Yeah no thanks. Looks dumb. I watched the original Swamp Thing when I was a kid, and, like, wasn't he, like, a good guy who helped solve crimes or whatever but was misunderstood by most everyone but the few he let know he exists? Here, he's basically out to kill everyone? It looks campy, but it's trying to be serious? I'm totally confused. AND to top it off, they want to charge me to join yet another fucking streaming service just to watch this questionable-as-all-fuck nonsense? Fuck this shit. That's a meganope from me.

My thought process: "Oh, I liked the campy 80's Swamp Thing movie, and this looks interesting. Only on DC Universe? Hmm... let's see... $8 a month? Yeah... nope."

There has to be a streaming video market contraction. It's insane to think people are going to sign up for a ton of individual hyper-focused channels. I guess if you're super into DC this might seem like a great deal, but it completely loses them any casual or only mildly-curious viewers.

I didn't finish Myst, just wasn't interested. But Rebel Assault, that was cool as heck back in those days. The Star Wars experience was so immersive even though the controls were simple. C&C was campy fun too. I played each and every Wing Commander, TIE/X-Wing space sim games there were. Descent & Homeworld...

Can you guess I'm a sci-fi fan? X-D

Wow, that was really annoying. What horribly unrealistic writing and acting. Ridiculous.

I Love Lucy was campy, but always well-written and never flat-out stupid like this. I love I Love Lucy, and this garbage is nothing like it.

I wouldn't say it was campy at all, but it did feel a little awkward and not grandiose enough. The delay before Cat's throat is slit was about twice as long as it needed to be.

I have been waiting for this scene for ages, and it was the most disappointing thing I've seen in the show so far. Campy as fuck, and shit directing. I don't think I'll watch much anymore.

Edit: Well, after watching the whole thing, I'm glad it at least had the desired effect on the folks who didn't know it was coming. Also funny how you can tell who read the books.

Well, it IS just a preview, but I kinda see your point. But movies are fantasy. Big budget movies require big audiences, and one way to bring them (and me) in is to make movies like this. I, for one, enjoyed the hell out of the previous movie (think I'll watch it on BluRay right now), and I have no doubt I'll love this one.

Is character development really needed for characters we've known for over 45 years? Granted, new actors will portray them a little differently, and the reboot takes place earlier than TOS. Maybe it's just me, but I didn't find myself wanting for more character exposition after the last movie. Hell, I thought they did an awesome job of introducing each character and laying out their individual personalities and quirks.

My least favorite of all the Star Trek series was TNG. I dug it, but it would be at the bottom if I had to rank them. I dunno, too idealist and preachy, maybe. JFC, I think Picard referred to the Prime Directive at least once an episode. Some episodes just bored me to death. I wanted every episode to be Enterprise vs. the Borg. I much prefer Kirk kicking a Gorn's ass, or fighting alongside Abe Lincoln, or in pursuit of the Praetor's finest flagship, or battling Apollo or "General Trelane, Retired". TOS was often campy, but always fun, and that's how I prefer my Star Trek.


Edit: Noted that you were speaking more generally about movies nowadays, and I'm speaking specifically about Star Trek.

You should watch the movie. It's campy, but freaking hilarious.

On topic: That clip SCREAMED 1986. Pink walls.. leg warmers.. need I say more?

The biggest problem I see with a Supeman movie is finding a believable villain that can stand up to superman without it looking campy.
Marvel has done a great job redefining the franchise with the look of modern reality. Bat Man is believable because he's just a regular man with gadgets.

With Superman, he's invincible in so many ways. If they ignore half his powers and don't use them when he should be, then it's a hard sell.

So then how do you take a guy with the utmost strength, incredible smarts, who flies, has heat laser and cold breath, Doesn't need oxygen to breath, is impervious to the elements and disease, accelerated healing, kick-ass fighting skills, superhuman speed, X-ray vision, superhuman hearing and vision and an eidetic memory, and create a believable conflict using today's reality?

Other than Kryptonite, he has no other weaknesses. Lex is the one who discovers the weakness. So how do you sell that in a new movie. Once you introduce Kryptonite with today's technologies, the weapons against Superman can mostly make him obsolete in quite a matter of fact way.

So it's either he's too powerful or he's quickly dealt with. So which is it?
Oh and not make it look campy, don't forget that part.

Campy!

Ya I can't tell if it's an elaborate fake, or if the video is just set in that strange Japanese humor I don't always get. Some of it looks very real and some of it is just too campy to be true. If it is real it seems like a very early prototype. @spoco2 is right about a few things though the OS shown in the video is a fake it was CGI for sure. And some of it just seemed very unfinished and very rough around the edges to be a complete product. Not to mention the weapons sanctions for selling something like that overseas.

Trust me I want this to be real soooo bad and I think if anyone will pull it off first it will be the Japanese. They have a morbid obsession with Gundam's but this just reeks of a fake to me.

>> ^VoodooV:

One of the worst movies in the world, Darkman, had one of the best trailers. "Who is Darkman?" No one fucking knew so they all went go to see it.


I'd hardly agree it was "one of the worst movies in the world". It was meant to be OTT, campy and fun and then succeeded as a cult film.

campy kitschy *grindhouse

>> ^ulysses1904:

I remember when TV shows went all "campy" in the mid to late 60s, it supposedly started with Batman. It ruined Man from U.N.C.L.E.


You don't say?!