r/DC_Cinematic • u/DoctorBeatMaker • Feb 10 '25
OFFICIAL ARTWORK New Promotional Image of David Corenswet's Superman from a Krypto Action Figure Cover
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u/trentjpruitt97 Feb 10 '25
David’s image reminds of all the merch Superman Returns had in 2006. I feel like I’m 8/9 again.
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u/edge9000x Feb 11 '25
I always thought Routh looked like Reeve but didn’t look as much like Superman
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u/Hadoukibarouki Feb 12 '25
They all look kinda the same to me. I can’t think of a single Superman actor I dislike because of their look. Corenswet looks the part, so did, Hoechlin, Welling, Routh, Reeve, Reeves, etc. I think the look is the easy part. Now playing Superman? Well, that’s a different can
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u/Anal_Recidivist Feb 10 '25
Which itself was a reinterpretation of the Reeve merch. Awesome all around
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u/AtomicSuperMe Cavill doesn't deserve WB Feb 10 '25
Had that exact feeling and immediately looked up some returns toys to look at the packaging
That’s what got me into Superman, seeing one of the action figures for Superman returns in the store and thinking it looked cool
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u/TheSpaceCowboy81 Feb 13 '25
This is how I feel. This movie feels like something that would come out in the mid-2000s, and I don't say that as a bad thing. The trailer took me back to 2006. Now all we need is a shitty movie tie-in video game to round things off.
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u/AnxiousNPantsless Feb 10 '25
Well that movie sucked so 😕
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u/TheAquamen Feb 10 '25
Do you think it was because of the script and directorial choices or because of the promotional and tie-in merch?
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u/OverlordMarona Feb 10 '25
Definitely the tie-in merch. The movie was flawless/s 🤪
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u/cr0w1980 Feb 10 '25
I will die on the hill that the plane rescue and him saving Metropolis as the fire spreads underground are two of the best Superman scenes ever filmed.
Everything else, though...just some weird choices. Bryan Singer didn't need to use Superman to work out his identity issues.
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u/Hadoukibarouki Feb 12 '25
That’s not a hill that even needs defending, let alone dying on. if people have eyes, they agree with you on those two scenes. I remember the audience gasping when he gets shot in the eye too, and I personally think Superman floating in space while listening for crime is peak Superman visuals
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u/Mcclane88 Feb 11 '25
Debatable. It’s my second favorite Superman film at the moment.
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u/deanereaner Feb 11 '25
It's long been my favorite superhero film.
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u/Mcclane88 Feb 11 '25 edited Feb 11 '25
The hype for this new film put me in a Superman mood. I’m rewatching the Animated Series, reading All-Star Superman, and I rewatched Superman The Movie, Superman 2, and Superman Returns. I still think Returns holds up and I’ve always liked the message at the center of it and I think the way it handles the relationship between Lois and Superman is ballsy.
I’m genuinely saddened that for whatever reason people weren’t able to connect with it.
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u/deanereaner Feb 11 '25
Yeah, I do understand the hate, but there's some things I absolutely love:
the fact Supes doesn't throw a single punch in the whole movie is brilliant
- some of the action scenes are still among the best in super-cinema, despite not having stereotypical fight scenes
- the arc for Lois from literally swooning when he first rescues her to then being the one who rescues him, is quite underrated
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u/Hadoukibarouki Feb 12 '25
I just wish they’d handled the snooping differently, like maybe they had Clark over for dinner and he overhears them talking privately a short moment or something, I dunno
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u/deanereaner Feb 12 '25
There's two things I've concluded:
The movie is basically a repudiation of toxic masculinity; not just the Lois arc but also the way that Superman comes to accept Richard as a surrogate father for his kid. In the beginning his distrust and insecurities manifest in that invasion of privacy.
There's literally a scene in the same movie where Superman is in space listening to everyone on Earth, often in their private moments. But nobody ever criticizes that. It's there to show how routine it's become for him to "look in" on everyone just in case they need his protection.
But yeah, it's hard to defend, objectively a creepy scene and also hard to overlook who the director is.
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u/Hadoukibarouki Feb 12 '25
These are fantastic conclusions, thank you for sharing them. Heck, his floating in space scene is one of my favorite Superman scenes even though I hate the notion of big brother knowing what I do - I guess ambivalence is a real thing, although as a Superman fan I operate under the delusion that Superman is morally just and absolutely incorruptible unlike us regular mortals so that might be why I give him a pass. I mean, I’m not religious but I assume Christians are ok with God’s omniscience?
