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Will Man of Steel Rule Hard or Suck Hard?

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We'll just have to see next week. I put this up because lately, I've been wondering about whether or not the film will do well in theaters, and the reason I say this is because I've just discovered a link about what may happen if the film DOESN'T fly as high as Warner Bros. wants it to: [link]

Now before I continue with this theory of mine, I WILL say that I'm not planning to see Man of Steel when it comes out, but rather going to watch Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's apocalyptic horror/comedy This is the End, simply because... the concept of actors playing themselves during the Rapture is just interesting and even provocative. Nothing like that has ever been attempted before, and I bet if someone attempted this again with another concept, it either wouldn't be as good or would be criticized as a rip-off of This is the End, unless it was a sequel to the film, but even then, it'd have to come up with some new concepts that could match the expectations of the original, or at least try to. I've seen early reviews of it, and they seem like this may be the funniest comedy of 2013, bar none, and I might just believe them, but I've been hooked on seeing the film since the first trailer came out, so there's frankly no point in trying to persuade me into watching the Zack Snyder-directed, Christopher Nolan-produced superhero feature now.

But anyway, the theory: Back when the very first picture taken on the set of "Man of Steel", there has been a LOT of controversy and arguments about how good the film is, with questions like these popping up: Can it match up to the original Superman features? How well can Henry Cavill (Immortals) be Kal-El? Can you make the concept of having Superman trying to fit in with the humans work with the new expectations of action movies todays, or even the original Superman comic books that spawned them? Can Snyder and Nolan's twist on the Kryptonian's origin story match up to Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy? How good is the 3D gonna be (I ask this because Man of Steel IS a 3D-converted feature)? Can Snyder prove himself worthy to handle a movie with such a popular character after his previous flop Sucker Punch in 2011? Will it be a pleasure? Will it be a dissapointment? Questions like that are what everyone's asking about the feature. But recently, I've started asking the question:

What if it's a catastrophe?

What if in their attempt to have Kal-El fit in with the humans, only for him to be outcast for a while (hell, he's even ARRESTED in the feature), the producers, writers (Nolan and David S. Goyer, who also wrote the Dark Knight Trilogy) and director ended up giving us a film so lousy that critics and even audiences could actually be ashamed of this twist on the famed character? That's what I've started asking myself. I mean, who's this say this film won't flop?

I mean, sure, we've seen films like the more recent Marvel pictures (especially the Cinematic Universe produced by Marvel Studios, and the later films distributed by Disney since they bought Marvel), James Cameron's Avatar and The Hangover warrent sequels simply based on how big they succeeded at the box office (though in Hangover's case, the sequels despite some clever ideas in the third one were actually unneeded), and the Marvel Cinematic Universe has even done especially well with critics, without getting one rotten film on RottenTomatoes so far. But we've also seen failed start-up films like John Carter, Priest, The Last Airbender (to my knowledge), Battlefield Earth and the recently-released After Earth. Most of those movies have had a LOT of build-up up to their release, yet they all ended up coming nowhere close to what people wanted out of this feature. In fact, if anything, some of 'em were even declared some of the worst fucking motion pictures of all time, like Battlefield Earth and Last Airbender (which I wanted to see as a 16-year-old, though I did not thankfully). So many people who saw these films went back to their homes or temporary residences of visiting dissapointed or even ashamed.

Now WB has had plans to do a Justice League feature for YEARS, and even wants to do standalone features with characters like Flash and Wonder Woman. But if it goes the route of films like John Carter and After Earth, there's a good chance that that will never happen. Everyone's planned to do these franchises so they could expand on the films' stories and characters (or just rehash 'em in some cases), and often the plans failed to come into fruition. That's why when I get into movie making, I'll make sure that if I want to do any sequels and I've come up with a good concept, unless it's a big multi-part story where I have to do the multiple movies simultaneously, I'd have to wait until I discover how well my first film works out. If it doesn't go well enough with audiences AND critics, I'll just abandon the sequel concept and move on to something else. If it DOES and the studio WANTS a sequel, I'll move ahead and start developing the story with the writers, producers and/or directors I choose to help develop said story, continuing the first one's story and giving people more of what they loved about the original, rather than just rehashing everything that was done in the first film.

That's what I want to do in filmmaking. Fuck, that's what I want EVERYONE in Hollywood to do in filmmaking: If they want to do a sequel and they have a good idea for it, wait for the first one to do as well as possible, be it critically or financially, then you can move ahead. And Warner Bros. seems to be doing the exact opposite with the DC Comics film adaptations they're doing. They're waiting for the film to do as much as they want at the box office ($300 million domestically and $750 million worldwide), if not higher, after which they can move ahead with making their own franchise.

With all that said, I'm sticking to seeing This is the End and assuming the probability that Man of Steel might possibly bomb, maybe even worse than the studio and audiences expected, and if it does well, I may get it on Blu-Ray and DVD, but if not, I'll just avoid it publicly and possibly bug internet reviews to complain about it. But before I go, I must ask you this question to leave in the comments: Do you think Man of Steel will prove to be the next big superhero hit of the century, or will it become a critical and/or financial flop?
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