The Dark Knight Rises and The Man of Steel.

So.  Yeah.  This is Anne Hathaway, as Selina Kyle/Catwoman, in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises.

And this is Henry Cavill in full costume for The Man of Steel.

Got to say that The Dark Knight Rises isn't filling me with the same sense of giddy geek-love that the approach of the last film did, but that could be because of the inclusion of Bane as the bad guy.  I have always thought of Bane as likely one of the worst of Batman's rogues gallery, probably because whenever I think of him I always think of the awful kak-fest that was Knightfall.  Would've much rather have had The Penguin in there, meself. And lovely though the delightful Miss Hathaway may indeed look on her what-would-appear-to-be stolen Batpod, she does look yawningly generic, and not in the least bit like the Catwoman I was hoping for.  But! that said, I'm guessing that this isn't Selina in the full, final Catwoman get-up.

And I'm certainly not gonna give Henry Cavill a hard time.  I don't know him, I've no idea if he's any good or not, and he looks ok.  But the costume's dark.  And that's what bothers me.  My mate Bub - he runs me local comic shop - once said to me that you could always tell if a Fantastic Four comic was going to be worth reading just by looking at the colour of The Thing ( if he's brown, you can be almost guaranteed it's going to be shit ).  And that's how this feels.  I'm not going to shoot the film out of the sky before it's even got off, but I am going to say that the reason why DC can't seem to get a decent Superman film together is because of their obssession with darkening/grittying up the character. Dark works great for Batman.  Superman is not Batman.

Have a great Saturday, all.