re: Superman teaser trailer

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Lex is, more than anything, a full blown narcissist and a sociopath. All humans are equal - as in, we are all equally beneath his notice unless we can either give him something he wants or is in our way

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Correct.

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He cloaks his hatred of Superman under the guise of wanting what's best for humanity, but ultimately it's all because Superman is someone that gets in his way that he cannot remove.

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It’s more than that. Luthor in his prime more than just hates Superman, he is absolutely disgusted by him. Luthor looks at himself who built up his own empire and physique as what humanity should strive to be, while Superman just had it all handed to him by birthright and does it effortlessly. He thinks that Superman is completely full of shite and has to have the same ambitions as he himself does. The fact that Superman exists and he cannot reason with him is an abomination in Luthor’s mind. They are very much the “When an unstoppable force meets an immovable object” vibe going between them.

But no, Luthor is not a racist and just sees himself as superior to everyone, including (and especially) Superman. He is up there on the single biggest narcissist and biggest superiority complex of anyone ever written.

But this scene most embodies Luthor on who he at least thinks he is and why he cannot see that Clark Kent and Superman are the same person:

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Man of Steel ... (which seems to get better every time I rewatch it)

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Same here. Heck, I find all of the Superman movies (well, maybe not the one with nuclear man or whatever he was called in it)... included Superman Returns... that had the best portrayal of Superman's power of any Superman movie, ever - the plane saving scene... enjoyable, for what they are - Comic book superhero movies. They aren't going to win Best Motion picture awards. Just watch the movie and be entertained. That's what movies are for, isn't it?

Trailer looks good to me for the most part. Superman and Lois Lane are cast well. Not sure about the dog.

I loved how Morrison and Quietely showed Clark as this hulking intellectual doofus with zero social skills. He went so much further than “mild-mannered reporter”.

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how many times is DC gonna reboot their universe

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The comics seem to completely reboot about once a decade now, because nothing really sells like it should. When Dan Didio was running the publishing side, he was constantly bitching about reprint collections from the 40's through the 80's outselling all of the new stuff. He just couldn't understand why. Which is why he was pushed out. But Warner keeps hiring "edgy" types to run and write/draw the comics, and so you have failure after failure, reboot after reboot. And people keep buying anthologies of the old stuff that they loved instead of "reimagining's" of Gay Green Lantern and his transsexual sidekick. For fans, the beatings will continue until sales improve.

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I don't mind Krypto... but... I was thinking he'd be... bigger. A White Labrador, to be exact.

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Kinda wish they'd used a Black Labrador just for the lulz.

that is the fricking best and true as well

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I don't mind Krypto... but... I was thinking he'd be... bigger. A White Labrador, to be exact.

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Same. Gunn took a little creative license and fashioned his Krypto after his own dog.



If he gives us a good Superman movie, I can forgive that slight self-indulgence.

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Hoult is going to crush as Lex. He was awesome in The Order

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Luthor needs to have palpable menace and seems to be a tad older than Superman. Not sure Hoult is gonna pull that off.

He's too old for the part now, but Gene Simmons did a movie years back where he played a bald villain (in prison), and the first thing I thought was "Wow, there's Lex Luthor". Too bad there's no one like him out there now.