Was Man of Steel Unimaginative Science Fiction?

LOL! Get ready for desperate MoS apologists to grasp at the tiniest [frick]ing things to make this shit seem like a masterpiece!

I can see what you're saying, then again, what do we expect from good ol' G-spot?

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If you want to boil it down so simple, then all of the CBMs we watch are a ripoff of the first one ever. Here, I'll break it down to you. Hero discovers/gains abilities/finds a purpose. A bag guy comes in to do bad guy things. Hero must step up and fight bad guy. The stakes are high, and bad guy almost wins. Bad guy loses, and hero saves the day. Set up for sequel, where new new bad guy comes to do bad guy things. And so on.

I'll give you the similarities on Witwicky having a piece of the cube in him vs the codex, but after they found the cube Sam was unnecessary. He did however save the day by killing the big bad guy. Zod needed Superman beyond finding him.

You can boil almost any movie down to the simplest parts of it's story, and it'll seem like a complete ripoff of any other film. This isn't conclusive in the least.

That said, MoS really was worse than disappointing. I mean, it's ridiculously hard to butcher a Superman movie and they somehow managed to do so.

What? The only similarity between MOS and Transformers is destruction.

Wait what? First of all, what does the Dark Knight Rises have to do with anything? Second, the lack of criminals had nothing to do with the League's plans. As AlphaFlex just said, they were gunning for Batman. And what's the best way to get revenge on Batman? Destroy Gotham. No plot holes there...

Guess what else...Avengers is a ripoff of Transformers 3. Even the aliens look the same...

MOS uses a similar plot as DOTM, so in a way DOTM influenced both films greatly.

Which is why DOTM is among the most underrated superhero movies ever, without that film Avengers and MOS as we know them would be completely different.

That's not even mentioning the first Transformers, which showed us mega scale superhero action that Avengers, Iron Mam trilogy and Man of Steel would follow up to.

The TF trilogy is arguably the most underrated superhero film series ever, that's even considering how much hate X-Men get too.

Newsflash: they didn't originate with Transformers.
I used a lot of these elements in my fanfic/draft for a Martian Manhunter movie, a few months before the first Man of Steel teaser came out.

The Kryptonian backstory is very similar to the Martian schisms. In my story, there's the Whites and the Greens, both living harmoniously for eons until boredom and stagnation set in. A space academy known as the Koolar would be comprised of 70/30 White/Green, and want to colonize other worlds and experience life outside of Mars. The Assembly, 60/40 Green/White deems this against their beliefs, as Mars is a life-giving planet which has granted them near immortality through it's healing soil, which is only nourishing because of it's give/take relationship with the Martian race. To leave the planet would be to forsake all of them - heresy. The Koolar leave anyway, and are exiled as a result.

Generations later, the Koolar have failed their colonization attempts and are dying. Their children's children who rely upon clones to survive, make the decision to return to Mars for the first time, and recuperate. The Assembly denies them this, and a war breaks out. Commander Blanx of the Koolar would have the doormant/assimilated Whites still on Mars support them, and wants Mars to take a long hard look at the Assembly before surrendering them to his custody.

Ma'alefa'ak, a spurned mind-wiped recluse, is given a holographic recording from his former life, showing that he was in league with the Koolar and feeding them secrets to stage a coup, before he was caught by his sister-in-law. He mind-raped her in order to extract her memory of the encounter, and once caught, was removed of his identity and telepathy. He finds kinship with the Koolar, and returns to his former role, only this time, all the more motivated. He injects himself with their last defense, H'ronmeer's Curse, which would set aflame any Martian who telepathically assaults the carrier. When it becomes clear that the Koolar will be defeated, he gives the pathogen a boost and surrenders himself as a traitor to the Assembly, ready to stand trial again. They attack his mind, and doom the entire race.

It was refreshing, however, to see it realized on the big screen in a way so very similar to your own - breathtaking actually. Kind of hopeful too, considering someone thinks like you do.

Its a pretty standard take on the Hero's Journey, honestly; the monomyth. Most superhero origin stories are, in one way or another.

Additionally I have a hard time imagining anyone ripping off Transformers for plot, of all things. I mean . . . the plots and dialogue were the weakest parts of three really, really weak movies.

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What if they could only build on earth because it was very similar to Krypton. What if they could only build on planets that already contained life in them. Which is why they sent a scout ship to earth and colonized a bunch other planets, killing millions of other alien races, until they ran out of resources. Which is why Jor El said that he and his wife were tied to kryptons fate and couldn't leave the planet because like zod they were genetically engineered aliens, who were meant to keep colonizing planets for ever and ever. And all Jor El wanted was for the cycle to end, which is why they had clark so he could choose his own destiny and that of his people.

Dear TS,

Sam (Shia La[Whaterver his name is]) is not an ALIEN!!!

He is from EARTH, he is HUMAN.

PLEASE GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT!

And most of stories like these are about YOUNG MEN.

Would be really weird if the main protagonist is OLD.
Although it might work on some setting.

Cliches are cliches.

However, much the comedy you know is coming, it is your delivery that makes it funny/compelling/unique.
MoS was none of those things. I was left so disenchanted I kept thinking about how crooked Cavill's teeth are.

How sad is that?

MOS was dry, though. Needed humor.