Kind of with you on this one. The William Tell Overture association with the Lone Ranger is so old (and yet so iconic), it's screaming to be resurrected by someone bold enough to use it.

Dammit! You beat me to it!

And who knows? You might win a special ticket to Fhloston Paraaaadiiiiiise!

Hahaha! Now THAT's the Kansas I know. :)

He's one of the biggest reasons I'm dying to see this movie. [tangent] If nothing else, to see why the Boardwalk Empire writers kept such thin focus on him this last season.[/tangent]

Except that it's more than just one cheesy effect, isn't it? With the exception of maybe the first half of the first film, a lot of both I and II are unabashedly cheesy and campy (Luthor as the world's most villainous Century 21 Agent... his bumbling, played-for-laugh sidekicks...a time travel maneuver at the end of I…

Interesting. Well discovered.

Hahahaha this kind of 'stuff' must've REALLY pissed you off then.

No quotation marks necessary. They were shit.

I think the subtext of that "maybe" is being missed here. It's clearly telegraphed in the lines preceding it, that this Jonathan Kent is extremely protective of his son and his unusual gifts. That push-pull, of doing what's right vs. doing what's safe, makes for good character drama and should drive a lot of this…

Even the slightest focus is greater than past portrayals have done. Much like the Waynes, writers have tended to just use the Kents as mostly cardboard props.

The shuttle/plane rescue scene in Superman Returns was incredibly impressive and something I still find thrilling from start to finish. As was the boat rescue. As was the Kryptonite land mass lift. As was (like you mentioned) the robbery scene. Massively portrayed and plugged right into the edge of peril of the comics…

I'm convinced that some Superman fans just can't let go of the Donner/Richard Lester stuff. Which astounds me, as they really were terrible Superman movies.

"Making a Supes story ain't reinventing the wheel, what matters the most is the visuals. "

But that's silly criteria. Bright colors have the potential to leave us with something like Batman Forever. That trailer, and it's only a snippet of what's in the final film, does have what I'm interested in. Brightness matched against imposing darkness. Your mileage, and demands for a comic book palette, may vary.

Agreed. I want to see a greater unpacking of how Clark Kent gained the ethics that he has. Through difficult choices of right over wrong. Not in a diluted fashion the way Smallville handled them.

I saw nothing but hope and courage in that trailer. And the shadowed edges of the world... they have to be there to contrast against Superman's qualities.

Why put such a thumpin' system into The Bat if you're not going to use it, right?

All you olds, crying at the drop of a hat. *sniffs, waves away dust*

Sold!