{"id":5532,"date":"2013-06-12T14:55:04","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T21:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/?p=5532"},"modified":"2013-06-12T17:34:16","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T00:34:16","slug":"get-ready-for-man-of-steel-with-honest-superman-iv-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/awesomeness\/get-ready-for-man-of-steel-with-honest-superman-iv-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Ready for Man of Steel with Honest Superman IV Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/1987_man_of_steel_header.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5538\" alt=\"Get Ready for Man of Steel with Honest Superman IV Trailer\" src=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/1987_man_of_steel_header-1024x529.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/1987_man_of_steel_header-1024x529.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/1987_man_of_steel_header-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/1987_man_of_steel_header.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>People of Earth, <i>Man of Steel<\/i> is all set to steal away your summer dollars. I have seen it, and before I raise one word against Zach Snyder&#8217;s latest visual triumph, it is important to have some perspective.\u00a0 Having the right baseline is the best way to experience a movie of this size.\u00a0 Sure, we could just watch the recent <i>Green Lantern<\/i>, and count ourselves lucky that Warner Bros. went in a different direction for <i>Man of <\/i>Steel, but why would we punish ourselves so?\u00a0 Especially when it is so much easier, funnier, and less painful to take in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.screenjunkies.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Screen Junkies<\/a> four-minute sardonic Honest Trailer of <i>Superman IV: The Quest for Peace<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Fair warning: snippets of &#8217;80s *ahem* classics such as <i>Breakin&#8217; 2 Electric Boogaloo<\/i>, <i>Predator<\/i>, and <i>Spaceballs<\/i>, do this important examination of everything that is, was and will be the 1987 big-screen version of Superman.\u00a0 The dorky duality of the 1987 Superman and Clark Kent is on full display, as is the film&#8217;s indulgence in making bratty kids focal points of the plot.<\/p>\n<p>And then there is Nuclear Man.\u00a0 For context, Nuclear Man is jealous of everyone in <i>Batman &amp; Robin<\/i>, everyone.\u00a0 Then there are Superman&#8217;s hitherto-unrevealed powers like &#8220;rebuilding the Great Wall of China with his eyes and lowering people with his mind.&#8221; Of course, <i>Superman IV<\/i> does hold a few things over <em>M<\/em><i>an of Steel<\/i> including &#8220;terrible blue screen,&#8221; &#8220;really, really terrible blue screen,&#8221; and the same flying shot &#8220;over and over and over again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"620\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QWNqbqcV4dU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>As Superman must acknowledge his birth on Krypton, so must we acknowledge that <i>Superman IV: The Quest for Peace<\/i> is still alive in a 1987 time capsule. Oh, how Superman (and Warner Bros.) wishes that he could get his 19 years back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People of Earth, Man of Steel is all set to steal away your summer dollars. I have seen it, and before I raise one word against Zach Snyder&#8217;s latest visual triumph, it is important to have some perspective.\u00a0 Having the right baseline is the best way to experience a movie of this size.\u00a0 Sure, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[161,402,497,236],"class_list":["post-5532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awesomeness","tag-dc","tag-man-of-steel","tag-screen-junkies","tag-superman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5532"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5534,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5532\/revisions\/5534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}