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u/queenofspoons Feb 10 '25
Krypto the Super Drone
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u/AnthropomorphicEggs Feb 13 '25
Honestly I’m picking one up as soon as a can, it’s the perfect balance between cute and dumb
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u/MarvelMind Feb 10 '25
Weird to see with how awful the wide angle lens makes him look, makes it look like two different people.
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u/TheNextWords Feb 10 '25
Not all criticism is negativity. Corenswet is a handsome man but that lens did him no favors.
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u/East-Number5524 Feb 11 '25
this shot needed to be shown instead of that eyelid shot (not hating but this shot is lovely).
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u/chilldudeohyeah Feb 12 '25
He looks better here than in the trailer. That camera lens used in the movie is so ugly.
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u/Fthesehoes33 Feb 14 '25
Whoever said that latest video of him flying was better, I'm sorry I can't look pass the lazy eye, that's all I see....🥴
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u/oldie_youngie Feb 10 '25
This is literally what the other flying shot should have looked more like
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u/Bleezy79 Feb 11 '25
The suit still looks loose, I'm just not digging it but Im sure after seeing the movie I'll love it eventually.
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u/Temporary_Cold_5142 Feb 11 '25
While I agree when talking about the leaked pictures, the trailer gave me the impression that it was going to be fixed in post. Can't be sure because we didn't get a shot in where we can look at the full thing, but in what we saw I think it looked more thight. My beef is that the material is too thick which overshadows Corenswet's silhoutte.
For the rest I think the trailer looked great tho and I'm really excited for the movie
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u/JediJones77 Feb 11 '25
This looks like it was tweaked to look better than the movie images seen so far. The actor looks older and the blue on the costume is darker.
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u/Elysium94 Superman Feb 10 '25
Okay, now that’s more like it.
Can’t help but feel the recent spot wouldn’t have gotten so much in the way of jokes had this been the posing, angle, and all that.
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u/ed_ostmann Feb 11 '25
Ah, rotor blades - like in the comics!
Hey, are Supe's straight eyes photoshopped?
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u/Excellent_Product_79 Feb 10 '25
The photo looks good. So much better than the TV spot. No weird eyes and "go-pro" feel. If
If WBD has actual flying footage that looks like this, they need to put it on YouTube. Since the trailer the PR has been hurt by the awful flying scene, Guy Gardeners clip (people are asking if the film is a superhero spoof) and the negative screening news which seems to have some truth to it.
Come on Gunn and WBD, let's not have to wait until April before getting some decent film footage.
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u/anarchy905 Feb 11 '25
There was never any public screening at all. No one has seen this movie outside of James Gunn's circle of friends and family.
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u/JediJones77 Feb 11 '25
Public, no. There certainly could have been internal test screenings. By now they would have done them to leave time for any necessary reshoots.
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u/JediJones77 Feb 11 '25
All of these reactions were forecast by those of us who warned Gunn was a bad choice to direct Superman. This was an entirely predictable, if not inevitable outcome.
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u/Excellent_Product_79 Feb 11 '25
It's looking that way. The Gardener clip reinforces the fears of some of us that Superman will be an ensemble goofy typical Gunn film. He was not right for Superman but, to be fair, Snyder wasn't either. Blowing up Jimmy in first film and the dark tone of the film.
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u/JediJones77 Feb 11 '25
I think Snyder captured modern-era Superman accurately. Was Nolan wrong for Batman because he didn’t use Robin? Other than the very modified Blake version. Combine post-Crisis Superman comics with the more realistic style most superhero film adaptations have, and Man of Steel was the right approach. It was always going to have growing pains moving Superman out of the Reeve era, but the DCEU series started strong and was on its way to growing and gaining even more acceptance, before the direction was sharply changed, and they stopped even using Superman. And now, Man of Steel has so much acceptance that making Superman into a child-friendly, sillier version is going to land with a thud.
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u/saltyafbastion Feb 10 '25
i’m glad kids are getting the same vibe of toys I had when I was a lot younger. At the time, I thought it was dumb when they created tie-in toys for sales, but now I kinda miss the goofiness of those toys. I’m glad they’re back
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u/Moist-Kaleidoscope90 Feb 10 '25
This brings me back to 2006 with Superman Returns . It’s like I’m 12 again
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u/Titanman401 Feb 11 '25
I like the faint pattern of comics pages/covers you can see behind the DC Studios logo in that corner. It’s a nice touch.
