A new trailer for
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice arrived and the internet reacted accordingly.
This trailer offers our first full and proper look at Affleck as Bruce
Wayne and, well, he looks great. “Cool and confident charmer with a few
tricks up his sleeve” is a part he was born to play. You’ve got to love
his little “Oh, we’re talking about Batman now?”This take on Batman’s iconic weapon looks like the halfway point between
the heavily stylized versions seen in the Tim Burton films and the
literally-hand-cut-in-a-basement iterations in Christopher Nolan’s
movies. In other words: just comic book-y enough, while grounded enough
to sell the fact that Batman is just a guy with a budget and a lot of
time to make gadgets.Batman may not believe in killing his enemies, but he certainly believes
in scarring them to leave a permanent message. That’s awfully rough
(it’s hard to imagine many iterations of the character deliberate
marking his foes like this), but it does drive home the point that this
Batman isn’t messing around. He’s a tough, merciless guy. You know, the
kind of guy who wouldn’t think twice about fighting an invincible alien.We’ve known for awhile that
Batman v Superman would revisit the climax of
Man of Steel,
showing the destruction of Metropolis from Bruce Wayne’s perspective.
This trailer offers a fresh, ground-level look at the chaos, where a
bunch of debris seems to be exploding