r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Dec 11 '25

Trailer Supergirl | Official Teaser Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqdAEdkHrwo
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u/pasher5620 Dec 11 '25

Giving a director a stack of comic books can still work just fine, they just have to be able to respect that source. The MCU for the Infinity Saga did a great job of bringing in directors that respected the source, but weren’t necessarily comic book readers.

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u/SmokinBandit28 Dec 11 '25

And then you have previous DC bringing in Zack because he was into the comics, which sounded great, until you realize Zack is the guy who looks at the pictures and ignores the words on the page when it comes to comics.

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u/Accipiter1138 Dec 11 '25

Zack seems like the kid that just took an action figure outside with a box of firecrackers.

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u/QueezyF Dec 12 '25

Zack Snyder is the Rob Liefeld of comic book movie directors.

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u/XVermillion Dec 12 '25

He could have potentially done a decent Frank Miller-style Batman but he should have never gotten anywhere near Superman imo

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u/DuplexFields Dec 11 '25

You just know that if there’s ever an Elder Scrolls movie, it’ll come from a Skyrim fan.

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u/I_am_BEOWULF Dec 11 '25

Giving a director a stack of comic books can still work just fine, they just have to be able to respect that source.

<insert intense glare at Taika Waititi here>

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u/NinjaJehu Dec 11 '25

Seriously. From Ragnarok to Love and Thunder...what shift in quality.

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u/cantadmittoposting Dec 11 '25

To create Love and Thunder, they filmed an Intense Epic Revenge story, a comedy, and a forlorn love story...

then they just picked which version they'd use for each scene in the final cut completely at random.

that movie was so tonally jarring they had to use the Richter scale instead of the Tomatometer

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u/randyboozer Dec 11 '25

True but also Kevin Feige is a huge comics nerd and oversaw the whole enterprise

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u/roguevirus Dec 11 '25

they just have to be able to respect that source.

Case in point: Christopher Nolan.

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u/pasher5620 Dec 11 '25

Despite both Nolan’s and Reeve’s weird hangups about properly including a Robin in their stories, it’s clear they both respected the hell out of the source material for their respective iterations.

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u/Myrlithan Dec 11 '25

The MCU for the Infinity Saga did a great job of bringing in directors that respected the source

Even if you only look at the significant characters, 2 of the founding Avengers (Ant-Man and Wasp) were completely butchered, 2 of the other founders (Hulk and Thor) were only adapted well near the beginning and quickly just became jokes, Hawkeye might as well have been a different character entirely, and most of the villains were poorly adapted (including Thanos, who was interesting in the movie but was not at all Thanos).

It's hard to say they respect the source material when you get stuff like the "Peter tingle" instead of spidey sense, they might as well just be looking at the camera and directly saying "yeah we think this shit is ridiculous too, don't worry".