The trailer is loose for the upcoming movie …
Overall impressions?
- Gutsy yet very satisfying move to not simply reboot the movie series, but return to it (ignoring the last couple of
ReevesReeve films, thankfully). Supes has been … away? Why? Why is he back now? And can he and the world still fit together? Nice. - I never believed a man could fly. Now … well, I believe CGI can make a man do anything. The fx look nice. Let’s see if the story lives up to them. Lex, at least, seems fun.
- It is amusing (and irksome) that both Superman and Lois Lane look (unrealistically) younger now than they did then. Indeed, he looks about the same age as he does on Smallville.
- Given the slightly darker tone of the film, I can live with the darker tone of the costume. Still not happy with the belt buckle and boots, but the ads don really highlight them.
Interest level: moderately high
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Pirated (heh) version of the Pirates of the Caribbean II trailer here, too.
Wish I could see the Superman trailers. I can’t get them to play in Firefox or IE. Do we see who the villain is?
Oh, and it’s “Reeve.” Reeves was Superman back on the old TV show. Common mistake.
Do you have the QuickTime plugin for FF (here)? Or IE?
The villain is Lex Luthor — who looks to be played somewhere between the Hackman and the animated versions.
I’ve corrected the “Reeve” misnomer.
Funny comments from EW’s Popwatch blog on both:
Summon the kraken!
So you’ve finished your seventh or eighth freeze-frame viewing of this, and you’re looking for fresh trailer meat. Look no further than Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. (This doesn’t appear to be an official posting of the trailer, so the link is weak — but better than the glacially slow one that was making the rounds yesterday.)
If the Pirates teaser was all about pratfalls and daffy Depp-y monkeyshines, then the trailer is a contract for action, of the sea-battle-with-sea-monsters variety. (Is that a variety? It should be.) Something about the phrase “Summon the kraken!” stokes my inner-adolescent, especially when a kraken is successfully summoned. When Bill Nighy (resplendent in his tentacle-faced, vaguely Lovecraftian Davy Jones getup) summons a kraken, damn it, he gets a motherlovin’ kraken!
I won’t bore you by repeating any of Captain Jack’s exceedingly well-timed and well-delivered bon mots (just watch the thing). But I would like to submit “Summon the kraken!” as this summer’s catchphrase of choice. It will tide us over until Samuel L. Jackson makes Krakens on a Boat.
Kraken!
(Okay, I’m stopping now.)
Teehee
When Bill Nighy (resplendent in his tentacle-faced, vaguely Lovecraftian Davy Jones getup) summons a kraken, damn it, he gets a motherlovin’ kraken!
Heh. “Krakens on a Ship!”
Re: Superman, I’m starting to think it might not suck.
No, I definitely think it will not suck.
Will it be memorably good? Cautiously optimistic.
Okay, I wasn’t hyped about this at all…but Kevin Spacey as Lex Luthor? Now, I will go.
To extend on the earlier comment, more amusing than Clancy Brown, less campy than Gene Hackman. Should be good — but, then, playing villains is always fun.
I can see the trailers now! It does appear to be a sequel to the Christopher Reeve films, complete with the John Williams theme.
I see on IMDB that Noel Neill makes an appearance again! Not as young Lois’s mother this, time, though.