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[monitor_ep]

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Barnes & Noble is putting on their superhero cape and having a special one-day event.

[Hector]

During this interview with Einsenberg...a nice little extra clip is featured...

http://www.polygon.com/2016/3/15/11234226/batman-v-superman-dawn-of-justice-lex-luthor-clip

[emeraldknight47]

I'm confident BvS will be damn good.

The more I see of it, the more I'm pretty sure I'm going to enjoy it----as long as they don't try to cram too many characters into particular scenes. Superman, Batman and WW are all pretty much icons and need breathing room. I'm really hoping the other characters who show up are only in cameo form.

[Hector]

I'm confident BvS will be damn good.

Bless you!

[Bruce Banner]

I'm confident BvS will be damn good.

[Hector]

In this Korean TV trailer...you can see Bats headbutting Supes, right after he blocks his punch...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=58&v=J_jaijAtyEw&ebc=ANyPxKo2kUEVfYe46SZSV9JAU6Vbi5fuv-hni7AXVRVQCMIrXej53MflDb0Y0yTKy59JnWqwYbc-OY1wUUhWaY3kKS0RKGA_BA

[emeraldknight47]

That would make sense. I think he gets it from Luthor, (not sure if it's directly or indirectly), and my guess is Lexcorp was weaponizing as DOD research...Kryptonite biochem warfare. The only way to know would be to experiment on Zod's body, which is most likely the catalyst that turns him into Bizarro-Doomsday.

I could see Bruce using Kryptonite like Iron Man's arc reactor, though. So it powers the suit and creates a dampening field whenever Superman comes in contact. That would explain the punch-block shot in the trailer. Visually, it also doesn't stop Superman from flying, heat vision, etc...as it would all get exponentially weaker when entering the suits radiation field.

Could very well be kryptonite-enhanced armour, but I really hope that the writers will use something a bit more original rather than having Bruce Wayne be almost an Iron Man clone with his chin hanging out. If memory serves in "The Dark Knight Returns," undeniably the inspiration for the battle sequence between The Man of Steel and Iron Bat, Bats used sonics, acid and pretty much all of Gotham's electricity to soften Big Blue up (it also helped that Supes was still recovering from being caught in an atomic blast) before Ollie Queen showed up with his kryptonite-enhanced arrow, which allowed Bruce to definitely get some licks in on the Kryptonian before staging his own "death."

I will be curious to see how they explain away the existence of kryptonite since it was never mentioned or even hinted at in MOS. And the only people who really knew that Krypton's atmosphere was dangerous or debilitating to Kal-El (another one of those weird, iffy things that keeps MOS from being a really good Superman movie) are either dead (Zod), sucked back into the Phantom Zone (Zod's cronies) or having a romantic entanglement with Kal (Lois). So the movie is going to have to find a way to let the viewers know HOW Lex, or anyone else, knows what kryptonite IS or that it's harmful to the Big Blue Boy Scout.

[PNGwynne]

^Some sort of sequence featuring Bizarro was filmed but not used. I recall seeing stills in either Comics Scene or Starlog of a white-face ersatz Clark Kent.

[hedrap]

In case anyone does not know the backstory for Supes 3...

...Reeves had been trying to incorporate Bizarro as he wanted to play the villain and the Salkinds said no.

EDIT: Salkinds deny it, but during the production of the Special Edition DVD's, for 1 & 2, the idea for a third was Luthor finds Mxyz and they create Brainiac. The blowout with Donner changed it into Vaughn, Pryor and Vulcan Satillite/Super Computer. With Donner and Mank still involved with 3, we could have had all four in one film.

Later versions also wedged in Supergirl for the spinoff. She was dropped and they went with Lana Lang.

...Since Chris was to direct Supes IV, he wrote Bizarro in as a precursor to Nuclear Man. I can't recall if they shot it, but it did make it into the comic adaptation.

I don't know what their Bizarro hangup was as they used him extensively on Superboy.

[Hector]

[emeraldknight47]

Yeah, not only was Topher Grace miscast as Eddie Brock...but we hardly saw Venom's mask...it was all a vanity Topher Grace display...



And that wasn't even the worst part of Spidey 3...this was...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOtpeYERu9w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRPoiTHMuzc

Gaaaah!!! Not the emo-Pete scenes!!!! My eyes!! My eyes!!!!!

[Hector]

Topher was cast...as Parker for Spidey 2 when Maguire started playing games over money. Sony didn't want to lose him and Arad suggested he become Brock so they could do a Venom spinoff...pun intended.

Raimi wanted nothing to do with it but he had little say after having full-control over Spidey 2 and getting a solid response, but not the earth-shaker Sony wanted. The original talk was he wanted to do Lizard, then Mysterio with Franco as Hobgoblin. They settled on Sandman as the VFX were cost-effective enough to include Venom.

Total mess. Ang Lee's Hulk, Iron Man 2 and Ultron were just as frankensteined.

Man, thanks for all that info...was not aware of it all...good stuff...

[Hector]

I really like Superman III...I think the Clark scenes in Smallville are some of the best in the series. Plus, the evil Superman fight is my favorite of the entire series.

Please explain how in the hell evil Supes manages to get drunk?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm_qa1wGpHw

...and Richard Pryor had no business being in this film...

The evil Supes vs Clark fight was okay though, Ill give you that.


But the dumbest superhero scene ever is in Superman 4...Supes rescuing and flying with Mariel Hemmingway in space. Look, ma! No oxygen! My hair is blowing in the vacuum of space (as well as Supes' cape)! I'm not imploding either! Heck, no burn up re-entry into the atmosphere! I must be a human space shuttle with heat shield tiles!

Jesus, where did they hire these keystone cop writers at? Planet Stupid???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM86G2S2YpQ

[hedrap]

Yeah, not only was Topher Grace miscast as Eddie Brock...but we hardly saw Venom's mask...it was all a vanity Topher Grace display...

Topher was cast...as Parker for Spidey 2 when Maguire started playing games over money. Sony didn't want to lose him and Arad suggested he become Brock so they could do a Venom spinoff...pun intended.

Raimi wanted nothing to do with it but he had little say after having full-control over Spidey 2 and getting a solid response, but not the earth-shaker Sony wanted. The original talk was he wanted to do Lizard, then Mysterio with Franco as Hobgoblin. They settled on Sandman as the VFX were cost-effective enough to include Venom.

Total mess. Ang Lee's Hulk, Iron Man 2 and Ultron were just as frankensteined.

[hedrap]

You know, after watching that really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really long trailer, I think I've deduced that Batman weakens Superman not with a kryptonite enhanced bullet or projectile, but by creating an aerosol version (henceforth the dramatic and always Batmanian smoke grenade) of the stuff which Kal unknowingly inhales, thus delivering it throughout his physiology and weakening him enough for Batman to inflict some (possibly serious) damage...

I dunno, whadda you guys think...?

That would make sense. I think he gets it from Luthor, (not sure if it's directly or indirectly), and my guess is Lexcorp was weaponizing as DOD research...Kryptonite biochem warfare. The only way to know would be to experiment on Zod's body, which is most likely the catalyst that turns him into Bizarro-Doomsday.

I could see Bruce using Kryptonite like Iron Man's arc reactor, though. So it powers the suit and creates a dampening field whenever Superman comes in contact. That would explain the punch-block shot in the trailer. Visually, it also doesn't stop Superman from flying, heat vision, etc...as it would all get exponentially weaker when entering the suits radiation field.