Spoiler
Go read the prequel comic, the ship was Kara Zor-El’s. That’s why it had a suit with the House of El crest on it.
that’s a horrible reason for people like my mother, who was confused as fuck at that point. You think she is gonna pick up comics any time soon?
That being said, I still think the main cast was good. Zod was great, Ursa 2.0 was great, Superman was great, Lois was great. They built a good foundation, I just hope they can set up this universe well, and that the next Supes movie can have a bit better writing.
It’s strange knowing what Marvel is doing for the next 5 years, but have no clue whats next for DC.
Let me try to flesh that out/fix it.
It had the action sequences of the Ang Lee Hulk, but the plot of the second Hulk movie. Like the Hulk fights in the second Hulk were kind of lame compared to how amazing the first ones were that actually had the Hulk doing Hulk stuff. (Hulk jumps, moving at super high speeds, just ripping things apart)
Too bad the ending to that first Hulk movie was just really stupid. So basically they gave Superman something to do and look great while doing it but the story surrounding him was not worthy of the actors portraying the characters.
I’d give the movie a 6.5 out of 10. Superman just seemed like a pussy and a dick. I just was thinking about All Star Superman the entire movie and how dark MoS is. I guess that is a bad way to see a movie, but whatever.
I don’t know what it was about Faora, but she was soooo hot!
Just saw it a few hours ago. Throughout the film I was thinking how is it humanly possible for the writers to come up with a decent chunk of witty, tongue in cheek dialogue that recalls the work of Sheldon Turner and Jason Reitman while also making the majority of the dialogue so laughably on the nose. As a shitty, aspiring (read: unsuccessful) screen writer myself, even I would be embarrassed to write some of the lines uttered in Man of Steel, I actually laughed several times due to how bad the writing was, and others due to how impressive it was.
That was my main gripe with the film, other than that it could have dialed back on the mindless violence a bit, but that’s a minor flaw to me. Overall the acting was universally great, emotional story beats were surprisingly poignant, the action was on point, and it was a satisfying movie going experience.
And that Kevin Costner scene…I got the feels on that one.
Like I want to have Superman make me want to be a better person, not make me bored (Superman Returns) or make me think he is an emo selfish wiener kid (MoS).
It felt a lot like the Spider Man reboot that just happened. They really nailed the Spider-Maniness of Spider-Man in his movement with the CGI but everythign else was pretty meh.
Ang Lee’s Hulk was beautiful and if it had been a comic instead of a movie we’d be praising it as an awesome reboot
when Hulk breaks out of the water tank and rorars>anything from norton hulk
but ang kind of regrets the movie 
Still though, I don’t get the overwhelming negative reviews about this movie. I came out of that movie with my mouth open, I HONESTLY thought it was better than the AVENGERS.
I honestly liked it even more than the Dark Knight
Well this movie wasn’t disappointing, and I think it’s the best film I’ve seen by Snyder (out of this, Watchmen and 300). That’s not saying much though.
The film seems oddly paced until you realise that it’s built around the premise that the audience already knows how the film is going to flow, and even knows what happens in it; so the creators don’t bother showing Superman originally hitting the ground or being discovered, you already know, I know, why bother showing it. We can just cut to 33 years later. It happens a bunch of other times.
Lois Lane as a character doesn’t seem to serve much of a role other than to tag along as The Main Love Interest. Why does Zod request she be taken on to the ship? Because Plot and Character Development said so.
Also, I swear the Kent family dog looked about 15 in the hurricane sequence then looked about 5 later on.
Cool fight scenes, I guess? Nowhere near as much fun as The Avengers, though.
While there was more comedy and snarky dialogue in the Avengers, the action was NOWHERE near that of Man Of Steel.
It’s laughable now when I watch the avengers fight scenes, especially with THOR(GOD of THUNDER) fighting Loki and barely destroying anything
I think this is the problem with super hero movies.
