Warner Bros. Wants You to Know There’s a Difference Between a Robot and a Man of Steel…

Posted on May 26, 2013 by geelw

Man of Steel TV Spot #7, meet Pacific Rim TV Spot # 2. Now shake hands and come out fighting for those summer box office bucks. Even better, go beat the stuffing out of something big and evil. Hmmm… Seeing both of these trailers together almost makes me think of the odd power Warner Bros. films have had over the decades. I can recall seeing many trailers either on TV (while watching TCM, primarily) or in theaters throughout the years where I’d nod when I saw that logo because I knew I’d be in for an entertaining two hours or so. Of course, I could say that about MGM, RKO, Universal, Paramount and other studios living and dead, but right now… I’m in a WB mood.

Hmm… must have been that carrot juice I had with the pulled pork and roast duck sandwich. Five points if you get my lame joke…

Man of Steel TV Spot 6: Zods and Ends…

Posted on May 25, 2013 by geelw

OK, bad pun, pad pun! Eh, I figured that since this new Superman film is dumping the now supremely corny camp humor found in the five Reeve films and the original TV series for a more serious tone, I may as well get in as many bad jokes as possible before it hits theaters. Of course, I don’t think The Man of Steel will lack humor ENTIRELY, folks… I just think it’ll be minimized so the story is more enjoyable with less eye-rolling moments when a one-liner pops up and the audience groans because it ruins an otherwise good scene.. Save that stuff for flicks where jokes are part of the game plan (like Kick-Ass 2), I say.

Oh, by the way – give that funky Man of Steel Glyph Creator a whirl if you’re curious about what your family name would look like on your own super-suit. Don’t go getting any ideas, though – you won’t be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, bend steel in your bare hands or anything else (unless you’re already doing that stuff as part of a freak show act in a carnival somewhere)…

Man of Steel “Fate of Your Planet” Trailer: (Even More) Seriously, Now…

Posted on May 21, 2013 by geelw

Well, well, well… THAT’S how you blow an audience away. Taking Superman’s former camp value from those old films away and giving fans a serious to the point of “yeah, I need to see this twice on the first day” status is a damn good thing. I was thinking we wouldn’t see a more dynamic trailer like this one for a few more weeks closer to the film’s launch, but the gloves have come off (as in Warner Bros. and DC yelling “Take that, Marvel!” POW!!) and it looks like this one will be the Superman flick that gets remembered this generation. Well, provided it has a solid finale that sets up something without leaving a ton of plot holes open or feeling like it needed ten more minutes to make a scene or five better. As usual… we shall see…

Man of Steel TV Spot #5: He’s Earning That Merit Badge, That’s For Sure…

Posted on May 13, 2013 by geelw

Well, the nice thing about these Man of Steel trailers and now, TV spots as they go on is you can see the quality in them from the very beginning. That initially vague first reveal is slowly but surely giving way to a film that’s looking to be a bit more mature than the previous Superman flicks and will hopefully be remembered for taking its subject matter outside the borders of the comics and making the character one people remember as less of a caricature and more of an actual person. Hey, as long as the comic relief is minimal and restricted to a handful of tossed off lines of dialogue (and not all from the lead). As usual, we shall see, but on their merits so far, the film is looking to do for Supes what Chris Nolan’s films did for the Batman (which is a good thing at the end of the day)…

Man of Steel TV Spot #4: Space Pilgrim vs. The World…

Posted on May 12, 2013 by geelw

So far, Warner Bros. has been considerably tame with these super-looking Man of Steel clips and trailers, but it looks as if that bubbling enthusiasm is slowing but surely going to be ramping up significantly as the weeks go by. As far as the film goes to some initially skeptical fans (yours truly included), we’re now at the color coded “This had better be REALLY good… or else, grrrr!” stage, but I think Snyder can handle any criticism at this point, as can the cast.

Hmmm.. Let’s see now, there’s going to be something like what, fifteen to twenty TV spots to go? Well, as long as the “less is more” approach is taken, I think we’ll see just enough to tempt us into theaters…

Man of Steel TV Spot 3: The Face That Launched A Thousand Slips…

Posted on May 6, 2013 by geelw

I actually overheard a conversation over the weekend between a few Beiber age girls where one said the new Superman is TOO handsome, and that made me chuckle a bit. Well, you can’t please everyone, I suppose, but I guess a tattooed and pierced Supes would get more of that tween crowd rolling in and squealing at the screen. Granted, that’s not going to happen anytime soon (well, it sure as hell better not), so I guess that’s one slice of a potential audience I don’t need to worry about yapping away while I’m trying to enjoy the show. Of course, if the older ladies in the audience are tossing Spanx girdles and granny panties at the screen, so much for my enjoying anything at all…

Eww, now I’ll be seeing granny panties all damn day (thanks, me!)…

Man of Steel TV Spot #2: More Half Minute Heroics To Make The Skeptics Fly…

Posted on May 2, 2013 by geelw

That wasn’t a sonic boom you just heard, folks. It was all those skeptics leaping out the nearest window not because they lost that bet Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel wasn’t going to look like a REALLY awesome flick, but because they got so caught up in the flying bits that they grabbed the nearest sheet or bath towel and went for a short trip outside followed by a longer one to the nearest emergency room. It’s a good thing most of them were jumping from the basement window where they usually hole up with their message board denizen ways. Well, just be nice to them when this one arrives in theaters – they’ll be the ones on crutches or with an arm or two in a sling (or slings) from that sudden fall from their usual gracelessness.