Say what you want about Superman Returns, its trailer was damn near perfect advertising; the use of John Williams' score and Marlon Brando's voiceover not only gets you amped for the return of Kal-El, but sets up the film's very nostalgic bent. The trailer for Man Of Steel, however, was something else. Looking almost Mallick, with its haunting music and close-ups of rocks, butterflies caught in swings and a bearded Clark Kent promising a post-Dark Knight take on Superman. Releasing two visual identical trailers with different voiceovers, one from Jonathan Kent, the other from Jor-El, it confirmed that it was OK to get excited about a movie thrown into doubt thanks to a seemingly obsolete hero and the appointment of Zack Snyder as director; this was Superman in the real world with nary a shot of slo-mo action in sight. We're not going to get into the usual debate about whether the finished movie was actually any good (save that for the comments), but what Zack Snyder delivered certainly wasn't in keeping with the trailer. Definitely not a character study of Clark Kent and finding very little wonder in minutiae, the film was far less original in the movie landscape than its Gotham predecessor. And that's why, as awesome as that Comic-Con tease was, we can't quite get on board with Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice just yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wArmHSPIvlQ Which awesome trailers do you think were better than the movie? What did you make of the films we mentioned here? As always, the comments is the place to go.
