…Moviegoer of Kleenex: New Man of Steel Teaser Trailer Released

As I’ve said before, since it’s the end of the year, the movie studios are starting to get we genre geeks hyped up about the 2013 summer blockbuster movie season. They’ve given us a wealth of teaser trailers and posters, which has led to the staff of Crisis On Infinite Midlives to argue, in the past week, as to which summer movie we’re looking more forward to: Iron Man 3, directed by the guy who wrote Lethal Weapon, Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, and The Last Boy Scout, or Star Trek Into Darkness, directed by the guy who directed Star Trek and Super 8, and also produced Lost and Alias.

Oh yeah, and then there’s Man of Steel, directed by Zack Snyder. The guy who directed the completely unnecessary Dawn of The Dead remake, the can’t-even-sit-through-while-drunk-and-the-remote’s-broken Sucker Punch, and the resoundingly “no homo” 300. Sure, Man of Steel will be opening too, but I can’t imagine there’s gonna be anything that could vault it to the top of the “must see” list, even if we’re totally willing to forget Superman Returns, a movie that even a half-quart of Jack Daniels couldn’t make entertaining.

What’s that? There’s a new teaser trailer for Man of Steel that’s been released? *Sigh*

Fine. Let’s give it a look.

Holy. Shit.

First of all, any studio suit who made a casting suggestion for Jonathan Kent other than Kevin Costner isn’t fit to oversee anything more complicated than my McDonald’s takeout order. Second, while I recognize that the teaser trailer for Superman Returns looked equally good about seven years ago, this trailer. Looks. Fucking awesome.

From Superman apparently allowing himself to be taken into custody by the cops (probably because its the right thing to do) to the massive destruction (allowing me to infer that me might finally see some Superman action in a movie more exciting than fucking up a land grab) to the care taken to demonstrate that Superman’s flight might have some physics behind it, there is nothing I can see that is wrong with this trailer. While I’ve been kinda looking forward to this flick, I am now genuinely excited for it.

Man of Steel opens in the United States on June 14, 2013.