Every once in a while, I like to come here to express how hyped up I am for this movie. This is one of those times
t:. I haven't been this excited for a CBM in a long while. As I said before, this looks like it will be the perfect CBM and before anyone brings this up, perfect CBM =/= the best CBM. The perfect CBM means the CBM that has the perfect blend between all the great elements found in CBM's. MOS looks like it will be just that, but me saying that is not the same thing as saying that it will be better than TDK.
However, I am also worried to an extent that it will suck or at least very disappointing compared to what it could be. I was so hyped up for TDKR that I couldn't believe it was written by Nolan and Goyer even weeks after I saw it, and
Iron Man 3 has made me lose my trust in marketing and advertising almost completely. Basically, these 2 movies have done things that I thought would be the very last things to ever happen. Due to that, I can't even say that this film will most likely be great. How do we know Zod isn't a Kryptonian actor hired by Faora? Or that Krypton does indeed survive? These things are just as likely as, for example, Mandarin being the official villain in IM3 was.
Think about that for a bit... isn't that essentially a
good thing? I mean, I remember that with TDKR,
so much of it was hyped, and I remember being on the boards and following it through day in and day out, a lot of the scenes and facts were known and spoiled even before it came out. When it did it wasn't as shocking or moving. Advertisement does take away a lot and with the internet community that's made it harder for films to surprise us, especially CBMs. Now, if you think about what happened with Mandy, that's essentially what the message of the movie was: don't take things at face value. Don't believe so much in the build-up. I think that ruins movies. People expected
so damn much from TDKR that now most look down on it despite the fact that as a movie it's still one of the most potent, evocative hero tales you can come across. I love TDKR and I loved IM3 and I loved the fact that both of them were so different. When TDK came out, it was still riding off of BB and half the people were highly skeptical about Heath's Joker and didn't like it. They thought at best it'd be on par with BB if not less so, and that meant another mediocre Batman movie.
Guess what? People got surprised. It was the Batman movie of the decade. It was
the Batman film everyone hoped for. Somehow, Man of Steel feels like that for me, but I'm not trying to kill myself with the hype: a lot of the beats will be rehashes from Donner and I'll have to keep an open mind for that.
Expectations often kill the reality in front of us, and we always love being surprised no matter how much we say we don't. It's how I started falling in love with Anime.
Didn't Nolan said it himself?
I seem to recall an interview with him saying something about how Snyder is the one who should get all the credit and how little involvement he had.
Well knowing as how modest he usually is, people just wouldn't upright believe him.
this movie will be good...because it's the first one.
The second one will make stupid, crazy money
The third one will disappoint you
Haha. Again, what I said to the previous post that we're both responding to. People are surprised in the first one. They'd crowd for the second. They'd get disappointed by the third only because of the hype. TA2 is gonna be difficult to deliver.
Yeah this is all Snyder's direction. It still kinda saddens me that there will be people who will bash Snyder if MoS fails but will probably praise only Nolan if MoS does really well.
I hope that isn't the case but who am i kidding? At the end of the day, if people do that they deserve to get corrected...
...with a kryptonite krystal up their bottom.
