{"id":50131,"date":"2015-04-20T05:06:33","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T11:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/20\/if-there-was-ever-a-trailer-that-made-me-not-want-to-watch-a-movie.html"},"modified":"2015-05-07T16:40:22","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T22:40:22","slug":"if-there-was-ever-a-trailer-that-made-me-not-want-to-watch-a-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/20\/if-there-was-ever-a-trailer-that-made-me-not-want-to-watch-a-movie.html","title":{"rendered":"If there was ever a trailer that made me not want to watch a movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was sketchy over the whole <i>Batman v Superman<\/i> think to begin with. And, honestly, this trailer only increases the sketchitude.  I think I see where they are going to make the story happen, but the trailer is so over the top in presenting a justification for a (new) Batman to take on (ho-hum) Superman that it feels more like fanfic than a multi-million dollar (and franchise-tripping) venture.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><iframe type='text\/html' width='100%' height='385' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IwfUnkBfdZ4' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/9ZaU3RergxR'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was sketchy over the whole Batman v Superman think to begin with. And, honestly, this trailer only increases the sketchitude. I think I see where they are going to make the story happen, but the trailer is so over the top in presenting a justification for a (new) Batman to take on (ho-hum) Superman &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/20\/if-there-was-ever-a-trailer-that-made-me-not-want-to-watch-a-movie.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;If there was ever a trailer that made me not want to watch a movie&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,852,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-dc-cinematic-univese","category-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129676,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/08\/now-this-batman-v-superman-movie-trailer-excites-me.html","url_meta":{"origin":50131,"position":0},"title":"Now THIS &quot;Batman v Superman&quot; movie trailer excites me!","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 8-Feb-16 2:04pm","format":false,"excerpt":"And the casting is pretty remarkable, though there's kind of a big spoiler at the end.(via J. 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