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u/timesaver666 Feb 11 '25
Best look at the suit we’ve had so far, that reveal image still baffles my mind as to how anyone thought that was a good first teaser.
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u/Final_Technology7974 Feb 10 '25
So does this imply the movie will be rated PG? I don’t think stuff like this is marketed towards over 13-year-olds.
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u/SimpleSink6563 Feb 11 '25
Nah, just about every superhero movie below R gets toys aimed at children, even really young ones.
Even something as dark as BVS had stuff like this.
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u/fatrahb Feb 11 '25
It’s still wild to me WB wanted to launch a franchise that makes action figures for kids off BVS.
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u/TheNextWords Feb 10 '25
Even the body horror weird fan4stic had toys. Most superhero/star wars type content will get figurines its easy money
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u/23mou-sapnu-puas Feb 10 '25
They’ve corrected the googly eye
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u/Thunder_Punt Feb 10 '25 edited Feb 10 '25
I mean, this is a promotional photograph vs an action scene shot with a wide lens.
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u/TheAquamen Feb 10 '25
It was a wide lens but not a fisheye. That's more like what you see in skateboarding videos.
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u/heelydon Feb 10 '25
Its not "googly eye" its simpy was a wide lens. That is how a wide lens looks when its shown from that angle. This is not a wide lens shot, so it doesn't have that effect.
Gunn himself explained that. Its a perfectly normal non-cgi face of David. Its just that the wide lens has that affect, because it gives that much deeper look of the background and scale of things in the shot.
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u/TheAquamen Feb 10 '25
He's looking at the camera here and slightly above it in the clip of him flying. I think that's the difference.
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u/kuatorises Feb 10 '25
Gunn makes good movies, but man this dude and Fillion look ridiculous
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u/Front_Tomatillo217 Feb 11 '25
Fillion is supposed to look ridiculous. He's Guy Gardner.
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u/JediJones77 Feb 11 '25
He doesn’t look as masculine as Guy though. Same problem with Corenswet. Gunn has failed to portray the proper masculinity of these characters. The Snyderverse casting was hyper-masculine, at least for Cavill, Affleck and Momoa.
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u/The80sDimension Feb 10 '25
Honestly not sure why they even do toy tie-ins any more. If there's one thing kids do less than go to the movies its play with traditional toys. Ask Hasbro and their CEO who is pulling away from them.
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u/Anorand25 Feb 10 '25
Kids might not play with toys as much as in the past but they absolutely still play with them. Why wouldn’t they make toys?
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u/ThiccMangoMon Feb 10 '25
Media and toys go hand in hand I'm sure alot of kids will watch superman and want toys of it, and companies like Disney still make billions yearly from toys
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u/The80sDimension Feb 10 '25
Disney makes money from licensing their brands, they don’t make anything.
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u/Purple_Swordfish_182 Feb 10 '25
Dude what are you talking about? Do you have kids in the family? Try looking at a Christmas list. Yeah there's Robux n Vbucks n all that stuff but even Fortnite make a shit ton of toys. Not to mention Minecraft. LEGO is more successful than ever. The Godzilla, Kong, Jurassic and transformers franchises basically just exist to sell toys. And kids aren't the only ones who buy them.
Hasbro is one business. Their revenue is falling so they're scaling down their production and making more videogames. It doesn't mean traditional toys aren't popular as ever. Most research says the toy market is still growing steady.
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u/The80sDimension Feb 10 '25
I have a 5 year old daughter.
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u/_Levitated_Shield_ Feb 10 '25
Now I'm sad again that we're likely not getting any Lego sets based on the film. :/
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u/Latereviews2 Feb 11 '25
There’s one leaked. We are definitely getting some
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u/_Levitated_Shield_ Feb 11 '25
If you're referring to this, it was debunked as fake.
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u/Latereviews2 Feb 12 '25
I meant leaked lists. Also outside of that I’d bet money on at least one tie in set. They did just release there first superman set in years as well
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u/vizgauss Deadshot Feb 10 '25
Underpaid intern from Zaslav’s basement type beat
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u/darkness693 Feb 10 '25
Dawg wait Reddit wouldn’t let me just post my comment regularly I swear 😭🙏🏿
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u/TheGodDMBatman Feb 10 '25
My favorite part of superhero Fandom is analyzing children's toy packaging