Superman Trailer - (New) Flight Better Than Man Of Steel!

Welcome back to the channel, guys. I hope you're having a great evening. And so today we got Uh, I didn't know it was a TV spot, but we've got the latest, uh, flying scene from Superman, Superman Legacy coming out, uh, this year, July 11th. And so, um, what has been the, um, the, uh, or what this is, this is a continuation actually of what we got in the original trailer. We kind of saw the back of the head shot of Superman's flight, and it kind of felt kind of Top Gun Maverick-like, right? It's like you're in a, you're in an F-16, or you're in a, you're in a one of these sophisticated, uh, fighter jets, right? And I thought it looked good. Now, uh, some people are saying, you know, they thought like the Man of Steel flight scenes were better done than this. and, you know, they were saying something to the effect of they felt like the face shot here of Superman, David Corenswet, it looks AI-generated. It looks, you know, it looks video game-like CGI and whatnot, right? So we're going to talk a little bit about that today. I thought everything looked pretty darn good. Um, you know, it's very difficult to get perfection trying to make a man fly on camera, right? Uh, it has been years in the making of perfecting flight shots, right? So, uh, so like for people who are kind of nitpicking this apart and going, okay, the movie's going to be crap because maybe you can see a wee bit of flight imperfections, right, in your opinion? Well, here's the thing, guys. Uh, every Superman film that came out used cutting-edge flight technology, right? They used the highest quality of technology of the day to produce flight scenes, and this is no exception, right? And so even if you go back to uh, the Donner films, you know, Christopher Reeve's flight scenes, right? You see, uh, if we— back then, I'm sure that that was amazing. I bet people were blown away. But, you know, of course, if we look at— if we look at those, those scenes now, we can see many imperfections, right? A third grader can, can probably do that on his computer today, right? And they kind of did the cutout flights. They did, uh, these kind of weird-looking, um, you know, uh, uh, oh, mannequin shots and things like that. And here's the interesting thing, right? This is what I want you to keep in mind, uh, when you're analyzing this, right? If you, you know, if this is what's throwing you off, right? Uh, oftentimes when they would show these flight sequences, you know, they would slow down the flight of Superman a great deal, right? And And, uh, maybe I can show you what I'm talking about, right? Let me see if I can get a shot of what I'm talking about just so you guys can have the image in your mind.

Okay, this is cutting-edge technology back in '78. Okay, see how slow Superman's flying? You know, and I mean, I still like this, but you know, obviously, you know, you saw how slow he's flying and stuff like that, right? So let's kind of go through the evolution of Superman.

Superman a little bit here.

That's a little faster. All right, all right, so this is Man of Steel's flight, right? Okay, okay, but okay, what's the problem with this shot? See, look at this. It's not only is it shaking, but you can't really, you can't really get a fix on Superman, right? See that? See how that looks like? Yeah. Okay, let me stop it right here.

So you kind of see, uh, what I'm saying, guys, that the, the evolution of flight in Superman movies, even if you go back to the orig— the George Reeves Superman, uh, back in the '50s and such, right? Uh, you know, that was cutting-edge technology in flight, but you can see the imperfections in that, right? And we just showed Man of Steel, what a lot of people thought that was a great flight scene. And at the time, it was, it was a pretty good flight scene. It was one of the best Superman scenes, the flight scenes we had seen, but it had imperfections. Now, here's why I think the, uh, the Corn Sweat Superman flight scene is, is the best. Okay, the reason I think the This is some of the best flying I've ever seen of Superman. Is, as you can see, we get a fix on Superman in his flying, right? The camera's not shaking. Uh, now he's doing it— of course it has to be computer generated because he's doing things in there at that speed physically a human being couldn't do. Like when he does the twist going through the mountains of Antarctica, right? You can't duplicate that with a human being on a, you know, on a film, right? Because of course Superman is a, uh, is a, is an alien. He's, uh, not a human and he's able to do these type of body movements at that speed, right? So, uh, you know, a lot of people say, well, you know, it's feeling James Gunn-ish CGI from the Adam Warlock flight scenes. And yeah, they've improved on that technology since then, right? But this is revolutionary flight scenes for, you know, this is the most advanced stuff we have of today, right? So you're not going back to all the— I thought the Superman Returns flight scenes, especially rescuing the plane scene, right? I thought that was some of the excellent flight scenes. But if you really look at that, you're going to find even for that time, what would have looked like kind of video game CGI movement of his character, right? And this is, you know, during that time, right? So even in our own particular periods of time, we can see those elements, right? This is difficult to do. You got a human being flying on camera. It's going to be very hard to make that look realistic, right? Especially if you want to show extended long scenes, right? And so James Gunn is being very daring, right? He's being very daring at— because usually when they do a Superman flight scene, if they keep it on Superman too long, you start to see the imperfections. It doesn't look good, right? You see, you understand what I'm saying? So James Gunn, I can tell, he's gonna be very daring in this movie where he's gonna do this, but he's gonna— he's showing you how good the technology has advanced. He's gonna have these extended levels of flight with Superman where you can see the character very, very well, right? And, uh, again, I know some people would say, oh yeah, well, we kind of like, uh, the Man of Steel flight sequences. You get the close-ups on Henry Cavill and, you know, it looks like he's in turbulence. And I kind of like that too, right? I'm not knocking that.

