I don't get this article. Superman doesn't look weak because he is beaten up in the snow. We saw the same scene twice with one being an extended sequence of it. And we now see he is also fighting some powerful villains in the film with the likes of Ultraman, Engineer, and Hammer of Boravia. He doesn't look weak, he looks challenged. The question isn't why he looks so weak as much as what series of events led us to the opening shot of the previous teaser.

The stretches people take to validate this movie are incredible. There is a such thing as liking something without having to tear something else down. I don't know why Cavill's Superman or Zack Snyder have to be continually referenced to prop this film up. If it's good it should be able to stand on its own without having to create fallacies with Man of Steel. Who, by the way, saw his share of challenges throughout the film and was rarely on the winning side of the fights he endured.

I think the thing most fascinating is the way people selectively that movie. They claim he didn't save anyone which is a flat out lie. From the moment he was introduced as an adult on the screen he was sticking his neck out to save a crew of workers on an oil rig, as a boy he saved a bus full of children, he saved Lois, he saved the military, fought the Kryptonians having chosen this world, he stopped the earth from being terraformed...he saved the entire world. His challenges weren't just physical though it was also internal trying to find his place in this world as well as his identity that had been suppressed from him.

Gunn is simply just giving us a different iteration of Superman and that's fine, I'm open to it. There have been several at this point. Let's just not try to make things what they aren't.

As far as classic, I see a lot of Silver-Age inspiration. But in of any live-action iteration, nothing about this movie screams classic. I don't see anything that relates this Superman to any other. Take your pick at this point, but this stands alone just like any other. I hate the fake hype surrounding this film. I want to see it out of morbid curiosity because Superman is my favorite character. But there is nothing about this that makes me excited. There is nothing that says to me that this is going to blow my mind. It looks mediocre at best.

People are frustrated because we don't really know what to expect from this movie tonally. We are mad because the reveal of Guy Gardner further makes the film look cosplay-ish and cheap. We all know that there is a goofy element to the character in the way he looks and the way he carries himself. However, in the comic books that's hard to criticize when there is no depth or dimension to what's on the flat page. He naturally blends in to the world illustrated in the books and animation. He also fits whatever the story is trying to convey.

This looks excessively goofy. It begs the question of what Gunn is actually trying to do with this film about, Superman. See, humor is not in issue when it is well placed, well timed, and fits within the context of the story. We have seen Gunn's films and there seemed to be a lot more care placed in other entries. We have also seen what he has done with DC so far. Now the question is, does his sensibilities fit this overarching, albeit diverse, universe? We don't want a silly Superman. Lightheaded is all in the viewer's perception of what that means. Childish and silly is something else. The Donner films had well placed humor and heart that balance the film's. Snyder was more direct and grounded. What is this going to be?

Gunn himself said that people take comics too seriously. That comics are silly. Yet it seemed with Guardians of the Galaxy he took the aesthetic serious enough from set design to costuming to character design. Yet with Suicide Squad and Peacemaker it looked like a riff on Kick-Ass. The ludicrous idea of people sporting dime store Halloween and DIY costumes parading around as villains and anti-heroes in a world where they don't fit and don't take them seriously. Superman and all the casts of characters in the DC multiverse exist in worlds where they are very much taken seriously and are commonplace. Entertainment is out escape and these films bring those characters on page to life. They should reflect that.