The fact that you are comparing DBZ fights to Superman is not a good thing guys. That is what goody is saying.
YOU GUYS ARE DUM.
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Watched the movie again this time in 2D, enjoyed it much more. Shaky cam is more tolerable, I still don’t like how stretched out the fights were, mainly because they all happen one after the other, you definitely need a longer breather between them. I thought the pacing was off first time but after seeing it again it’s actually fine, the movie is just a little too long but that just might be because the fight is exhausting.
Things that still bug me
- Length of final battle
- Disaster porn/ lack of caring
- Lois/Lois turning up everywhere
Didn’t really mind there being a lack of Perry White, I liked Martha Kent more this time but the movie needed more Costner. Russell Crowe was Kato to Michael Shannon’s Robin, in the sense that Zod being the warrior should have kicked Jor El’s ass, but Russell Crowe has a reputation to uphold, no way was he going to lose to a man with a girl’s name for a surname.
Buying the soundtrack.
I enjoyed it, but I can see how others may not. DBZ fight scenes were dope as fuck though.
I really liked the female kryptonian. The scary thing is she wasn’t even at full power. Imagine how scary she would have been if she unlocked all her abilities. I was really disappointed that she didn’t.
I was disappointed at Lois’s lack of ass… seriously she was flat as a board.
Morpheus has gotten FAT… I mean REALLY FAT. I just found his big bloated head to be really distracting.
Still the best Superman movie to date even if it was slightly retarded. I mean when has a SUPERMAN movie NOT been retarded. It was basically a live action DC animated film. For every eye rolling scene there was a HOLY SHIT THAT WAS SICK scene that jumped out at you. Plus it had one of the best songs ever in it. The next one will be better with more of the boring shit you faggots like, I promise. Then you can complain about that one while still managing to ride on Clark Kents cock.
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^Doesn’t count. Magic Dragon.
For all you know those ppl could have already been wished back before…which means…
so just because theres dragonballs means its okay to be cavalier with life?
I gotta say I do like that about Goku, or at least how Goku’s been written. Every time it happens he’s saddened and angered at murder, and senseless loss of life. Consistent part of his character I always liked.
Goku has the benefit of mostly being written by one man tho. Superman doesn’t exactly have this luxury.
I saw it again today. Some thoughts:
[details=Spoiler]1. Yeah, Lois Lane showing up at the Hall of Justice* was still pretty random. But whatever. It’s a clumsy way of making the character important, but she’s supposed to be important, so there is that.
- Though the movie isn’t obvious about it, there are cues that the scenes after the Hall of Justice standoff take place after a significant leap forward in time. We’ve already got some indication with the way Metropolis is already fixed up–specifically the Daily Planet building, which was almost certainly destroyed by the World Humping Engine. The damage radius was big enough that Perry White and Co. were nearly killed even after running their asses off away from the building.
The second-to-last scene is also a pretty good cue. There is a sense that the government’s superhero surveillance program has already been under way for at least a little while. Stanwick’s behavior doesn’t seem to indicate that he just got done fighting off a narrowly averted supervillain invasion, and Superman himself seems to be treating the UAV incident as old hat. With this in mind, the mood whiplash from the previous scene makes more sense, though it is still a weird transition.
If I were to be so bold as to imagine a slightly different Man of Steel, I would cut down significantly on the battle scenes and insert some material of Superman participating in the cleanup and rebuilding efforts. After all, his sense of civic duty doesn’t stop at dealing with supervillains. The time skip between Zod and the UAV would be the perfect place for this, and it would be a good buffer between the morose “These hands have blood on them” Superman and the “Golly, General, if you could stop chasing me, that would be swell” Superman who shows up the very next minute. It would also shore up the idea that Superman’s true mission is to lead by example and bring out the good in people. Regular folks can’t punch out a supervillain, but they can grab a toolbox and get to work.
- I’m actually going to concur with the collateral damage apologists here. While there is still some sloppiness afoot in the filmmaking, Superman generally isn’t in a position to escape his opponents. Plus, the battlefields are much less populated than they seem. For example, much of the Metropolis fighting occurs in areas in which everyone is logically either long gone or dead already. The military was probably responsible for the bulk of the collateral damage in the Smallville battle. I know it’s a huge bummer to have a body count in a Superman story, but there is some merit to balance it out. The supervillains have to pose a credible threat to human life, or there’s no sense of anything at stake.
