Man of Steel trailer #2
MGK has the new Man of Steel trailer up.
I approach this movie with some caution, as I explained in the comments:
I have never seen either Snyder’s 300 or Watchmen, and I don’t care. One is Frank Miller’s version of the Tolkienian lie that Western Civilization, arbitrarily defined, is the one abode of true men, and the rest of the world is made of monsters. The other is a paean to the self-importance of Alan (spit) Moore’s damn revisionist shitfics.
But this I may bother to see. Supes and I go way back.
I can already tell that they’ve messed up Pa Kent, and thus changed Clark’s core motivation. One of my favorite things about Supes is his motivation: Clark doesn’t fight crime out of displaced guilt like Spidey, or a quest for displaced revenge like batty Bats. Clark serves the world because he was properly brought up, and it was Pa Kent who taught him that. This version of Pa is a little too much like the Amish family that raised Kal El in JLA: The Nail. And that’s a shame. But a movie about a sort of Nail-ish Supes could still be good.
On reading the other comments, I think I may have been too harsh on the portrayal of Pa Kent. Still, an odd way to present Pa Kent in the trailer.
This entry was originally posted at http://philippos42.dreamwidth.org/109232.html, where Russian botspam is a rarity.
I approach this movie with some caution, as I explained in the comments:
I have never seen either Snyder’s 300 or Watchmen, and I don’t care. One is Frank Miller’s version of the Tolkienian lie that Western Civilization, arbitrarily defined, is the one abode of true men, and the rest of the world is made of monsters. The other is a paean to the self-importance of Alan (spit) Moore’s damn revisionist shitfics.
But this I may bother to see. Supes and I go way back.
I can already tell that they’ve messed up Pa Kent, and thus changed Clark’s core motivation. One of my favorite things about Supes is his motivation: Clark doesn’t fight crime out of displaced guilt like Spidey, or a quest for displaced revenge like batty Bats. Clark serves the world because he was properly brought up, and it was Pa Kent who taught him that. This version of Pa is a little too much like the Amish family that raised Kal El in JLA: The Nail. And that’s a shame. But a movie about a sort of Nail-ish Supes could still be good.
On reading the other comments, I think I may have been too harsh on the portrayal of Pa Kent. Still, an odd way to present Pa Kent in the trailer.
This entry was originally posted at http://philippos42.dreamwidth.org/109232.html, where Russian botspam is a rarity.