I thought that—

I, I like, I like that element of it in there too because, you know, course you're flying, you're going to get, uh, you know, you're going to get, um, you know, that turbulence and all that stuff, right, in the flight scenes where it's going to be a very, uh, uh, uh, violent situation, right, with the flight. You know, if you're flying at this speed, it's not going to be, uh, you know, Uh, it's not going to be, uh, you know, like you're in a convertible. You know, you're moving at Mach 10, Mach 20, or however fast Superman's flying. This is a violent affair. Uh, so why I'm saying this is probably going to be the best, because only you can, you can do this with CGI to really show effects of what that would be like, right? If that makes sense. Um, And so, uh, yeah, it's not perfect, right? Flying is not going to be perfect, right, until these computers and our technology gets to the point where we can't distinguish a man, a humanoid man flying like that, from reality, right? But what I am saying is that up to this point, this is the best flying, uh, we've ever seen in any Superman depiction, right? That, uh, you know, looks this quality of good, right? That's all I'm saying. Uh, and over the years, maybe flights will get better. Also, I'm sure it's going to be other amazing flight scenes in the movie where, uh, we're gonna see, uh, some amazing things maybe we haven't seen before, right? I can believe that's going to happen, right? Because the reason I'm saying that is because anytime you do a Superman film Flying is going to be the number one thing you want to get right. Right. You're going to want to hit a lot of home runs on the flight scenes. And I think they're doing a pretty darn good job here. I think I probably wouldn't have noticed, you know, the people who really are going to nitpick this apart. Okay, maybe if you work for a visual studio or something like that. Right. You're just a person who's really, you know, the average moviegoer. The only reason we're gonna really pay attention to this now is because, you know, people are blasting across the internet. But for the most part, you know, the first video I got up, I didn't even know it was a TV spot, was people complaining about the CGI look. So that brought my attention to it. Now I wish I could have seen the TV spot before the criticism was out because then my mental landscape wouldn't be so fixed on the face part, right? Uh, maybe I would just be looking at, okay, you know, it in a different way. But because they made such a big deal about it, yeah, I'm focused on it now. But does it take me out the movie? No, it really doesn't. Um, the other thing, uh, I, you know, to keep in mind is that this is— or I remember, or keep in mind the James Gunn element to this Superman approach. I think it's going to be a little bit not a little bit, it's going to be more in the comic book realm, right? Uh, and so when you consider that, remember how Adam Warlock flew through his scenes, right, in Guardians of the Galaxy? But even though all that happened, I was still very much emotionally invested in the characters. Like, the Adam Warlock flight scene didn't really bother me, right? Um, and so remember, Superman's fighting a kaiju in this movie, right? This big, huge-looking kaiju That thing looks more comic booky than realistic, right? So I think part of the problem with some of the people who might have an issue with this is that Superman, um, you know, is that they're looking at it like the more gritty, realistic Superman. Again, they're going back to the Snyder Man of Steel, more, uh, more grounded, more realistic Superman, uh, image, right? And in that case you're gonna want the film to look gritty, realistic, like a Batman, like a Christopher Nolan Batman film, right? So anything that looks out of sync with that, you're, you're going to— it's gonna, you know, not sit well with you, right? If that makes sense. But if you can suspend that and go, this is Superman live action in a comic book movie, right, that has some good character development— because I think James Gunn's good at character development this is not gonna bother you so much. It's gonna fit right in. It's gonna fit in with the Green Lantern Corps, uh, uh, with the Gardner Bull cut. It's gonna fit in with Hawkgirl. It's not— it's gonna fit in with, you know, all these, uh, you know, these characters in this bright comic book looking movie, right? And again, and again, this is coming from a guy who who likes the rated R superhero films, right? This is coming from a guy who, uh, wanted all superhero films to be realistic and win an Oscar one day, right? And so, uh, you know, this kind— you know, unless we go back to maybe the first Superman, right? Uh, that hasn't happened since then, right? Not with a superhero of Superman's caliber. Maybe Batman, right? You know, with The Dark Knight and such. But you know, uh, it's a lot easier to do a Batman movie as a realistic movie than doing a Superman movie. You got a man flying, for goodness sakes, right? So all things considered, when you consider all that, I think that makes a lot more sense, right? But I think that's all I want to say in it. You guys could tell me all what you think, but I would say again keep in consideration some of the points I bring out in this video in relation to what type of movie this is, right? This is a comic book movie, right, with good character development, right? It's more in the comic book world, right? Not in the Christopher Nolan world, not in the realistic world, right? So, uh, and that, and that, and it could— maybe that's where it needs to be, right? Maybe that was the balance that was missing from it and why, uh, we've had so many problems with these Superman films, getting them right. Since the, the first Superman, right? But that's all I want to say in this, uh, episode, guys. If you like my take on content like this, make sure you do us a favor, hit that subscribe button, make sure you hit that notification bell at the top of your screen that lets you know and announces to you when new videos come out. As always, take care of yourselves and each other.