Amph Waiting For Superman: Gunnverse DCU/Elseworlds (New Trailer!)

I am older. I thank you not.

 

Hold on...

Is he going to pick the Asian woman as his partner? And then they fall in love? And then on the final battle he thinks she's dead?

 

What makes you think it was unintentional? Goyer and Snyder likely had a good idea of where they were going with a sequel from the get go.

Although the way you are extrapolating the events of the film are odd. Superman does little damage himself directly. Zod takes down a building. Zod throws him through a building. The military does more damage than Zod & company in Smallville. He's also battling foes who are, by the end of the film, on a suicide mission to destroy all life on Earth, and who are far more experienced in battle than he is. He is completely outmatched. Also remember that Kal-El has only had his full powers and knowledge of his parentage for a couple of days by the time Zod shows up and his first instinct is to trust Zod and humanity and turn himself over to find a diplomatic solution. In the finale, he's facing a foe who is hell bent to kill and rampage against the inhabitants of Earth to an extreme that's hard to imagine and I love that the movie faced that dilemma head on and putting Superman in a fragile situation that challenges his fortitude and how far he will go to protect humanity.

 

That is making me wet, 2nd. However, Zack Sneider.

 

The craft crashes through parts of a couple of buildings near ground zero where the beam was inflicting the most damage, so this area was deserted and in ruins anyway and at least two of the buildings are already shattered to begin with.

 

I don't care, nerd.

 

You rang?

//puts on Illumninati hat

 

I must have missed something...

 

That my eyes are beautiful and my arse looks as good as it did ten years ago.

 

Why would he want a gym, he was so tiny!

 

I think the devastation itself is enough of an indication that they wanted the audience to focus on it, given that it's the main focus of the film for about 30-40 minutes. Snyder isn't dumb - he knows what critics are going to attack him for, but he has the good grace not to give a damn and make what he wants to make. It's kind of funny though, Transformers blow up most of Chicago or Tokyo and no one bats an eye, but seeing Superman outmatched in a big city trying to save humanity and everyone cries about it.

You have no evidence for this.

 

I really hate to wade back into this because this is too stupid even for me in this thread (and, as heels and Ender will note: that's pretty bad) but... Quest is mostly correct; there's some decent amount of evidence to support these claims. Now, I'm just going to make three totally factual statements and draw the line of reasoning and stop there -- you may disagree, that's cool.

1) WB greenlighted a sequel which they called "a Man of Steel sequel" prior to the movie coming out based solely on pre-sale tracking only, without any reviews in. (One week prior to release; reviews didn't start hitting anywhere until mid-next week)
2) The movie came out and shattered opening weekend numbers and then nosedived (compared to other films) and ended up underperforming only to the levels in which the studio expected (which is not the same as saying it wasn't profitable, etc.)
3) Immediately after this, at San Diego Comic Con, the previously announced "Man of Steel sequel" became "a Batman/Superman movie that's inspired by The Dark Knight Returns but which will not be The Dark Knight Returns."

It is not a stretch to reach Quest's conclusions (as, it's basically the same conclusions as about half the pundits on the web) based on these pieces of evidence strung together. You may choose to believe or not, it's cool. And you may feel free to interpret evidence as you wish. But that's what people based their judgments on to reach the conclusions above.

 

Here you go, heels:

 

Didn't these two just stop arguing like a day ago?

 

And this is a Man of Steel sequel, with the same creative team as the previous film. It also introduces Batman. Remember last summer when Snyder went to SDCC shortly after Man of Steel came out and said that Batman was going to be in the movie. If it wasn't planned from the beginning, that seems like a pretty short time period to put that together.

World War Z and Monsters University effectively took both the family and adult/teen crowd during Man of Steel's second weekend which is why it's drop was more than expected. It leveled off the following week and still managed to be the fifth highest grossing film of the year and grossed more worldwide that practically every other superhero reboot/origin of the last decade.

Again, this was right after the film opened and they were already in pre-production on the sequel which it sure seems had already included Batman. Before Man of Steel was even released, they said that they were using it as a jumping off point for the cinematic DCU.

Yep.

 

So there really was a 10 page explosion in this thread regarding the release date? Wasn't it obvious this film was going to move?

 

It was.

Once you pull back the curtain though, the magic is gone from the illusion.