"Man of Steel" seriously wants you to know it's serious about being serious. Seriously.

"Man of Steel" seriously wants you to know it's serious about being serious. Seriously.
    Things are crazy busy here (and I plan to have more to say on this one soon enough in another context) so you'll forgive me if I don't have much in depth to say on the new Superman trailer beyond... yeah, here's the new Superman trailer:

    Oh! And here's my final SuperGirl "Big Picture" episode, as well!



    I'll say this much: I'm not precisely "elated" by any of this, but that's possibly because it's the first trailer for a property like this in awhile that doesn't feel like it's aimed DIRECTLY at "me" demographically and I appreciate that. The whole campaign up to this point has been designed to evoke a sense of "This looks interesting... what is thi.. oh! This is Superman?" in an audience, so it's been light on "holy shit!" moments and comic iconography. Me, I don't need to be "sold" on the idea that a new Superman movie is a good idea or that the character is "relevant" but apparently a lot of the public does and that's who this is aimed at.

    One of my more widely-read contemporaries on Twitter (Devin Faraci, I want to say) negatively described the "Star Trek Into Darkness" trailer as "chasing 'The Dark Knight' in a post-'Avengers' world," and I get some sense of that same undercurrent here (the presence of odious cinematic boogeyman Hand-Held and his partner Lens Flare doesn't help) but there's enough present in the margins for me to still hope we'll get something good out of this. "Dark Knight"-good? Probably not. "Avengers"-good? Impossible. But there's potential. Maybe.

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