#fuck james gunn

[athenepromachos]

New Superman.....

Looks a bit "Henry ish" doesn't he ?

Hope Gunn gets totally fucked over.

Henry Cavill IS Superman thank you very much.

[kizunatallis]

So Dollar Store Tom Welling has officially been cast as Superman.

What a fucking downgrade.

If it actually makes money since it seems to be catering and pandering to the "real DC fans", I'll be shocked honestly .

[silveragelovechild]

So we’re not really getting a new Superman movie… Gunn is making a new Justice League movie… ugh!

[cloama]

I know the internet is full of hyperbole but I can honestly say that[to me] every Superman production has missed the mark on the Clark/Superman difference until now. I can confidently say that because it’s irked me for years.

This might be the first production to actually really get into the weeds with some simple changes, use lighting, costuming, hair&makeup (peep the contour!)to convey that Clark and Supes look nothing alike. This is so cool to me!!!!! They finally did it.

Shout out to the departments. Shout out to whoever realized they needed way bigger (longer)eyeglass frames with a thick bridge that would alter the appearance of his nose making him unclockable. Whoever you are, I love this work. I love how the base of the cape on the shoulders and the collar work together. It gets the job done but also looks like it was comfortable to wear during hours of shooting. I love that supes has a bit of contouring in the makeup differing from Clark. Shout out to whoever decided to make Clark’s suits oversized and flimsy! It accurately demonstrates Clark’s attempt to look like a little fish in a big pond. He’s not just like that; everything is a choice with him.

Shout out to Peter King and Lindsay McCallister on the hair design/hair story. They did their big one. Clark’s hair is such a big change(so fluffy and undressed!) and accurately shows how someone would manipulate their curly hair to change their appearance. Superman’s hair really works. Honey, that hair is dressed! It is reminiscent enough to please fans but different enough to feel fresh. I like that it’s rounded on top instead of square.

Also I’ve never seen this actor before in my life but he is embodying my man in the trailer so that is also exciting. I don’t even care if the movie is good. I’m a bit over hero movies but I love me some Supes. Everyone seems to really be invested in the visuals of this project. The commitment to color is commendable after years of dark grey low lit mess. Anyway…

I love new faces. I love movies! I love departments! I love unions! I hate David Zaslav!

[jinglebellrockstars]

"superman legacy will have heart and humor and hope and optimism 🤓" what about a good story and filmmaking that doesnt pander to the lowest form of nerd on the planet?

[banditomojado]

Them: So you're telling me that this thing, this Weasel, a joke side character from the suicide squad movie, made your heart melt and cry real tears of pain?

Me: *battling tears* YES AND NO I'M NOT FUCKING EXAGGERATING AND NO I'M WILL NEVER RECOVER

Them: But it's so ugl...

Me: HE'S PRECIOUS AND HASN'T DONE ANYTHING WRONG GOD DAMN YOU

[kizunatallis]

It is also the safest and blandest shit imaginable. Like taking Brandon Routh because he looks like Christopher Reeve (who really was a one-in-a-million find) and I only imagine Legacy will be just as “playing things as safe as humanly possible” as Returns was.

THIS IS SOME COLD BLOODED SHIT... we all knew he was out, but to replace him with a guy that's just looks like a younger version of him is some seriously wicked shit. 0_0

[artbyblastweave]

With a couple days to chew on it I've gotta say I've really come to appreciate the Untwist surrounding Nina's character. She's coded as a specific kind of guy, right, who shows up in a lot of Ensemble superhero stuff and Gunn's superhero stuff specifically- the innocuous neurotic with a middling power who ultimately comes in clutch at the last minute and demonstrates why they actually did belong on the team the entire time. "Heart is an awesome power", in TVtropes parlance. Polka-Dot man and Ratcatcher, Vigilante, Groot to an extent in the first Guardians movie.

So you spend seven episodes with this one member of the ensemble who never kills anyone, doesn't try and doesn't want to, gets haplessly dragged from nightmarish situation to nightmarish situation with no say in anything, spends a significant amount of the show's runtime trapped in a goddamn bathtub, and you've been trained to assume that she's going to get some kind of big moment that retroactively justifies all of that, demonstrates why Waller thought she was a good addition to the team. And then it turns out, no, she actually was just fundamentally poorly suited to this lifestyle. She had a superhero origin, the same kind of emergency power-granting medical intervention that Cyborg and Beast Boy got, but it turns out that Gunn's version of the DCU is a weird enough place that that's just a kind of thing that can happen to children sometimes, not something that guarantees that you'll actually become a viable superhero. She genuinely had no business being on the team, except that she looked weird enough that she got legally unpersoned and handed over to Waller, and Waller thought she looked weird enough that there was no reason not to try pointing her like a gun to see if she could do anything useful. No skin off her nose if she's a dud munition- you don't end up on the Suicide Squad because you're hard to replace, you end up on the squad because you're available and there won't be any blowback if you go missing.

