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Superman looks like the Dark Knight unfun man-dressed-as-flying-mouse-movie-takes-self-too-seriously-when-is-Ironman3-out type of dumb.
Every issue since has felt like issue #2 of a 3-issue arc—lots of complications and crises, with no context, coherent story, or emotional involvement.
Man of Steel, like Batman Begins, is it's own entity, so fingers crossed. It really is one of the best trailers ever made for a comic-book based film.
Nerd bonus point: when Superman is about to fly away and crouches down, we see snow, dirt, and rocks around him begin to swirl and float into the air, like in anti-gravity. Pretty overt nerd shout out right there to the deep revisionist nerdery that all his powers come from an energy field that Kryptonians generate. That made me pointlessly happy to see, since it's such a cool and logical twist on how a character like Superman does the absurd things he does, even by comic book scales.
Who doesn't already know Superman's origin? The 70's Superman movie was an origin story. Hell, Smallville spent years covering that ground.
Is Superman simply not interesting enough as a fully-formed superhero?
I find myself hoping that Man of Steel borrows from it heavily.
"Is Superman simply not interesting enough as a fully-formed superhero?"
No.
That aside, I'd love to see that brought to the screen. Or pretty much any of the ideas discussed in this thread so long ago, rather than what I've seen of this so far.
I find the trailer only promising, mostly because the tone is unlike that of previous versions. I personally like the fact that we keep re-telling these stories (@8). That's how they rise to the level of modern mythology. Imagine the audiences in Athens moaning, "oh crap, not another play about Orestes!"
And what is the big objection (@11) to origin stories? I hear this all the time. In the case of Superman, maybe the origin really is the most compelling part (cf. the success of Smallville @11, @13). I think the origin is the part of his story where he is least in control, whether through inexperience, or ignorance of his abilities, or emotional immaturity. And unlike some other superheroes, Superman is essentially born one.
In any case, I'd be happy if it isn't a schlockbuster like Avengers/Ironman (@1). Those have their place, but they're so disposable.