when the world gets too heavy, put it on my back

[musesfool]

Last night, L. and I went to see Man of Steel. Since it was in 3D - not even IMAX, just 3D - the tickets cost $18.50 and with the fandango service charge, they were $20. (unfortunately, non-3D times were thin on the ground, and didn't work for our schedules on a work night

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[destina]

I am a bit creeped out by how similar your review of MoS is to the one I posted. GET OUT OF MY BRAIN. *g*

[musesfool]

Hee! I just opened your post to read it. Great minds! <3

[redrikki]

See, that's one of the things that's been bothering me about DC for quite some time now. They're obsessed with the idea that comic books (and comic book movies) must be DARK and GRITTY because that, apparently, makes them cool or whatever. It's like they missed the entire point about how superheroes are supposed to be about hope. Batman is about a messed-up guy who turns his pain and rage into something vaguely useful. Superman is about an immigrant finding his place in America and showing us that power can be used for good. Marvel gets it. That's why the MCU has Tony rising repeatedly from his own ashes, Steve fighting 'cause he doesn't like bullies and all that jazz. Honestly DC, what is wrong with you?

[musesfool]

The problem with DC is that the guys in charge are stuck in this weird time warp where everything has to be like it was when they were 12 years old (all the reversions of legacy heroes to their older counterparts) and/or like Frank Miller wrote it, without ever examining how awful Frank Miller actually is as a writer now, or how much that aesthetic doesn't match most of their characters who aren't named Batman (and not even him when it's Dick under the cowl). And this apparently carries over to their choices in movies.

The problem is that while you can argue that Nolan's Batman does capture one facet of the character - and it does - there is nothing in his and Snyder's Superman that understands who Superman is and why he endures as a the most famous superhero of all time.

And until those guys at the top are gone, it's not going to change. Luckily, they seem to hold less sway over the animation division, which keeps cranking out good stuff.

[leavingslowly]

I couldn't agree more. The movie had so much potential, but the over the top directing got in the way of the story. I thought it was well cast, but not well directed. They should really give the second installment to someone else who can actually tell a story instead of make us nauseous with special effects. Also, Henry Cavill is hot. Seriously, so hot!

[musesfool]

I don't think it was even the direction so much as the writing. SO BAD. SO LAZY.

[musesfool]

The Smallville stuff felt very...Smallville to me - the spaceship in the barn, Jonathan being kind of an asshole, Clark getting bullied, etc.

I thought the writing for Lois was great, but Amy Adams is just not congruent with my mental image of her, so she never quite fit for me.

After that, it's just willful destruction or gross motor skills incompetence. Since when is Superman's only move Hulk Smashing Through Buildings?

EXACTLY. The worst part is that it's not that I don't think Clark doesn't care - it's that IT DOESN'T EVEN OCCUR TO HIM. They could have at least made nods to the fact that he knew people were getting killed all around him. Or had shots of people actually being evacuated instead of running around in a panic with no direction. Avengers did a much better job with that.

With Zod, it's a fair fight, unlike when Superman fights humans, and there was no other way to stop him, so that didn't bother me the way the rampant Metropolis destruction did. Yeah, me neither. Also, it might have been nice for them to have