Superman Trailer - James Gunn Responds To Superman Face In Trailer!

Hold on. Okay, how you doing, buddy? You with me? You with me, buddy? That was out on that one. Yes, sir. Welcome back to the channel. I hope you're having a great day. So today we're going to talk about James Gunn responding to the backlash about the, uh, face on Superman as he's flying. Uh, some people, uh, thought that it couldn't be real, and we're gonna get into James Gunn's response. Uh, also, we're gonna prove to you why, uh, the last video I did, uh, about Superman's Flight being better than Man of Steel, being the best flight scenes we've got so far up to this point in Superman movie. I think all of that will be proved and revealed in this video. But let's find out about some of that backlash we were getting. We got a comment here from @The92Chris who had something to say about Superman's face. Man, this movie has a studio riding on its shoulders. Ain't no time for no cockeyed AI-looking Superman. Stop giving Gunn slack for his sloppy blank. We calling it how we see it. Can the movie be good? Yes. Is this shot ass? Yes. So as we can see here, our friend 92 Chris, he also believes that this can't be real, that this was AI-generated. Let's get into what James Gunn has to say about that. And this is coming from The Hollywood Reporter. James Gunn says new shot of Superman's face is zero CG, zero computer-generated. That's right. So what the heck is going on for some people who are looking at David Coren Sweat's, uh, flight here? Uh, many of us had agreed that, uh, the flight sequence that is shown in the trailer, right, this amazing high-speed, uh, trailer flight sequence is awesome. But when they get to the point where Superman does his cool flip around like he's a, a F-16 jet or something, and they kind of zoom in on his face, that's where people lose it, right? This is where the problem begins. And so it led many to believe that it had to be some type of uncanny valley computer-generated, just tack on a face thing here. But James Gunn has made it crystal clear that, uh, there is nothing, uh, fake about this face, right? That this is part of a wide-angle lens weird look that you kind of get naturally, right? And I want you to keep a hold of that word, naturally, right? Because I think people might be under the wrong impression that flying's supposed to look cool, right? You know, when you jump, when you're skydiving, right, uh, you see these people skydiving, some of them don't have masks on, some of them might just have the goggles, you can see most of their face. There's nothing looks cool about that, right? Uh, people like to go back to the Henry Cavill's flight sequences where Henry Cavill's basically a Calvin Klein model, right? Flying through the air, his face and hair looks fantastic, like, you know, he just walked on the beach or something. But that's not James Gunn. James Gunn is a comic book nerd, right? He's a dirty, gritty comic book nerd. He doesn't care about Calvin Klein models. What he's trying to show you is give you that effect of what this would be like to some degree if a hero did that, right? And I love it. I think it works excellent. Now, of course, we saw in the opening of the video the mixed martial artist Tito Ortiz taking 9 G's, and his face looked like CGI. You would think that was CGI, but that was real. Right? David Cornswell's face is real. Now let's get into the science of, of, of, of film a little bit, right? Shooting these films. Okay, when you're, you're setting up a sequence like this, right? This, this shot, and you're using a real person's face, right? And you want to give that effect of he's moving this fast. Yeah, you're going to have, you know, as James Gunn had said earlier, that he didn't want Superman's hair, every strand to be in place. He wants the hair to look frumpy, wind going through it. He's cutting these corners at Mach 7, Mach 8, however fast he's going, right? And that's going to do something to your face. Now, of course, this is Superman's face. Uh, so it's not like a human face, because if it was a human face flying through this frozen tundra, it would probably be— the flesh would rip from the bone, probably, right? You think about what 9 Gs looks like. That's not even in cold frozen wasteland like this, right? Uh, him of course being Superman, that's not going to happen. But James Gunn wants to give you some shred of that effect. Fat so you can feel it when it's— when he's flying right now. More likely they got David Corenswet. He's, you know, in the Superman suspension harness, and they probably got wind blowing at us. You know, think about it now. Wind's blowing, hitting you in the eyes, in the face. You're— but at the same time You gotta kind of do it in a way where it's, you know, uh, you know, you got your face off too much, right, for the camera shot. Uh, you know, he's Superman, so he should be able to take some of this, but that's gonna distort, right, your face, your eyes, the, the wind, all that stuff, right? If you want that feel. Now, of course, if you want these perfect comic book Superman flight sequences where, you know, Superman isn't bothered by any of the elements. Yeah, you can have that, but it's not going to give you that same IMAX effect, right? Um, and so that's what's going on there, right? That's what's going on there. But when you see Superman do that spin, squeeze it through those, those mountain caverns, right, those channels and whatnot, Uh, you're, you're there, you're getting that effect, right? That is amazing. You're— we've never seen flying like this on Superman. And now it makes so much sense why they fixed the shot on David Corenswet's face. It was done so you can see how realistic it was, right? That this was a real face. Now, you know, what happens is, uh, you, you see these YouTubers using these GoPros, and you know how they put their head up in the camera and it's kind from their perspective and whatnot. And when they do that, their heads look oversized, and it, you know, with, of course, with the rest of the image around it, right? You know, because you got your head right in front of the camera right now. Oh yeah, you can say that, uh, that wasn't a good shot from James Gunn, or you just don't like the shot. But it's not so much about Superman looking good or looking, you know, like he's posing for a