7 Reasons Why The Man Of Steel Trailer Is Actually Better Than The Movie

4. The Trailer Is More Emotionally Affecting

If you happened to have stumbled upon my screenwriting article on Man of Steel earlier this week, you'll know that one of the biggest issues I had with the movie was the fact that it felt like a series of "moments" connected by a razor-thin narrative, as opposed to a living, breathing movie - part of a fluid whole, if you will. Many of these scenes, which come across in the trailer as part of a connected movie, feel like Kodak moments when you're watching them play out on the big screen - separate, cold and uninviting. There's very little emotion. But viewed in the context of the trailer, with a chronological timeline in place, and with both Ma and Pa Kent's narrations filling in the themes of the story over the top (and the addition of Lisa Gerrard's "Elegy"), the Man of Steel trailer makes me feel way more emotional than the actual movie ever did. It's something I can't really explain, but it's true. I feel something when I watch that trailer - hope, maybe - that I didn't get from watching the movie. "Well, that's the way it's been edited together," somebody might say, perhaps as a way of defeating my point. But it actuality, it only confirms it: the trailer has heart.