I wasn’t a huge fan of the “teaser” (is it me, or do teasers now seem like trailers?). It just wasn’t Superman for me, mostly because I see him as a beacon of hope, not smashed and broken in a crater (which seemed awfully small considering the impact). The costume looked dowdy – like a child received hand-me-downs from his older brother. The music was butchered with that electric guitar…

People are afraid to be sincere. The 90s, the era I grew up in, taught irony as a way to signal you were shrewd and edgy, but really, it’s the clarion call of the coward. It’s tempting to think it’s brave to have Superman battered an beaten, but I assure you it’s the cynical choice. It’s cynical because it’s not emotionally true, but manipulative. It’s the attempt to induce sympathy through suffering/injustice.

Superman doesn’t require that kind of introduction, especially considering how he’s been written recently. And the allegory argument of Superman’s state representing the cultural shambles we find ourselves in now? No… hogwash.

Gunn won’t deliver, not if this teaser is our indication.