[Bratch]

[Chipper]

Emo-Supes is my impression from the trailer. Nolan’s batman trilogy had one great movie, one okay movie and one terrible movie. Thankfully Marvel knows how to do comic book movies.

[Dr. Sivana]

First, the comics at least touched on these questions from time to time, of Supes being Kryptonian and being a bit of an outsider. He was an infant when he left, and those stories never worked very well.

Second, a Superman with the full array of powers had from about 1950 on would be impossible to make “real”. He is a fantasy character. The 1938 incarnation jumped, ran, punched and “nothing less than a bursting shell could penetrate his skin”. (which doesn’t imply that he couldn’t be poisoned, starved or killed with two bursting shells.)

He didn’t fly. He didn’t have:

heat vision

freeze breath

microscopic vision

no need of food or drink

the ability to stop his heart

telescopic vision

super hearing

x-ray vision

ability to go through time

no need to breath (hence, could fly into outer space)

super ventriliquism

ability to hypnotize people to see Clark Kent diffenrently

ability to pass through walls or change features (one time
use on both from 40s, later ignored)

Super wind

ability to move around the speed of light (that’s so much
faster than a speeding bullet it constitutes a new power)

Super brains (can learn languages in few hours, comprehend things read at superspeed, make complex calculations in his head, except when hit with Fuzz-Brain [see TRS-80 comic books])

No one has gotten Superman right yet. One either must raise the powers of his enemies (or make them employ magic or Kryptonite to weaken Supes), making them fantastic as well, or go back to an early 40s version, perhaps with flight, preferably before WWII, because the war would have been over before it started with him around.

[CatherineofAragon]

I wondered where Charles Brandon got off to....

[Sirius Lee]

How does he shave? Wouldn’t Superman beard be impervious to a mach 3 razor?

[discostu]

I’m really torn on this one. On one hand I’ve always found Superman (and most of the DC not-Batman pantheon) to be painfully boring as a character. On the other hand, Nolan and Snyder.

[a fool in paradise]

Removing or re-imagining elements in order to update an aging story or to help the material speak to modern audiences may be seen as blasphemy by some, but to Goyer, it’s all in the service of a stronger story.

Considering the nuSuperman no longer stands for Truth, Justice, and the "American" way, who give a crap about Time-Lies-Warner-Turner's latest crudfest?

[dead]

It’s not hard to see the themes of immigration, belonging, and communal identity that Goyer is driving at (claiming that this is a movie he feels “the world needs right now“)

Boy that just unsold me.

I didn't like that script when it was the lyrics to John Lennon's Imagine.

Great Caesar's ghost!