Don't care about reviews based on a trailer...

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....Especially as most of the negative reviews are likely Snyder fanboys review bombing.

Trailer showed Supes beaten down (so, end of Act II), then a montage of Clark looking dorky, Lex looking bitter, some Supes/Lois kissing, some action shots of Hawkgirl, Metamorpho, Green Lantern, and Mr. Terrific, a great rescue, and, of course, Krypto - but nothing that really gives us an idea of story. It's a teaser trailer cut together of near-complete VFX shots, and Krypto is the most coherent thing in it.

Should have been Streaky the Supercat sitting on bleeding Supes while grooming his own butt...

Problem with an IP like Supes is he's got this hugely established mythology. If - like Gunn is doing - he puts Lex Luthor in the movie, people will sneer and say "Luthor AGAIN?" If he DOESN'T use Luthor those same people will say, "God, you can't do Superman without Luthor!" You can't win. If you do something with Supes which was actually DIFFERENT - like, say, Superman and Lois which leaned a bit into comics of the last decade where DC finally aged Supes up a bit from 30 and gave him a teenaged son with powers, and Supes has stepped back a bit from saving the world because he's got focus on his family - so Superman and Lois is the first live action Supes to do THAT story...people complain that the show isn't Supes fighting supervillains every week.

Gunn is hit it miss for me. Love his early Troma stuff. Slither was creepy. Scooby-Doo, surprisingly, didn't hate it. Guardians of the Galaxy was actually solid, GotG 2 sucked. GotG 3 was a good movie about Rocket Racoon and his fellow experiments that kept cutting away to some boring film about some loser douche harassing a green woman.

Gunn's Supes trailer looked pretty good. Looked mostly like a Superman movie where he IS a beacon of hope. Hell, the trailer even got an emotional reaction from me with the tropey-tropes about the GOOD DOG. (Best gag I've ever seen with Krypto in live action or animation.)

It won't be the "Timmverse" (including Superman, Justice League and JL Unlimited), but nothing else is. Although the current cartoon "My Adventures with Superman," is something I wish was playing here. First two episodes got dropped on YouTube by the studio. I'd watch that. It was fun.

If Supes is for the kids, I'd rather it be a Superman saving people, not the Snyder Supes done by a director who thinks Supes needs to be accidentally killing people left and right during battles (which Snyder actually SAID in an interview).

Superhero tales are modern morality plays. They're the 20th/21st century Greek Myths. Nothing wrong with that.

Nothing wrong with other Green Lanterns either. If we wanna be picky, the ORIGINAL Green Lantern is Alan Scott from the 1940's. 1960's Hal is an also-ran. He just had a longer run before DC created John Stewart, Guy Gardener, and Kyle Rainer. That shot of Guy with the bowl cut and that smirk - yup Guy is gonna be tricky. He's going to be obnoxious and "Comedy Relief." If there's anyone who can balance that out without making Guy Ryan Reynolds annoying it's Nathan Fillion.

Or, check out the DC Animated Green Lantern First Flight where Fillion plays Hal. That's a very solid retell of Hal's origin. Makes Sinestro ALMOST reasonable and sympathetic, and has a couple of genuinely disturbing scenes. Oh, sure, it was an alien world and they called the glowing orb a "Glitter Sphere," or something, but watching Sinestro forcing an informant to OD on space heroin during an interrogation? Oof. Of course that's the moment when Hal realizes there's something not right about his mentor.

Yours,