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Does he still stand for truth? For Justice? The American way? Hell no.
Man of Steel is directed by Zack Snyder, produced by Christopher Nolan, and stars Henry Cavill
and it's the reboot of the origin story of Superman.
So with that all being said, this movie was supposed to be awesome. I mean all the star
were aligned. It was supposed to be so good. It sucked.
Now Zack Snyder's an incredible creative visionary who directed 300, Watchmen, two fantastic
movies. Very very beautiful to look at. And yes Man of Steel is very visually beautiful,
it's like it really takes technology to a whole another level. But you know what, technology
is not everything. Special effects is not everything. What we want is a story. This
movie is style over substance totally.
Now the biggest problem with Man of Steel is that Zack Snyder de-Supemaned Superman.
It's very dark, very gritty, it's not the Superman we're used to and I think that Snyder
did everything humanly possible to try and get away from Superman Returns because a lot
of people hated that movie. And now by getting away from just the cool campiness cheesiness
of the 70s and the 80s and Superman Returns, it kind of loses something and it takes itself
too, too seriously. It tries to feel like a Nolan movie, which only Batman can capture,
only Christopher Nolan can capture in Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight
Rises. Zack Snyder failed here trying to make this totally work. Total total fail. The whole
realism, I like my Superman very cheesy and corny, I was watching Superman II the other
night and even how cheesy it is, I can still have a fun entertaining time with this. This
is so cynical and depressing and boring. I don't know what happened to Man of Steel.
What happened to Superman?
This doesn't even feel like a Superman movie. First of all, it feels like a random alien
just in the guise of Superman, just playing Superman and saving the world. It doesn't
even feel like it should be a Superman movie. Just so generic and so cliche, I mean yes
the characters are there. You have Superman and Lois Lane and General Zod and all the
main characters we've known for how many years, but at the same time it does not feel like
a Superman movie. Superman is Americana like apple pie. Well they crapped on my apple pie.
Thank you very much.
Henry Cavill from Immortals plays Superman, actually he doesn't because actually he's
Kal-El. Superman is referred to in one time in the movie. And that's it so really he's
some random alien taking refuge on planet Earth and yeah as I said very generic I mean
he did a decent job with the role. He's no Christopher Reeve, but for a new generation,
yeah he'll do.
And Amy Adams and Laurence Fishborne are also in the movie. Lawrence Fishborne definitely
wasted as Perry White. Amy Adams is okay as Lois Lane I mean doesn't do a lot in the movie,
but okay tolerable. Michael Shannon plays General Zod and I like Michael Shannon especially
in movies like Revolutionary Road, which is a really, really good movie. He plays a real
crazy in that movie and he's supposed to be playing a real crazy as General Zod here.
The only thing is give me Terrance Stamp any day. I mean we didn't even get a Kneel Before
Zod.
Surprisingly I didn't have an issue with the 2.5 hour run time. You know I like long movies
and it's just like Superman: The Movie exactly the same run time. But what I did have a problem
with was David S. Goyer's pretentious screenplay. I hated the dialogue in the movie. I hated
so many things were set up and how the story unfolds. There's just so many things I just
did not like about that screenplay. Just how everything comes together, it just did not
work for me. I thought it was very very pretentious. So many big questions, the answers were not
delivered. It's not a total loss, there are some good things about this movie, very few
good things about this movie. But yeah Man of Steel I do not like. And overall I'll be
giving Man of Steel 2 out of 5 stars.
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me down below in the comments what am I missing from Man of Steel? Many people like it. I
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