Hollywood seems to think that the super hero genre can be only 1 of 2 things…a fun action blockbuster for kids or a fun adventure blockbuster for kids. This movie could have changed that perception and offer a story and script that could have showed the world that comics and this genre have evolved beyond the gold age stereotype they are often associated with. Instead we get a movie with a weak script,shallow characters and a poorly written story. I also think that for all this talk from the creators about how the movie will be more"realistic"and"mature"…it actually comes off as less sophisticated and mature then the reeves movie. In those movies there was a actual attempt to connect with the characters as people first and some of the best moments in those films came from the non-action/non-comic book aspects.
This movie feels like a beautifully drawn 1-shot written with the logic and depth of a loeb comic. I also have some reservations about how weak they made supes here…like seriously dude you can move faster then light and your getting tagged by shit all over the place that is somehow throwing you around even though you can tank planet wrecking blast without even flinching?
Anyways maybe I’m just too much of a comic purist to look past the problems so I might have to see this a few more times to get a better perspective.
I was really hoping for a scene with Clark getting a chance to tell his parents he made it safely to earth, like the end scene of Birthright. If they don’t do that in the first Lex Luthor flick, I will be greatly disappointed.
One of the central themes of All Star Superman (hit right on the nose in the dialogue, but that’s okay, because it worked for the scene) is “The measure of a man lies not in what he says, but what he does.” Yeah, there are some life lessons to be had, but they’re relayed by doing rather than telling.
I have to give MoS some credit. While it does have Nolan/Goyer’s usual right-on-the-nose dialogue, in amounts far larger than acceptable, there is quite a bit of doing. We see Superman working with humans to solve problems, rather than solving all their problems for them. That’s a big positive, and it’s a step away from the erroneous perception of Superman as a demi-god who micromanages human safety.
I’m not seeing overwhelming negativity. I’m seeing lots of underwhelmed reactions, most of which are based on how good the movie could have been, given the elements that it gets right.
I was dramatically negative but I was just mad at how dumb some of the parts were.
Let’s terraform the planet that can make us Super Strong. It was pretty silly just how many people Superman let die. For someone whose weakness was supposed to be his moral compass, he sure didn’t give a fuck about any of the human cattle.
Did they ever actually say that terraforming the planet would remove their superpowers? Aside from that, Zod’s goal wasn’t just to find a new home for his people, but to specifically remake Krypton. Maybe that seems irrational, but that’s the character they gave us, so it is what it is.
As for people dying, I chalk this up to Snyder’s sloppy-as-ever “smash everything now, ask questions later” approach to the combat scenes. Given that the movie only acknowledges the possibility of collateral damage when it becomes a key point in the story, I think we’re just supposed to gloss over all those destroyed buildings and smashed cars. If the movie doesn’t acknowledge the casualties, they didn’t happen.
At a certain point, you just have to be thankful that they didn’t dub in any “I can see their parachutes… they’re okay!” dialogue.
Wasn’t the machine going to put Krypton’s atmosphere and gravity on Earth? They never had a red son, or did I totally miss the red son on Krypton. I either saw a yellow sun, or am color blind.
Why did they even need to make a new Krypton though? For someone who was supposed to be smart and calculating enough to bring back his entire civilization, why would he need to put Kryptons atmosphere and what not on Earth?
His plan that didn’t need to be done eventually lead to him losing his entire species.
I was really really surprised and happy that Synder didn’t massacre the action with horrible slow motion. It was actually extremely clear and well done (from a special effects and brutality perspective). The girl kryptonian had some especially brutal scenes. I enjoyed her Project Justice tag team combo in the Smallville fight.
They didn’t “need” to. At one point, Zod made it explicit that he was basically programmed to preserve Krypton at any cost… which, okay, that’s pretty interesting, but if he were a better written character, we wouldn’t even have to talk about how his programming justifies his more baffling actions.
Exactly, which is why is was so dumb. Its so sad that the cast was saddled with such hamfisted writing.
Also funny was when Mrs El died.
- Why didn’t she get blown back?
- Good job gettin those tittays out before you bite it, girl.
Still processing Man of Steel, but it was… muted. In tone, in color, in like everything, for better or worse. Mostly worse. Also fuck shaky cam, in all movies.
And really bad exposition, holy shit.
There were giant ass explosions happening right in front of her, she didn’t even budge. C’mon SON.