I really wonder if this guy actually saw the video. If he did (and watched it a couple of times as he said) he would have known that Luthor injected himself with kryptonite (to protect himself from Superman) and a steroid (to give him strenght and stamina to take on Batman. Even with the steroid boost, he clearly wouldn't have been a match for Superman head to head so he used the armor. Lex got arrested for abuse of power. Furthermore, they were attempting to give the look and feel of the McGuiness artwork as to why there was a lot of muscularity to the character. They did not intend to exactly duplicate his art.
I watched this video, and I liked the fact that they had so many charcters in the vid and a lot of action. You really got to see that both Superman and Batman work very well (harmoneously) as a team, that Superman is subtily more powerful than he appears, and that Powergirl is cute. I will not give a rating for this video since the proof will be in the pudding when the revenue results come in over at The Numbers.com.
I really wonder if this guy read my post.
Yes, I DID watch the movie. I apologize for not being in the apparent majority, but I did not like the film.
Firstly, I watched it once,
a couple nights ago, as you quoted in your own post.
Secondly, yes, I knew Lex injected himself with Kryptonite and steroids (as I said in my review also). I wasn't concerned with Batman and the steroids. It's just that they went out of their way to show Lex injecting himself with kryptonite, but nothing ever really came of it. If he knew it wouldn't be enough to stand up to superman, why do it in the first place? I'm just saying it would have made for a better story in my opinion if they had simply stuck to him using the suit or just the injections. The suit made the injections seem pointless. If the movie was missing the scene where Lex is caught injecting himself, or even if he only mentioned the steroids, it would have been no different because the injections of Kryptonite never really came into play in a way that contributed to the story.
I watched it once, and I really have no desire to see it again, but if I missed something about Lex's arrest, it was because at that point the plot had become so convoluted that I had lost interest and just wanted to see how it ended.
I know they can't successfully duplicate Mcguniess' art work, but I think they could have gotten a bit closer, especially with a style that seems so close to something you would see in animation anyway. If you disagree, that's fine, but to me the design work was very off putting. There was something about it that was missing for me.
This is kind of a random analogy, but I once had some frozen yogurt with my sister and didn't care for it. I told her that It was like if there was a secret ingredient that made ice cream taste the way it tasted, frozen yogurt was missing that ingredient. I suppose a better analogy in these parts would be Richard Pryor's attempt at kryptonite in Superman 3. Sure, it was close, but was missing that one thing that makes it what it is.
To me, this may have been close, but it was missing that something special that would have made me feel they were successful in trying to translate the style for animation.
I too liked that alot of characters who would probably not see alot of screen time were represented in this film. As with my overall opinion though, had the design work been more appealing, I would have been a little more excited about that element of the movie. Everytime Power Girl's face showed up, I cringed. It reminded me of a warped, blonde Betty Boop, especially the first time she is shown in that profile shot on stage.
I wasn't trying to prove a point with my ratings or anything. I simply put mine up cause everybody else was. Of course the movie will make money. No one said it wouldn't. I was just giving a personal opinion on the material.
This does worry me though for other adaptations of stories with very stylized art. If they do end up doing The Long Halloween eventually, I hope that should they try to come up with designs that echo Tim Sale's art, they are a bit more successful. While simply using a typical animation style for a movie like that (ex Superman Doomsday, Green Lantern FF, WW) would be a shame if a Tim Sale style can be achieved, I'd rather have that typical style done really well and used for the story, rather than a half hearted attempt at Sale's style.
Those are my thoughts, no more, no less. I felt the movie was lacking and not DC's best effort. However, everyone gets a freebie and I eagerly await the next film (though it sucks we have to wait until NEXT YEAR!!!).
