Superman: Man of Steel (June 14, 2013)

[bluefan]

I set my action/superhero movie bar real low every time I walk into the theater. While I am excited for this beyond belief, I know it's nothing more than just a God vs some other Gods having a disagreement and it'll come down to them beating each other senseless with ants in the way.

[Lonewind]

Just got back from it, once again wished it wasn't 3D only at IMAX, but oh wells.

Will not spoil it, but I think it's overall as well as it could be (considering how flat a character Superman is). I really liked the parts with Kevin Costner in it, it really grounded the character for me. While not jaw-droppingly good, but definitely worth it watching it in the theaters, would recommend.

Edit: I think the superspeed/air fighting is really spectacular.

[Fhloston]

I have no words to how silly this is. I learnt long ago how wrong RT can be.

It really depends on the rating. I remember being excited about Skyline (yeah, I know) and ignoring RT's low rating of it. I regretted that move.

That being said, I love Snyder's and Zimmers' work, so I know I'll enjoy it.

[Akiyama]

62% now. Yeah, I generally don't give a shit what RT says. I just wanna see the badass action.

[Blackice]

I'm going to the midnight showing tomorrow night, I'll post when I get home about what I think. Fair warning though, I've been a Superman fanboy since I was about 5, my review might be slightly biased. However, my review will be from just that, a Superman comic fanboy which imo carries a lot more weight these days than some "top critic" on RT. Hell, I read one review from one of their top critics and she CLEARLY had a chip on her shoulder about comic book movies in general going into the viewing. If you go to sites like AintItCool.com, the review he gave was absolutely glowing and he's also a self-admitted fanboy of the character. I think it's safe to say that if the majority of comic fans are loving this, then it's going to be good.

[chazzyphizzle]

i believe watchmen was received pretty shittily on RT also, and that was great as a first watch. repeated viewings however were not so kind. regardless lolRT

[Hirronimus]

I hate the Reeves movies so I'm glad they strayed away from that and I'm not gonna miss Kal pretending to be Clark Kent.

What you are saying is borderline idiotic and here's why.



Sure, Reeves' movies were cheesy, and I'm personally glad they spruced up new version with lots of action and good camera work, but the fact that they made it into another Alien Jesus bullshit storyline with gritty "how-would-it-look-like-if-it-was-real" Nolan mentality, takes a lot away from what this movie could have actually been.

[Tyrath]

My IMAX has one 2D showing of this a day and its the time I wanted. Great success!

[Cichy]

I worded that wrong. I'm not gonna miss Kal pretending to be a reporter is what I wanted to say. He's still Clark Kent working random jobs I'm just happy it isnt gonna be "I work with Lois every day and when I put on glasses she doesnt know I'm Superman." I've been reading Superman on and off for 15 years and I'm personally tierd of Lois. Superman dating Wonder Woman in the comics now is much better.

[Tajin]

This was part of DC latest reboot?

[Jaxzer]

This is awful.

[Demosthenes]

An okay movie action movie. Fantastic imagery. The narrative leaves something to be desired. Ultimately, not my Superman.

[Deftscythe]

Total waste of time. Go see This is The End instead. You'll thank me.

[travOtaku]

I would say this movie ranked at maybe a 2.5/5 for me.

There were things that I liked about it, but I feel like I would have liked them if they were removed from the movie and I was watching them without context. Like there were certain scenes that were interesting to me that I would have also thought were interesting if they were mirrored exactly in an entirely different movie devoid of the Superman character.

What I liked:

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1. Jor-El's character after he has just become a projection of the original character's consciousness. His mannerisms were perfect and he was very believable as a digital representation of someone who used to exist but could only now be projected through machines.

2. Jor-El helping Lois escape the ship. That scene was very interesting and a well done departure from the constant just punching and kicking that the Kryptonians did to each other.

3. That the movie did not take place chronologically, and that the story was recounted through his reminiscing along the way. I would have hated spending an entire 40-60 minutes just watching him as a child, then a preteen, then a teenager and then into his twenties all in a row.

