jake Coyle would have really loved Superman IV, The Quest for Peace.

[keg in kc]

There's definitely going to be some of that kind of "it's not 1978 Superman!" backlash.

[Sure-Oz]

70% with 40 reviews so far on RT. Superman Returns got a 76% overall. wtf lol

The % if it stays at this wont effect me one bit...i have a feeling i will be overwhelmed with how awesome this flick is just like the bale batmans movies