Man of Steel

[The Laughing Fish]

These viral marketing videos such as this is reminds of some kind of early 2000s video clips you see for Deftones and Slipknot.

I say: to hell with viral marketing! Let the film speak for itself or p!55 off! 

[BatmAngelus]

Feels reminiscent of Tyrell's speech to Earth in JMS's Superman Earth One, though obviously the context is a bit different since Zod is a fellow Kryptonian:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4irVuZamOhA/TN0Nhe0RoAI/AAAAAAAAEMQ/BRD59PT04ns/s1600/scan0055.jpg 

The similarity is not surprising since Goyer was a fan of the comic.

I was reading an article online that also noted that it's nice to have a supervillain actor these days who doesn't try to adopt a weird accent (a la Joker, Bane, The Mandarin) and I'm inclined to agree.

[Azrael]

The predictable, inevitable, meme comment. He forgot to say "kneel".

[thecolorsblend]

The predictable, inevitable, meme comment. He forgot to say "kneel".

I hope he doesn't. I'm sick of that.

[BatmAngelus]

^ If it's any consolation:
http://www.totalfilm.com/news/michael-shannon-won-t-say-kneel-before-zod-in-man-of-steel

A Zod who doesn't have a British accent, using Faora from the comics instead of the Donner movies' Ursa, and no variation on Superman II's infamous "Kneel" catchphrase.  So far, the only thing this Zod adopted from the Donner-added traits seems to be facial hair and even that's much different.  I see all this as a good sign that they're putting their own mark on the characters and not just trying to bank on nostalgia and love for the older movies.

Besides, Loki already did the "KNEEL!" command to humanity last year in The Avengers 

[The Dark Knight]

The predictable, inevitable, meme comment. He forgot to say "kneel".

I hope he doesn't. I'm sick of that.

I am too. It's like the only reason why that portrayal is remembered, and narrowed the whole thing down to one word. It became something to laugh at if anything. I'm sure the new filmmakers can do something better.

[thecolorsblend]

If it was the guy's shtick in the comics, I truly would be okay with it. And I don't even begrudge Donner and Mankeywhatsis for inventing it. I don't think they intended to create a catch phrase/meme from hell. But the fans who just won't let it the fvck go already... ugh. I mean, say whatever you want about TDK fans but at least "why so serious" died a natural death after a pretty brief shelf life.

[The Dark Knight]

Trailer 3 is up:

[BatmAngelus]

Looking solid.

At first, I thought "Again?" when Zod was yelling at Jor-El, but I realized you kinda need to see Zod and Faora get thrown into the Phantom Zone (or wherever they're going to be taken) in the opening before Krypton blows up for their reappearance to make sense.

What does everyone else think?

[The Dark Knight]

On the whole I like the new trailer and it sets up a promising conflict. I like they didn't actually show that much more footage. Just enough new content to get the fans excited. Though on one hand it left me a little underwhelmed.

Already I have noticed:

Zod issuing threats via television signals – Joker issuing threats via television.
Superman in an interrogation room across from Lois – the Batman and Joker interrogation in TDK.
Bearded Clark roaming the world trying to find purpose – Bruce doing this at the start of BB.

I'm not blasting the movie on this, by the way. This is not exclusive behaviour to one character but the similarities are there. Skyfall took influence from TDK – the director is on record saying that. Though again, Superman, Batman and Bond all have prior footing in such material. It's not a new thing, just a resurgence made popular again by TDK. Even I have to admit that.

All in all, this should be good. I'd say it's one of the better Superman outputs already.