What I didn't like:

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1. That stupid 5 second shot of him in the water floating next to the humpback whales. Ok, we get it, you can create amazing special effects. This is pointless, and clearly self-serving.

2. Clark not learning to fly until after he has spent 33 years on Earth, but Zod learning to fly after spending less than a day. Also, Zod learning how to control his powers within the same amount of time. I understand that they need to make sure that Zod can be a legitimate threat to Superman, but really? Zod can do in hours what took Superman YEARS to be able to do?

3. The fight scenes between the Kryptonians went on FAR too long. It started out exhilarating but then just got so boring. Ok, so this super human character is going to punch this other one through an entire cityscape and we will see that he is completely unharmed afterward and then he will retaliate by just punching him in the face into a train yard. And then he will be fine. And so on and so on and so on. Where is the danger or tension in these scenes if we don't see them ever getting hurt!

4. Ok. How many scenes of our pathetic Earth weaponry NOT affecting the Kryptonians do we need? It seems like every time they are fighting we have to have like 1-3 shots per fight scene of puny military officers shooting them with bullets that just bounce off, and then get dispatched as if they are ants. No one in the military would recognize that after they were able to take a missile right to the face and not be phased that maybe they should withdraw their ground troops, lest they suffer countless unnecessary casualties?

5. Kevin Costner dying in the tornado. I hated it. It was so hammy and out of place and just took me right out of the movie. I recognize that this was a visual taken from a comic, but still. Bad.

6. Them just completely disregarding the devastation that had just occurred in Metropolis by ending the movie with a scene involving a guy trying to hit on an intern and offer her tickets to a basketball game. The movie didn't say anything like '1 year later' or whatever to show that a significant amount of time had passed, so I just assumed that it was sometime near to the destruction of Metropolis. Obviously they don't want to end the movie on a sour note, but there wasn't even an explanation as to what happened as far as that goes. Is the city already rebuilt? Had they even started rebuilding it?

When 9/11 happened so much of every day life in New York was shut down for a considerable time following the attacks. This movie portrayed things that make 9/11 look like someone threw a cotton swab at a brickwall and we are supposed to just believe that life at a newspaper would just continue as normal and that people would even be thinking about going out to a basketball game let alone asking a girl out on a date?

Also, how about no one giving any care or acknowledgement to the fact that, obviously, hundreds of thousands of people (if not millions) were probably dying or seriously injured during their fighting. If Superman, Lois Lane, and other named and story-focused characters don't give a shit about something why are we as the audience supposed to?

7. Baby penis.

I will probably watch it again, but not in theaters. I might enjoy it more the second time. Seeing Iron Man 3 a second time helped me to like it a lot more than I did the first time, but this is just too exhausting of a movie to sit through in a theater more than once.

[Andalusian girls]

really earns that 59% from rotten

[thetruepandagod]

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Why is he going to terraform a planet to actively make it worse?
Why does he not enjoy a better planet with his 30 kryptonian friends and kill superman and enslave all of humanity,superman couldn't even handle 2 at once
Where in the hell did the romance between lois and clark even come from in this movie?
Why would general Zod show superman a world of skulls and destruction while trying to CONVINCE him to side with him and bring back krypton?
The flow of the movie was pretty awful.

Best parts were michael shannon finally being mad michael shannon and talking about how superman stole his soul and got his fiery rage eyes, also the chick and tall dude lunging at jets and tag teaming superman with a clothesline.
Also it looked pretty at times.

an ok movie, didn't hate it but some pretty huge problems with plotholes,dialogue,flow.

[Blackice]

Dat Faora.

I'm almost wondering if I saw a completely different movie than the rest of you. I walked out feeling like I got the movie I've been waiting on for the last 20 years.

[Matthias]

so disappointing. way too much zack snyder and not nearly enough christopher nolan. one of the biggest movie letdowns i've ever experienced.

[Tajin]

so disappointing. way too much zack snyder and not nearly enough christopher nolan. one of the biggest movie letdowns i've ever experienced.

This right here tells me the movie is good enough to watch.

[Hatedregret]

I must be the select few who dislikes Nolan.