comic book photo. It's more— this is more directly into the physics and the nature of flying to give you that perspective, like a, you know, like a person doing GoPro, right? You're not— you're in the motion, in the event, right? You're not really so much worried about and what his head looks like, right? You're everything, you know, it's the element of everything else going on. And I know a lot of people just, you know, that's not— it's a taste thing. That's not what they're after, right? That's not something that looks good to them. But, you know, we're gonna get, I'm sure, all types of flight angles, right? You know, as we saw in the trailer, you get Superman, he's, he's doing, uh You know, the basically the suspended in the wire work, right, where him and Lois Lane is going up. So you get the traditional wire work, right? And then you get this, and you get him going sonic boom, right? And the camera panning out. So the point I'm making, guys, is you're going to get, from what I can see and what it looks like, you're going to get a lot of perspectives of the Superman flight, right? So I wouldn't trip over just looking at one you didn't particularly like, especially when it's amazing that it's real. That is his real head, right? That is not a fake head. So you all should rest assured and, and be happy about it's not even fake, it's real, right? So awesome stuff, guys. I like it. Um, I'm gonna, you know, like to see many different elements of this, but I feel like we've been vindicated and that this wasn't just cheap scrap thrown on the screen, right? Thought went into this. This movie looks amazing. The, um, the whole movie is a beautiful movie from that trailer. Everything looks— I mean, everything looks— even when, you know, Lex lands in Antarctica, gets all that stuff to me looks fantastic. For them to, uh, destroy all of that to, to copy-paste a Superman CGI head on a body, guys, it just never made sense. I knew that looking at it from the beginning. I knew that it was a lot more to the eye than what we were seeing. And you know, you guys should have known that too, right? I know you Snyderverse guys thought this was a home run knockout, but as you get to see, nope, nope, nope, nope. This is still cutting edge, top tier technology, right? Use of filmmaking in a Superman movie. Right? Unlike we've never seen before, right? So, uh, I'm sure we're gonna even see more than that because here's another thing, guys. We're not seeing the best of it, right? And I'm saying that because— and here's why I'm saying that, why we're not seeing the best of the flying. Because if you guys notice something about Superman movies, right, uh, or trailers, all the— all the Superman trailers that have came out, existed over the ages. We never get great flight shots in the trailers, right? It is always a mystery of how he's gonna fly, how well he's gonna look flying, and they never give us the best of the flying, right, until the movie, until the actual movie, right? So that should even make us a great deal more excited because what we're getting in this is we're not even probably getting the best of the flying. Right? We're getting, uh, you know, probably just some of it, right? And we're probably going to see some awesome stuff, right? That, like James Gunn's talking about, even more awesome than this. I thought this was awesome, but, uh, you know, especially the part where he does that spin and he's going, you know, he's flying, uh, and this, you know, this GoPro-like look thing, oh I'll be honest, I wasn't, you know, it wouldn't be my number one shot. You know, it's not my favorite shot, but it's, you know, it's a shot. It wasn't that big of a deal for me, right? It just wasn't. And putting the rest of it, I knew it was going to be something like this going on and putting the rest of the information with it, it just makes so much more sense, right? So guys, I think that's about it for me. Tell me all what you think. Uh, for the— here, here it is, guys, right? There's another thing going on I want to say before I get out of here, and that is that there are people who want this movie to fail. Let me say this, guys. I, I don't believe— I, I would like to believe that that's a minority of people, right? Even like the Snyderverse people right? The Man of Steel people, I would say a great portion of them, maybe 70-80% of them, don't want this movie to fail. But somewhere out there, there are people, right, that belong to the Snyderverse, more than likely, that want this movie to fail. And here, and here's the thing, a true Superman fan likes everything Superman, right? We're almost like Trekkies. We don't want any Superman movies to fail. I didn't want Man of Steel to fail. But I just felt it did it anyway. Um, and so a true Superman fan wouldn't want this movie to fail. That's why I say a lot of Snyderverse guys— I'm not— it's not all, but, uh, uh, uh, Snyderverse guys to me aren't really Superman fans, right? I don't consider them that. I considered them to like an alien superhero movie that was good as an alien superhero movie, but not a Superman movie. That is not Superman, guys. I'm telling you, that is not him. Uh, and so I don't think you can be a true— what I think it is, is I think that people who are really gung-ho about the Snyderverse, these are people who are like— because this doesn't even look like Superman. Look at the dress and look at the costume department. This is somebody who threw together some stuff that it just wasn't Superman. It was an alien movie. But these are people that they're— they might— Superman is not their thing, right? They like other superheroes and they can kind of get down with Superman, but I guarantee you Superman is not their favorite superhero. I guarantee you if you ask these people who their favorite superhero is, it won't be Superman. So these aren't really Superman fans, right, who are on that kind of stuff. These are people who have a liking of Superman, but they don't love Superman. They don't love Superman lore or mythology, right? Because you know that if you do, you like all Superman. And like, even with Man of Steel, I like elements of that, but it still isn't a Superman movie, right? Because it missed the major tenets of it. Guys, that's all I want to say in this video. Until next time, as always, take care of yourselves and each other.