That isn’t to say that there isn’t a problem, but I think people are observing all the mayhem and concluding that their uncomfortable feelings have to do with the damage itself being wrong. I would venture a guess that it runs a little deeper than that. In the post-9/11 world, the sight of a city being destroyed is going to evoke some unease no matter what the context. This is nothing new for movies–that sense of apocalyptic grimness. But it seems inappropriate for a movie about a character who wears the word “hope” on his chest, the way that grim sensibility comes to dominate the latter part of the movie. Hope typifies the legitimately excellent pre-battle material. After that, not so much.[/details]
*It will forevermore be referred to as such.
What kind of square ass, pusscake looking dude would say to put in LESS action in a summer blockbuster in order to show Superman doing manual labor? Wtf, you probably wished the whole movie was just Superman working on a fishing boat with his shirt off lol. Like that nigga will ever look as GQ as the handsome devil in my av.
Seems like most people are of the opinion that the battle section of the movie has almost an entire extra battle’s worth of combat shoehorned into it.
And with that chest hair, Superman is never shirtless. He’s got a built-in sweater.
I would feel sorry for the city if supes was as strong as he is in the comics…poor metropolis would be ruined with 1 punch.
Next time though Clark needs to keep shit outta the city…even hulk is more self aware.
As if Zod would have obliged Kal El and followed him out of the city.
As if Zod would have allowed him to do something like that.
AS if Zod would have been stupid enough to follow Kal El out of the city fully knowing that he could just kill humans while Kal El tried that bullshit.
Come on folks.
Superman tackled Zod from a safe isolated cornfield, and took him all the way to crowded downtown Smallville.
And it’s not hard to punch Zod out of the city, instead he started in the ruins of Metropolis, and kept punching him directly into the parts of the city still standing.
Nobody is saying Superman should just fly away and see what happens. But it’s not too far fetched to wonder why he didn’t just take Zod away from Metropolis.
He should have just surrendered and said his stipulation was that they would need to go away from the city…then when they left he could have tried stopping them.
Guess logic was too much for the writers…
maybe because the nigga was fucking scared. and wanted to end it as fast as possible. It was his first fight, against a superior enemy in both tactics and experience.
I don’t understand why this is an issue. Anybody who has ever fought anybody should know that during a fight, logic isn’t exactly the first thing to comes to mind.
And come on, that’s such a bullshit claim that he took him from a cornfield to smallville. Where you people not paying attention to the movie? Zod was about to curbstomp his mom. You think he gives a shit, as godly as Superman is, he is more human than Kryptoninan, and he is inexperienced in controlling himself. AS if he was even fucking capable of deducing that maybe that isn’t the best course of action.
the dude was literally screaming don’t fuck with my mommy.
Some of these “complaints” which they aren’t, show that people are way to absorbed in the comic book that they forget that this is an origin movie, and one where he first dons the damn suit. You can’t expect him to behave like he does in the damn comics in his first go. They wanted to humanize him, and they did a damn god job at it. The last thing we needed was some crap tastic nonsene from the 70’s again.
And from what I know, I can’t recall of a time where Supermans first enemy was somebody that was superior to him as his first villan.
It’s all nit picking
Real talk, you want to know where they really fucked up in the movie?
the bus that the kids almost drowned in? It didn’t exist at the time.
C’mon man, scared? No he got angry that’s why they ended up in Smallville which is forgiveable, but later they fight in space! The WRITERS then chose to send them back into Metropolis, like that’s even possible, it’s poor writing!
Actually, if this pin point accuracy is possible it means Zod/Supes are both in control, then Supes could have like Sovi3t said punched Zod into unpopulated areas.
If Superman is scared, it’s not fear for his own life it would be fear of what Zod would do to the humans!
Have you been in a fight where you had to protect loved ones, you get them to escape not hang around in close proximity where they can still be harmed. This is why I laughed when Superman watches people scramble for cover in Smallville, all he says is “get inside, it’s not safe” and the old man locks the shop door, like that’s gonna save you…
Umm…in superman 2 when he fought zod in the city it was his first time fighting super villains too and he still went out of his way to save the city. Goku never fights in a crowed city ever and goku is easily less logical and sound then clark…