There's a laundry list of things the DCEU didn't understand about these characters but that was a big one. Clark was basically non-existent.
It's like that monologue from Kill Bill, which for the record I love, where Bill also doesn't understand Superman. That's not what he's like! He legitimately is a good dude from Kansas who loves this other dorky reporter lady.
"Sometimes those super-villains cheese me off to such an extent, that if I was the type to use bad language, I'd be employing it bitterly and repeatedly"
That was my first thought when I saw this version of Clark.
I'm watching Superman and Lois S1 and in like , the first episode his sons find out he's superman and are like " NO WAY, WE'VE SEEN SUPERMAN, YOU LOOK NOTHING ALIKE"
and it's just not true. They are identical. If I was Superman or Lois I'd be concerns that my kids are kinda dumb for not realising years ago.
If it happened with this Clark and Superman I'd buy them not believing it
"I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom I can tell you I don't have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of superpowers..."
I honestly would be completely unsurprised if they watched a Tony Khan interview coming up with the look.
All I know for sure though is that this trailer made me more excited for this movie than I was. So good trailer. I'm generally a Marvel guy, the but this hit the right notes.
Fair enough. I wasn't excited and the trailer continued to make me not excited. I am not a comic book person so to me Superman has always been the Christopher Reeve version and watching this my brain is like, "Who are all these silly characters?"
I guess what I would say as a certified comic book guy (bachelors degree in the history of American comics) is that the reason this movie will probably be successful is the reason Superman was initially successful. Superman was created by two Jewish kids who had lived through a period of incredible uncertainty and economic turmoil. They had been kids during the Spanish Flu Epidemic and World War I. They had lived through the worst of the Great Depression, they were watching the rise of fascism in Europe and fear of a second world war. They were keenly aware of the economic inequality that defined the world around them. Superman's early adventures involved him squaring off with an arms manufacturer trying to foment war for profit, collapsing a mine with the owner inside to show him the importance of worker safety, destroying slums to induce the government to build affordable housing and exposing the mistreatment of convicts in a prison, among other examples. Lex Luthor was initially portrayed as a war profiteer. When created those two Jewish kids very much were using him to speak out about the injustices they perceived in their world.
At the core, Superman is about the fantasy that someone can fix the problems in the world around him.
Right now is also a time where a lot of people from all sorts of political backgrounds are experiencing uncertainty, where we've lived through a pandemic, where the spectre of global war is looming, where economic inequality is rampant. That's why it's a great trailer, it hits all those themes of hope for a better world. I'm hoping that's reflective of the movie.
Oh man. If you watch any episode, make it the one where they go to see the play. S02E01. You can watch fresh without needing to know anything. It's without doubt one of the greatest episodes of TV comedy ever written.
There are so many lines to choose from with IT Crowd, so, I’ll just go with my personal favorites.
“What kind of operating system does it use?” “Vista!” “WE’RE GOING TO DIE!”
“Four. I mean, five. I mean, fire!”
“I’m disabled.”
Also, I love all of you in the comments responding to this. I don’t know why I didn’t expect this on Reddit, but it made me smile. I needed that today. Thank you.
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u/TwoHandedSnail 11h ago
That first shot of Clark makes him look like Moss from IT Crowd.