Thoughts on James Gunn's Superman Trailer...SUPER MEH (It smells like Age of Ultron all over again, franchise setup over story)

Thoughts on James Gunn's Superman Trailer...SUPER MEH

 (It smells like Age of Ultron  all over again, franchise setup over story)

I'm done with live action Superman/ or anything Superhero, not even going to front. It’s going to take some serious heavy lifting for me to go:

Everything this guy Shawn voiced I pretty much agree with. 

Even down to The Man of Steel Byrne run (which tells me Shawn is definitely a comics man), to Gunn likely just using this movie as another Batman v Superman: DAWN of Future Movies or The Avengers: Age of Future Movies

It's the same symptoms, these cinematic universes are obsolete now, they're dated, very VERY overrated. Just a business model to pump out content for the sake of it.

Everything James Gunn is going to attempt (good or halfway decent) is going to be a bad attempt at Timm's DCAU, I'm calling it now just how I tapped out of the MCU 2019 after watching Endgame 3 three times in a week and (despite my enjoying the Endgame theater experiences & I got something different each time) I could clearly & THOROUGHLY smell it's inferiority to Infinity War & Avengers 2012 (& I don't even like that movie) and prioritized fanservice over story.

This movie smelling like something funky in a similar vein to BvS & AOU, but we'll see. Theater's ain't getting my money but I'll eventually spot check it here and there after everyone calms the fuck down & the hype fizzles out and THEN we’ll see who the fans are and what the product is actually worth. 

Just like I did with that laughably bad (or a generous: Mediocre Tumblr Fanfic) My Adventures with Lois-Chan Season 1 and somehow a Season 2, a show everyone forgot about yet again after the second season overstayed it’s welcome and kindly fucked off. Finally. 

Agreed for the most part here on the video, and yes, Superman Returns suit was pretty solid (Tho I wanted the chest shield a bit bigger, it was a beautiful fusion of modern & classic)

Very rarely can you have this much on your plate coming out the gate and sell a good execution. Let’s not forget that BvS was only the SECOND Snyderverse movie.

Setup & Story work better when it’s a smaller ecosystem, a smaller playing field, it’s less overstimulation for the audience, the writers aren’t stretching the script thin, Cramming  50 elements into .a 10 Capacity box and it’s not overcompensating because at the end of the day, they’ll likely just sell a 2 hour trailer for future movies aka Age of Ultron and Dawn of Justice. 

Focus. Is the word. Coherence and focus. Very rarely can you prioritize setup of a UNIVERSE, the movie is about one guy and still get a coherent story.

That’s why The Batman worked in 2022, that’s why Ironman 2008 is STILL the best Ironman movie and that’s why Spider-Man worked in 2002, and nobody gives a shit about Homecoming despite all it had that the Raimi’s film didn’t.

Focus. (We’ll see what Gunn & Co. can do, we’ll see if they can write a competent Superman story or yet another Guardians of the Galaxy Lite with a Superman in it)