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All the trailers have focused on character over super-punching, so I'm pretty optimistic. It has the potential to be the definitive superhero origin story, with Snyder and Nolan working together, much like the original Superman was.

"The Doctor is Submarining through our brains." --Teague

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childhood memory story flooding back...

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In the days when only early adopters had VHS players, my father brought me along on a visit with a Ham Radio buddy of his. They disappeared to talk about frequencies or whatever and left me in front of a TV playing the Reeves Superman. I was young, I'm guessing 3 or 4, and my memory is flakey of it all, but this was one of those transcendant awakening moments for me, alone in a strange living room watching this thing happen that wasn't Mr. Rodgers or a cartoon. I remember being sorely disappointed for a while at the lack of a hero wearing a big red S, until he and it appeared...and then being so ecstatic the adults had to come out and check on me.

My childhood is primed for a thorough drubbing, is what I'm saying.

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I am excited. Tried to avoid alot of things, but the mood that I've gotten from the trailers has been promising.

What I look forward to:

1. Amir Mokri - Cinematographer who has worked on alot of glitzy stuff prior, including Transformers movies and other things for Bay. With the proper intentions this could be a gorgeous looking movie, which the trailers seem to indicate.

2. Shot on film, with anamorphic lenses. Not to diss digital cameras but the more I get into the minutia of photography and the look of film, this movie is probably going to be pure eyeporn.

3. Zimmer is scoring. I know whta he is capable of so I always have hopes that he will make something more than the repetetive stuff of recent years.

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I don't really even know who is in it besides Cavill and Russell Crowe. When I know I will be watching a film I usually go into lockdown mode.

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not long to go now...

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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan

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Shannon as Zod should be interesting. Anything is better than another Lex Luthor plot.

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God loves you!

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I pretty stoked for it.  I'll probably get tickets for the Thursday showing at midnight. big_smile   This is one of the last movies on my summer movie list.  I will also be seeing Wolverine.  I might see Pacific Rim.

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Um, excuse me, it's "The Wolverine."
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And I will be seeing that one as well

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not long to go now...

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Only because the person who watched it liked the film at the time. Their reviews are personal opinion of the reviewer and they were changed for dvd releases as they were reviewed by someone else.

Anyway, the UK newspapers seem to be settled on 3/5 which is still a good score. It currently has 60% on RT, 52 Fresh, 34 rotten so not a masterpiece but not really a disaster either, apparently. I won't be seeing it until next Friday sad

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IGN game it a positive review and said it was the best Superman movie since the 1979 version.

I'm going in with reasonable expectations of it being entertaining but not amazing. I'm not heavily invested as a Superman fan either, so if it's fun and decent, I'll be happy.

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Now at an even 60% on RT....yikes, might even end up being rotten, I though this would be in the upper 80s-90s for sure. Did Snyder/Goyer drop the ball? Guess I'll find out this weekend

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Same here. Got tickets to see it Saturday.

I'm not that invested in the character or the franchise, unlike with Thor say, so I won't be gutted if it turns out average. I figure that as long as it doesn't have a miscast Lex Luthor in it, I'll be fine.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan

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I'm seeing it at midnight, so I'll have an opinion around 3AM.

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God loves you!

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