This is, of course, one of the tensions that Suicide Squad and associated projects occasionally run into- you need to strike a balance between staffing the team with villains who're competent enough that Waller doesn't come off like a moron for entrusting them with anything important, and villains who're inept, underwhelming or out-of-control enough to remind you that half the point of the squad thematically is that it's a corrupt and morally bankrupt idea that on a really good day breaks even on solving as many problems as it creates. The usual fix is to include some number of mauve shirts who're included entirely to die badly- Slipknot in the Ayer film, Mindboggle in the first arc of the original Ostrander run, Voltiac in the first arc of the New 52 run, Most of Rick Flag's decoy team in the opening of The Suicide Squad. All played for some combination of shock-value and kafkaesque dark humor (did anyone check if Weasel can swim?) but rarely played for tragedy. These deaths are tone-setters, too early for you to care enough for it to be tragic. Nina is a well-disguised Slipknot, with her pointless, anticlimactic death bumped to the end of the story in a way that lets you get attached to her- which in turn finally, finally allows the narrative to hammer home that what keeps happening to the Slipknots and Javelins in these stories is fucked up. Nina didn't belong here! She's the only one of these people who doesn't have a codename! She gets the big, heartfelt you-can-do-it- you're-one-of-us speech from The Bride and Phosphorous, she strides out to finally get her Big Moment, and then no, she really really isn't one of them, and all that happens is that she ends up getting gutted like a. like a. Hey. Hang on

[kacievvbbbb]

I need someone that believes in magic to get ahold of Batman again. He is an overly serious man that runs around in an admitted bat suit fighting a gimmick rouge gallery. And he is doing it because he sincerely believes in a better tomorrow and somewhere along the way we have lost the plot. Batman wasn’t created to punish the guilty that is actually completely antithetical to his beliefs he is not the fucking punisher.

Batman just like wonder woman and Superman primarily wants to save people! sure he doesn’t do it in a sunny way but that is still what drives him. Hell he even goes a step further and actually builds a case he’s not just waiting for criminals to commit the crime he is shutting down smuggling and trafficking rings foiling plots he is a detective! For Christs sake it’s what made him so unique and fun as a superhero.

Also His desire to save people is literally what compels him to adopt Dick, Jason, Stephanie. Cass because he wanted to give these kids a chance, to save them in ways 8year old him wasn’t. Someone who just wants to punish the guilty wouldn’t do that, And now they have turned him into a borderline physically and emotionally abusive absentee parent all in the name of making him an edge lord. Where is the heart! Where is the fucking heart in it all! Where are the kids and the bright colors and the zaniness. Let Batman and Gotham be FANTASTICAL! I’m tired of the greys and the browns.

I’m tired of “grounding a story” meaning sucking all the joy and color out if it. Also superhero stories don’t need to be grounded in your fucking abysmal reality they are literally superheroes they exist outside of reality, let them!

A story does not have to be joyless to have depth and it does not have to be nihilist to be compelling.

I am sick and I am tired of it. 😔

[ambeauty]

If he even attempts her… I’m sure that will be the case.

with james gunn as the new head of dc or whatever i feel like our next live action starfire is gonna be light skinned/racially ambiguous or something. idk ive just noticed that about him. but i want it to be anna forever lol

[internetgreatesthits]

WTF!!!

[daydreamerwonderkid]

LIVE ACTION DAMIAN WAYNE?!!!!!!

LIVE ACTION NIGHTWING/BATGIRL/RED HOOD??!!!!!!!!

There's no script atm and no one's been cast yet

But y'all I'm shaking

This has the potential to be either really fucking good or really fucking bad

Crossing my fingers that this doesn't turn into a complete fucking mess, holy shit

[lillybearrie]

Chat chat CHATTTT

OH MY FUCKING GOD IS THAT CRYPTO??? AND IS THAT SUPES BLEEDING AND ASKING FOR HELP?? IT'S FINALLY FUCKING BRIGHT AND HOPEFULLY YK WHAT SUPERMAN IS SUPOSED TO BE

CHAT HE'S NOT A GOD THIS TIME! HE'S JUST A DUDE! TRYING TO BE A GOOD PERSON AND HELP PEOPLE AND NOT LETTING OTHER PEOPLE'S PERCEPTIONS OF HIM STRAY HIM AWAY FROM TRYING HIS BEST TO DO GOOD IN THE WORLD

I remain cautiously optimistic because it is just the one trailer but this.shit.is.hypeee

[iftadwascool]

this new Superman trailer looks great!

[kinsey3furry300]

Me, going into Guardians of the Galaxy 3: “Oh Boy, time for a fun space romp with my space palls! Rocket is my favorate, so I hope we get lots of laughs with him” Me, leaving Guardians of the Galaxy 3: Cold, wet, afraid, unsure if i’ll ever recover emotionaly.

[cyanide-sippy-cup]

OKAY NOBODY PANIC ITS HERE

Pictures and discussion below the read more cause my goodness. Like legitimately watch this. Idec if you're a comicbook fan, watch it. I don't think a trailer has ever made me this happy I am SO giddy rn. Like. That's Superman! Actual honest to Mother Nature Superman.

First things first, HOLY SHIT KRYPTO THE GOODEST BOY IS HERE HE HAS POWERS. He is literally getting just as much focus as Clark. He's on the poster, he's in this trailer, and the trailer fucking ends with the sound of the whistle Clark used to call him! I am so happy right now.

But also, I adore how much this trailer focuses on the real aspects of Superman. Sure, there's action in the trailer, but it's never focused on. What it DOES focus on is...

Clark and Lois' relationship. Holy shit. They are going to be the emotional crux of the whole film. The action literally falls into the background against their relationship. Like this doesn't seem to be a them getting together story. This is them being together. I. Have no words. I'm tearing at the walls.

A child believing in Superman when none of the adults do. In the middle of panic, he quietly calls for him. When he actually shows up in the movie, I will straight up cry.

His family. I mentioned Lois, but we see him and his father (maybe discussing his cancer or something) and we see him mourning/comforting Kelex (rip). We get focus on Krypto who no doubt is gonna be his best friend here.

And most importantly, we see him saving someone. Using his body to shield them from the threat. The hope he embodies in this fucking trailer, caspita! I am fucking buzzing with joy you don't even know.

I mean fucking LOOK AT THESE